UK Trip- STILL UNDER CONSTRUCTION!!

Hahah! look at Eszter!!! Me with Hamlet. To be or not to be?... Me n Barbi, i'm a bunny! I cant believe actually went into that pub wearing my tail...

For all of you UNINFORMED people, this year me n my class went on a trip to the UK for a week at the beginning of this school year. Here, Ms. Merrick can explain better: . On what has now become an annual event, Year 13 students flew from Ferihegy airport to Newcastle-upon-Tyne, on the evening of Sept. 1st., at the start of their week’s UK Educational Tour.Following a first day spent in Newcastle taking in the Laing Art Gallery, the Centre for Life and Gateshead Millennium Bridge, we headed south in our minibus, stopping off at the Angel of the North, and continued to York and accommodation in a 16th century inn.Our second day began with a visit to York Minster and a tour of the city’s medieval streets, the “Shambles”, and continued with a drive to the east coast. The UK’s first seaside town of Scarborough contains the grave of Anne Bronte, and also afforded an opportunity for the hardier students in the group to take a quick dip in the North Sea! A short drive further north along the coast took us to Whitby. Its Abbey, high on the cliffs overlooking the fishing town, provided the inspiration for a dramatic scene in Bram Stoker’s Dracula. A visit to Captain Cook’s ship Endeavour, Fish ‘n Chips on the quayside and a walk around the Abbey itself, preceded the onward journey over the North Yorkshire moors to Haworth, home of the Bronte sisters.Day 3, and mists hung above the purple heather of the moors as we began our 5-mile walk to Top Withins (a ruined house thought to have been the inspiration for Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights). However, the weather cleared, and following our trek we returned to the village’s Bronte Parsonage Museum, and later followed the Laternlight Graveyard and Village Tour conducted by local historian and writer, Philip Lister.Day 4 saw us drive from Haworth to Stratford-upon-Avon where we were to stay in a Georgian manor house, now turned Youth Hostel. After checking in we drove to the town to Visit Shakespeare’s tomb in Holy Trinity Church, followed by a guided tour of Anne Hathaway’s Cottage, and Shakespeare’s House.On Day 5 we made the short journey to Warwick Castle. Life-size waxwork figures from Madame Tussaud’s illustrated the castle’s history from its medieval beginnings to the modern day. A visit to the Ghost Tower was both a frightening and enjoyable experience!There was a demonstration of a Treboucher and a Falconry Display, after which we walked the castle walls. In the afternoon we drove to Birmingham where we walked through the regenerated centre of this once industrial city, before having an hour to shop in the Bullring, and heading to Chinatown for our evening meal.The following day we bade our minibus farewell after delivering it to Luton airport, and continued on the train into central London. Following a quick check-in at our hotel, we headed for Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre and a performance of Antony and Cleopatra – standing as ‘groundlings’. Of course, no visit to the UK’s capital would be complete without taking in some of the sites, and some of us had blisters by the time we had walked to The London Eye, Westminster, Piccadilly Circus, Trafalgar Square, Horseguard’s Parade, Downing Street, Tower Bridge, The Tower of London, Leicester Square, Soho and Covent Garden. Our final day provided a short time for some last-minute shopping in Oxford Street, after which we returned to Kings Cross station and the train bound for Luton airport, and the afternoon flight back to Budapest.It was truly an invaluable educational and social experience for everyone, and although we returned to Budapest exhausted, we are sure that everyone will remember this week as a highlight of their IB years, for many years to come. Anyway, so this is Fifi n Barbi at the airport in Budapest.