Blenheim Palace in Oxford is too huge to go on a hot day!

 Today, new classes have been announced. This is because all Argentine students went back to their home and had to reorganize the classes. Some had new teachers and new classmates, others stayed the same, and so on.
  After school, we went to Blenheim Palace.

This is a World Heritage Site located in Oxford City. Blenheim Palace was presented to the 1st Duke of Marlborough by Queen Anne and her benefactors in gratitude for his stunning victory at the Battle of Blenheim in 1704. 

It is a huge palace and also famous for the birthplace and ancestral home of Sir Winston Churchill. 

 According to his note, he made two important decision in this palace, that is, to be born and to marry. And he said that he was happily content with the decisions he took on both occasions. We saw many historically valuable pictures.
This year is 150th anniversary of Winston Churchill birth, and many tourists visited. 


      •    But it was too huge to walk around on a sunny hot day. We are all tired specially having got lost in a huge green maze like the story of "Alice in the wonderland". 











      We felt so relieved when our "Spider man" came to help us from the maze. 

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