Chartwell

Our final freshers event was last Sunday: a trip to Chartwell, Winston Churchill's country home.  Mind you that this was after two nights of heaving "socializing" (read drinking), so getting up at 8 to get on the bus in time was not so much my favorite thing in the world, but it was nice to get to see some of the history that is behind our college.

One cool thing I found out was the Churchill (besides being a prolific writer - won the nobel for literature - and able politician) was an amateur painter.  They have a whole studio of his work there.  I also liked seeing all of the different uniforms and dress regalia he has (Britain has all of this cool formal traditional dress that just doesn't exist in the US).  Other than that, I don't really remember most of the stuff we learned (maybe because I did the kid's quiz tour instead of the one for adults...), but I thought I'd just include some nice pictures of the house and grounds (it was a gorgeous day!):