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The Vaio just crashed and ate the Chronicle I’ve been working on for the past hour. It’s too late to try again. The short form is we traveled from Chipping Campden, England, to Cannes, France, today in a car, two … Continue reading →

A view of the Cotswolds this afternoon on our way to Hidcote Manor Garden, about three miles northeast of Chipping Campden. Tweet

A ruddy-faced bald man wearing soft shoes, khakis, a red shirt and blue sweater entered the cafe where I was writing this morning. He took a copy of The Daily Telegraph from the rack and asked the waitress, “Where’s the … Continue reading →

After driving an hour into the Cotswolds this afternoon, Darlene and I found a room for two nights at the Seymour House in Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire. We had tea with scones, strawberry jam, and clotted cream at this tea room … Continue reading →

Ged Jones, a 15-year veteran of the Royal Mail, after stopping a second time to help us navigate our rental car back to Oriel College. Tweet

Oriel College, Oxford Well, the rain flowed today, and so did everything else, by which I mean we seemed to be guided as much by coincidences and mistakes as by our plans for the day. I left the Hopkins conference … Continue reading →

The Oriel College library, which we walked past this morning on our way to breakfast in the main hall. Tweet

Mices Internet Shop, Gloucester Green, Oxford, England About 60 experts and devotees of Gerard Manley Hopkins are gathered at Oriel College at Oxford to present and listen to papers on a Jesuit poet who once walked these same narrow tunnels … Continue reading →

A woman who boarded the Eurostar in Paris with a white guitar case dozes on the three-hour trip to London. Tweet

Beneath the English Channel aboard Eurostar 9031 to Waterloo Station, London My ears feel changes in air pressure as the train glides beneath the ocean at 186 miles an hour. Passengers speak quietly, as if in church. You can hear … Continue reading →