“‘Here I am,’ I thought, ‘climbing around in an ancient tomb in a country I have always dreamed of visiting. I know this tomb, and I know what I’m looking at. This is what I want to do. Everything in my life is coming together.'”
Category: Travel
Coffee, Strikes, & Ancient Monuments: Studying Abroad in Scotland
From Stonehenge to the Brno ossuary to the canals of Venice, Charis Blake has traveled across Europe while studying abroad in Scotland.
Archaeology at Halmyris By Bridget Roddy
The following article was originally written in March of last year by Bridget Roddy, class of 2020, regarding her Theory to Practice grant and trip the Halmyris archaeology site in Romania in 2019. Halmyris is both a Greek word meaning “salt water” and the name of the ancient Roman fort that lies about four hours…
An Early Medieval Church Site on the Dingle Peninsula by Colin McGarry
This weekend, I was lucky enough to visit a few of the Ring of Kerry historical sites with my archaeology class, checking out a few Early Medieval sites on the Dingle coast. We started off our day visiting the two ring-forts of the local king, and could see out onto the island where the Vikings…
DĂşn Aonghasa: An Ancient Irish Hill Fort by Colin McGarry
While romping around Ireland’s historical landmarks for the semester pretending to be a serious student, I was lucky enough to see the large, ancient hillfort of DĂşn Aonghasa, a massive three-tiered defensive fortress on the Aran Islands. The fort itself is made from three dry stone walls, roughly D-shaped, that go to the steep cliffs…
A Quick Run-Through of More Sites: The Defensive and Natural Landscape of Ireland by Colin McGarry
Late last week, I moved into a new apartment closer to the city centre, which has had Internet problems, making getting onto the blog a little more difficult to anticipate. Â However, now that things seem to have cleared up, I think I’ll be able to post a bit more about my adventures in Ireland (although…
Flying In and Forts in Caherdaniel by Colin McGarry
Last week I flew into Cork, where I’ll be spending the semester studying at UCC. Classes start up tomorrow, so naturally I decided to spend the past week wandering around the city to get familiar and go visit some ancient ruins 140 kilometers away in Co. Kerry, near the small town of Caherdaniel. Staigue Stone…
Gargoyles, Stained Glass, and Travel Learning by Sarah Thomas
Being a part of Dr. Arnold’s Castles and Cathedrals Travel-Learning Course has been one of my favorite experiences as an OWU student. It allowed me to truly experience the material that I have spent the past three years learning. To copy from another program, I got to put “theory into practice.” One of the things I…
Whose English and When It Matters by Abby Dockter
It seems when people travel to English-speaking countries, the most noticeable differences are ones that don’t matter very much. So you say “hob” and I say “stove.” I call that arrangement of stars “The Big Dipper” and you call it “The Plow.” You say “ye” and I thought no one had used that form of…
Amsterdam’s Museums: A Guide by Amadea Weber
This will be a rather brief (as brief as I can make it) summary of a trip I took with one of my art history classes (Genre Painting, heavy emphasis on Dutch painting) to Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The trip was a lot of fun, especially because, as one of three Americans (and the only one…