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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Yesterday on Friday the 12th September, I went with some of my new colleagues into the wonderful Snowdonia National Park in Wales. As you can see on the map we were driving along the motorway at the coast, where we could see a bit of the seaside. As we reached our destination, the lake Llyn Cowlyd [...]
After going by foot the past few days it was time to buy a bus ticket because my target destination was quite a little bit further away as the other ones before. Todays target was the Trafford shopping mall and because Manchester has a starlike transportation system it was easier for me driving there via [...]
After I have seen a lot of sights in the city center I was interested in how Manchester is looking little bit more outside. So I decided to take a “little” walk through the suburban areas of Withington and Fallowfield. The tour started on Princess Road further on to Wilmslow Road to Platt Fields Park [...]
