Possible UK travel?

[hrj]

This is all very nebulous and only-potential at the moment, but there's a possibility I'll be included in an audit team being sent off to look at a couple of our suppliers' facilities in Puerto Rico and the UK later this month. (The audit is related to one of my investigations.) If so, I'll be tacking on at least a few vacation days while I'm there. (In the UK, that is.) More later if it becomes more solid, but my impulsive inclination would be to structure my "free time" around visiting people rather than things.

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[mbumby.livejournal.com]

And even better if you can work in both.

Have you been before? Even with the blasted barrier, I found Stonehenge worth seeing.

Fingers crossed.

[hrj.livejournal.com]

This would be my 5th time in the UK (although one only consisted of what one could see from a taxi window between the airport and a hotel and back). I got to see Stonehenge before the barriers went up -- that was the '76 trip. Let's see:

1968 - (when I was 10) changing planes in London on the way to Prague for the year

1976 - a few days of misc. sightseeing at the end of our "wander month" after spending the year in Munich

1981 - 3 months mostly up in the hills above Aberystwyth as "companion" to a crazy English woman who ran a tourist bookstore (hey, it was an opportunity and a ... um ... learning experience, yeah, that's right)

1998 - UC Berkeley sent me to a conference in Paris and I expanded it to a month's travel, including about a week in the UK (several days of it spend doing actual dissertation research at the National Library of Wales)

[mbumby.livejournal.com]

I've also been within the ring -- we lived there in '75. Went back in '78, and it broke my heart to not get inside (but in '75 I'd seen vandalism) but it was still worth it to me to do again.

But as you've been, there are probably other things more worth doing.