An English corner in Tineo!

We’ve spent a wonderful week in Margate (Kent) and its surroundings … again!!

 

 

 

 

This year, however, the trip was a bit different. We decided to focus on the figure of Charles Dickens, who lived and placed many of his works and characters in the area. Do you want to know what we’ve seen?

• • In Broadstairs we went to the “Dickens House Museum”, which has been adapted as a museum to commemorate the writer’s association with Broadstairs.
  • In Chatham we went to “Dickens World of Adventures”, where we learned about his life, his works,…, we saw a play on “Oliver Twist”, we learned about Victorian times and clothes,…
  • In Rochester we could see some of the houses where Dickens placed his settings, as in “Great Expectations”, or which gave him ideas to write his stories, as in “The Seven Poor Travellers”.

CHARLES DICKENS WRITING

And we visited many more things, as well!

We went to Brighton, and we were impressed by the “Royal Pavilion” !

We also had a great time at Britain’s oldest aquarium, the “Sea Life Center”,

and of course had a delightful walk along Brighton’s beautiful Pier!!

We spent a fantastic day at “Chessington World of Adventures”, going up and down the rides

(some of us “suffered” Ramses Revenge after the 5th or 6th ride !)

In Canterbury we felt … and smelled as medieval pilgrims did in the “Canterbury Tales Museum”,

and we really admired Chaucer’s wit!! We had a great time going on a boat trip

(and some of us were really impressed by the rowers !!).

And we visited Canterbury’s crowded Cathedral!

In London we had a horrifying and thrilling time at “The London Dungeon”,

where they told us about London’s criminals and assassins in a too-convincing-way!!

Thankfully, we relaxed at the “Hard Rock Café”  afterwards…

and relaxed even more shopping at Piccadilly and Oxford Street later !!

And the best of all was… that we had Conor, our great language assistant, with us all the trip!!

And he made us laugh and laugh, believe us!! Thank you, Conor!!

As usual, we took trillions of photos! Click on this one to see some of them!

Here you have some of our videos!

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