Today I have a good chance to look at a famous rugby team,Leicester Tigar. It is a good match and I am also very excited because this is the first for me with rugby game.

“Leicester Football Club (nicknamed Leicester Tigers) is an English rugby union club that plays in the Guinness Premiership. The club has been the most successful English club of the professional era, winning the Heineken Cup twice and the league five times under the captaincy of Martin Johnson, all in the space of 5 years.”

More… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LeicesterTigers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugbyunion

Rugby union

Rugby union (often referred to as rugby, union or football) is a variant of rugby football. Rugby union is normally played by teams with 15 players, although there is also rugby sevens, a quicker game with 7 players a side. The name comes from the name of the game’s original governing body, the Rugby Football Union. It is one of the two codes of rugby, the other being rugby league.

More…Photos http://demontfortuk.multiply.com/photos/album/3 http://www.flickr.com/photos/37379266@N00/tags/rugby/ http://www.tigers.co.uk/3_8.php

พาเที่ยวเมืองเก่าแนวชนบทแบบบ้านเราดีกว่า แทบจะเหมือนต่างจังหวัดบ้านเราอ่ะ แต่มันดีตรงที่มีเมืองเก่าๆให้เห็นในรูปข้างล่าง มีกวาง มีเป็ด มีห่าน มีกะรอกเยอะแยะวิ่งไปวิ่งมาแบบไม่กลัวคน ถ้าคิดอยากจะเที่ยวหรือเก็บบรรยากาศะรรมชาติก็คิดว่าน่าจะไปสักหนอ่ะค่ะ เพราะที่เมืองนี้จะไม่ค่อยมีที่เที่ยวมากนัก มีนี่ดีแล้วนะเนี่ยยังมีที่ให้ถ่ายรูป “Bradgate Park is a public park in Leicestershire, England, just northwest of Leicester. It covers 850 acres (3 km?). The park lies between the villages of Newtown Linford, Anstey, Cropston, Woodhouse Eaves and Swithland. The River Lin runs through the park, flowing into Cropston Reservoir which was constructed on part of the park. To the north lies Swithland Wood.”

from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradgate_Park

“Bradgate Park is known to have belonged to the de Ferrers family of Groby in the thirteenth century. Later owners included the Greys, most notable of whom was Lady Jane Grey, who was Queen for nine days following the death of Edward VI, and prior to being imprisoned in the Tower of London, accused of treason and beheaded.”

more.. http://www.leicestershire.ndirect.co.uk/FFBradgate.htm http://www.bbc.co.uk/leicester/inpictures/360panoramas/bradgate_park/index.shtml http://members.lycos.co.uk/bradgate/bradgate.htm http://www.flickr.com/photos/37379266@N00/tags/bradegate/

After I arrived here,I did not no that Leicester had any places to travel except for park and city center since I went to the trip with ISA(International Student Association),I found that Leicester have some palces to travel but it is located outside city center.The first place that I want to show is not far from here is the national space illustrated about the planet ,the rocket and related things about space.

Link… http://www.flickr.com/photos/37379266@N00/tags/space/ http://www.spacecentre.co.uk/

This is one of the Chinese restaurant which is the most famous for the roast duck in London because there are many people reccommend to go there.That why we went there to try it and we have already accepted about its fame.

Reviews http://www.squaremeal.co.uk/restaurants/london/display.php?Rest_ID=83687 http://www.timeout.com/london/restaurants/reviews/431.html

According to wikipwdia website,”The British Museum in London is one of the world’s largest and most important museums of human history and culture. Its collections, which number over seven million objects from all continents, illustrate and document the story of human culture from its beginning to the present. As with all other national museums and art galleries in Britain, the Museum charges no admission fee, although charges are levied for some temporary special exhibitions.”

History Though principally a museum of cultural art objects and antiquities today, the British Museum was founded as a “universal museum”. This is reflected in the first bequest by Sir Hans Sloane, comprising some 40,000 printed books, 7,000 manuscripts, extensive natural history specimens, prints by Albrecht D?rer and antiquities from Egypt, Greece, Rome, the Middle and Far East and the Americas. The Foundation Act, passed on 7 June 1753, added two other libraries to the Sloane collection. The Cottonian Library, assembled by Sir Robert Cotton, dated back to Elizabethan times and the Harleian library was the collection of the first and second Earls of Oxford. They were joined in 1757 by the Royal Library assembled by various British monarchs. Together these four “Foundation collections” included many of the most treasured books now in the British Library, including the Lindisfarne Gospels and the sole surviving copy of Beowulf.

The body of trustees (which until 1963 was chaired by the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord Chancellor and the Speaker of the House of Commons) decided on Montagu House as a location for the museum, which it bought from the Montagu family for ?20,000. The Trustees rejected Buckingham House, on a site now occupied by Buckingham Palace, on the grounds of cost and the unsuitability of its location.

After its foundation the British Museum received several gifts, including the Thomason Library and David Garrick’s library of 1,000 printed plays, but had few ancient relics and would have been unrecognisable to visitors of the modern museum. The first notable addition to the collection of antiquities was by Sir William Hamilton, British Ambassador to Naples, who sold his collection of Greek and Roman artifacts to the museum in 1782. In the early 19th century the foundations for the extensive collection of sculpture began to be laid. After the defeat of the French in the Battle of the Nile in 1801 the British Museum acquired more Egyptian sculpture and the Rosetta Stone. Many Greek sculptures followed, notably the Towneley collection in 1805 and the Elgin Marbles in 1816.

Egyptian Zone

Link… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BritishMuseum http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BritishMuseumReadingRoom http://www.flickr.com/photos/37379266@N00/tags/british/

Buckingham palace is one of interesting place for tourist because it is the official London residence of the British monarch,and it is not easy to go inside ocationally summer time.Unfortunately,we cannot take a picture inside there,so I got only some pictures outside to think about the the Backingham Palace. This picture shot form outside present that many people are waiting for looking at changing of the guard.

From the back of the palace.There are a large garden which is extremly beautiful.

Unfortunately,we went on the bad day that they did not have a big guard changing.So,we will look forward to new visiting soon.

The Victoria Memorial is a sculpture in London, placed at the centre of Queen’s Gardens in front of Buckingham Palace.

More information http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BuckinghamPalace http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChangingoftheGuard http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BuckinghamPalaceGardens http://www.flickr.com/photos/37379266@N00/tags/london/

“London Bridge is a bridge in London, England over the River Thames, between the City of London and Southwark. It is between Cannon Street Railway Bridge and Tower Bridge; it also forms the western end of the Pool of London. London’s original bridge made this one of the most famous bridge emplacements in the world. It was the only bridge over the Thames in London until Westminster Bridge was opened in 1750.

On the south side of the bridge is Southwark Cathedral and London Bridge station. On the north side is the Monument to the Great Fire of London and Monument tube station.”

This is the famous place everyone like–London Bridge–.

Reference from.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Bridge

เริ่มจากเวลาเดินทางไปถึงลอนดอน พาหนะที่ใช้ส่วนใหญ่จะเป็นรถไฟใต้ดิน ถ้าไม่มีราชรถมาเกย อย่าหวังจะเรียกแท๊กซี่ แพงคอดๆ ขอบอก แล้วไอ้ underground trainบ้านเขาก็จะเรียกไม่เหมือนบ้านเรา แรกๆฟังแล้ว งง เอ๋อไปเลย มันเรียกว่า Tube แถมไม่ได้อ่าน ทิ้ว นะ อ่าน ทูป กะเหรี่ยงอย่างข้อยเอ๋อไปเลย

ไอ้ ทูปนี้น่าตามันก็รถไฟใต้ดินบ้านเราอ่ะหล่ะ แต่ท่อที่ลงไปอ่ะมันไม่ได้ใหญ่โตมโหฬารแบบบ้านเราอ่ะค่ะ มันเป็นลักษณะกลมๆกลวงๆ เข้าไปแล้วอึดอัดไงไม่รู้ ยิ่งชั่วโมงคนทำงานนะ อึดอัดจนแทบอยากจะออกไปอ๊วกก่อนแล้วค่อยมาใหม่ ยิ่งใครจักกะแร้เหม็นนะ อย่ามาใกล้เชียว จะเป็นลมให้ดูเลย

The first time that I heard about tube.I am very wonder why people call underground train as tube.Right now I have already understood after I wnet into it because I feel like I am standing in tube.

“The London Underground is an all-electric metro railway system in England that covers much of the conurbation of Greater London and some neighbouring areas. It is the world’s oldest underground system, and is the largest in terms of route length. Service began on 10 January 1863 on the Metropolitan Railway; most of that initial route is now part of the Hammersmith & City Line. Despite its name, about 55% of the network is above ground. Popular local names include the Underground and, more colloquially, the Tube, in reference to the cylindrical shape of the system’s deep-bore tunnels.”

From.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Underground http://www.afn.org/~alplatt/tube.html

This is the one of interesting place fro tourist I think because not only tourist can look around London city by sitting in London Eye,but they also keep eye on interesting display or show by walking on the street.

The British Airways London Eye, also known as the Millennium Wheel, opened in 1999 and is the largest observation wheel in the world (a type of Ferris wheel). It stands 135 metres (443 feet) high on the western end of Jubilee Gardens, on the South Bank of the River Thames in Lambeth, London, England, between Westminster and Hungerford Bridges (Coordinates: 51?30?12?N, 00?07?11?W). It is adjacent to London’s County Hall, and stands opposite the offices of the Ministry of Defence.

Designed by architects David Marks, Julia Barfield, Malcolm Cook, Mark Sparrowhawk, Steven Chilton, and Nic Bailey, the wheel carries 32 sealed and air conditioned passenger capsules attached to its external circumference. It rotates at a rate of 0.26 metres per second or 0.85 feet per second (about 0.9 km/h or 0.5 mph) so that one revolution takes about 30 minutes to complete. The wheel does not usually stop to take on passengers; the rotation rate is so slow that passengers can easily walk on and off the moving capsules at ground level. It is, however, stopped on occasion to allow disabled or elderly passengers time to disembark safely.

From…. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Eye

Link.. http://www.flickr.com/photos/37379266@N00/tags/london/

Today is the first time that I have a chance to visit London because the Backingham Palace will be closed at the end of this month ,and it will be allowed to entry again till next summer.

Link… http://www.flickr.com/photos/37379266@N00/tags/london/ http://susheewa.multiply.com/