November 12 , 2003 - page 2



3. The food really isn’t as horrible as everyone says. I won’t claim that the English are culinary wizards, but you really can’t go wrong with fish and chips. Not to mention, this is the motherland of Cadbury chocolate. In fact, in the tube stations there are little machines that dispense every kind of Cadbury chocolate product you can imagine.

4. No matter how good of an idea it seems as the time, it is probably a bad idea to hop into a little boat with your








 

American buddies, scoot out onto Whiteknights Lake, and attempt to reenact the Boston Tea Party. It doesn’t have quite the same effect when you are in England and, say, not in Boston.

5. One of the really interesting things here is that if you are a student, medical care is free — no matter what. Even if you break your arm, contract pneumonia, and bloody your nose,