tower hamlets as good as highgate?

Just south of Mile End station is Tower Hamlets cemetery. Not quite Highgate cemetery for the famous and the odd (nor as old--graves date from 1841 to 1966), Tower Hamlets intrigues with its shabbiness. Although it is now maintained as a nature preserve, that preservation has not extended to repairing funerary statues or even removing vines from the gravestones. To see recent (well, 1930s) graves derelict is as arresting as the Victorian bits from Highgate (which Matt's group reconnoitered if I am not mistaken).

home to mile end

back at queen mary, same building as before. just thought the class on class would find it amusing that a foreign type (I am, of course, a foreign type here) was standing inside my block at the front door when I came back from a long run this morning, asking "how does one get out of the building?" I pointed to the switch that you pressed to release the door. After our week here, I know all the ropes. (By the way, went north on the canal this time, past Victorian Park, to Shoreditch. If you are ever back here, you need to go on the canal path from Limehouse around to Camden Lock. I like it.)

Also, I will be putting up descriptions and pix from our last two weeks onto this website over the coming weeks. Apologies for the delay: sabbatical research is as time consuming as teaching/service.