Emily's Blog

Yesterday we went on a bushwalk at O’Reillys which is inside Lamington National Park. Native birds come every day and people can feed them, we fed some alpacas too. We walked on the treetop walkway, the walkway was really high off the ground and we climbed a long ladder up a tree and when we got [...]

When we stay up in Queensland with my Nan and Pop we get to go to the beach lots and play in the sand and swim in the water. We go early in the morning or late in the afternoon when the sun doesn’t burn you so easily. Swimming in the surf is lots of [...]

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 [...]

Today we walked through the catacombs underneath Paris. They are old quarries that they used to store bones that they dug up from the cemeteries when they got full and diseases started happening. The bones were taken there at night and then later on they were put against the walls and the front layer of [...]

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 [...]