Emily's Blog

   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 [...]

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 [...]

Yesterday we drove to Rotterdam and had lunch on a park that had a cool climbing frame and flying fox. Then we went to Gouda and saw a few old fashioned windmills before we drove to Amsterdam. Today we walked in the fog from the hotel to the tram stop and we rode to Dam [...]

We drove from Ypres to Brussels and we visited the Atomium and MiniEurope. The Atomium is an iron molecule that was built for a world expo. We went right up to the top. MiniEurope is like Cockington Green in Canberra and has miniature models of lots of buildings in Europe like the Eiffel Tower. We [...]

The plane flights over were very long, it took a whole day to get here but it was very exciting flying in to Paris. It was very foggy and we drove to Senlis and bought croque monsieurs for lunch and then we went to Ypres and visited the Menin Gate and Tyne Cot War Cemetery. [...]

Today we are going to Europe. Last week my Mum brought in some euros to school and we handed the euros around the class so the class could get to see European money. It’s made out of paper whereas our money is made out of plastic. Every note is a different colour and size like ours [...]