Showing posts with label Eton College. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Eton College. Show all posts

Saturday, March 31, 2007




The college (or prep school in Americanese) is mostly closed to visitors except for a not that interesting museum about the school and the chapel. Eton and Harrow have historically been the educators of England's young aristocrats, although at least when I lived there Eton had a much better academic reputation and Harrow was a school for the English equivalent of George Bush.




Had lunch at a local Indian restaurant. It's surprisingly hard to get Somchai into an Indian restaurant as he insists he doesn't like Indian food, but it's also hard getting him out, as he invariably loves it once we're there, and this was no exception. We then crossed the river to the bustling town of Eton, home of world famous Eton College. The town feels more substantial than Windsor, perhaps because it has to service hundreds of pampered boys rather than just one seriously pampered royal family. The main street is lined with antique shops for the tourists, and candy shops for the students.