Scotland

Our Second Last Destination "Scotland"

• They have weird cows called Highland Cows!!! I thought they were OXES!!!!! Talking about animals I saw my first Fox, Deer, Grey squirrel, Red squirrel, Wild Rabbit, Buzzard, Midge and Sheep with tales.
• At a loch (lake) we saw a rocks with carvings like a fish (shown below).
• We went to queens view (viewed by queen Victoria!!!) ... Magnificent!!! I bought a Quartz cluster, amethyst, fools gold, a fossil and 8 magnet stones to add to my collection.

Germany

In Germany we stayed in a plce called Bavaria. It is full of old fashioned homes and shops and plenty of tourists.

 This forest is in our back yard. We were walking all over wild frogs...they were everywhere.

 The snails were huge!!!

 This castle was near our place. The family that live there are related to the Queen of England who has visited here.

 Can you see the covered walking bridge?

We were shown how to find fossils in the forest near our home. This means that an ocean once covered this place and we are a long way from the sea!

Belgium

It's been a while since I have blogged ....in that time I have done and seem a lot..

This was the castle we stayed in for 2 weeks. Its not like castles in England. Its basically a very big house. the owners let us rent the small 2 storey apartment on the right hand side.

This is another castle but is called a fortified manor house. It still has people living in it. It also has a moat and a gate house to stop robbers from the old days. There are lots of these as you drive around.

We visited a war museum that was in a citadel on top of a cliff above a town. There were graves here from World War 2.

We caught the cable car down the cliff into the town and back up again. This was once a dangerous place to live and dates back to the year 1000AD. There have been many different wars here over the years.

Here are the remains of a castle we found while dad was driving around

France

We finally left England on April 1st. We traveled on a boat that also carried our car. I was the first to see France behind me. People can also swim from England to France. Its called the English Channel.

 The picture below is typical of many old style homes and buildings in France.
 These can be hundreds of years old.

 The picture below shows standing stones which are similar to Stone Henge. They are thousands of years old and no one knows why they are there, but they were put there by people.

The picture below is a chateau which means castle in French. A very rich ruling family would live in something like this.

Our home in France for 1 month. It is 400 years old!

This is our family having dinner on the front verandah.

This is the day we caught oysters for dinner on the French coast (Atlantic Ocean). I also caught lots of little crabs.

We visited a French Resistance Museum. The Resistance were not  a real army, they were normal who had to fight with guns because there was no army there to help them during World War 2.

It was hard to speak and understand another language. Everyone has a siesta in the middle of everyday. That means all shops close and schools close for 2 hours in the middle in of the day. This is because lunch is their main meal time.

Stonehenge is about 5000yrs old. These rocks are up to 6m in height and have been brought here from different parts of England. Nobody knows the real story behind them but they have been placed to make shadows happen for each month.

In the picture below....The field behind me is where the most important battle in England ever happen. 7000 men died in one day in this field. It was called the Battle of Hastings and happened in the year1066. William the Conqueror from France defeated the King of England and became the new King of the English. The spot I am standing is exactly where the French retreated during battle and nearly lost their battle. The name of this town is called "Battle". The buildings were built after the battle as a monument to the battle. I ran down the hill and then fell in the mud and got mud all up my jeans!

Inside the Abby at the Battle of Hastings I found a little spot to hide.

This is the ground floor of the Abby where the monks had their recreation room.

This is the ruined Abbey below. It was built over the place where the King of England died in Battle against the French. William the Conqueror built it partly as an apology to God for his side killing so many men in battle and to proclaim his victory.

A few days later we hoped on a big boat with our car and crossed the English Channel to France. The white cliffs behind are called the Cliffs of Dover. If it looks cold, its because it was!!

I was the first one to notice the French shores behind me.

This below is a town hall in a little French village near where we live. Our village is called St Martin sur oust which means St Martin on the river Oust.

Cornwall

This is our fourth week on holidays and we are now half way through our time in Cornwall. We are staying in Port Isaac where a TV show called Doc Martin is filmed. This is me and my Brother Noah.
                                                                          A Cave

 Me and my Family went to a cave in Port Isaac. It is bright because...CAMERA FLASH! But at High Tide its full of WATER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                                                  


A Park



Our First Family Picture

 

Mum, Dad, Me, Ella, Steph and Noah

                                                                    My House



Our 2 storey House...Again.....Its made of stone and slate and dad bumps is head a lot on things.

Me

That's Doc Martins house behind me. Its the little on slightly to the top right of the picture.

My next adventures

The photo above is our local castle

Today it was finally a warm day!

The picture above is from a Roman site that is 2000 years old. I am standing in their toilet!

The playgrounds are good too. That's me on the far left. Click on the picture to make it bigger.

We are now on top of Ludlow Castle

These are the ruins of an old church called an Abbey. It was destroy because England changed its religion from Catholic to Anglican.

These are the churches gardens where the monks used to pray.

This park is in Wales.

I'm actually here!!

This is a castle in Wales...its a famous book shop town called Hay on Wye. That's me up the back

 

This is where I am staying for 3 weeks - Ludlow

This is our backyard and a wild pheasant

 This is my grandma and family in our little town or hamlet called Caynham

This rock is millions of years old and has marine life fossils in it

Inside this house is a 700 year old water mill. The power of the river turns a big wheel which then powers grinding wheels to crush grain.