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Now this is what I call school...

JEjessichina ·19 photographs ·3 Feb 1998 – 10 Jun 1998 ·128 days
Where
Oxford, London, Bath, Windsor, Stratford-upon-Avon
When
3 Feb 1998 – 10 Jun 1998
128 days · trip of 1998
Who
jessica · @jessichina · novara
How
Travel diary
The story

CAST: me and five other girls from my high school TRANSPORT: Air One flight (to Stansted), in England buses, trains, taxis, etc. ACCOMMODATION: host families' homes (mine was a real palace, complete with sauna and pool, in the English countryside at Wallingford) VISITS: our school, the exclusive St Helen & St Katharine school (in Abingdon), Windsor and entry to the castle, Oxford, London, Bath and its spas, Stratford-upon-Avon with Shakespeare's house and theatre.

The journey's photographs

19 photographs · click to open them full screen

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Anne Hathaway's Cottage in Stratford-upon-Avon, thatched timber-framed houseCouple walking past Shakespeare's half-timbered birthplace in Stratford-upon-AvonBoats moored along the River Thames, swans on the water and bare willowsGirl with shopping bags inside Covent Garden market, glass roof and lanternsRed boots and a decorated guitar in a shop window with framed photoTourists on the bronze lion in Trafalgar Square, London, crowds and classical buildingsRecord and souvenir shops with giant signs in Camden Town, LondonStone rooftops and Gothic spires of Oxford under a blue skyOxford's Bridge of Sighs between pale stone buildings, warm morning lightTourists walk beside the medieval stone walls of Windsor CastleTourists walk beneath the medieval stone walls of Windsor CastlePulteney Weir's curved weir on the River Avon in Bath, seagulls flyingRoman Baths in Bath: stone columns and statues around the thermal poolGreen water of the Roman Baths in Bath among stone columns and steamTwo topiary faces smiling on trimmed yew bushes beside a stone manor wallOld grey stone manor house with tiled roof and chimney under an overcast skyFormal garden with rectangular pool, tall hedges and English manor house behindBrick farm barns, wooden fences and green fields in the English countrysideThree people hugging by the stone fireplace, framed paintings on the wall

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