England Trips

Goodbye to Alnwick | Dec 03 10'

"We will miss the castle cat, Bunyip, alot."

We are leaving Alnwick on December 9. We have spent about 4 months here. We have seen lots of places in England and Europe. Alnwick has been a... Continue reading »

A Good Day at the Tide Pools | Oct 22 10'

"The tide pools were fantastic, and it was exciting to catch crabs."

We spent a morning at the beach at Newton by the sea with the SCSU group and a Marine biologist named Maurine. Some of the waves of the ocean looke... Continue reading »

London | Oct 11 10'

"You can't imagine how great the musical Oliver was."

We spent 4 busy days in London and did so many things that we are only going to write about some of our favorites.  We took a walk through Hy... Continue reading »

A Day in Tynemouth | Oct 02 10'

"The first thing we did was go into the water. It was super cold!!"

Our field trip to see coastal castles was cancelled on Friday, so on Saturday we went to Tynemouth near Newcastle.  We took two buses to get t... Continue reading »

Getting to Know the Castle | Aug 19 10'

"Yesterday, we went on a Harry Potter tour. Parts of the first few Harry Potter movies were filmed here."

After taking two planes, three trains, and one taxi, we were happy to arrive at our apartment inside Alnwick Castle. In the kitchen someone ha... Continue reading »

Romans, Writers and a Henge | Aug 27 10'

"Then, we started the trail along Hadrian's wall. The walk was 3 miles long."

We took a field trip with the SCSU students to the Lake District. The fist thing we did was visit a Roman Fort along Hadrian's wall.  Hadrian'... Continue reading »

More Fun at The Castle | Aug 25 10'

"We saw the castle cat named Bunyip. He thinks he's in charge of everything here."

This week we explored more of the castle. We saw the castle cat named Bunyip. He thinks he's in charge of everything here.  He is black and wh... Continue reading »

Looks Like We Made It | Oct 24 10'

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Chocolate & Science | Sep 04 10'

"We wrote our names in chocolate and we got to try the drink that the Aztecs made with the cocoa beans."

We visited Birmingham and went to Cadbury World & the Think Tank.  At Cadbury World, we started through an "Aztec jungle" a... Continue reading »

Holy Island & Bamburgh | Sep 03 10'

"The cool thing abut Holy Island is that you can only get on and off the island at low tide, because the road goes underwater during hightide. "

We went to Holy Island and Bamburgh.  It was very exciting. At Holy Island we found lots of goodies in the sand. We saw crabs and washed up je... Continue reading »