Tag: History

• Aethelgifu, The Teenage Abbess: A Peak Inside The Walls Of The Shaftesbury Abbey

  [Gold Hill, Shafesbury] Silence isn’t empty, it’s full of answers. It was a chilly day, this fourth day of October. Chilly and windy. Mariam and I had just had a very enjoyable lunch with a former student of mine, Sally, and her husband, Matthew. Sally was in my Geography class when I had the joy…

  patrickjegan

  October 6, 2024

  England, Folktales & Legends, History, In Search of Lost Time, Real Personal History, Religion, Travel Writing, Travels

  Dorset, England, English Saints, europe, Henry VIII, History, Holy Relics, King Alfred the Great, Shaftesbury Abbey, Travel, united-kingdom

• Breakfast in Marrakech/Dinner in London

  [Trafalger Square, London. The National Gallery of Art in the background. A fast car in the foreground. A lion and a blue-lit fountain in the middle ground. Photo is mine.] Keep calm and go to London… The title above makes it sound like it’s a skip and a flip to make the three and a…

  patrickjegan

  September 29, 2024

  art, death, England, Melancholy Thoughts, non-fiction, Travel Writing, Travels

  #flighttolondon, #graveofkarlmarx, #highgatecemeterylondon, #taphoplile, cemetery, highgate-cemetery, History, London, Travel