Emily's Blog

In Australia different people celebrate Christmas differently. Some celebrate Christmas lots and some don’t at all. Some people open their presents on Christmas Eve, some people open them on Christmas Day and some people like our neighbours open theirs in January. It’s because people in Australia come from all different places around the world. We [...]

We caught the train to Florence from Venice. When we went around corners the train tilted so it was like we were flying in a plane. It took a few hours but it didn’t seem long. When we got off the train we walked to our hotel then we had lunch at the central markets [...]

    We are home now, but there are some places I couldn’t blog about while we were there so I still have some posts about Europe to do. Venice has lots and lots of canals. It is made up of islands and we went on a few boats to get to places because Venice [...]

   We have been in Paris for a week but tonight we are catching an overnight train to Venice. It’s pretty sad leaving Paris and our apartment, but I’m excited to be going to Venice. Our apartment was opposite Sorbonne University in the 5th arrondissement in the Latin Quarter on the Left Bank. An arrondissement [...]

The first time we saw the Eiffel Tower was when we were driving into Paris last Sunday. We have seen it every day since except on the day we went to Disneyland. I think the Eiffel Tower’s structure is really pretty and I was disappointed that we could only go to the second level. The [...]

We went to Eurodisney yesterday. It was so much fun, we went on lots if rollercoasters and we did an Alice in Wonderland maze to get to a castle and we saw lots of Disney characters. The first ride I went on was the Indiana Jones rollercoaster. Another rollercoaster we went on was Space Mountain [...]

This morning we went straight to the Graindorg cheese factory at Livarot which is a little village near Camembert. We walked around the cheese factory and museum and saw how the cheese was made. It was fun watching how they made it. The curds were separated from the whey by a machine and then the [...]

We’re going to be in France for two weeks now. Yesterday we drove to Varennes-sur-Alliers and tonight we are in Poitiers. Our hotel is on the central square and we watched boys doing tricks on their bikes on the steps of the town hall. The Town Hall (they are called the Hotel de Ville in [...]

We went to Yvoire and walked around the town and out onto the pier on Lake Geneva before we visited my Dad’s friend Kat and played with her daughter Zaza. We had lots of fun with her on the trampoline, they live in France just outside of Geneva on the way to Mont Blanc.   [...]

  Tonight we are in Luxembourg, but today we spent most of our day in Germany. We visited Cologne and saw the big cathedral. Cologne Cathedral was really big and beautiful inside especially with all of the stained glass. It was the only building not bombed in the war in Cologne. Afterwards we went to [...]