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Great Britain consists of England (capital London), Scotland (Edinburgh capital) and Wales (Cardiff, capital of Caerdydd). These countries represent Northern Ireland with a number of overseas territories and the United Kingdom. Britain has been the largest island within the United Kingdom. Sightseeing in England: London (British Museum, the Natural History Museum, the National Gallery, Tate Galleries, Westminster Abbey, Downing Street, Trafalger Square, Buckingham Palace, the Tower of London, Piccadilly Circus and the Tower Bridge), Cotswolds, Cornwall, Lake District, Yorkshire, Stonehenge, Oxford, Cambridge, Canterbury, Manchester and Newcastle. In Scotland, the following places worth a visit: Edinburgh, Glasgow, Loch Ness, Kilmartin Glenn, Scottish Highlands, Blair Atholl, Elean Donan Castle, Skye and Menhirs of Callanish. The so-called must-see in Whales are: Cardiff, Conwy Castle, Caernarfon Castle, St. David's, and Llanberies Snowdon and the whistling steam trains in Tal-y-llyn Railway to Tywyn, the Ffestiniog Railway at Porthmadog and the Vale of Rheidol Railway at Aberystwyth.

Winter is a collective term for all types of sports that are on ice or snow. So skiing, snowboarding, cross-country skiing, biathlon, skating, bobsleigh, curling, ice hockey ga and so on. Skiing is ride on snow or a kunstskibaan using one or more "planks", skis, which at the feet (shoes) are confirmed *. That sounds more complicated than it is. Actually it's just the two battens down a mountainside. Snowboarding is a sport where you stand on a board with vastgemaakte shoes descends on a snowy mountainside or piste. The snowboarding was invented by a surfer, who thought you with a different kind of board like a wave of the mountain had to be. Actually there is only since the 70s. And you should see it now: it is hugely popular. Cross-country skiing is a sort of glide and anticipate slats. Or put it another way, skating on cross country skis. These are longer and thinner than skis used in skiing. In addition to the skis do you need sticks to you to continue. There are two different ways to cross-country skiing. You have the classic style, where you essentially marketing with the skis, supported by the poles. You 'runs' than with the skis. The "free style" similar to the schaatstechniek; you get sideways with, or sometimes without, poles. Cross-country skiing you can do on a trail, which is called a track. In the classical technique that two tracks. For the free style ga you have made a smooth trail. Biatlon is actually a kind of cross, which you must geweerschieten on a goal. At certain points on the trail the athlete must stop and shoot a goal. Do you target, that means you lose time, because usually there is an additional circle walked / geskate again for your mag.

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