Who
wants to learn to play chess? We are holding training sessions for
new members on Monday and Wednesday afternoons. Meet in the park at
4p.m.
Social
Events:
We're
excited to announce that the club is organizing a tournament for all
members next Thursday at 6p.m. in the gym. It's a club tradition, and
the idea is to give advices and learn from the old members to the
news incorporations. Remember to bring your membership card.
Visit
from the Champion:
All
members are invited to a special evening next Saturday with the
winner of last year in the world chess championship: John Lop, who is
going to talk about his experience. John attended this school and
some of you will remember playing with him. Join us in room J027 form
6:30p.m.
New
club website
We're
pleased to announce that we're launching a club website to inform
members of all the latest club news. The site goes live at the
weekend. We believe this is the best way to spread the word quickly,
so don't forget to register you emails address to receive regular
updates.
For
my summer holidays, my parents decided to go on a Italy, Greece and
Croatia cruise route, with one more family. We should be on the
Venice port to board at 5:00 PM on the 23rd
of August, but my father preferred to go by car to Venice, before the
plane, so the trip started three days before on the 20th
of August. Now I will start to explain all the route. To begin with I
will talk about the trip by car and then I will talk about the
cruise.
The
trip started at 11:00 AM on the 20th
of August. The first day it wasn't very interesting because we stayed
all day travelling by car, we made a stop at 2:00 PM for lunch and
another at 9:00 PM when we stopped in Nisa, for had dinner and sleep
in a hotel.
The
second day, at 8:30 AM we took the car again, and we stopped to have
breakfast at 9:30 AM on a petrol station where we could see all
Monaco, and then we went to visit Milan and having the lunch and in
the afternoon we went to visit Verona including the Juliet house. We
slept on a hotel near Verona.
The
third day we went by car to Venice. We stayed all the day visiting
that city, and at 4.30 PM we headed towards the port to board on the
cruise. The rest of the day we didn't do anything interesting,
excluding the drill and explore the different parts of the ship.
Now
I will explain the six days that I spent on the cruise. I visited
Bari, Corfu, Mykonos, Santorini, and Dubrovnik.
Bari
and Corfu disappointed me, because I thought that would be more
majestic.
The
white house's of Mykonos and Santorini were beautiful. When we went
to Santorini we went to the city on a donkey, this is typical!
Between
the day of Santorini and Dubrovnik we stayed a day on the ship, and
with my sister we took the opportunity to go to the gym, it was
amazing running on the tape runner whatching the sea.
And
the last city was Dubrovnik, which I had been a years ago although we
walked again around the wall and as it was sunny, it was hot.
Finally
we arrived to Venice were we took the car and we spent all the day
going home.
In
conclusion, it was a beautiful experience, which I would like to
repeat, and if you have the opportunity I recommend it to you.