Comenius trip to Durham 22.5.-27.5.2014

Day 1

First we went to the airport in Helsinki and our flight took 3 hours. We landed to Manchester and traveled by train to Durham. When we arrived we went to our hotel and checked in. A little later we went for dinner at the Italian restaurant that was next to the hotel. In the evening we went to town and walked around.


Day 2

After we had had our breakfast we went to the school of Shotton Hall. We all were given a partner who was a student of the school. Them we had lunch with the students and after that they showed us around the school. We left the school and went back to the hotel. In the evening we went to Oldfields restaurant. After that we hung in our hotel rooms.

Day 3

We visited the Durham cathedral and walked around the halls. Some parts of the Harry Potter films were filmed there too. Then went to the Beamish museum. We walked aroud there for a while and had our packedlunches that our pairs had made for us. We also had a chance to go to the old mine. After that we headed back to Durham and we stayed at town and went to Dinner later that night at a Lebanese restaurant.

Day 4

At sunday we went to the Raby castle and walked the fields that surrounded the castle. Then we had our lunches and went inside the castle. Then we went to the mining museum, it was very interesting and we had fun. And after that we went back to the hotel. In the evening we went to Indian restaurant.

Day 5

In the morning we took train to Newcastle. In Newcastle we went to the Centre of life. In there we went to the Bodyworlds and had our lunches. After that we went shopping at the shoppingcentre and said goodbye to the students as they left earlier that we did. after we had done all of our shopping we went to the trainstation and went back to Durham. We had dinner at the same Italian restaurant as the first day. Some of the teachers from Shotton Hall were with us. In the evening we packed our bags and wet to sleep early.

Day 6

We started our travel to Finland by going to the trainstation and took a train to Leeds where we had to change the train ans went to another train that took us to the Manchester airport. We waited for our flight and had lunch at Burger King. Our flight took 3 hours and we landed to Finland at 22.30 and our bus took as back to Riihimäki.


The Comenius trip was awesome. We had so much fun and it was nice to meet the english students.