The castle was once home to Robert Dudley, a favourite of Queen Elizabeth I. You can still see the remains of the rooms built specially for the queen´s visit in 1575. Day 4 Still northwards, travelling towards Newcastle upon Tyne. William the conqueror bilt his "New Castle" out of stone, giving the city its name. And Hadrian started his Wall her over 1800 years ago. Much of it exists today. We´ll visit the museums to have a look at the rich collection of Roman finds. Day 5 Continuing southwards, we´ll pay a visit to Lullingstone Roman Villa before ending our tour in Dover. You can get an idea of the lives of rich families in the countryside in Roman times. We´ll see the living rooms and the bathhouse as well as the beautiful mosaic floors, which show Roman legends. Picture A Day 5 Picture B Day 1 Picture C Day 4 Picture D Day 3 Picture E Day 2
shore the Devonian sandstone bedrock is denuded along a stretch of several kilometres. This abrasion shore at Tamme is 3 - 8 m high and subjected to protection as a famous finding-place of fossil placoderm fishes. In the southern part the lake bottom is covered with a mud layer up to 5.5 m thick, which is gradually being replaced by sandy mud and sand in the direction of north; the mud is lying on the marl. The total thickness increases southwards, up to 7.6 m. Võrtsjärv has tens of inflows collecting their water in three counties, on a catchment area exceeding the lake surface twelve times. Väike Emajõgi, Õhne, Tarvastu, and Tänassilma rivers are the largest inflows. Suur Emajõgi is the single outlet. Lake Võrtsjarv is devoid of any outflow. As a result, the high waterlevel usually lasts for several months in spring, while even the rise in autumn can be noteable. The mean annual
and they made paintings of these animals on the walls of caves. The paintings were made thousands of years ago during the Ice Age, but they are still in the caves to see today. ANSWER THE QUESTIONS. 1.When did the Great Ice Age begin? 2.Where did the changes of the climate take place first? 3.What kind of changes were they? 4.What are glaciers? 5.How far south did the moving ice sheets reach? 6.How deep was the moving ice? 7.At what speed did the ice sheets move? 8.How long did they move southwards? 9.How did the climate change between very cold periods? 10.How many times did the enormous ice sheets move back and forth? 11.Describe the changes that the great Ice Age caused in Europe. 12.Describe the results of the great Ice Age in Estonia. 13.What have the scientists discovered about ice ages and their regularity? 14.What was common to all Ice Age mammals? 15.How did the prehistoric people survive the Ice Age?
Olaf`s introduced the new, Historicist ecclesiastical architecture. The oblong basilica is a wonderful specimen of Gothic architecture in Tallinn. The fact that the central nave is almost twice as high as the side aisles reveals the basic characteristic feature of Gothic style aspiration upward. The altar part of the building with magnificent asteroid vaults dates from the 15th century. The Lady Chapel, built southwards from the chancel just before the Reformation in the early sixteenth century, is one of the most beautiful and noteworthy late-Gothic buildings in Estonia. It erected in 1502-1514 on donations of a rich merchants and art-lover Hans Pavels. It is the most interesting annexe of the church. On the eastern façade of the chapel is the cenotaph of a citizen merchant, composed like the sixteenth-century winged altarpieces. It is