We arrived in Dubai. We were once again staying at the Shangri La and we got the same room as last time. We had breakfast and we had a nap. We woke up and went to the pool, has a swim and some lunch. My Dad had a massage and my mum had a facial. We tried to change our flight but we couldn't change it so we had to go the next day.
That night we went to the Horizon club and Ishmael remembered me and gave me some Butter Chicken. It was so tasty. We arrived back in Melbourne and after that the same plane went to New Zealand.
When we got home I watched James Bond From Russia With Love.
Thank you for reading my blog. I hope you enjoyed reading it as much as I did writing it.
Saturday 31 January 2015
Tuesday 13 January 2015
Lyon
Lyon
I am sad that Lyon is the last stop in
Europe
The apartment we stayed in has a 2 by 3
metre projector on a screen that drops from the ceiling.
We went on a Funicular up to the Basilique
Notre dame de Fourvière. It was a nice church and I lit a candle. We walked
from the church to the Roman theatre ruins. My dad and I walked on top of the
broken bits of the walls and they were
very high almost as big as four metres. From the top of one of the walls there
was a very big drop that would really hurt you if you fell. I was pretending to
be Indiana Jones in a scene of Temple of doom where he was on a bit of stone
that he could fall do his death.
There were 2 theatres at the ruins. The
biggest one was able to hold 10,000 people and the small one could hold around
3,000.
We came back down the hill on the funicular
and walked through the old city. We had lunch and then we looked for the Traboules,
which are hidden doorways and walkways.
Wednesday 7 January 2015
Paris
PARIS
We got up early and left Munich at 5 am
where there was the highest snowfall in 30 years. The train trip to Paris was
on a double decker train and we were on the top. I was so sad because we were
leaving family and I missed them already.
We had a small apartment on the 6th
floor near the Louvre and the river Siene and there was no lift. Even though it
was only the 6th floor it was a long way because there were bridges
and each level was around 3 metres high and the steps were very thin. Even our apartment was over another three
levels. But we had a cool rooftop terrace where we could see all of Paris from.
We arrived on New Years Eve and there were
Fireworks, which was a surprise because they said that they would not have
fireworks but they did and they were fantastic. There were millions of people
out on the streets.
We walked to Tour de Eiffel (Eiffel tower) twice
but both times we walked there the line would take around 4 or 5 hours to get
in so we did not get to go up to the Eiffel tower and I was very very very sad.
But my dad took photos of me in-front of it.
We went on a Boat ride and it was fun
because we went under all the bridges and it echoed when a made noises.
We went to Notre Dame and it was so big and
nice and it was beautiful. I think it was the biggest church I have ever seen.
We went on a double decker Bus and we had a
great view of Paris and my dad took some photos.
Next day mum was sick so I went for a huge
walk with my Dad and we did 32,460 steps and we were so tired. We walked to l'arc
de triomphe and we climbed l'arc de triomphe and because it was in the middle
of the city, in a huge round-a-bout. The buildings and the buildings next to
each other were like mirrors because they looked all the same.
We went to Sacré cœur de Montmarte and
there were big mosaic pictures but with tiny pieces
and it looked beautiful. It was one of the most beautiful churches I have seen.
That night we walked to Shakespeare and Company
and my dad went in and bought 5 books and he is reading one now. My Dad says
that it is one of the coolest bookshops in the world.
Saturday 3 January 2015
München
When we left Pertisau on Boxing day it was
snowing and when we arrived in München Önkel Thomas, Tante Gisela, Önkel Peter
and Tante Hilde were waiting for us and we stayed in Önkel Thomas’ apartment
house and we had coffee and cake at 3:00pm and it was yummy. We each got a
little chocolate. Then we had to put our gloves and coats and every thing on to
walk in the snow. We had dinner at a place where Tante Gisela said that Neuer (the
German goalie) had eaten there. I ordered a bauernschmause and no one thought I
could eat it all but I did.
During the whole holiday I wanted to go Ice-skating
and I finally did in Munich and Onkel Thomas organized it all. My dad and I
went on the ice skating rink and my dad was good because he used to go surfing
and he had really good balance. I went 4 laps and 3 quarters without falling my
mum was in the crowd cheering and I was happy.
Every day it snowed more and more. On the
day we left it was the most snow Munich had had more snow than it had had in 30
years at Christmas time. We all had a
snowball fight and it was fun in the snow. I did a wee in the snow and tried to
write my name and I got up to B e n j a m. The snow went yellow and it made a hole
in the snow.
Tante Gisela organised for her brother
Thomas to get an extra sled for my dad and I to ride on it was really fun and
once I fell of and I rolled down the hill and another time I fell of and the
sled ran away from me. My dad pulled me on the sled for a while and I jumped
off and I ran really fast and caught up to my mum and Thomas in the car. We
were outside Munich about 45 minutes. We had lunch there with Tante Gisela's brother and on the way back to Munich we got stuck in snow for
around 5 or 7 minutes and it was really annoying.
We had fondue one night at Onkel Thomas’
apartment. We had chicken, pork and beef and lots of veggies. It was very nice.
After I finished eating I watched a James Bond movie called Diamonds Are For
Ever and the Bond that was in it was Sean Connery
Onkel Thomas took us into the city centre
by U Bahn and we watched the Glockenspiel at the rathaus and watched the
figures dancing. There were so many people there! After that we went to a
really big church and lit a candle. We had lunch at the Hofbrauhaus and we had
sausages and a really big pretzel.
We spent the last day with Onkel Peter and Tante Hilde. They took us to their little garden and to Omas parents and brothers grave.
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