Arrival Port of Hull

We had a very nice trip back to Hull, little snow on the way, but we drove over Humbler Bridge! The group is fine and safe. Jenny and Elle collect all passports for the check-in. Then we drive on board with the coach! Cool! Tonight we will with the MS Pride of Hull

We are back home!

We had a very nice trip back to Hull, little snow on the way, but we drove over Humbler Bridge! The group is fine and safe. Jenny and Elle collect all passports for the check-in. Then we drive on board with the coach! Cool! Tonight we will sail with the MS Pride of Hull. It was a rocky sail, the sea was very rough ...

Xscape: indoor event location

On our way back to Hull to get tonights ferry back to the Netherlands, we stopped at Xscape in Castleford. This is an indoor sports venue that offers a ski slope, skate park, bowling, lasergaming, cinema, restaurants and sport related shops. Also here we were given a guided tour by the General Manager Jason Warren an ...

Sportcity: area development with sport venues

According to the students Sportcity was one of the highlights of this trip. Sportcity is an example of area development (regeneration) with a focus on specific leisure activities: Sports & Events. The area houses different sport venues like the Manchester City stadium, an indoor velodrome, indoor squash cour ...

Visit to Manchester Jewish Museum

After a wonderful lunch (samosa, curry, rice, Landishire, cakes and drinks) at Hollings Faculty were headed to Manchester Jewish Museum for an assignment on which the Breda and MMU students would work together. We were welcomed by our MMU collegue Ann and tour guide Melton Paul and his wife. They took us on a 1,5 ...

Pan Leisure presentation at Hollings Faculty

The Tuesday started with a warm welcome by the Faculty Dean and dr. Amanda Miller. After that Dan Shelston of Pan Leisure Consultancy gave a very interesting presentation of his company and work. Dan focussed on his work advising different stakeholders in the proces of building new stadia (combination of socce ...

Cocktails at Hilton Sky Lounge

Terrific view over Manchester from the Hilton hotel! Greater Manchester Area looks nice by night. Mojitos and Mai Tai are on the way! Deserved after a long day ;-)

Student presentations at Trafford Centre

Wow! Once more our students display their ability to inspire! The course Marketing & Entrepreneurship is finalized with project presentations before members of the Management Team of the Trafford Centre. The managers of Marketing and Customer Service listened carefully and with great interest to the sel ...

Guest lecture MMU

This morning Yvonne and I will present a guest lecture at Hollings Faculty of the Manchester Metropolitan University. We will give it twice for a group of 50 students that are working on Live Practicals in Event Management. The topic Will be Productivity & Digital Media and we relate it to the Lowlands festival. ...

Dinner at Cornerhouse

Well, the guest lecture is almost ready. Students are dropping in from their city visit. They look tired, but are going to check in for their rooms now. The YHA Hostel is a four star rated youth hostel. It has great facilities, and that on a walking distance to the city centre. Tonight we will have dinner at the Co ...

Arrived in Manchester

We are there! Nice to hear that parents are following us online ;-) Everyone arrived safe and is checking in at the hostel. Our luggage is stored in the TV Room. The boys are immediately ready to go and discover Manchester. The girls are following a little later. In the mean while Yvonne and I are preparing our gue ...

DING DONG Gutenmorgen Damen und Herren

After a night sleep (some) we are ready to disembark in Hull (UK). A light breakfast does the trick, curiuos what this day will bring us! Before I knew it, the Pride of Rotterdam was docked. Leaving the ship is an experience in itself. Going through Customs, then wait untill everybody is on the coach. It is 17 ...

Pride of Rotterdam

We arrived at P&O Ferries in Rotterdam. After checkin we can take our luggage and walk aboard. Tonight we are on MS Pride of Rotterdam! It has a capacity of 1.300 pax, tonight 738 persons are on board. We were welcomed by Police Chief Dave. If we might have problems, then he will knock my door! The Pride of R ...

Humor

Road sign for ferry to Hull just announces 'to Engeland'!

On the road...

On our way! Elly and Jenny are our Tour Guides. Marc is our coach driver for the next 6 days!

Leaving for Manchester

Finally! After all the preparations, we are ready to leave for Manchester. The LPM studytrip can start now. Elle and Jenny deserve lots of credit for preparing the trip. They even came up with a theme: Life, Live, Love! Curious how they will work that out in the program. We gather at Academy for Leisure between 16 ...

Preparing the Trip!

So now you can see our scheduled Trip on the main map (just check the box 'Planned stops and path'. We all received a factsheet with the most important information. Check your mailbox if you need it ;-)  If you want to view some website to prepare yourself for this trip, have a look at these: http://www.v ...

Students meet each other!

See presentation of the Studytrip Program. Tonight is the Pre-Party for the study trip to Manchester. A great chance for VTM and ILM students to get to know each other. Student supervisors Elly and Jenny and lecturers Yvonne and Klaus introduced themselves. Also the trip's program is presented. It will b ...

Sportcity: area development with sport venues