Exploring Sheffield

What would you do when you arrived at a completely new place?
Explore it!

So we did a little explorations on the following days ,and of course some grocery shopping. Since, we are so new to Sheffield, we got a map from Trigon (our student accommodation). However, the map is so confusing that we can't read it, so we abandoned the map and decided to explore the city by walking around.

Interpreting the given map

Fortunately, Sheffield is not a very big city, so we get to explore it even without the map. Instead of having Jusco, Giant and Carefour, in Sheffield we did our grocery shopping in Aldi, Asda, Tesco, and of course the  castle market.

So, this is how Aldi looks like, it's actually the place we went almost every week to get most of our food supplies. Why Aldi? Because it's the nearest store to our student accommodation! Aldi will charge for plastic bags, so we use our own recycled bags. Unlike in Malaysia, we have to pack everything into the bags ourselves in Aldi, so we have to be real quick so that we won't jam the line! (It's actually quite stress to shop in Aldi...) Tips to enhance the speed? Pay with card instead of cash, this will save your time of counting the money.

Aldi in Sheffield

Sheffield town hall, the place where many of them will enjoy their beautiful summer here. You will see lots of kids running around topless playing with the fountain, adult wearing sunglasses leaning on the grass to enjoy the sunshine, and of course some of them will have a little coffee session with friends and families. =)

Local happy kids joined our group photo at Sheffield Town Hall

Sheffield City Hall is another place to visit if you're in Sheffield, you will also see a war's memorial in front of the city hall. We didn't get inside to see how's the hall looks like, but you can always google for it! haha...

Sheffield City Hall

Sheffield War's Memorial

As the briefing on Europe trip by Tong Hang is held at Sheffield United F.C. Stadium, we had a chance to enter the stadium, they were replacing the field grass that time, so you don't see green but a brownish field... Lol...

Sheffield United F.C. Stadium

Finally......... Sheffield Hallam University! The place where I completed my summer degree programme. Instead of having all the university buildings to be surrounded by a wall, SHU tend to scattered around the city and this is why it's called City Campus.

Main Entrance of Sheffield Hallam University