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Name: Svetlana Senajova
Location: Czech Republic

Stories of my life :) This blog started with stories from my time in Reykjavik, Iceland. Working there as MC member of AIESEC in Iceland, and also studying for one semester. From January 07 went back to the Czech republic, in July-September was on finance internship in Kabul, Afghanistan and from Sept I'm as Erasmus student in Liverpool, UK. Now back in Czech and getting ready to go to Afghanistan again.

Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Trip to Chester, 14.10.

Last Saturday night me and my house mates decided to go for a trip to Chester the next day. Chester is close to Liverpool, takes about 40 mins by train and we heard that its nice place to visit.

I forced the guys that we have to leave the house latest 10 a.m. and because that is so early for them, I promised to do pancakes for breakfast so it motivates them to wake up. ... I did as I promised, though it took me a bit longer to do them so we left half hour later. Probably big mistake, because after buying the tickets at the train station, they announced that due to technical problems on the rail in the one stop before ours, the train will be running wait. OK, no probs, we can wait.... and we were waiting ... and waiting... 30 mins gone and still no train... so we decided to jump into the taxi to get to the city center and there get on the train. And what.. as it's Sunday train goes only every 30 mins and we missed the train by some 5 minutes or so. So we were waiting again...

Finally, at around 12h we left Liverpool and head to Chester. From that time on everything was running on the schedule :)

Chester is the most beautiful town I have seen so far in UK... well, havent seen many places yet. But I liked a lot the old english style buildings, lot of green, the castle... We walked across the city center, almost all around the the city by walking over the city walls, the river had nice surrounding though water could be much cleaner...We visited a museum, cathedral and seen two squirrels playing in the park, passed by horse-race stadium, seen ruins of Roman Amphitheater and wanted to go into the castle too but it was closed due to some technical work in there. And for zoo we didn't have time. So looking forward to go there with Mike and his friends in winter.

Well, just enjoy pics.

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Minulou sobotu večer jsme se se spolubydlícími dohodli, že pojedeme v neděli na výlet do Chesteru. Chester je jen 40 min vlakem od Liverpoolu a prý je to hezké místo na návštěvu.

Abych donutila kluky vstávat brzo, abysme mohli odejít z domu v 10h, slíbila jsem, že jim udělám na snídani palačiny. Taky, že jsem slib dodržela. Bohužel jsem si to smažení ale nějak blbě rozplánovala, takže jsme odešli o půl hodiny později. A to byla asi velka chyba. Po koupi lístků na vlakovém nádraží nám bylo během pěti minut oznámeno, že díky technickému problému na trati v zastávce, ze které měl přijet náš vlak, se vlak opozdí. Neznámo na jak dlouho... Tak jsme čekali... a čekali... a čekali a půlhodiny pryč a vlak nikde. Tak jsme nasedli do taxíka, aby nás zavezl do centra a tam jsme přestoupili na vlak do Chesteru. O pět minut jsme minuli vlak, takže jsme museli čekat další půl hodiny.

No, takže místo očekávaných 10.18 jsme nakonec vyjeli z Liverpoolu až kolem 12h. Ale pak už šlo všechno podle plánu.

Chester je zatím na prvním místě mého seznamu nejkrásnějších měst v UK.... no, zatím jsem jich moc neviděla. Strašně se mi líbily historické, typicky anglické budovy, v celém centru města, spousta zeleně, řeka by teda mohla být čistější... Prošli jsme město křížem krážem, obešli jsme ho skoro celé i po hradbách okolo města, navštívili jsme muzeum, katedrálu a dvě veverky co se tam honily v parku, viděli jsme dostihový stadion, ruiny římského amfiteátru a chtěli jsme jít i do hradu, ale ten byl z technických důvodů zavřený. A na zoo nezbyl čas. Tak se těším, až tam v zimě půjdu s Mikem a jeho kamarády.

No, užijte si fotečky :)


River Dee - on the way from train station to the city center


Gate to the city

My house mates Ganesh (Hong Kong/Nepal) and Tomas (Czech Rep.)

City centerOn the walls around the town
River Dee
Castle from 14th century
Horse racing stadium
secondary school

Norman cathedral from 16th centuryStatue in the cathedral's park

1 Comments:

Blogger lahiru said...

Hey Honney,
Please write something about the time you spend in Iceland.I really really like to here something about that.And please upload some some photos you took when you were in Iceland.Because i like to dream about Iceland....Do this for me...
Lahiru

17/12/07 12:49 PM  

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