London travel book

LONDON TRAVEL BOOK

4º ESO SCHOOL TRIP 13th -17th APRIL , 2015

This travel book belongs to:

IES Poeta Añón OUTES

TRIP SCHEDULE MONDAY 13

TUESDAY 14

WEDNESDAY15

THURSDAY 16

FRIDAY 17

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8.30 Breakfast

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Luggage storage.

3:30 Coach to Port

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8.50 Taking off 11.00 Landing at Gatwick Airport and transfer to Hotel

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11.30 Changing of

9.15 Meeting at hotel

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9.30 Tube to London

the Guard at Buck-

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10.00 London Mu-

9.15 Meeting at hotel reception

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Museum (Barbican)

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8.30 Breakfast

9.30 Tube to Natural History Museum

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seum

Museum-Science Mu-

12.00 City walk: St.

seum

ingham Palace.

Checking bedrooms.

Houses of parliament-

Paul’s- Tower of Lon-

Lunch

.Big Ben- London Eye

don (tube Tower Hill)

British Museum (3

(rotation)

–London Bridge

Walk to Kensington

Lunch. Tower of Lon-

Palace.Diana’s memo-

don

rial.Speaker’s corner

WALK:Soho-China

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hotel

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Regent’s Park –

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Globe Theatre-Tate

Primrose Hill

Bridge-. View of

Dinner: Covent Gar-

Thames River- London

Back to Hotel 00.00 Lights Out

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Modern-Milenium

den area

Back to hotel 00.00 Lights out at

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Lunch at Camden Town.Shopping.

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Dinner: Trafalgar Sq. area

Tube to Camden

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Eye (2nd chance)

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Dinner. Westminster

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00.00 Lights Out

Back to Hotel

Harrods

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19.30. Musical: Theatre Royal.

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00.30 Lights Out

Lunch and shopping in Portobello.

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Leisure time.

18.00 Back to hotel to get luggage.

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18.30 Transfer to airport and dinner

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Dinner. Covent Garden Back to Hotel

Tube to Portobello Road

Street. Carnaby St.

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10.00 King’s Cross

93/4

Lunch:Hyde park area.

Oxford Street -Regent

9.30 Check- out.

Station. Platform

10.00 Natural History

Royal National Hotel.

Trafalgar Sq

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9.30 Tube to Charing

8.30 Breakfast reception

Cross

Town- Picadilly-

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9.15 Meeting at hotel reception

12.30 Check- in at

hours)

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8.30 Breakfast

22.00 Departure 0.20 Arrival at Oporto Airport

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4.45 Arrival at school (Outes)

Travelling to London is a fantastic opportunity to broaden your mind and open your eyes to the world. This city is, without any doubt, one of the most interesting places to explore.

Samuel Johnson, a British writer and lexicographer who lived in the XVIII century, once said : “When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life�. This saying gives you an idea of all what the capital has to offer.

So, we really hope that you make the most of your visit to this city, that you have fun and that you will leave London wanting to go back soon.

This travel book could be a nice way to remember your school trip, especially if you make it more personal and try to update it with your experience, pictures, comments, ...

Have a nice stay and enjoy yourselves!!

Paca and Dolores

Do not separate from the group

SOME ADVICE Always have the necessary documentation on you and at hand

when you are doing group activities or travelling by tube. If you are going to, you must tell your teachers in advance.

Remember that it is a different

(ID card or Passport, Health Insurance card). Your teachers will take the parental authorization.

Always

walk

in

small

groups.

Don’t let any mate alone at any

country

its price and only then carry out the sale. Remember that in tourist zones

SE and THANK YOU and stand on the right on underground scalators).

Bear in mind that the best way to get to know a city is on foot. Get a good pair of trainers and consider that you are going to walk a lot.

In the street and in places with a

everything tends to be more expensive.

Carry small banknotes and do not go into the street with large quantities of money.

with different customs.

You must adapt to them:( e.g.: say PLEA-

moment.

Before buying something ask for

and REMEMBER...

lot of people, always carry your bag or backpack in front of you where you can see it. It is also convenient to use one of those wallets that goes under your clot-

Try to speak English and learn as

hes for keeping your money and docu-

much as you can.

ments.

Keep silence and order during rest periods in the hotel!

Be responsible and punctual in group excursions!

Dividing up

n o d n Lo

To find out roughly where in London an address is, look at its postcode. London postcodes are made up of six or seven letters and numbers. The first 2 or 3 letters and numbers give you the district.

For example, a postcode beginning with WC1 or 2, or 4 tells you that the address is in west central London (Bloomsbury or Covent Garden) or east central London (parts of islington or the City). Then you might have

W1(west),

NW1(north-west),

N1 (north), E1(east), SE1 (southeast), SW1(south-west). In most cases, the higher the number the further out it is. So the South Bank is in SE1, whereas Greenwich is SE10.

Mr/Ms

8.25

Porto Francisco Sa Carneiro

London Gatwick

13 April 2015

13 April 2015

8.50

11.00

Teléfono de contacto En caso de precisar contactar coas profesoras acompañantes pódese facer no seguinte número de teléfono:

627-10 81 33

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Monday, 13th

13.oo Royal National Hotel

Arrival at

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Check-in and distribution

Gatwick Airport Transfer We’ll spend 3 hours at a museum dedicated

of bedrooms.

A question for you...

to human history and culture. Foun-

The ROSETTA STONE was a va-

ded

luable key to the decipherment of

in 1753, it is the first national

public museum in the world.

It has

over 8 million objects of which only 50,000 are shown to the public.

You should not miss the ROSETTA STONE (room 4), Assirian Lion Hunt reliefs

(room

10),

sculptures

from

PARTHENON (room 18), bust of RAMESSES THE GREAT (room 4), an automated model of a ship (room 39), the Lewis chessmen (room 40), Mummy of Katebet (room 63), Sphinx of Taharqo (room 65), to mention just a few of its marvels….

hieroglyphs. The text is inscribed on the Stone 3 times. In which 3 languages? ______________, _________________ ____________

Monday, 13th

Trafalgar Square

afternoon

One of the most popular

17.30

spots for tourists in Lon-

WALK: Soho-China Town–

don.

Trafalgar Square

At

Nelson’s

its

centre

column

is

guarded

by four lions. It commemorates the naval victory of the British over France and Spain off the Cadiz coast in 1805.

Nowadays it’s a public space used for political demonstrations and also a meeting point to celebrate New Year’s Eve. To the north of the square you will see the NATIONAL GALLERY, a neo-classical building with columns that hosts one of the most important painting collections in the world which includes masterpieces like: The Arnolfini marriage (Van Eyck), Sunflowers, (Van Gogh), Venus with a mirror (Velazquez),

or The Virgin of the Rocks (Leonardo da

Vinci)

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Dinner time!!

Back to hotel

Tuesday, 14th

morning

7.30 a.m.

I’m up!

Leicester Charing Cross

Royal London icons walk We will go sightseeing in the Westminster area to meet some of the most popular London icons: 10, Downing Street, Buckingham Palace (and Changing of the Guard at 11.30)., Houses of Parliament, Big Ben, Westminster Abbey and London Eye OPTIONAL ACTIVITY: Our first chance to go for a 30-minute rotation on the highest observation wheel in Europe, weather permitting.

GROUP TICKET (mínimum 15 people): £15,50 child fare

Tuesday, 14th

afternoon

If you still feel full of energy we can walk back to Primrose Hill following Regent’s Canal

Embankment Lunch and shopping at Camden Town...

Camden Market is the name given to to the microcosm of markets that make up the northern Camden Town area. Here you can find a wide range of goods on offer: fashion and vintage, jewellery, shoes and accessories, home and decoration, gifts games and hobbies, music, books and film, art and photography, health treatments, food and drink.

There are no chain stores at Camden market which guarantees that you will find something unique and different.

TIP: The singer AMY WINEHOUSE loved this part of London. Her body was found dead in her Camden Town house in 2011.

Try to find her statue in Camden Town Market and take a pic with her.

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Dinner at COVENT GARDEN area

Wednesday, 15th

morning

Breakfast time! Get ready for another intense day in THE CITY

King’s Cross Barbican heading for the...

City of London trail: from City Information Centre to Tower Bridge Don’t miss!!

1. St. Paul’s Cathedral 2. St Mary-le Bow 3. Guildhall Great Hall 4. Bank of England 5. Mansion House 6. The Monument 7. Tower of London 8. Tower Bridge

THE GREAT FIRE and THE MONUMENT Sometime after midnight on Sunday 2 September 1666, a fire started in a Baker’s shop in Pudding Lane near London Bridge. By morning the flames had reached the riverfront and were spreading fast. The fire lasted 4 days: when it finally ended, more than three quarters of the City were in ruins, including St Paul’s Cathedral..A few years later, a Stone tower called THE MONUMENT was built near the spot where the fire had started. It is 62 metres high, the exact distance to the site in Pudding Lane where the fire began

Wednesday, 15th

afternoon After lunch, get ready for an

13.3o

at Tower of London area.

Back to Hotel.

Leicester Russel Square

LONDON EYE ( 2nd chance) Sunset on the Wheel!

interesting walk along the River Thames

My favourite spot

Thursday, 16th

This museum opened in 1881 in a magnificent

morning

romanesque building. It is home to one of the largest natural history collections in the world from microscopic slides to mammoth skeletons.

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Don’t be lazy! Only 2 days left to enjoy London!!

The museum is divided into four coloured zones: GREEN ZONE: facts about life, the planet, environment and evolution.

RED ZONE: our planet

South Kensington

BLUE ZONE: life diversity ORANGE ZONE: Wildlife garden and Darwin centre .

I loved...

Thursday, 16th – REST OF DAY 11.45

13.3O

THE SCIENCE MUSEUM is one of the most interactive in the city, with lots of hands-on exhibits.

In the high-tech Wellcome Wing, visitors can digitally alter their faces to look older or younger, and manipulate their voices. Some of the highlights include the Launch Pad gallery, which explains basic scientific principles, Puffing Billy, the oldest steam locomotive in the world and the actual Apollo 10 capsule.

Hyde Park Walk

19.3O Theatre Royal

Plot

Drury Lane

Charlie Bucket, a boy from an impoverished family under the shadow of a giant chocolate factory, wins a candy bar contest and is given a tour, along with four other children, of the

( Window) Shopping

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Oxford St.

Regent St. Carnaby St

amazing factory run by the eccentric Willy Wonka and his staff of Oompa-Loompas.

Dinner

FRIDAY, 17th 7.3o

Ladbroke Grove

morning

My last day in London.

What a pity!

Portobello Road Market is probably the world’s best known market, and in 2015 is celebrating

Check –out Leave luggage at hotel storage

being

150

years

old.

Though famous for antiques, it’s also a heaven for lovers of fashion, food, books and music. It’s the place for anyone

If you're a Harry

who wants to find something really unique or just lo-

Potter fan, you

ves a great bargain. Portobello Road goes straight

know that Plat-

through the heart of Notting Hill, the trendy area of

form 9 3/4 at King’s Cross station in London is extremely important to young wizards, as that’s where one departs for Hogwarts via the Hogwarts Express. In response to the worldwide popularity of Harry Potter, years ago King’s Cross Station installed an actual 9 3/4 sign and a half trolley lodged in a wall so fans could visit the station and take fun pictures . Don’t miss the chance to do so!!

London made famous by the film.

Friday, 17th

afternoon FLIGHT

After lunch, we will have

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some leisure time until we return to Hotel

Before leaving, you should know that the

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area where our hotel is located, is known as BLOOMSBURY, a quarter that has

Marx

created

Oporto Sa Carneiro

horas antes da saĂ­da

writers of all times. It was in Bloomsbury Karl

London Gatwick

Temos que estar no aeroporto alomenos dĂşas

traditionally appealed to thinkers and that

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communism,

Virginia Woolf defined the twentieth century British novel, and Charles Darwin

My feelings after 5 DAYS in London

first conceived the theory of natural selection. The British Museum and Library, the University of London and Charles Dickens museum are just some of the most significant buildings in the area..

18.3O Transfer to airport from hotel

Dinner at airport

NOTES

PHOTO ALBUM

London tube map - Zones 1- 2