the gibson mini adventure

On Wednesday we left London in a black convertible mini for our mini adventure. We drove all the way to the eurotunnel and drove onto a train which travelled under the channel tunnel we then arrived in Troyes and stayed at La Maison de Rhodes that day we had supper and the chef was this really nice man. Troyes has a big cathedral which I took some pictures of so did Dad so did Louis.

The next day we drove to a ski resort which was in the Alps there was no snow where the ski resort was because it was summer and it was too warm. There was a huge traffic jam and we waited in a queue for about 2 hours until the queue moved. The ski resort was called Les Arcs.

The next day we left early to get to Lake Garda which is in Italy. We drove past the italian part of the Alps, the highest we went up to that day was 2188m it was quite cold the drive was very cold especially when we had the windows and roof down I thought the mountains were very beautiful because of the shape of the land. We stopped at Verona for lunch which is a very old town. We visited Romeo and Juliet's balcony which Louis didn't really like because I took a picture of Mum and Dad kissing in front of Romeo and Juliet's balcony.

When we got to Grand Hotel Terme which was the hotel we were staying in for Sirmione Lake Garda we arrived and had a little swim in their pool which was the only pool the entire holiday it was very sunny in Sirmione and I went in Lake Garda with Mum Louis didn't come in. We stayed in Grand Hotel Terme for two nights I thought it was a really nice hotel and I think it desrves all of its five stars. I think the town is a lovely town its a small town with lots of restaurants which we went to two different restaurants and they were very good. I had veal milanese, cingale and margherita pizza (mummy and daddy had white truffle risotto and truffle past the next night the first truffles of the season!).

After we left Sirmione we drove to Venice which was the turnaround point. I think Venice is a very beautiful city and it is horrible that it is sinking. I think the highlights of Venice were the Gondola trip, the trip to the Doges palace, the Rialto bridge and Campanile (clock tower in St Mark's Square). I remember on the first night we went to Aqua Pazza a restaurant in campo S'Angelo and I had the biggest italian ham pizza that I have ever tried to eat (but I didn't quite finish). On our last day in Venice we left to a hotel in Riquewihr, Alsace - back in France. We got there after passing through Switzerland which is basically mountains and is in the middle of Germany, France and Italy which were all big empires at one point, Switzerland was never conquered during all the empires because it was too much hard work with all the mountains.

Riquewihr was a very old town and Dad said it is like a Hansel and Gretel town because it looks like the houses are made from gingerbread. It is right in the middle of the vineyards. The next day we left to Cambrai so that we could spend a day looking at the World War one museums and memorials graveyards. Dad showed it to us because he wanted to show us the sheer pointlessness of war. The memorial to the missing soldiers astounded me because of how many were missing because most of them would have been killed. The graveyard we went to was awful because there were lots of people, Dad estimated there were around 16,000 in that graveyard and we saw lots of other graveyards all over the place. We also visited a battlefield and looked at the trenches and holes that the shells made. I thought that the trenches would have been awful to live in because it must have been really muddy and you would have been exposed to the rain and hail.

On our last day we drove back to the eurotunnel entrance and took the train through the eurotunnel to England. Then we drove all the way back to London and gave the car back.

The silly Scilly Isles

A week and a few days ago we started our trip to the Scilly Isles. Firstly we went to Pointz, which was near Babington in Somerset, for two nights then we went to great-uncle Richard's new house that was being built in Cornwall. After a quick lunch we went to the heliport and waited for the helicopter that was going to take us to Treso, when we arrived at the heliport we found the Bury family (Marcus, Sasha, Christopher, Olivia and Nicholas) Harry, Louis friend, Harry's mum, Hilary, and his little sister Lottie, waiting for us at the heliport. After Olivia had told us about the Barbecue that evening and that there were going to be marshmallows, we put our bags on the carriage on the tractor and went on the carriage. When we got to the shops we got off apart from dad because he was taking the bags to Dial Rocks which was the house we were staying in for the first week. After we got our bikes Louis went of with Harry while Christopher showed me where Dial Rocks was, when we got there the tractor had just arrived and dad had unpacked the bags, dad told us to take the bags in while he went to collect his bike, after we had broght the bags in I gave Christopher the kite we bought for him, when we were just about to go to his cottage, Sunbeam, mum called us to take the ball for Nicholas and the girly kit for Olivia. When we got to Sunbeam we went to the beach and gave Nicholas his ball then we went inside Sunbeam and gave Olivia her girly kit, after that Sascha told us that the BBQ would be ready about 6ish so we went and explored the island a bit and then we went to Sunbeam and got ready for the BBQ. While we played with the kite that we got Christopher and it was a very good kite I met Christopher's friend Lucien and played a little football with him. Then we roasted marshmallows I had lots and they were really yummy. Then we went to Dial Rocks and went to bed

The next day Louis and Harry went sailing but I couldn't go because I had reddish cheeks so Dad said I couldn't go sailing because of that. Louis and Harry also went swimming which I couldn't do but I went to the shops and got a Yorkie instead. We went to the New Inn for some ice cream me and Louis had a double scoop - I had two scoops of chocolate. The next morning Harry left on a boat I went swimming and went to the jacuzzi which was really warm and Dad liked it because it helped his neck.

Over the next two weeks we went to the Abbey Gardens which was really beautiful, we went and explored the tree house which was really fun because you could swing on ropes like tarzan. Finn, Jesse and Ewan also came over from St Mary's and they stayed over for a night and went for a walk which took us to a castle a few days later it was Christopher's last day and we went to Briar and had a vary long walk which took us to the end of the island then Lucien and his dad stayed at the Hell Bay Hotel while we all went home. On our last day we went on a really long cycle ride which went all the way round the island. We also went to the fair which was called the four 'B' - Dad thought it was Burgers, Bouncy Castle, Beer and Babes! Actually it was Bands not Babes.

I like Tresco because there aren't that many cars and it's quite a small island and there are only a few shops around. The good thing is that you can go off to explore and your parents don't have to follow you everywhere you go. Even though it rained most days we still had a fun holiday on Tresco especially crabbing which we got lots of crabs on.