Having started University just a month previously, as an ice breaker we were being taken to the Lake District by coach. Driving up the A1 to Scotch Corner, we then cut across the country to end up in the Lake District, and began the following day with a trip to do some sampling at St. Johns-in-the-Vale, where the farmer came along with his shotgun and wife on a quad to kick us off the land. The evening was spent walking up a hill to get a view over Derwent wate...

Having retraced our steps back to Basel Airport, we flew to Berlin to explore the German capital. We began by visiting the German Parliament and the Brandenburg Gate, before heading down towards the Topography of Terror, the Berlin Wall and Checkpoint Charlie. On the following day, me and Mum went over to Oranienburg to explore the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp. On the final day we went to Berlin Zoo to see Knut and the panda, before...