My UK trip video

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England From Stonehenge to

London Eye, Big Ben, Tower Bridge to Eton and Oxford, England is loaded with cherished icons of past eras. But it also does modernity with a confidence and panache left over from its days in the never-setting sun. Fashion, fine dining, and clubbing are at it's in England

My Experience of the British culture

First of all, when I though of Britain i though of old people drinking tea and eating fish and chips. I also had the mindset that people in Britain were mostly old, very proper and close minded. The media had influence me to believe England society was very royal like, and I didn't think i would see homeless people, or "ghetto" neighborhoods. Lastly I was under the impression that English people were friendly and help full. However, i was pleased to discover that people in Britain are completely different from what i had expected. In fact, I believe people in Britain are more open minded than people in the United States. I witnessed a few things that would make people stop and stare if it happened in the USA, but it seem like water under the bridge for people in London. Moreover, I didn't see any fish and chip places as well as tea shops in London, but there are all kinds of restaurants with very diverse food from India, China, to Mexico and Cuba. Unfortunately, from my own experience with people in London, they are not very friendly. In fact they are not very help full, for example, police men didn't help my group of friends and I help find the N-14 bus. Also, in the clubs people were not tolerant at all. I would say English people are in fact rude and unfriendly for the most part, in the end people who migrated from other countries were the ones who seemed to want to help tourist when they needed help.

Most impressive sites in London

Completed in 1894, Tower Bridge was instantly hailed as a London icon and one of the great engineering marvels of its age. Designed by Wolfe Barry and Horace Jones, and completed in 1894, the middle of the bridge can be raised to permit large vessels to pass the Tower Bridge. It used to be raised about 50 times a day, but nowadays it is only raised 4 to 5 times a week.

Big Ben is one of London's best-known landmarks, and looks most spectacular at night when the clock faces are illuminated. You even know when parliament is in session, because a light shines above the clock face.

London Eye

The London Eye is a unique and versatile structure, comprising the best of British architecture and design, rising high above London's skyline at 135 metres. Creating the tallest observation wheel in the world was a great challenge.

Interesting Facts about LONDON EYE

The London Eye can carry 800 passengers per revolution - equivalent to 11 London red doubled-decker buses

It took seven years and the skills of hundreds of people from five countries to make the London Eye a reality

You can see around 40KM (25 miles) from the top as far as Windsor Castle on a clear day

The London Eye welcomes an average of 3.5 million customers every year. You would need 6,680 fully booked British Airways Boeing 747-400 jumbo jets to move that number of fliers!

Each rotation takes about 30 minutes, meaning a capsule travels at a stately 26cm per second, or 0.9km (0.6 miles) per hour - twice as fast as a tortoise sprinting; allowing passengers to step on and off without the wheel having to stop

The Guiness Factory

Tuesday March 18th, visiting the Guiness factory store on the top floor with an amazing view of Dublin enjoying our breakfast a tall glass of beer.

Trinity College