I’ve arrived a day earlier than the fourteen students who are enrolled in the World War II Study Abroad Program for May 2014. All looks in order awaiting them tomorrow. Most are probably getting ready to go off the airport as I write. Three students–David Corrigan, Kelsey Mullen, and Nick Gelder–have stopped in Dublin on their way, so they’re already in the European Theater of Operations.
Tomorrow will be a settle-in day, as we try to get over our jet leg. We’ll take a ride on the Tube to get familiar with how that works. We got lucky this week when a threatened strike by the Tube workers did not materialize. We’re staying very centrally this year, within easy walking distance of Westminster. So perhaps we wouldn’t have been too terribly disrupted in any case.
Our first official trip will be Thursday morning, when we begin with the Churchill Museum and Cabinet War Rooms. We go out to Bletchley Park, home of the code-breakers, on Friday.
So far, the weather in London looks warmer than last year. Today was sunny, but I fear that won’t last. That’s Europe in May.
David Steigerwald