LONDON English heritage No.2. Our incredible team 30 students from GPH 3 teachers - This year we enjoyed our journey and all unforgettable memories with.

LONDONEnglish heritage No.2

Our incredible team

30 students from GPH

3 teachers

- This year we enjoyed our journey and all unforgettable memories with the students from secondary school from Partizánske and their two teachers- new friendships, funny situations - „war“ between West and East :D

- Students of the 1st to the 3rd grate- two English teachers Mrs. Bušaničová & Mrs. Kertisová- and our special guest was the math’steacher Mrs. Olšavová

Far,far away from Slovakia• Saturday – we left Slovakia,

then continued through

the Czech Republic

(still in bus)

• Sunday

Germany – Belgium - France

Belgium, what a beautiful Country,Full of cows

No,we don’t regret anything Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien

or how we came to FRANCE• although we were quite dead from travelling by bus, when we came to France everybody started to „live“ again

• We slept in Dunkuerqe, in a small hotel F1, and we also went for a walk in the evening, even it was raining a bit.

• Hunger was our strong enemy, so half of our group went to buy pizza (students with courage could practice their French)

- another groupwent to seeThe Cathedral

Travel by ferry

- Monday morning, FR Calais – ENG Dover

- windy & cold- 1 hour,30 min. - seasickness - discovering the ferry- enjoying the view

Canterbury-The Canterbury Cathedral is one of the oldest and most famous Christian structures in England

-We visited The Cathedral, as well as the gardens nearby, and the center of town- Wonderful expositions in shops

- colourful Stained Glass in The Cathedral

Greenwich Park

Tower Bridge- Atmosphere of the park, Prime meridian 0°0’0’’, Planetarium

- combined bascule and suspension bridge- over the River Thames- close to the Tower of London (prison in the past)

St Paul's Cathedral • 365 feet (111m) high Anglican Cathedral

• There were married Charles,Prince of Wales and Lady Diana Spencer

The view

Trafalgar Square

- The National Gallery

- A tourist attraction, and one of the most famous squares - problems with pigeons

Big Ben- the nickname for the great bellof the clock at the north end of the Palace of Westminster

Westminster Abbey

Buckingham Palace- offical London residenceof the British monarch

- Buckingham Palace finally became the principal royal residence in 1837, on the accession of Queen Victoria

- 1000 rooms

- large, mainly Gothic Church, in Westminster- It is the traditional place of coronation and burial site for English monarchs.- Jane Austen and Charles Dickens in Poet’s Corner

Piccadilly Circus, Leicester Square

- a famous road junction and public space - Neon signs, surrounded by several major tourist attractions

- the centre of London's cinema land- it is claimed that the Square contains the cinema - with the largest screen and the cinema with the most seats (over 1600). - Odeon, Empire, Vue- all British premieres

Hampton Court Palace

• is a royal palace in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames in the south-west London

• it was originally built for Cardinal Wolsey, a favourite of King Henry VIII• wonderful gardens, apartments, labyrinth, fountains

Stonehenge

- prehistoric monument located in the English county of Wiltshire

- 2500 BC

- stone circles

Salisbury & Bath

- Historical buildings : KFC or McDonald?

- a cathedral city- parks- original copies of Magna Carta- Early English Gothic

- The Roman Baths complex is a site of places of historical interest

- the Sacred Spring - the Roman Temple - the Roman Bath House- the Museum

Madame Tussauds

- a wax museum - the Chamber of Horrors.- 4D- film zone, music zone

Oxford Street shopping insanity

Journey by underground

organized chaos

Eurotunnel Channel Tunnel between Great Britain and France

- 50.5 kilometres

Host family- a great experience, practising English- intermediate products :D- shower – graduation ! - a nice English woman with typical English accent, and cute two dogs

Thank you for watching

Martina Bovanová III.G