Thursday, April 30, 2009

Nottingham

After Paris, we flew to Nottingham, which is in central Britain, mostly to see the birthplace of one of my favorite authors (D.H. Lawrence) but also to see a bit of smaller-town, country-ish English life.

Nottingham, home to Robin Hood
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Grayson had a traditional English breakfast (blech!)

We read some funny Brit papers

Went to the town of Eastwood to see some DHL stuff, including his birthplace museum:


and went to my first ever Ikea, where we ate some exotic Swedish cakes.

You'd think our first time in a country that speaks English would have been a little less foreign, and it mostly was, but around Nottingham, which is in the Midlands, the accent was so thick I sometimes couldn't understand people!

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