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This is my 6th foreign country visit. Fortunately due to some office project work my another dream comes true to visit England, the country which ruled India more than a Century. It's an opportunity to see the people & their work culture who managed to control our country as well some other country too!. Actually it was good opts to visit UK instead of sweating in the summer of India. I arrived on 21st May Saturday 2005 at Manchester Airport by Emirates via Dubai. It was first time I landup into Dubai for short time of 2 & half hour break. I am not counting Dubai visit as one of the country visit among the 6, I mentioned above. When I landup at Manchester airport, it was raining. It gave me a feel of Monsoon in India. My destination was Liverpool. So I traveled to Liverpool, which is west coast of the England within 1 hr. by taxi costing 65£. Which was a fare indication of how's the leaving standard of UK. The taxi driver was Pakistani. That travel time passed away by chit chatting about the culture & government of this country. I will keep on adding my experiences henceforth in this article as & when any new visit/tour date wise. Liverpool:
23th July 2005 Snowdon (1085mt) 28 - 30 May 2005 Our entire team was Vishal, Prabhu, Prem, Uma,
Yoga, Srikanth, Abhijit & me It was a sunny day. After refreshing in two hours we went to London tour using The 'Original Bus' service tour costing 16£ each. We were 8 all together. Before start of the tour we spent some time at Bakingham Palace for 2 hrs. Unfortunately we could not see the Change of Guard ceremony but fortunately we saw something more than this. There was a practice parade organinsed in view of the Queens Birthday(4th June). We did lots of photography with those red colour dressed guards. It's quite different scene altogether for me watching security guards marching with the rhythm of band. It was a perfect start though we spend more time out here.
29th May 05 Photographs with various famous personalities like Amitabh Bacchan, Mahatma Gandhi, Aishwarya Rai, Hitler, Bush etc. I found that very few interested to take photograph with Saddam except our fellow member Premgopal. Our another fellow member Yoga took only photograph with Aishwarya. In the evening we return back to home by road with tired legs but rejuvenating memories. The highway London to Liverpool, I found it similar like Frankfurt to Interlaken (Swiss) experience. It was my first weekend of UK. Horsham 1st Oct 05 For some of my office work, I happened to be landup in the some what south end of the UK near Brighton a place called Horsham. A very remote city devloped by the Insurance, IT companies. Nothing is famous about the place. Out of all my other visits in UK, this place seems to be very remote like an Village. Once in the Afternoon I was standing in the house varandha and unique surprise to me a fox ran in front of me towards the dense tree area near by. This is first time I saw a wild animal in UK in the open. Thats one of the good experience. Any further surprise will keep on adding till my visit here in Horsham. |
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Liverpool's Pier Head received World Heritage Site status
from UNESCO in 2004. Visitors will pour into Liverpool to explore its
magnificent cultural heritage. Culture and the arts have always been
important to the city: its musical impact on the world has been unique;
its writers, actors and artists have been pre-eminent; its architecture
has been widely imitated; its art collections world-class and its
sporting prowess has been legendary.
One of the best wall I ever seen in my
climbing life span. Anyone who enters the Albans Church converted into
indoor climbing wall church definitely would like to climb either any
one of the route. Plenty of routes for practice with various grading
put up on each wall. It's worth spending £6.50 per day. I love to spend
all my weekends for the climbing practice here. The place is very near
from my house just 20min walk. More details about wall, please 
part of the world. Plenty of space
to accommodate all animal keeping in their natural habitat(supposed to
be). My nature conservation savvy mind always worried about these
animals. Because at some point of time those animals will loose their
habits since they are kept in such places where hundreds of human being
visit such places might be its a crowded place for animal. The other
side is same people for example had killed major carnivorous animals in
India when India was ruled by Britishers and now they are trying to
save those extinct animals. 
One of free entry museum out of the seven in
Liverpool is Merseyside Maritime Museum. Four storied Dock building in
the Albert Dock hosting this Museum. Worth spending 2-3 hrs. Greatest
attraction is Titanic. The one which sank on 14th
April 1912 at 11:40pm the "unsinkable". It was the sea disaster that
would not have happened .Titanic collided with an iceberg on her maiden
voyage from southampton to New York. Just over two-and-a-half hours
later she sank with the loss of more than 10 lives.
Then
we Visited Trafalgar Square, St. Paul
Cathedral, 330 steps tower Monument(which was build in the memory of
London fire happened in the past), Famous London Bridge, London Eye
build by the British Air force. The London eye is one of modern tourist
attraction. It's a giant wheel with 32 oval shape carrying huts. Each
one can accommodate around 20 people at a time. Two members of our team
left us in the evening since they wanted to go some other place. We had
dinner in the Indian Restaurant. One can find this place is somewhat
homely as compare to other country since so many Indians everywhere.