Steve n Jen's UK adventures

UK and European adventures. Read on my pretties, and discover what two stray Aussies can get up to on their travels.......

18 November 2006

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Wed 1 Nov 2006
Jen has the day off work. Drive back home and return the car. We went to fight practice nearby (5 minutes drive away).



Thu 2 Nov 2006
Steve goes and submits his driver's license and will wait some weeks before a nice new British one arrives in the post - which, incidentally, is a slot in the front door like in Harry Potter movies.

Sat 4 Nov 2006
Jen holds a "scriptorium" day and we all prepare feather quills together using the hot sand method. We all then have a go at cutting the quills, and then attempting to write with them. Elizabeth/Geneveive enjoys some birthday cake (her special day was the 3rd) and we top off the day with a yummy dinner cooked by Steve, plus several hours of board game playing of "cheap @ss games". Thanks Dan for bringing these!


Wed 8 Nov 2006
Steve goes to a job interview and does really well! He is told he will have a second round interview (which will be on 21st Nov). Go to Fight Practice, this time by train.

Thu 9 Nov 2006
Jen comes home from work and is now on holidays until Tuesday - Hooray! We pack to go to Kingdom University (SCA event).

Fri 10 Nov 2006
Get the coach to Stanstead airport and fly to Lubeck (Northern Germany) - a 1.5 hour flight. There are 7 other scadians with us, and we get taken to the YHA event site. That evening two vigils occur.

Sat 11 Nov 2006
A Laurel and a pelican are created in court. Below is a photo of the splendid coat made for the new Laurel by her friends.

Above: This photo courtesy of Lady Geneveive, Thamesreach Seneschal.
Anyway, we attended several classes throughout the day - some of which were in both German and English. Jen was really pleased to finally meet Diane Calvert after admiring the website all these years. http://scafrance.free.fr/dcalvertversals/biographie_uk.htm

Above: a class on gilding.
Below: Diane Calvert and one of her works.



Sun 12 Nov 2006
Today a bunch of us walked into the old Medieval village of Lubeck. Here we are at the city wall.

Once into the old town of Lubeck, we admired the architecture and the fabulous little museum, as well as poking our heads into a couple of cathedrals (both had slanted floors and crooked walls). Inside the main cathedral, it was interesting to see the WWII memorials, such as a pair of Huge, broken and slightly melted, church bells forever crashed into the stone floor. A reminder of the blitzkreig of WWII that Lubeck went through.

Above: The nice little village square (with markets) where Steve enjoyed some hot German sausage and hot spiced mead.

Mon 13 Nov 2006
Arrive back in London. Unpack and get the laundry going. In the afternoon we visited the Victoria and Albert museum known as the V&A (free entry).

The V&A has many Victorian plaster-casts of richly carved items, including David (below).



Fri 17 Nov 2006
Went and saw the new James Bond movie together - good fun.

Sat 18 Nov 2006
Today we slept in to 9:30am. After a leisurely start, we ambled out of the house at 1pm......


These days the sun is low and there are huge piles of autumnal leaves everywhere.
We headed to the Museum of London (free entry), and got sore feet. Here are a couple of fourteenth century items that interested Jen.


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