EUROPEAN VACATION

TRAVELING

• I'm traveling to Europe by plane
• I'm leaving St. Louis and heading to London
• I'm Taking United Airlines
• The flight will cost $1,610.10
• It will take 1 day and 7 hours and 30 minutes

TRAVELING (PART 2)

• The hotel i'm staying at is The Dorchester
• The Dorchester is a 5 star rated hotel
• The Dorchester is the best luxury hotel in London

LONDON, ENGLAND BIG BEN

• Big Ben is 155 years old
• Big Ben is 316 feet tall
• Big Ben was made by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin
• The Palace of Westminster is the meeting place of the House of Commons and the House of Lords
• Big Ben is the bell at the top of the palace that rings every once and a while.

PARIS, FRANCE THE EIFFEL TOWER

• The Eiffel Tower is 986' (301 m) tall
• The Eiffel Tower was built for the International Exhibition of Paris of 1889 commemorating the centenary of the French Revolution.
• It was named after the engineer Gustave Eiffel, whose company designed and built the tower.

PARIS, FRANCE THE LOUVRE

• The Louvre is one of the worlds largest museums
• Some of the items in the Louvre are The Mona Lisa or The Venus De Milo
• If you spent 60 seconds looking at each of the objects at the Louvre, going steadily for eight hours a day, it would take you 75 days to see them all.
• it would take you 75 days to see them all. ( 3 continued)

ROME, ITALY THE COLOSSUEM

• the Colosseum was commissioned around A.D. 70-72 by Emperor Vespasian of the Flavian dynasty as a gift to the Roman people
• In A.D. 80, Vespasian’s son Titus opened the Colosseum–officially known as the Flavian Amphitheater–with 100 days of games, including gladiatorial combats and wild animal fights.
• On the site of that Golden Palace, Vespasian decreed, would be built a new amphitheater
• where the public could enjoy gladiatorial combats and other forms of entertainment. (3 continued)
• Vespasian had it built.

EDINBURGH CASTLE

• Edinburgh Castle is built upon the massive Castle Rock, part of an ancient extinct volcano.
• The top of Castle Rock is more than 120 metres above sea-level and it stands 80 metres taller than the land surrounding it to the north, south and west. It can only be easily reached from the east.
• The evidence, both archaeological and written, for the early history of Edinburgh Castle is patchy.
• Little can be said with certainty about this period in the history of Castle Rock and the buildings which sat upon it
• There is some evidence to suggest that Queen Margaret (the wife of King Malcolm III) was staying at Edinburgh Castle (or Maiden’s Castle as it was referred to then) when she heard of her husband’s death.

THE ACROPOLIS IN ATHENS

• Acropolis in Greek means "The Sacred Rock, the high city".
• All around the world the Acropolis of Athens is known as 'The Acropolis'
• There are many Acropolises in Greece but the Acropolis of Athens is the best known.
• The Acropolis is primarily dedicated to the Goddess Athena.
• The Acropolis echoes the grandeur and the power of the Athenian empire.

STONEHENGE

• Stonehenge is a massive stone monument located on a chalky plain north of the modern-day city of Salisbury, England
• Research shows that the site has continuously evolved over a period of about 10,000 years
• The structure that we call “Stonehenge” was built between roughly 5,000 and 4,000 years ago and that forms just one part of a larger, and highly complex, sacred landscape.
• The biggest of Stonehenge’s stones, known as sarsens, are up to 30 feet (9 meters) tall and weigh 25 tons (22.6 metric tons) on average.
• Smaller stones, referred to as “bluestones” (they have a bluish tinge when wet or freshly broken), weigh up to 4 tons and come from several different sites in western Wales

THE TRAVEL BACK HOME

• Traveling to Bristol
• Flying with Aer Lingus
• It costs $ 1,186
• It will take 15h 54m