Erdkinder-Projekt e.V. Eberharting

Die 8. Klasse in England

Hello everybody,

Hereby I’d like to give you a few details about the last few days here on the island. On Saturday we went to London. We took an early train and arrived at Victoria at around 10. From there we walked to Buckingham Palace, Westminster Abbey , then along the Houses of Parliament across Westminster Bridge, past the London Eye, back across Millennium Bridge, a somewhat frail construction which had to be rebuilt a few years ago because it turned out to be too weak. In the dense crowd  we were having quite a hard time keeping all our chickens together, but fortunately Heri was wearing his orange cap which he stuffed with a balloon to make it even more conspicuous. Heads turned and people smiled, but we didn’t mind that. Actually, we were headed for the British Museum to have a snug lunch break there on the lawn outside the Museum, but, alas, we had to change our plans because of too many kids moaning. (How much longer will we have to walk? My feet are hurting…! When will we be allowed to go shopping…?)So we took a different direction and stopped at Piccadilly Circus where we let them do their shopping. After that we split up: 13 kids went with Heri to Madame Tussauds, Colin took Leo and me to the Science Museum where we left us. The Science Museum is a rather interesting place, along with the neighbouring Natural History Museum . We had planned to meet at the Science Museum to give the kids the chance to go inside, but it turned out they were so tired after Madame Tussauds that again we changed our plans. Eventually we all met again at Victoria and happily arrived in Margate in the evening. Colin said we must have walked that day around 16 miles. Wow! Next day Canterbury was scheduled. Colin took us to places we had never seen before although we (Heri and I) had been in Canterbury several times before, We looked at lovely gardens and brooks, a thousand year old trees, a ruined Norman castle (finally deconstructed by present day local people who used the bricks to build their own houses).  Inside the cathedral we listened to organ music and one more time enjoyed the outstanding beauty of the place. Some of the kids seemed to be a little exhausted from the previous day in London, but some were rather impressed with the cathedral and the beautiful medieval town. Other activities were a visit to the cinema (Johnny English) and to the Bowling Centre.

Today we are visiting the Shell Grotto, and for the next few days another visit to the cinema and a visit to another museum is planned, and a few more things.