ENGLISH HOLIDAY

A) Airline Clerks
Find 2 different flights to London for our class. Look at the cost per person.

We traveled to London on December 23 in tourist class and plane ticket cost us 45 €. On the plane to give us ate out at 1:25 q noon and arrived there at 5 o'clock. We traveled with Hispanic companies

 

B) Travel Agent
Find 1 hotel & 1 bed and breakfast and the prices for each. Save out a page for each.

 Once we got there, we stayed in a motel, a reel to lean principal.La stay cost us 25 pounds a week (for a room with two beds.)

 

                                        Westminster Abbey

Westminster Abbey, London is the most beautiful of the Gothic churches in the capital and was founded by Edward the Confessor in the 11th century.
All coronations have taken place here since William the Conqueror. And most British monarchs from Henry III to George II are buried here.

Also to be found in the cathedral is Poets Corner where many of our finest poets are buried, and the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior

                                                           Harrods       

Harrods in London's Knightsbridge has gone beyond being a mere department store, and has has become a tourist destination in its own right. Tucked away in Knightsbridge, away from the main shopping area, this is the place to come to buy that chic green bag that wraps all purchases made here from a Chelsea bun to a grand piano.
You can spend days wandering the floors. There is the extensive Food Halls on the ground floor,where the rich and the famous get their groceries, the cosmetic counters, a book shop, you name it, they have it.

Perhaps it is a little less exclusive than it was in the days when they had their own fleet of ships scouring the world on behalf of their patrons, but never the less it is a pleasant place to spend a few hours, and you will probably end up the proud owner of one of those green bags

Thames, London's River, guide to the bridges

The River Thames was London's main highway in times gone by. In those days the roads were rough, the horses slow, the highwaymen and footpads dangerous. Best go by sea!

The river was first bridged by the Romans at a convenient ford, and for centuries that remained the only bridge over the river in the area. The next bridge to be built was Westminster in 1750. Others soon followed including Tower bridge in Victorian times. . The Queen Elizabeth II Bridge at Woolwich was built in1991 to take the M25 over the river.

Coming up river from the sea, until one arrives at the upper reaches of the river beyond the capital, one passes the following bridges

• Queen Elizabeth II suspension bridge
• Tower Bridge - built with a rising centre roadway, to enable ships to pass it on their way to the Docks
• London Bridge, the oldest and most famous of the bridges. The wooden bridge on the Roman site continued until 1176, when it was replaced by a stone bridge. remarkably this survived until 1831, carrying out all sorts of useful tasks like displaying the severed heads of executed traitors and rebels. The 1831 bridge was designed by John Rennie, and when this in its turn was replaced in 1972, it was transported stone by stone to the Arizona Desert, where it resides today

                                                          Trafalgar Square

Trafalgar Square, London's most famous, was laid out in 1829 to 1841 to commemorate Nelson's victory at the Battle of the same name in 1805. Dominating the square, on a column that is 185 feet high, is the 17 foot high statue of Nelson himself.

Around the base of the column are the four giant bronze lions by Landseer. Around the sides  are the church of St Martin's in the Fields (left) and the National Gallery (right) which houses one of the world's richest collections of paintings

VISITING LONDON

                         

The City of London refers to the "square mile" or the original area of the walled town. Credit for its foundation is given to the Roman General Aulus Plautius in AD43. He bridged the Thames, started the town, and in a few years it was a great trading centre. Boudicca and her warriors destroyed it in AD60, but the town was soon rebuilt. It continued to be an important town for the next 1000 years, and after the Norman conquest, became the capital of England.