Last Saturday I visited the University town Oxford, a place where many famous people have studied. People like Stephen Hawking, Ernest Rutherford, Rowan Atkinson, Tony Blair, Bill Clinton, Richard von Weizsäcker, Margaret Thatcher and David Cameron.
It is not a very big city with its 150 thousand inhabitants, but a very nice, clean and neat city. [...]
If there is somebody who still thinks it is not or just a bit snowing in UK should see the pictures following, to be proven wrong!
Last weekend I visited Edinburgh in Scotland – the city where Sean Connery was born, and the place of inspiration for writers such as J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter books. The roots of the residents called ‘Scots‘ (or even sometimes Scotch) are hundreds of years old, deriving from tribes who lived there as a confederation known [...]
This week I was in the cottage Lyme Park not far from Manchester. Beside the wonderful old house with its old furniture and art we could see the porperties garden as well as the huge surrounding park. Once more I have seen a absolutly different perspective compared to the city of Manchester.
This weekend I visited York a old, really English city with it’s minister, the city wall and medieval houses. This time I traveled there with the International Society of Manchester and just after we reached the park space we started our sight seeing tour. We are two German students, one French and of course me. [...]
Two weeks ago we did a hike in the countryside of the Peak Ditrict, southeast of Manchester. Such a weekend trip into the impressive and rough nature of England with it’s fresh air and chilly temperature is a welcome change to the crowded, noisy and bustling city on the weekdays. It was recreative as well [...]
As I wrote in my recent post I got a nice dinner with fish and chips after this trip to Salford Quays. I just can say it was the perfect rounding off this trip. Just after I got used to British fast food I was introduced next day to real British food by my hosts [...]
After being two times at Salford Quays for a short trip I decided to get there a third time and spend more time to discover this area of new architecture style buildings in the city. I got there as on my other trips before by foot. After a nice stroll along the entire Quays and [...]
At the 17th September started the orientation program at the University of Manchester. This introductory lectures were held to supported the new international students with some information to the registration process and the other duties.
Among the orientation program the International Society offered a wide range of activities, like city coach tours and many occasions to [...]
Today I was in the Manchester Sportcity area, it is home of many sport facilities like the Manchester City football ground, the Velodrom with the cycling track, the squash court, the tennis court and some others, too. Next to the Velodrom is the Philips Park were I did a little walk through along the Philips [...]
