by Simply Olivia Grace | Dec 3, 2018 | travel
We have been in London for a few weeks now, and everywhere the Christmas season celebrations are in full force. Incidentally, so are my final essays. Right now I ought to be writing my research paper, but I decided instead to take a glance back at some of my favorite...
by Simply Olivia Grace | Nov 26, 2018 | journaling, travel
Greetings from London! Since leaving the Lakes at the end of October and spending November in a retreat center in Birmingham, we have since arrived in north London to live out the remainder of our semester. You know how when you’re walking around a city all day, you...
by Simply Olivia Grace | Nov 19, 2018 | academia, travel
From the moment I emerge from the bus into the misty veil of the morning, bundled in my jacket and scarf, the country air of Little Gidding breathes of peace. We seem to be in the middle of nowhere, our only company being a herd of sheep grazing in the verdant...
by Simply Olivia Grace | Nov 12, 2018 | travel
At eleven o’clock, the first rays of sunlight are striking through the grey veil of clouds upon Canterbury Cathedral. It is the eleventh of November—a hundred years to the day since the Armistice was signed that marked the end of World War. When the distant trumpet...
by Simply Olivia Grace | Nov 5, 2018 | travel
The gothic spires of the old church rose above the town of Heptonstall. At first we lost ourselves trying to find our way through the narrow winding streets, but with a glance up at the bell tower, we knew our way at once. Beyond the wrought iron gates of the church’s...
by Simply Olivia Grace | Oct 29, 2018 | books, travel
“… Knowing that Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.” (William Wordsworth) The bus drove away with a rumble. Where it had been, there now stretched the countryside of pasturelands and rolling hills, framed with gray-slate walls of stone and a crooked...