Travel until Wrexham

We took the plane from Nantes to Manchester with a stop in Amsterdam.

We took the train in Manchester to Wrexham with two stop in  Manchester Oxford Road and in Chester.

We were directly gone in our accomodation which is 15 min of the station.
We met our two colloc'. There is Albert who is spanish and there is Axel who is german.

We are visiting Wrexham which is a little city, the atmosphere is friendly. It is very nice when the sun goes down. in the center, there are lots of restaurants, shops and pub. there is the monument too like this church which will visit maybe later.

We ate together in the restaurant , it is called The Eihul Yale, The food is good and cheap. We had a good moment in this restaurant for the first day in Wrexham.

 Sources: photo of me and Damien

Juliette

Tourism

Tourism on Wrexam

 

Penrhyn Castle is a country house in Llandegai, Bangor, Gwynedd, North Wales, in the form of a Norman castle.

Historical building

The castle of Chirk Castle is the south of Wrexam, was built in 1295 and is the property of National Trust (Conservation organisation in England, Wales and Northern Ireland)

Chirk Castle, Wrexham,
Wales

The Pontcysyllte aqueduct is a navigable aqueduct that carries the Llangollen Canal over the valley of the River Dee in Wrexham County Borough in north east Wales. Completed in 1805, it is the longest and highest aqueduct in Great Britain.

The aqueduct, built by Thomas Telford and William Jessop (Civil engineer), is 336 yd (307 m)long.

Pontcysyllte aqueduct,
Llangollen Canal, Wales

Erddig Hall is a stately home on the outskirts of Wrexham. The house is set in superb gardens, including two long canals, one of which you see here.

Erddig Hall
Wrexham, Clwyd, Wales

Park

 

Alyn Waters Country Park Information

Alyn Waters is the largest country park in the Wrexham area, Alyn Waters is situated in the beautiful Alyn Valley next to Wrexam. The Park has a variety of paths for walkers and cyclists.

The park Welcomes a important biodiversity : Woodland, grassland and riverside...
Species recorded at Alyn Waters include kingfishers, buzzards, kestrels, foxes, adders, grass snakes, smooth newts and a variety of bats.

Alyn Valley

Community life

Glyndwr university provide facilities vast and diverse :

Community radio station Calon FM :




The Glyndwr University Racecourse Stadium :

The stadium is recognised by Guinness World Records as the world's oldest international football stadium.

The Cent :

Student bar serving food and drinks, and playing host to plenty of event. You can found plasma screens, pool tables and Wi-Fi .


Oriel Syncharth Gallery :



An art gallery deatures Rolling exhibitions from international and local artists.


Sport center :

The facility complies with national competition standards for badminton, netball, basketball, volleyball, futsal, handball and indoor hockey. We also have provision for table tennis and matting for martial arts.

Dance studio :

with its modern lighting, mirrored wall and professional sound system provides an excellent home for many fitness classes and martial arts.

http://www.glyndwr.ac.uk/en/

Coutums !

The officials languages are English and Welsh. The population include a lot of Citizens like Irish, Anglo-Saxon and Norman. In this country, we have a lot of churchs such as Anglican churchs and Catholic churchs. The money is the livre sterling.

Livre sterling

Catholic church

Anglican church

The national day is the first of March. The name of this day is Saint David. The symbol of this country are leek and daffodil.

Country's symbol

There is a good manners in country of Galle with the tip. In fact,, generally, when you go in a restaurant or taxi, it is wish that you give ten or fifteen percent of the invoice.

About the gastronomy of this country, the national dishs are: first of all we have the cawls with leek soup and lamb.

Leek soup

Lamb

Then, we have laverbread with seaweed and oat.

Seaweed

Oat

After we have Glamorgan sausage and welsh faggots with small patties of meat. The favourite leverage are beer and tea!

Beer

Tea

About the arts, we have the National Museum of Cardiff.

Museum of Cardiff

The National sport is the Rugby. The biggest team is the Red Dragons, the fifteen of leek. The captain of this team is Sam Warbinton, and recordman of points is Neil Jenkins. . The recordman of try is Shane Williams.

Shane Williams

Neil Jenkins

Sam Warbinton

In Athletism, the recordman in hurdle race of one hundred meters is Colin Ray Jackson.

Colin Ray Jackson

And, finally, Dylan Thomas is a famous poet.

Dylan Thomas

Damien DUPLESSIS

Bibliographie:

-http://www.terresceltes.net/pays-de-galles/coutumes-et-traditions-du-pays-de-galles

-http://www.linternaute.com/voyage/royaume-uni/pays-de-galles/

-http://www.pays-de-galles.com/index.php?rn1=14&rn2=30

-http://e-touristes.blogspot.fr/2008/03/coutumes-et-traditions-des-pays-du.html

-Google image

Where do we live ?

We found a friendly accomodation in Rhosddu Road, which is located in Wrexham.

We chosed this accomodation for three reasons. Firstly, it is situated 15 mins walk to university and town centre. It was primordial for us, because we didn't know if there were lots of public transports, and we won't have our cars during these three months. Secondly, there are five bedrooms, which means on the one hand that we will have our own rooms and on the other hand that we will meet other students. In our opinion, it is important to meet people who don't speak french to improve our english. Thirdly, the rent per personn is not very high, which will allow us to travel in England and have other activities.

Juliette and Damien

Sources:
http://www.glyndwrstudentpad.co.uk/Advert/9448340

Léo and Benjamin

Glyndwr University

We are four students who go to Glyndwr University. This University is located in Wrexham, which is a small city where lived 42 571 inhabitants in 2001. It is an industrial city and its economic situation is bad since the closure of the beer industry.

The University is very impressive, there are more than 8 000 students !
Why are there so many students ? Because Glyndwr University has different formations like Health & Psychology, Buisness, Engineering, Computing....

Sources: 

http://www.bucs.org.uk/bucscore/TeamProfile.aspx?id=3288

http://www.theguardian.com/education/2009/may/10/universityguide-glyndwr-uni

http://www.glyndwr.ac.uk/