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Day 1: I've arrived in Paris. I have to sleep on a couch. Felix gets the kid bed.

PS The couch turns into a bed!

Today we also went to an ice cream shop then we went to a market then through a garden with a palace in it. Then we went home.

PS We saw a palace ruins on the way home

Day 2: I'm up early this morning. I saw two people walking outside at 4:00!

I went to a bakery and the baguettes taste like sourdough bread and the chocolate bread was delicious. We also saw Notre Dame, I went inside Notre Dame.

I went on a boat, a shopping centre, saw the Eiffel Tower. I saw a hot air balloon and went on a train.

We when to to an ice cream shop, a book shop and a phone shop. We went on the boat again, saw the Eiffel tower and went to dinner.

Day 3: We went to the same bakery from yesterday for breakfast. We're having some drinks at a place called The Coffee.

I went to the catacombs, the art gallery and the ice cream shop and a crepe shop. We are having pizza for dinner and I'm also having a chocolate mouse.

Day 4: I'm having a hot chocolate at The Coffee again. We went on Mum's roof tour with chocolate, madeleines and macaroons and now we're having lunch and I got a new toy!

Day 5: We're at the Louvre! We saw the Mona Lisa. I am having an eclair and a cannelle and madeleines and water at a cafe.

Paris

I walked to school by myself

Switzerland

Playing handball before school

My friends Alyssa and Mira

Tug a war with the teachers. We lost.

Day 1: We've arrived in Switzerland. We've dropped Felix at boarding school and gone into a great hotel room.

Day2-6: Today was my first day at French School. I made a necklace and 2 new friends.

We went tree climbing. We went white water rafting. It was fun. We also did stick fighting. 2 people have sticks. You need to touch the other persons ankles or knees three times before they do it to you. I played with Alyssa. One day we also went bowling and rock climb in Pontesina.

Day 7-8: On the weekend we did a hike around a lake, and we went shopping in Italy and I got a new toy and a we had pizza and gelato.

Day 9-13: Second week of French School. We went to a water, bouncy castle and ball pit park. We played table football, I was good at it and won a game! One day we went to the park but it was pretty boring!

Food at school is always the same- meat/pasta and dessert. Morning tea changes, mostly rice crackers, we don't have afternoon tea. Mum gives me snacks when I came home. My favourite is chocolate biscuits!

my cousins Oscar and Nellie who live in the UK

UK: London, Whaley Bridge, Oxford, Stonehenge, Windsor castle

Day 1-2

Today and yesterday we saw our cousins Oscar and Nellie. We went to the park and fed the ducks. Today we went to the Science Museum, and after we had ice cream. We visited the bookshop and read for a while. For dinner I had fish and chips and a biscoff donut.

Day 3 Today we went to the Tower of London. We had ice cream and saw the Crown Jewels.

Day 4

Today we went to the Maritime museum with Oscar and Nellie and Greenwich. For dinner we had fish curry at their place.

Day 5

Today we went to Whaley Bridge, it was a long drive.

Day 6-11

Whaley Bridge

My cousins live there. We went berry picking and went to the playground and the forest. I liked the Tom Gates play. We made crumble out of the berries.

When we were arriving in Italy, Reddy got his first stamp in his passport!!

Chamonix

We went to a hotel with an arcade game in our room, little cubby beds in the room with curtains in the room, on Mum's birthday, and we could see Mont Blanc.

Morzine

Day 1-2: Today Felix and I started French school, and I learnt the colours (which I knew) and clothes.

In the afternoon we went for walks down the river where we could dip our feet in.

Day 3: Today we die this rope ball course and laser gun fights.

In the morning we learnt the weather in French.

Day 4: Today we went to a waterfall and people are canyoning.

In the morning we didn't some wandering to find some flowers and leave to put on our designs of people wearing different cloths in different seasons.

Day 5: Today we went to the pool and the lake.

In the morning, we made little play dough characters. Mine looked creepy and didn't look like the animal it was meant to be!

Day 6: Today it was yes day

We went to the lake, and we went swimming and paddlebording. I just relaxed whilst dad did all the work. We also had a picnic and had ice cream.

Day 8: Today we went mountain biking.

In the morning we learnt what the body parts are in French.

Day 9: Today we went climb and it was so hot that I only had one go.

In the morning, we wrote the body parts on a piece of paper with the outline of a person on it, and then we drew clothes and coloured it in.

Day 11: Today we went orienteering. We lost because our team couldn't find a single thing!

In the morning we made posters about being healthy. Mine was about exercise.

Day 12: Today we went to the fair and I bought some food and won some things.

In the afternoon we went for a walk down by the lake.

Before the fair we made some posters about health.

Felix and I played hand ball at school waiting for the bell, just like at Kinross!

In the mornings and afternoons I also like to play basketball at school

I went mountain biking with my group

At "Kermesse" Morzine festival

Italy

Cinque Terre:

Five villages

Manarola is where we stayed

We went to the beach. We cliff jumped. It was fun and scary.

Delicious menta granita!

Tuscany

We went to a resort with a pool, playground, and chickens. There is an orchard and a vegetable garden.

We did a cooking class and made pasta, focaccia and chocolate cake.

On the last day in Tuscany it was my birthday/ We went bike riding, and I felt tired, hot and exhausted. I got a red panda necklace and toy. I also got a bag and some lego. I felt happy about the presents and cake!

In the afternoon we went swimming. Dad did a giant bomb. We of course had pizza for dinner.

Florence

We had one day in Florence. We ate pizza, gelato, and went to the Uffizi gallery, and the Leonardo Da Vinci interactive museum. I bought a t shirt with a Leonardo da Vinci universal cat, and a leather pizza keyring.

The Duomo was too big and ridiculously decorated. Mum said like a wedding cake!

Rome

We went to the Colosseum (or the Roman amphitheatre). It was very old, almost two thousand years old. Older than any theatre I have seen. So old there were no seats left. It used to have gladiator and animal shows. Then we watched the gladiator movie before dinner.