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  As the true English gentleman, Mr. P obviously adored the class of Kew. He also liked the playfulness of this Edible Plants exhibition that was “served” between the Temperate House and the Rose Garden, even though he after an entire day of walking around in the garden would have prefered the tea cup toContinue reading “Day 9: Mr. P at Kew”

Well, my visit to Kew would of course not be complete without my traditional botanic garden series of banalities.  

I’ve been to London twice before, so I felt that doing the typical sightseeing and going into the center of town wasn’t necessary. Sure, the British Museum is amazing, but I’d rather see something new than try to make it through the tourist crowded London streets. So Maija and I decided to spend my LondonContinue reading “Day 9: Kew Royal Botanic Gardens with Maija”

I continue this recounting of my Cambridge visit, lazily lying on Maija’s couch. Friday was spent sightseeing in Cambridge, first through the rain with Abbie around the collages (she could get me in everywhere for free with her university member card – it pays to know people on the inside!), and then, once the sunContinue reading “Day 8: Midsummer’s Eve, in retrospect”

I’m on the move again. Sitting on the train, due to arrive at London Liverpool Street Station in just a short while. From there, I’m somehow supposed to find my way to Clapham South, where Maija lives. Maija, my best friend from my year in Tanzania back in 1999. I haven’t met her for atContinue reading “Day 8: Report from a train”

Mr. P with some Harvard scholar memorabilia. Well, teddybears are generally not accepted to study at Cambridge, but if they had been, Mr. P is sure he would have fit right in. As the English gentleman that he after all is.

Abbie is one of those super smart persons who is going change the scholarly world with her intrellect. As a part of this brilliant academic career, she’s managed to snatch the position as the Harvard scholar at Emmanuel Collage. Except for getting to do your Master’s at Cambridge, this honor also entails “having” to liveContinue reading “Day 8: Abbie, the Harvard scholar at Emmanuel Collage”

It’s midsummer’s eve and I’m sitting in a little hidden corner of the limestone garden in the Cambridge University Botanic Garden, a bench with a seat shaped like a half circle, sheltered by high rock walls covered in purple flowers on three sides. The bees seem to love the purple flowers, because the air isContinue reading “Day 7: At the Cambridge University Botanic Garden”

On Friday afternoon (21/6), Abbie took me on a tour around the Cambridge collages. It’s a wonderful thing, to go on a collage tour with a real Cambridge student. She could get me in everywhere for free, but most importantly, she could tell me all these stories about the collages, both historical and more recent,Continue reading “Day 7: The Cambridge Collages”

Painted on the wall at the EMEC office: The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by sceptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need people who can dream of things that never were. – John F. Kennedy