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Sunday, August 31, 2008

Wales is the beautiful part of UK

During my visit to UK from 09Aug08 to 20Sept08 I got opportunity to see various places in UK like Wales, Oxford, WarWick, Birmingham and Scotland (Edingbergh).

I could describe my opinion as follows -
1. Oxford - When you come to Oxford you can easily realised that the Oxford university is THE PLACE TO STUDY. It is very beautiful university when I looked from outside. Unfortunately I did not go inside the university campus but whatever I saw was great. Somewhere thought came to my mind that why these people are still a date using such old buildings? Why are they not using modern buildings? Perhaps the right people to answer this question are the students and teachers (Profs.) in Oxford university.
Overall my marks are 7.0/10

2. Birmingham - This was the city where I stayed for almost 6 weeks. I am not at all impressed with this city. It was somewhat unclean. When I went to walk on roads I could see Glass bottles throws on footpaths - one can not think of walking on footpaths of Birmingham without wearing good shoes.
My work experience at Birmingham was great, first of all I got something I like very much completely new development project where I am the only developer and the job is pure development (0 maintainance of others code). The development team at Delcam UK is amazing. People are helpfull and truly most of them are experts in their work area. Also I liked the way they work - mostly 8am to 6pm without diverting their mind to anything else and then at 6pm it is time to go home so people do not unnecessarily stay back. It is difficult to find people doing something other than work in work-timing. The language UK people speak is very polite - I am just impressed (and also felt guilty about my rough language) by their language.
City centre at Birmingham is amazing, who-ever visits Birmingham should must go to the Museaun and Art Gallary (I hope the name is right) - it is very beautiful museam lot of things to see and they do not cost you a single pound. I will suggest even if the museaun do not charge you do give then atleast 5 pounds for the Art they have preserved.
I missed National sea museuan and also the Think Tank.
I will give 6.5/10 to Birmingham

3. Scotland - Reminds me of the movie "The brave heart" Scotland is beautiful. I think the tickets for entry to Castle are quite expensive (@ 10 Pound) but the castle which I saw was very beautiful and well preserved (fortunately even I did not pay for ticket - it was sponsered by my company). The view of Edinburgh from Scott Monument is beautiful. One has to climb almost 250 steps to go to the top and the way becomes narrow and narrower as you go up
I will give 7.0/10 to Edinburgh/ Scotland.

4. WarWick - I wont write much about it. It is the place you MUST SEE. Beautiful Wax statues. Wonderful museum and lot of things to see. Quite costly tickets ~17 Pounds (and I paid on my own for it ;) ) but still worth for the things I has got inside. The shows going on inside the castle are great.
I will give 8.0/10 to Warwick.

5. Wales - Most beautiful site I saw in UK.
The Greenary is amazing. I fail to put the description of Wales in words, surely go to Wales if you visit UK.
I will give 8.5/10 to Wales