England covers most of the southern section of the island of Great Britain, bordered by Scotland to the north and Wales and the Irish Sea to the west. The country borders the North Sea in the east, the English Channel in the south and the Atlantic in the southwest.
London is the capital of England and the entire United Kingdom. In terms of the number of inhabitants, it is the third largest city in Europe (after Moscow and Istanbul).
The Romans fell under the leadership of Caesar in 55 and 54 BC. BC invaded England in two campaigns, but then withdrew before the end of the year and did not remain as conquerors. It was not until almost a century later, during the reign of Emperor Claudius, that the Romans began a permanent conquest of England. Scottish ethnic groups repeatedly invaded the power vacuum that emerged after the Romans withdrew around 410 AD. In the period that followed, groups of Angles, Jutes and Saxons immigrated.
According to Henry VIII's rules of succession and also after the assurances that Mary I had made to the magnates when she married, Elizabeth I ascended the throne in 1558. The new, Protestant queen was enthusiastically received by the people. From the beginning of her reign, the queen's possible marriage was the dominant issue. Parliaments called on them to do so several times, with the aim of having a male heir to the throne. She was responsible for implementing the Reformation, but also for the worsening relations with Spain.
Examples of traditional English cuisine include the Sunday roast, fish combined with chips, and the full English breakfast, which generally consists of bacon, sausages, tomatoes, bread, beans, mushrooms and eggs. Some popular cheeses include Cheddar, Red Leicester and Wensleydale. Traditional English desserts include apple pie and other fruit cakes, as well as pudding and, more recently, caramel pudding. A classic drink is tea, whose popularity was increased by Catherine of Braganza.
The city of Norwich, about 100 miles northeast of London, is arguably the most fully preserved medieval city in the United Kingdom, so at least was our impression after a first sightseeing tour.
After our first tour of the center of the city of Norwich, we made our way back through some of the numerous urban parks, which along the Yare and Wensum Rivers make Norwich green and alive as a stand-alone facility.
The approximately 563 km long English Channel continues as an inlet to the Atlantic Ocean towards the North Sea and tapers like a sleeve.
Who does not know them, the world-famous White Cliffs of Dover, we heard about them when we were at school.
Today's entomological collection at the Natural History Museum at the University of Oxford is huge, as it contains over five million insects.
Archaeological work accompanying the construction of Britain's HS2 high-speed rail line recently made a rare find: in July, archaeologists from Infra Archaeology extracted the well-preserved figure from a waterlogged Roman ditch in a field in Twyford, Buckinghamshire.
Long before Christ, the region around Glossop was inhabited by human beings, as there are indications of a Bronze Age burial site on Shire Hill (near Old Glossop) and some other possibly prehistoric remains in Torside (on the slopes of Bleaklow).
Once upon a time - this is how the story could begin - actually, many years ago we were on the English canals with one of the so-called Narrowboats for 10 days.
Although rainy and windy, the English lessons about the city Stratford upon Avon as the birthplace of Shakespeare still in mind, we were tempted to drive to the city, despite the warning of tourist flows from the Far East.