After two years of waiting, we were finally able to welcome our first Italian partner's groups on the 14th of March, 2022.
Day 1
Arrival in Manchester. We arrived in the city in the early afternoon. After settling in the hotel we decided to take an "exploratory" tour of the city center, skirting the canals that cross it and then passing through the most crowded streets. We had a quick dinner at one of the various franchises and then headed to the premises surrounding the cathedral. We spent some time in one of these places and then returned to the hotel.
Day 2
Morning dedicated to visiting the Museum of Science and Industry: the museum is housed in a fascinating nineteenth-century building, which was once the Liverpool Road railway station. The permanent MOSI exhibition is divided into ten thematic galleries: Air and Space, Communications, Electricity, Gas, The Liverpool-Manchester Railway, History of Manchester, Motors, Underground Manchester, Textiles and Revolutionary Manchester. The galleries feature a rich assortment of objects, including large artifacts, including planes, automobiles, locomotives and steam engines, as well as videos and interactive contributions.
In the afternoon we dedicated ourselves to shopping around Piccadilly Gardens, also stopping to observe the numerous street artists. We also found time to visit the Manchester library, with its incredible Baroque charm.
In the late evening we had dinner in one of the few places open: burgers and fries in large quantities, all really delicious!
Day 3
After a hearty continental breakfast we dedicated ourselves to a treasure hunt through the streets of Manchester, thanks to the ad hoc brochures that had been given to us by prof. Aitken: It was very exciting walking around the city with the look of the investigators! The treasure hunt was very difficult as some places were inaccessible due to the work in progress along the tram line, but we managed to solve the puzzles up to the eleventh stage (out of twenty!).
In the evening we visited the cathedral inside.
Day 4
Day dedicated to shopping at the Trafford Center: we walked around the entire mall, pausing in some shops dedicated to sports and music. When we got back to Manchester city center we decided to spend the evening in a pub called Old Monkey.
Day 5
Trip to Blackpool. Blackpool is one of the most visited seaside resorts in England. This is due to its proximity to the large industrialized areas of the north, to which it is connected with an efficient system of roads and railways. It is assumed that the name Blackpool derives from the color of the waters of a drain which, connecting the nearby bogs to the sea, had a dark color.
In Blackpool we visited the pier and the many arcades along the coast. It was a lot of fun to compete in air hockey! In the evening we had dinner in Manchester at the Counter House, a very refined restaurant run by friendly staff, to which our Simone proposed some fun magic games.
Day 6 and 7
In these days the boys who were staying in Manchester visited Accrington Academy, participating in the lessons together with the English students who attend the school every day. The guys were really enthusiastic, not least because they met again with their old project partners who they hadn't seen for two years. In these days it was possible to attend the musical performance of profs. Guerro and Squartini at the school's music room.
Day 8
Day off where the guys spent all the time with their old partners. They met in Accrington then went to Blackburn, played pool and ping pong at a local arcade. The teachers instead met together with prof. Aitken for an organizational meeting in Accrington.
Back in Manchester we sealed the beautiful day with a pizza at Domino's.
Day 9
Trip to Liverpool. The visit to Liverpool began with the beautiful gothic cathedral. The cathedral is the largest church in the country and the eighth in the world. Despite the neo-Gothic style, the building is recent, having been built along the arc of the twentieth century between 1904 and 1978 on a project by the architect Giles Gilbert Scott. Then we headed to the city center, where, after a quick lunch, we visited the Cavern Club: located at 10 Mathew Street, it is famous above all for being one of the driving places of the city's Merseybeat scene, and for hosting several performances by British beat groups, including the Beatles of course. The tour continued along the harbor and the pier, near which we were able to visit the museum: inaugurated in 2011, the Liverpool Museum is the largest museum in the United Kingdom built in the last 100 years. The building that houses the museum, considered one of the most beautiful in modern Liverpool, is about 26 meters high and uses an energy system powered by renewable sources.
Day 10
Trip to Chester. On the initiative of the boys, who chose the destination of this relaxing day, we headed to Chester, the city of England, the capital of the county of Cheshire, located on the right bank of the River Dee in the Cheshire plain not far from the border with Wales. , and above all twinned with the city of Senigallia!
The city was founded by the Romans, as the name suggests, in the 1st century AD The Romans called it Deva or Castra Devana from the name of the river Dee. Deva was the headquarters of the twentieth Roman legion (Legio XX Valeria Victrix) until 380 AD. Next to the fort one of the main cities of Roman Britain developed. The city was called Legaceaster by the Saxons in the centuries following the fall of the Western Roman Empire, but remained inhabited by Romanized British until the early 7th century. Chester retains one of the best preserved city walls in the UK!
Upon returning to Manchester we anticipated the taste of the motherland with a dinner at Bravissimi!, an excellent Italian restaurant, very good in name and in fact.
Day 11
The day of departure. The day was relatively short, as in the morning we got ready and, leaving the hotel, we headed to the station to take the train that took us to the airport. We returned to Italy late in the evening, but the mind
Day 1
Arrival in Manchester. We arrived in the city in the early afternoon. After settling in the hotel we decided to take an "exploratory" tour of the city center, skirting the canals that cross it and then passing through the most crowded streets. We had a quick dinner at one of the various franchises and then headed to the premises surrounding the cathedral. We spent some time in one of these places and then returned to the hotel.
Day 2
Morning dedicated to visiting the Museum of Science and Industry: the museum is housed in a fascinating nineteenth-century building, which was once the Liverpool Road railway station. The permanent MOSI exhibition is divided into ten thematic galleries: Air and Space, Communications, Electricity, Gas, The Liverpool-Manchester Railway, History of Manchester, Motors, Underground Manchester, Textiles and Revolutionary Manchester. The galleries feature a rich assortment of objects, including large artifacts, including planes, automobiles, locomotives and steam engines, as well as videos and interactive contributions.
In the afternoon we dedicated ourselves to shopping around Piccadilly Gardens, also stopping to observe the numerous street artists. We also found time to visit the Manchester library, with its incredible Baroque charm.
In the late evening we had dinner in one of the few places open: burgers and fries in large quantities, all really delicious!
Day 3
After a hearty continental breakfast we dedicated ourselves to a treasure hunt through the streets of Manchester, thanks to the ad hoc brochures that had been given to us by prof. Aitken: It was very exciting walking around the city with the look of the investigators! The treasure hunt was very difficult as some places were inaccessible due to the work in progress along the tram line, but we managed to solve the puzzles up to the eleventh stage (out of twenty!).
In the evening we visited the cathedral inside.
Day 4
Day dedicated to shopping at the Trafford Center: we walked around the entire mall, pausing in some shops dedicated to sports and music. When we got back to Manchester city center we decided to spend the evening in a pub called Old Monkey.
Day 5
Trip to Blackpool. Blackpool is one of the most visited seaside resorts in England. This is due to its proximity to the large industrialized areas of the north, to which it is connected with an efficient system of roads and railways. It is assumed that the name Blackpool derives from the color of the waters of a drain which, connecting the nearby bogs to the sea, had a dark color.
In Blackpool we visited the pier and the many arcades along the coast. It was a lot of fun to compete in air hockey! In the evening we had dinner in Manchester at the Counter House, a very refined restaurant run by friendly staff, to which our Simone proposed some fun magic games.
Day 6 and 7
In these days the boys who were staying in Manchester visited Accrington Academy, participating in the lessons together with the English students who attend the school every day. The guys were really enthusiastic, not least because they met again with their old project partners who they hadn't seen for two years. In these days it was possible to attend the musical performance of profs. Guerro and Squartini at the school's music room.
Day 8
Day off where the guys spent all the time with their old partners. They met in Accrington then went to Blackburn, played pool and ping pong at a local arcade. The teachers instead met together with prof. Aitken for an organizational meeting in Accrington.
Back in Manchester we sealed the beautiful day with a pizza at Domino's.
Day 9
Trip to Liverpool. The visit to Liverpool began with the beautiful gothic cathedral. The cathedral is the largest church in the country and the eighth in the world. Despite the neo-Gothic style, the building is recent, having been built along the arc of the twentieth century between 1904 and 1978 on a project by the architect Giles Gilbert Scott. Then we headed to the city center, where, after a quick lunch, we visited the Cavern Club: located at 10 Mathew Street, it is famous above all for being one of the driving places of the city's Merseybeat scene, and for hosting several performances by British beat groups, including the Beatles of course. The tour continued along the harbor and the pier, near which we were able to visit the museum: inaugurated in 2011, the Liverpool Museum is the largest museum in the United Kingdom built in the last 100 years. The building that houses the museum, considered one of the most beautiful in modern Liverpool, is about 26 meters high and uses an energy system powered by renewable sources.
Day 10
Trip to Chester. On the initiative of the boys, who chose the destination of this relaxing day, we headed to Chester, the city of England, the capital of the county of Cheshire, located on the right bank of the River Dee in the Cheshire plain not far from the border with Wales. , and above all twinned with the city of Senigallia!
The city was founded by the Romans, as the name suggests, in the 1st century AD The Romans called it Deva or Castra Devana from the name of the river Dee. Deva was the headquarters of the twentieth Roman legion (Legio XX Valeria Victrix) until 380 AD. Next to the fort one of the main cities of Roman Britain developed. The city was called Legaceaster by the Saxons in the centuries following the fall of the Western Roman Empire, but remained inhabited by Romanized British until the early 7th century. Chester retains one of the best preserved city walls in the UK!
Upon returning to Manchester we anticipated the taste of the motherland with a dinner at Bravissimi!, an excellent Italian restaurant, very good in name and in fact.
Day 11
The day of departure. The day was relatively short, as in the morning we got ready and, leaving the hotel, we headed to the station to take the train that took us to the airport. We returned to Italy late in the evening, but the mind
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