Greenwich Walk

Each week for class, we have to do a walk around a certain area of town. This time is was a place called Greenwich. It had a cool museum there that had the history of ships, captains, sailors, etc. One thing I found interesting were some of the actual coats worn by actual captains in the 1700s and 1800s.

 This coat had the coolest story. There was this whole exhibit about a man named Nelson and the story of how he became captain of his ship and his experiences as a captain. When he was a flag-officer, his ship called The Victory received heavy musket fire as it approached enemy ships at Trafalgar. At 1:15 p.m., Nelson was hit in the shoulder by a musket ball fired from the top of the French ship Redoutable. It shattered his shoulder, punctured his lung and lodge in his spine...

 …but the cool thing is the hole can be seen on the left should of his uniform as you can kind of see from the below picture. Nelson knew immediately it was a fatal injury. Moments after he was hit he told a fellow sailor, "They have done for me at last, my backbone is shot through." I don't know why but I just thought this was the coolest thing ever.

 Oh, and part of his right arm had to be amputated in another earlier incident so that's why the sleeve is pinned to his chest.

 We also found out that movies such as Thor 2 and Les Miserables was filmed here. I was excited because I remember exactly what scene from Thor was made here. Between those two buildings across the field is where it was made.

 This is Kenzie, Kate, Rachel, and me standing in the museum impersonating how Captains stand. I think we did a pretty good job haha.

 This is also the place where the Prime Meridian (zero degrees longitude) is. We stood at the beginning of the world.

Some of my professor's kids got in the picture. He has 9 children total. Pretty crazy

"My Good Opinion Once Lost is Lost Forever." -Darcy

Our last stop before we headed back to London from the North trip was Chatsworth. When my professor told us we were going to Chatsworth, I didn't really know what it was. But then he mentioned that Chatsworth is Mr. Darcy's house (Pemberly) in the Pride and Prejudice movie with Kira Knightly! I was super excited to see it.

This is when Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth stand at the end of the movie when they tell  how much they love each other.

These are a few pictures inside the house

This is a random foot statue.

I wonder who's idea it was to put china in the fireplace.

This is the statue room in the movie

This picture made me laugh so hard. They have a statue that looks like someone is falling over. Hahahahahahaha I am laughing even while I am typing this.

This is the statue of Mr. Darcy in the movie. They now have it in the gift shop.

haha this was at the bottom of the statue.

Haworth, Hadrian's Wall, and Fountain's Abbey

On our way back from Scotland, we stayed at a hostel in a town called Haworth. We got there when it was starting to get dark outside and it was probably one of the creepiest towns ever. The hostel looked like a haunted house. Since the hostel didn't have wifi, about twelve of us went on a journey to go find a place that had some. We started walking and there was literally no one outside. We passed a house who's yard was completely covered in gnomes. As we walked a little further, we passed an old building and in the window was a lady staring at us while holding a doll, which was also looking at us! It was the perfect setting for a scary movie plot: A group of college kids walking around a quiet town that is haunted, full of houses with gnomes everywhere, and old ladies staring through the window while holding creepy-looking dolls. Luckily, we all survived. Finally, thirty minutes later, we found a cafe place that had wifi.

On our way back, we passed a funny road that was called "Butt Lane."I had to take a picture.

This is a picture of our hostel I took from inside the bus as we were leaving for the Bronte Pasonage up the street. You can't tell me that you wouldn't be a little scared to stay in this place haha.

After leaving the hostel, we went to the Bronte sister's parsonage who wrote Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights. It is such a depressing and creepy place to live. No wonder they wrote such dark books.

This is a picture of there house and the Moors

The next day, we went to Hadrian's Wall. Hadrian's Wall was a defensive fortification in Roman Britain, begun in 122 AD. It used to be 75 miles long.

Here are some pictures of it. 

Me, Kate, and Ashley sitting on the wall.

 These pictures just don't capture how beautiful this place really is. During the bus drive, most people slept but I just couldn't do it because the view was so beautiful I didn't want to miss anything.

 There were sheep everywhere. It was awesome!

 This is where the hospital was.

 It started pouring rain after this picture was taken. We were soaked. You just can't stay dry when it is windy and rainy.

After Hadrian's wall, we went to a place called Fountains Abbey. It was a Monastery built in 1132. It functioned for 400 years until Henry VIII shut it down. This is what remains of it.

 These are some of the gardens surrounding it. Fountains Abbey covers about 7 acres of land.