Voyage au Pays de Galles

We are going to describe our first day in England. We went from Porthmouth to Wales. During the trip, we stopped in the city of Bath to have lunch and to visit the city.

After a rough crossing on "Barfleur" ferry, we had a breakfast on board.

We put down our first feet on the snow covered English ground.

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We arrived in Bath after 3 hours of coach.

We had one hour to discover the city before having lunch.

Here is a picture of Bath's cathedral.

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Between 12a.m and 1p.m, we ate in Mc Donald's restaurant.

We ate one menu that contain one hamburger, one portion of chips and one drink.

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Then, we were free from 1p.m to 4p.m.

We had shopping, we visted the city and we went to a pub.

We drunk our first beer.

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The city of Bath was build in XVIII° century. There are actually 79'900 peoples.

It's architecture is typical roman because there was therms that were smoking in the sky.

The tuesday 2nd February 2009, the day was very busy. The morning, we visited the Cardiff Castle. And the afternoon, we visited the millenium stadium. Mean while, we ate in the commercial gallery or in the city. Finaly, we drank many beer in the pub, with the group and the teachers.

The morning, we visited Cardiff Castle. It is a medieval castle of victorian and Gothic architecture .

During the day of Wednesday, we have visited the Big Pit under the snow. Big Pit is disused a mine of coal . The after noon we went to the Cardiff bay. In the porthole, we have sow the model of the bay. They explains the dyke that separates the salty water and soft water. And after we were to get back to our landlady.

A first picture shows the mine outside. This little tower is a lift.

A second picture is a corriege for the coal. In the mine the digital cameras were banned.

It is a model that show the bay of Cardiff. This model there is in the Cardiff Bay Visitor Center.

This building is an desk administration old  for the company of coal rail transport.

The half boat shows a face of a human.

We left from Cardiff at 8 a.m to go to beaulieu. We drove 4 hours and a half in the coach. During this time we watched a DVD in the coach. At 12h30 we started the visit of Beaulieu motors museum. In this museum some cars and motorbike, old and recent models, were exposed. There models are exposed in a modern bulding and there is an old castle which we can visit too. There are many animations as a driving simulator, monorail and James Bond cars. In this museum many cars are rare.

This is a De Lorean. This is the car which we can see in the movie "back to the futur".

It is the funny car and advert for the orange juice. It is the ideal car to drive with friends because the sits are in round.

In this museum, there is an exposition of motorbikes, this is one exemplary. This is the must famous race motorbike, we saw this in lots of movies. 

In the hall of the museum there are tuning cars and motorbikes.

In this photo we can see two Formula one cars. This cars ron on race circuits in the 90's. They Have very large weels and powerfulls motors.