Day 7 Saturday 14 July

A tale of two cities

Saturday means excursions.

Punting on the river

Some students chose Oxford which is home to Oxford University, established around 1000 years ago.

After punting on the river they enjoyed a tour of the centre of the city where the university colleges are.

The Radcliffe Camera, which is actually a library!
Centre of Oxford outside the university

Locked in the stocks

However… some chose Warwick Castle with Stratford.

In the castle dungeons the students met people dying of cholera together with a jailer and a judge.

Cholera corpses.

It got worse…

Unfortunately several students were found guilty by the judge of terrible crimes and they were locked in the stocks.

If you go before the judge, your fate is sealed.
Warwick Castle

Some brave students led by House Parent Rachel besieged the castle using a trebuchet hurling balls of burning tar at the castle walls.

Students attacking the castle using a trebuchet

A close up of the trebuchet.

Next these brave students charged the castle guards on horseback.

Attempted rescue of the students from the stocks.

However, unfortunately all the rescue attempts failed and we are hoping these poor students will be released before their flights home.

The More Than English eagle messenger

All petitions to the judge begging for mercy should be emailed to info@morethanenglish.co.uk. We will use the More Than English eagle to fly from Ludlow to Warwick to pass your pleading messages on (as you would expect, they have no email in Warwick).

Until then, may God have mercy on the souls of all the prisoners.