EnglandThe Lake District, Nottingham, the

Yorkshire Dales, Uffington Hills, Cornwall, Eden Project, Hurst Peninsula

July 2010 – October 2010By Evelyn Kurg

The map of EnglandFind:Isle of WightHurd Peninsula (west of Isle of Wight)Eden Project (north-west of Exmouth)Uffington (South-East of Oxford)NottinghamSherwood Forest (North of Nottingham)Yorkshire Dales (North of Leeds)Lake DistrictHadrian Wall (near Carlisle, on the Scottish border)

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Nottingham

292,000 people (2008)

Best-known companies: Boots (pharmacy and cosmetics), Siemens (electrical

devices), Speedo (sport clothes and equipment)

Main tourist attractions: Nottingham Caves, Sherwood Forest, shopping in Broadmarsh Shopping Centre, visiting the museum of the Galleries of Justice

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Nottingham Caves – terrible smell (leather), around +10C year round, damp, dark, stuffy

Nottingham Caves – made people short, age quicker and die at an early age

He is said to be 35 years old and 1.55 tall.

Digging out a mammoth tooth

The City of Caves

• The caves were inhabited already before 11th century

• Many were inhabited until 1845, when rental of cellars and caves as homes for the poor was banned

• Was used as an air raid shelter during WWII and is open to the public today

• You can learn about the appalling living conditions in the Victorian slum

was banned – keelustati; air raid shelter – õhurünnakute varjend; slum - agul

The oldest inn in England, established in 1189 AD

Landscape near Sherwood Forest – most of the forest is cut down. Robin Hood was believed to live in this area.

Hadrian’s Wall

Hadrian’s Wall

1) The Romans started to build it 122AD

2) It took 6 years to complete it3) It used to be 117km long, 3-6 metres wide4) There were many forts built on the route

Fort - kindlus

Lake District – has the highest mountains in England

Scafell Pike 978 metres

Camping in Lake District

In England you can put up a tent only in private camping sites which all cost. (£5 - £20 per person). Very often there are 1,000 or more people in one camping site, each tent has to be at least 6 metres apart.

Lake District

• Mountainous region in North-West England• Lake District National Park is the largest of all

13 national parks in England and Wales• The highest peak is Scafell Pike (978 metres)

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On the motorway, to Plymouth – you can drive up to 70 miles per hour, many people drive with 90-100 miles per hour. There are no policemen checking your speed, but many automatic speeding cameras.

The Isle of Wight, seen from Hurst Peninsula

Uffington Hills, White Horses

Pendon Model Railway Museum

Plymouth – these colourful bathing huts are owned or rented out.

View from the hotel, Plymouth

Cornwall was once conquered by Celtic tribes and a distinctive language has remained in use. All signs are in English and Cornish. Cornish is similar to Welsh language.

County of Cornwall: rocky, lots of pastures and some farmland, no forests, windier and chillier than in other places in England, lot of sheep

Eden Project, in Cornwall near small town St Austell

About Eden Project

• It is the world’s largest greenhouse• The project took 2½ years to construct and

opened to the public on 17 March 2001.• There are: 2 biomes, planted landscapes,

vegetable gardens, sculptures ( giant bee and a robot )

• Located in the county of Cornwall, 5km from town St Austell

Eden Project was built into closed quarry

Life without plants: no food, no furniture, no clothes, no oxygen....

What happens if there were no plants on Earth?

On the skating rink

The Bee

Vegetable Garden – can be enjoyed in restaurants and cafes and bought from the Eden Project shop

Tropical / Rainforest Biome

Rainforests

• How many? - Over 1,100 different species, roughly 16,000 individual plants grow in the biome

• How hot? - Temperature in the dome ranges from +18C to +35C, humidity 90% (on 24 Oct 2010 it was +27C)

• How big? - Rainforests cover 5% of the Earth and are home to half the world’s plant and animal species.

Where? - South-East Asia, tropical islands, West Africa, Tropical South America

Brazil IndonesiaMalaysia

In the Tropical Biome – Malaysia. High humidity causes such “fog”.

In the Tropical Biome - Waterfall

Spice Ship

Mediterranean Biome

• Where? – around the Mediterranean Sea, South Africa, South West Australia, Central Chile, and California have the Mediterranean climate.

• How hot? - Mediterranean climate is defined by hot, dry summers and frost-free, rainy winters, 30-40C in the summer (in the dome +9 to +25C)

• What plants? - citrus, olives, herbs and vines, aloes, poppies, lupins,

Orange tree

North American deserts, a type of aloe

Cork oak tree – what is made of it?

Tobacco

Raising funds for an owl hospital

Vineyard – characters from Greek mythology

Thank you for your attention!

Reference: www.wikipedia.org; www.edenproject.co.uk;

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