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Doner Kebab. | Photo via Wikimedia Commons user Rainer Zenz.

English Breakfast: Food on the Street

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It’s finally that point in the semester: Classes and internships are winding down and so are our bank accounts. As a result, us here on the BU London program have [...]

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Apr 11, 2012 | Leave a response

The Camden Lock Market. | Photo via Wikimedia Commons user Grim23.

English Breakfast: Market Places

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While most of BU was off at spring break, the London Program rolled on with a normal week of classes and internships. Because of this, there is not much traipsing [...]

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Mar 19, 2012 | Leave a response

Berlin!

English Breakfast: BERLIN!

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The following is an English Breakfast post featuring tales of a spring break adventure. This is no ordinary spring break though; there is no surf, sun, sand or fist pumping [...]

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Mar 6, 2012 | Leave a response

This is a pub. You can tell because it has the word "Arms" in its name. | Photo by Joel Kahn.

English Breakfast: Raising the Bars

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For those of you unaware of international alcohol policies, the legal drinking age in the UK is 18. That means that we youngsters going abroad to London have access to [...]

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Feb 20, 2012 | 1 Response

The Tardis

English Breakfast: Let Your Freak Flag Fly

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As my fellow Quad writer Joel explained in the first installment of “English Breakfast,” we will typically focus on our culinary adventures during our four-month stay here in London. However, for [...]

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Feb 13, 2012 | Leave a response

"Mummy, could I have some more?" | Photo by Joel Kahn.

English Breakfast: Breaking the Chains

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Before I begin yet another enthralling installment of “English Breakfast,” I have glorious news to share. Due to my somewhat unscrupulous complaining about the knives supplied in our dorm kitchens, [...]

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Feb 6, 2012 | Leave a response

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English Breakfast: Escape to Camden

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Two weeks have passed since the start of BU’s Study Abroad program in London, and life in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea has proven to be spectacular. In [...]

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Jan 31, 2012 | Leave a response

The Sydney Opera House and imposing Harbour Bridge. Photo by Noah Eberhart.

Vegemite on the Barbie: Sydney at a Glance

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Something about Australia has always intrigued me.  Perhaps it’s the grizzled-but-gentlemanly way the countrymen have been portrayed in movies like Crocodile Dundee. Australia seemed to me to be a man’s [...]

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Jan 25, 2012 | Leave a response

The Museum of Natural History is directly across the street from one of BU's London dorms. | Photo by Joel Kahn.

English Breakfast: The Appetizer Sampler

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A new semester means a new crop of eager students shipping off overseas to participate in some of BU’s many diverse Study Abroad programs. At 326 students, BU’s London program [...]

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Jan 24, 2012 | 1 Response

Paris is kind of a nice place. Photo by Annie White.

An American in Paris: Parting Thoughts

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Somehow (actually, I know how. It was that whole time marches on thing) I have reached the end of my semester in Paris. Final papers have been written, final exams [...]

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Dec 12, 2011 | Leave a response

Unrelated: one of the most distressing things about France to me is how many statues do not have heads. Photo by Annie White.

An American in Paris: You’re Welcome?

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Over the past several weeks, I have slowly become aware of the fact that I am not awful at French anymore.  This is not to say, of course, that I [...]

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Dec 5, 2011 | 1 Response

Paris was wonderfully festive this weekend, but I forgot my camera so instead I present this photo of a gold-plated deer head to prove that France is a silly place. Photo by Annie White.

An American in Paris: Thanksgiving

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I have always been one of those people who believes strongly in the sanctity of Thanksgiving. It isn’t a just a buffer holiday so people have a reason for a [...]

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Nov 28, 2011 | Leave a response