Reisebericht der Studienfahrt nach London 2011
Nachfolgend lesen Sie den Reisebericht der Studienfahrt nach London, England der Beruflichen Gymnasien – Fachrichtung Wirtschaft – vom 7. bis 12. Mai 2011.
Hinweis: Die Berichte für die verschiedenen Tage wurden von verschiedenen Klassen erstellt. Noch fehlende Tagesberichte werden noch nachgereicht.
Sunday -- The journey and Camden Lock Market
This really was a trip to remember… After squeezing 53 people into a coach at the BBS Winsen we spent our Saturday night on the road to France…getting to Calais early in the morning after everyone had finally just gone to sleep.
On the ferry we all had to get out and enjoy the Channel and the fresh sea air on board. The coffee was not as reviving as expected…but at about 8:00 am we could see the white cliffs of Dover from where it only took another 1 ½ hours to get to London.
After dropping our luggage at the very nice looking hotel Ibis in West Brompton we took the Tube to Camden Lock Market. This was our first experience with the oldest underground and it really was an experience. Due to building activities (on a Sunday!) the Northern Line was closed so we had to take a complicated route to get to Camden. But we were rewarded with the most amazing market in London.
Opened in the 1970s as an original arts and crafts market Camden Lock Market can be found in refurbished sheds and yards of a former timber yard [http://www.camdenlockmarket.com. Here you can find glorious food; eccentric clothing and artists studios but also a lot of junk and bric-a-brac.
Back at the hotel we had to relax and later some people went out to try the original British pub food :-)
Tuesday -- Our trip to the Globe Theatre
After an early breakfast consisting of salted yoghurt and preserved plums everyone felt ready for a trip to Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, a replica of the theatre which Shakespeare wrote for and later invested in. So we took the Tube from West Brompton to Mansion House, a station located a 10-minute-walk away from the theatre.
So we arrived at the theatre at 10 o’clock and after a short hour of shooting photos and sitting around in the sun, an actor picked us up for the workshop. He took us on a trip through the building which is nearly completely made of wood, a cheap material in the Elizabethan age. After this short tour we went into a small room below the theatre. Here the workshop took place and we learned something about rhetorical devices and the art of performing Shakespeare.
The workshop ended at 12 o’clock and after a short break we took a walk on the so-called Shakespeare Walk, on which we learned something about heads on pikes and other cruel facts of the English history. After that we were free to do whatever we wanted and so we took the chance to get a proper meal, go shopping or anything else.
At half past six we met again near the Globe Theatre and then we watched the play “All’s well that ends well” which was interesting but very exhausting. We had to stand all the time to get the true feeling of a groundling who is someone standing in the cheapest places in the theatre - in front of the stage.
Shakespeare’s language was difficult to understand and the puns were wasted on us. But the acting was great and so we could understand the main ideas of the play.
After the show we had done our duty for the day and some went to explore the London nightlife and others to enjoy some pizzas.
Wednesday -- Our trip to Stratford – upon – Avon
On Wednesday, the 11th May 2011, we planned to visit the British small town Stratford – upon – Avon, where William Shakespeare was born.
After everyone got his breakfast we met inthe hotel lobby at 9am. Our bus was waiting in front of our hotel and we started the journey to Stratford – upon – Avon, which took about two hours. Following our arrival in rainy Stratford – upon – Avon, we got off the bus and split up into two smaller groups. Then we got to know our two guides. Afterwards we went to the famous “Gower Memorial”(statue) and our guide, a nice elderly lady, told us which persons were shown (e.g.: Lady Macbeth).
The next sight was the “Royal Shakespeare Theatre”, where we got interesting information about the history and the architecture.
Subsequently we walked through a nice little park to the “Holy Trinity Church”, where Shakespeare was christened and buried. To preserve his bones from being moved and burned, he inscribed on his grave: “GOOD FRIEND FOR JESUS SAKE FORBEARE, TO DIGG THE DUST ENCLOASED HEARE.BLESE BE THE MAN THAT SPARES THES STONES,AND CURST BE HE THAT MOVES MY BONES.”, and this worked!
Furthermore we saw the grave of his wife, his daughter and her husband next to him. Special about the graves, as our guide told us, was the fact that the graves were inside the church and not like the others at the graveyard.
Hereafter we walked to the grammar school at which Shakespeare was a pupil. On our way we past “Hall’s Croft”, the house where Shakespeare’s oldest daughter lived together with her husband, and the “Nash House”, where Shakespeare lived from 1597 until his death in 1616. It was pulled down in the eighteenth century so we were only able to see the foundations. At the end we moved on to Shakespeare’s birthplace in “Henley Street”. There we took a photo of the whole group in front of the house.
So we finished the tour which took round about two hours and got one and a half hour freetime to visit the nice small town. The class WG 12a used the opportunity to get something to eat all together in a nice restaurant. They paid with the money they earned by selling waffles in the BBS Winsen (Luhe). The other ones enjoyed their freetime and explored the city in small groups. It was a good chance to buy some nice souvenirs, postcards or typical British tea, sweets or other things.
At the end each group found the way back to our meeting point, where our bus was waiting for departure.
Back in London everyone enjoyed the evening, either in our hotel or for example at the “Piccadilly Circus” and in the “Hard Rock Café”.