OUTLINE

A FOREIGNER IN BRITAIN

PROLOGUE (with Mark, English friend, both studied Salamanca Univ.)

+Contradictions about Britain people hair
CHAPTER 1 Traditional London (with Pablo, Spanish friend)
+ Pubs
+ Afternoon tea
+ New Years Eve at Trafalgar Square
+The Globe meets Mike, lighting designer
CHAPTER 2 Cosmopolitan London (with Pablo
+Londons ethnic diversity - Muslim woman, underground
+Food - Indian Food disappointment
+Chinatown
+Caribbean Carnival - N. H. (with Mike)
+Black Taxi Cockney
CHAPTER 3 York (meets John, American friend from Chicago)
+ Trip by train Scottish Lady suggests B&B Green Guest House
+Historical city George VI said
+Vikings: appearance; fierce, strong and brave longboats
+ Jorvik Viking Centre
+York Minster- Gothic catedral stained glass Windows
+The Castle Museum ghosts
CHAPTER 4 Oxford (with Liza, ex girlfriend who studied at Oxford)
+Oxford University Magdalen Colledge
+the Scholastica Massacre
+ May Ball / May Morning (sunrise)
CHAPTER 5 A Country Christmas (with Nicola Caswell, a friend from University and her
family)
+Old Bentley car Bentley Drivers Club Christmas reunion
+ Traditional meal on Christmas Day
+Chistmas Eve Midnight Mass Carol
+Midnight leave presents in pillow cases
+Morning open presents (3 for Antonio)

+ Walk in the snow

+Christmas Dinner Menu- Crackers
CHAPTER 6 Cardiff (with Gareth, friend since childhood, and Angharad, Gareth s cousin)
+ Gareth s wedding Castell Coch Disney
+meets Angharad- invitation to dine out Love spoon
+Windsurf experience
+Visit to the Royal National Eisteddfod (cultural festival) lasted 8 days all poems and sons
in Welsh pride in their Welsh language
CHAPTER 7

Cornwall (meets Richard, a local man)

+ Writing Competition in a magazine

+Bude pub Richard legends of Giants and Piskies
+Poundstock priest and pirate William Penfold his ghost haunts the church
+Tintagel Tintagel Castle King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table and his teacher
Merlin
+Chapel Porth Beach Boster , bad giant, in love with Saint Agnes hole. Sea is red
+Zennor Mermaid boy drowned
+Rill Point first people to see the Spanish Armada
CHAPTER 8 Manchester (with his cousin Louise)
+First visit Louise cheered both teams (Manchester United played Arsenal)
+Tram to Old Trafford- Visit to the museum (nickname the Busby Babes, then The Red Devils)
and a tour around the stadium (Ferguson stand, tunnel leading the the football field and the
players the dressing rooms)
+Louise likes football and music nightclub queue dance until 2 am
+ Stadium a real match (Manchester played Liverpool 3/1) the highlight of his visit
+Louise has a brick with her name on it, in the pavement outside the stadium
+a boat tour along the canal important Industrial Revolution bcame run down now
renovated
+visit the MOSI (Museum of Science and Industry ( first British aeroplane with ;
theUnderground Sewage System ; Manchesters Sanitation (different toilets)
CHAPTER 9 Edinburgh (visits Martin, a friend, he came to Spain on an Exchange with a
Scottish school for 3 weeks popular in the classroom)
+6 years later in August Edinburgh
+Edinburgh International Festival ( classical music, opera, theatre and comedy) The Fringeunofficial festival (clowns, mime actors in disguise, acrobats, gymnasts, musicians, circuses,
in the streets) - leaflets

+Walk around the Old City High Street the Royal Mile
+Edinburgh Castle (museum and army base) tiny room: Mary Queen of the Scots gave
birth a boy He bcame King James VI of Scotland and King James I of England( the Union of
the Crowns)
+St Giles Cathedral listened to a choir singing Verdis Requiem
+Princess Street Gardens a picnic with Martin and his flatmates Alison and Paul while they
were watching a circus+Theatre Rowan Atkinson (Mr Bean) - met him at BANNERMANS PUB , Antonio asked him
for his autograph
CHAPTER 10 More of Scotland (with Martin and friends)
+A country of mountains, lakes and islands (nearly 800 islands, only 99 populated, around 60
bigger than 5km2
+Dunkeld Highland Games: competitions of Scottish games like Tossing the Caber clothes
(public, competitors)
+Kilts (Scottish mens skirts) and Tartan (thespecial pattern in the material that kilts are made
from), symbols of Scottish Nationalism Formerly each family clan had its own pattern
(coloured squares)
+Village Little market local products ( honey , jam, cakes, biscuits) and HAGGIES (the
sheeps stomach and inside it is the lungs, liver and heart of a lamb with onion)
+Grampian Mountains camping and visit to the Loch Ness where Nessie the monster lives
+turn right at Inverness to visit CAWDOR CASTLE Lord Cawdor (legend, dream about
building a new castledonkeybag with gold. Tree.cellar.)
+Hogmanay (New Years Eve) in the house ofMartins parents. Scottish have a big party,
they stay at home and listen Big Ben bells on the radio, then they stand in a circle holding
hands and sing a traditional Scottish song: Auld Lang Syne Another tradition: a man with
black hair must bring three presents:
+some coal: for the house to be always warm
+a bottle of whisky: for the family to have always something to drink
+a bag of salt: for the family to have always something to eat