2.16.09

I just got an email from the program director with our full schedule (as of right now) attached to it and after looking over it several times I just can't get over how excited I am! I just thought I would share the lovely details of my trip with y'all

Saturday 7/4/09 

Welsh Study Abroad begins; be in Cardiff around 12:00

Shop for Food and stuff

Sunday 7/5/09

Church at Cardiff central branch

Cardiff City walk part one

Monday 7/6/09

Train of Coryton, walk to Castle Coch

FHE

Music at Y Mochen Du

Tuesday 7/7/09

Work on class projects, etc.

Free Day

Wednesday 7/8/09

History Class

Thursday 7/9/09 *Train day 1

London, British Museum and National Museum, free time

Mid-Summer Nights Dream at Globe

Friday 7/10/09

Water taxi to the Bay

Visiti Cardiff Bay and Welsh Assembly, food festival in Plas Roald Dahl

Saturday 7/1/09

Cosmeton WIllage visit

Find Ffynnon Garw

Watch "The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill and Came Down a Mountain"

Sunday 7/12/09

Church

Cardiff City Walk part 2

Monday 7/13/09

Uffington White horse, Uffington Iron Age hill fort, Weyland Smithy

Oxford, city specialist and Tolkein specialist

Blenheim Palace in Woodstock

FHE

Music at Y Mochen Du 

Tuesay 7/14/09

Drive to Caerwent

Caerwent visit

Drive to Chepstow

Chepstow Castle

Drive to Tintern

Tintern Abbey, Welsh Gold Ice Cream

Monmouth

Goodrich Castle Exterior

Wednesday 7/15/09 *St Swithin's Day 40 days of rain or sun hang in the balance!

Drive to Winchester

Winchester Cathedral and Great Hall

Salsbury Cathedral

Old Sarum, English Heritage Building

Stonehenge evening visit

Avebury visit & Silbury Hill

Thursday 7/16/09

Raglan castle

Drive to Bleanafon

Pwll Mawr visit

Blaenafon Iron Works

Drive to Caerleon

Caerleon, National Roman Museum, Bath Museum and Ampatheater

Friday 7/17/09

Depart for TreTower

TreTower

Hay on Wye

Saturday 7/18/09

Catch up on laundry, buy food, journal and study!

Sunday 7/19/09

Church

Cardiff City walk part 3

Monday 7/20/09

History Class

FHE

Music at Y Mochen Du

Tuesday 7/21/09

History Class

Wednesday 7/22/09

History Class

Thursday 7/23/09 *Train day 2

Train to London, Museum of London

Afternoon free

Romeo and Juliet at the Globe

Friday 7/24/09

History class

Cardiff Castle

Saturday 7/25/09

Tredeger House visit

Free day

Sunday 7/26/09

Church 

Cardiff City walk part 4

Monday 7/27/09

St. Fagans, Welsh National Musuem

Tinkinswood visit

Music at Y Mochen Du

Tuesday 7/28/09

Drive to Gadfild Elm

Visit Gadfield Elm, Benbow Farm, Great Malvern Hill

Stratford city walk

Shakespeare's birthplace, Anne Hathaway's cottage, Boating

As You Like it at Startford-on-Avon

Wednesday 7/29/09

Drive to Bath

Bath walk led by student/free time

Wells cathedral (Evening Song for free)

Bath Roman museum

Thursday 7/30/09

Depart for Tintagel, Cornwall, UK (3 hours)

Tintagel Castle

St. Ives

Check in at Penzance Hostel

Drive to Lanyon Quoit, Men an Tol, Bronze Age village

Overnight in Penzance

Friday 7/31/09

Drive to Marazion

St. Michael's Mount, Book with National Trust

Hurlers, Trevethney Quoit, King Donarts Stone, Dartmoor

Catheral in Exeter (Evensong)

Drive Home

Saturday 8/1/09

Rest and Wash stuff

Sunday 8/2/09

Church

Cardiff City walk part 5

Monday 8/3/09

Drive to Eisteddfod (3 hours)

Eisteddfod Meirion, Pensarn Abergele, Conwy, UK

Drive to Conwy, wall walk, small house

Stay at Conwy Hostel

Tuesday 8/4/09

Conwy Castle

Plas Mawr

Caernarfon Castle

Segontium

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogoerychwyrndrobellllantisiliogogogoch, food from market, drive to Bryn Celli Ddu

Optional drive to Beaumaris

Wednesday 8/5/09

Drive to Trefeiw Wool mill

Llanberis Slate Museum

Snowdon hike

Thusday 8/6/09

Drive to York (3 hours)

Hang in York, tour by student, Rail museum, city walk, wall walk, assembly room, Fountains Abbey, Studly Royal, Castle Howard

Evensong at Minster

Ghost walk

Friday 8/7/09 *Train day 3

Train to Edinburgh

Edinburgh Castle

Museums and festival in small groups

Edingburgh eye

train to York from Edinburgh

Stay at York Hostel

Saturday 8/8/09

Drive to Cardiff

Powis Casle, National Trust, Birmingham Museum

Sunday 8/9/09

Church 

Free day

Monday 8/10/09

Work on Projects

Walk to Llandaff Cathedral and Welsh book store

FHE

Music at Y Mochen Du

Tuesday 8/11/09

Work on game, projects & site visits

Wednesday 8/12/09 *Train day 4

Train to London then Cambridge

Fitzwilliam Museum, Christ's College

Thursday 8/13/09

Play class game, prep for site visits, work on projects

Friday 8/14/09

Work on projects

Saturday 8/15/09

Free day!

Sunday 8/16/09

Church 

Monday 8/17/09

Work on projects

Rowing in Roath Park

FHE

Music at Y Mochen Du

Tuesday 8/18/09

Work on game, project, site visits

Wednesday 8/19/09

Work on Projects

Final

Thursday 8/20/09

Pack and Clean

Friday 8/21/09

Depart for the States!