Vienna

Two days ago I arrived in Vienna, it is in Austria and that night we went on a 40 minute horse and carriage ride and it was fun we went through almost the whole city it was very fun because I had never been to Vienna before. It was so fun because we saw lots of Christmas lights and gigantic chandeliers and crowns and Christmas balls. On the corner of our street there was a giant red ball and that’s how we knew where our street is!

In the morning I woke up and played the iPad and I played asphalt 8 and I watched YouTube Poet Plays Jurassic park operation genesis and it was cool then after 30 minutes I started reading Just Disgusting and it was funny and I finished the book but I already had read 289 pages and before that I read the long haul which is Diary Of A Wimpy Kid and I also read How Much Poo Does An Elephant Do.

Yesterday we walked all DDDDAAAAYYYY. Dad has been counting on his phone how many steps we have done each day and yesterday we did 14,432 steps! We went to so many different Christmas markets. There were huge donuts at the Rathaus Christmas Market as big as my head.

I also climbed the tower at St Stephan’s Cathedral with my Dad. It was 343 steps up and our feet were hurting. In the little windows in the staircase we could see the city and sometimes we could only see the sky and the top level there was a room and there were little telescopes that you could look at the city very closely. In the staircase it was really hot and tight. It was very tiring and it was very tight. The staircase was going round and round and round and round I felt a bit dizzy when we came down. The church was a grey brown color and at the top there was a place where you could get souvenirs.

We had dinner at a restaurant next to a Greek church that we went into.  There was an old lady playing the zither, which is like a violin that has a lot of strings probably 20 but it sits flat on top of a table. For dinner we ordered a tapfelspitz, which is a traditional Austrian dish, and it was very yummy and it had applesauce or a cheesy kind of dip.                                                                              

Today we went to the Giant Ferris wheel that dad said is in a movie he likes called The Third Man. The Ferris wheel was in a theme park. I went on 2 other rides with my mum and we went on an obstacle course that had bridges and moving things. It was freaky and there was like a hamster wheel thing that you had to run through the middle of. My mum started in the front and I finished in front of her. We went on a little rollercoaster that was really fast and it was really cool because it went up then forward then it did lots of turns and the it went down up down up down up and I had a lot of fun there.

We walked along the Danube river that we also saw in Regensburg.

Today was really sunny.

Photos from Regensburg

Me and onkel Thomas

Dad, tante Gisela, onkel Thomas and me

Photos from Nürnberg

Photos from Dresden

Nurnberg to Regensburg

Yesterday I arrived in Regensburg but first I want to say that I did some more things in Nurnberg. We were there for three nights.

In Nurnberg we went to the Imperial Castle at the top of the city that was very old. We also visited the old Rathaus (town hall) and the main church, St Sebald, in the middle of the town, right near the main Christmas market.  We walked along the old city walls. The town has a river that runs through the middle. We walked across a really old covered bridge and saw some ducks in the water.

We had dinner at the Christmas market and we got Bratwurst, corn on a cob and a banana kebab covered with chocolate.  I ordered the food in German and the lady thought I was actually from Germany and started talking to me!

It took us just under an hour to get to Regensburg. We went on an ICE train. I sat on my own 2-seated table and watched The Simpsons and played asphalt 8. We are having a great time in Regensburg we are stay in a cool place that has a balcony.

On the day we arrived, my dad’s cousins, onkel Thomas and tante Gisella, came from Munich to meet us. It took them 70 minutes to get from Munich to Regensburg.

We went to the Christmas market at the Thurn and Taxis Palace that you had to pay to get in. I ate a bratwurst that had cheese inside the sausage, it was delicious. We saw the Christmas angel doing a speech about how beautiful the place was and there was a man playing a song on the trumpet. My mum bought herself a steak sandwich and I had a bite and it was yummy.

Today we walked around Regensburg. We saw the world heritage centre in an old salt store, the stone bridge that was built in 1135, St Peter’s cathedral that took 600 years to build, the old town hall, Porta Praetoria which is a Roman arch built 179 AD and Goliath house.

 I am learning more here than if I were at school (just joking).

Dresden to Nurnberg

We spent three days in Dresden. We stayed in a hotel right near a church called the frauenkirche. You could see it from our window. The church was bombed in WWII but rebuilt by the people in Dresden about 20 years ago. They raised money to do it. There was a Christmas market right in front of our hotel too. It was a good Christmas market because you could hear people singing in a choir and a trumpet band playing Christmas carols on top of one of the stalls. They even played in the rain!

We ate lots of quarkballchen which are like small donut balls. They are so yummy. We also had some bratwurst, flammkuchen (like a German pizza with sour cream, cheese, bacon and onions), hot chocolate and gluwein.

We kept finding Christmas markets everywhere we went. They were all different from each other. They even had a really old fashioned one that mum said looked like it was from the Middle ages. Dresden has the oldest Christmas market in Germany.

We went to a dairy that was in the Guiness book of records for the most beautiful dairy. We had a cheese platter that had German cheese which you could choose from German or French. The German one was really yummy.

Now that I am in Nurnberg (land of lebkuchen) We had the the best lebkuchen I ever had in my lifetime and I was surprised they didn't have krapfenn which are German donuts.

We have a great room to stay in, it is a holiday inn but it is like a big hotel.

It took us 4 hours and a bit to get here by train. It was alright except that I vomited once but it didn't matter.

Photos from Berlin

 Dad, me and uncle Christian

 The Dom

 Brandenburg Gate

 The Reichstag (parliament)

 The Freedom Angel (Victory Tower)

 Berlin zoo

 Sony centre

 Hansa studio

Hansa studio

 The wall

My car!