On Wednesday I went into London with several young teens from the church to do a citywide scavenger hunt. Good times roving the city with four young people looking for different things and taking pictures of things and answering questions about things. You know how it is.
I spent a day at the beach in Broadstairs with several of the young people from GSGBC on Friday. It was a decent day for the beach. It wasn't hot, really, and it was windy, but at least it wasn't cold and rainy, which seems to be plaguing England this summer. Apparent features of English beaches include mini carnivals, Punch & Judy shows, seaweed, and donkey rides. Also to be found at the Broadstairs beach: a concrete structure that traps water at high tide so that people can wade in it during low tide. Unfortunate side effect of things to be found at
Broadstairs beach: the wading pool turns into a haven for crabs. Also, men and boys in England do exactly what boys and men do in America when they go to the beach: dig a hole. The pictures here are a friend named Michael digging and then a girl named Zoe standing in it (though buried).Maynard and Joan decided Saturday that they wanted to take me somewhere outside of London,
so we traveled a little way towards the southern coast to Chichester and the Weald & Downland Open Air Museum. It was a real treat. The basis for the museum is similar to that of Plymouth Plantation or Sturbridge Village without the employees playing period roles. Essentially, the museum had acquired old and ancient structures from around the country,
dismantled them piece by piece, and rebuilt them on this property. The result is the opportunity to see English buildings from as far back as the 13th century and to see how the people lived during those times. Most structures were from the 16th-18th centuries and were really captivating, for those of us who like to imagine what that "old world" must have been like. I really enjoyed it.So that's the news from England...
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