Disconnected

I spent six days in Manchester, UK where it was suprisingly difficult to make an internet connection. How do people manage without easy access to the Net? A friend, and an international speaker at a conference hosted by the Education Department, had to stay three days in university accomodation without Internet and without telephone.

It's a salutory lesson for me as I always imagine that northern European countries, and especially Britain, are all hooked into the fountain of communication. But they are not. They bumble about like ordinary people!