DOVER, CARTERBURY, HASTINGS, BRIGHTON, SOUTHAMPTON, PORTSMOUTH

Portsmouth

- city in the region of Weltshire in the South-East England

- famous port

- main base of Royal Navy -> Royal Naval Museum (ships Mary Rose, Victory, etc.)

Southampton

- the city in the region of Hampshire in the South-East England (the largest city on the south coast of England)

- well known as a port (Titanic, Queen Mary II, Queen Elizabeth II)

- musicians playing on the board of Titanic came from Southampton

- in the past favourite port for passengers who trevellde across Atlantic, but nowadays it is used mainly for transporting containers (container ships)

- marine museum

- The University od Southampton

- Bargate (gate to the city)

Brighton

- the city on the coast of East-Sussex in the South-East England

- one of the largest settlements by the sea in the UK

- favourite holiday resort

- Brighton Pier ("pier" = molo)

- Royal Pavillion (Brighton Pavillion) - nowadays a museum, Sommer Residence of Queen

Hastings

- the city and the port in the region of East-Sussex in the South-East England

- 1066 Battle of Hastings

Carterbury

- the city in the region of Kent (South-East England)

- seat of Archbishop of Carterbury

- Carterbury Cathedral, in there Thomas Becket was murdered -> Pilgrims way -> Geoffery Chaucer: Carterbury Tales

- The Stour River

Dover

- the city lies in the region of Kent, south-east England

- a port (a harbour)

- White Cliffs of Doner

- Dover Castle

- often the first place you can see when you travel from France to Great Britain by ship through the English Channel