PART I: UK INTRODUCTION

SCOTLAND
Perhaps the most famous icon of Scottish traditional culture is the Highland bagpipe, which achieved the height of its popularity during Queen Victoria's
reign - she liked to be woken by one playing outside her window.

Scotch Whisky, the country's biggest export
is distilled in Scotland.

Capital- Edinburgh
Edinburgh is unique among Scotland's cities.
As dark, dramatic and incorrigibly romantic
as a 19th-century landscape, Edinburgh
castle lords it over the city, letting loose a
daily blast of cannon to remind you who's
boss.
Aberdeen- The Granite City
An extraordinary symphony in grey, almost everything in Aberdeen is built of granite - even the roads Aberdeen services one of the world's largest offshore oilfields.

Glasgow It also boasts excellent art galleries and museums, as well as numerous good-value
restaurants, countless pubs and bars and a
lively arts scene.

Area: 78,469 km2
Population: 5.1 million (approx.)

NORTHERN IRELAND
Belfast is the capital of Ireland. The heritage of Northern Ireland is largely rural. Ulster people are
outdoor people. They spend their leisure time pottering around the coast or going on family expeditions to the mountains at weekends.
Land of blue mountains and forest parks, mazy lakes and windswept moors, white Atlantic sands, an inland
sea. In fact, it's a country that is just pretending to be small.

Area: 13,458 km2
Population: 1.6 million (approx.)

WALES

Prince Charles is known as The Prince of Wales And Late Lady Diana was the most famous Princess of Wales Wales is just what you picture it to be:
rolling moorlands, glaciated mountain areas, mellifluous male-voice choirs, tonguetwisting place names, Rugby Union, 'Bread of Heaven', romantic castles, people with querying lilts, cheese on toast and old mining towns.

Apart from the fantastic walking and cycling
that's available in the country, there's also a
wealth of water and adventure sports, horse
riding and fishing.

Cardiff, a busy commercial and university city is the Welsh capital attracts visitors to its fine dining and nightlife. Cardiff also offers its striking city-centre
castle, important national museum and art gallery, redeveloped docks area and pockets of beautiful architecture. The huge Millennium Stadium sits in the
city centre like a UFO. Welsh, the local dialect in Wales, means a gathering of bards

Area: 20,774 km2
Population: 2.9 million (approx.)

ENGLAND

Greenwich, London,England is the home of
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), Prime Meridian
(zero longitude) since 1884. Here time is set for the world.
England is a country of great contrast and diversity both in the places and in the people living there. All the regions of England are within easy reach of the
exciting capital city, London, famed for first class culture, fascinating history and pageantry, its world-class restaurants and theatre.

Area: 130,324 km2
Population: 49 million (approx.)