The Amazing World of Amelia

Just me, Finn, and Blossom (our cousin) went out to a dessert restaurant called The Works for lunch. I had a waffle filled with Nutella and marshmallows. It was gigantic and yummy! It also had a big scoop of cookie dough ice-cream. I couldn't believe it when I saw how big my glass of Fanta was. I didn’t finish it.  Before we went out to the robot museum we stopped in the mall and got two big packets of sweeties each and then carried on. In one shop I found a Ty Beanie Boo soft toy. It was called Wilma. I loved it and Blossom bought it for me! Finally we went inside the Aylesbury Museum. Blossom had to say that she was an adult but actually she is only 16. It was really fun to see all the different robots on display. Then while we waited for our granddad Bampi to pick us up we went back in the mall and I got a hair band and a scented unicorn pen. Back at home we just played on the Wii and also we had to pack our bags as we're off to Lon...

Today we're going on a bike tour around the city!! We had to catch a metro train to meet up with our bike tour guide. The tour was run by a company called Fat Tire Tours. The tour guide's name was Johnny. It nearly cost 200 dollars. Luckily I didn't have to bike on my own as Daddy and I got to go on a tandem bike and nobody else did. Finn had his own bike.  We learned heaps from our tour guide. Such as, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette tried to escape Paris but they had a terrible escape planned, failed and got caught. Also when they were planning the Eiffel Tower some people had ideas that a slide could be coming down from the top or a guillotine!! At some point I flipped upside down & out of the tandem bike. I hit the path and injured my knee. OUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Johnny had some plasters and wipes. We had our lunch break yum yum yum yummy. We ate sandwiches and a...

We had to leave early to catch a train to Postonja. We were going to see the famous caves and a very old castle that was built into the side of a cliff. We ran very fast to catch our train and just made it in time. My body was so boiling that I felt like I was steaming. While getting our tickets I saw a big cuddly dragon and I wanted to go and give him a high-five and get a photo taken with it. We joined the long queue and entered the cave at 12.30. When I found out we would be travelling through the cave on a train I was very excited! The train carriages had a bar that came down over your lap which made it seem a bit like a rollercoaster. It just didn’t go nearly as fast! On our way in I saw stalactites hanging from the roof of the cave, and stalagmites sticking up from the floor, and sometimes they join together to form pillars. They grow so slowly they only grow 1mm every hundred years. The caves were freezing cold but luckily we brought our jerseys with us. I foun...

Today I woke up on a train instead of a bed and arrived in Ljubljana which is the capital city of Slovenia. I found sleeping on the train comfortable and not noisy. We had to get our bags all ready for when the train stopped. We stepped out into Ljubljana. There were a lot of houses and not big apartments. It didn’t seem too busy. We noticed that the sky was grey and it was a bit colder here. The train station was quite big. The man who was the taxi driver was not there so we had to problem solve and use our initiative and find a way to our house. We walked with all of our bags up a hill. We didn’t realise we’d have to walk up a hill. On the way up there Finn found a huge, gigantic black beetle. It was hard work walking up the steep hill. When we arrived at our house the lady who owned it said “why did you go up that way? That’s the path we call the North Slope”. Oh well, it was good exercise. Our house is quite old, from the 1600s. It is so cool. Mum and Dad’s bed is up h...

Today we’re going on a train to Thessaloniki. It’s a city at the top of Greece. For breakfast Daddy made Finn and I an omelette. And accidentally Dad dropped a glass and it broke. Quickly we walked with all our luggage to the train station. It’s sunny and hot again. I’m getting a bit tired of hot, hot, hotness. The train journey is 4 hours long. Suddenly the train arrived at platform 8. We hopped onto carriage number 6. I’m very excited because in 2 more days we’re going on an overnight train and we’re going to sleep on it. We bought some beds on it. Looking out of the train window I was surprised because I saw lots of proper houses! Normally we have been seeing apartment buildings and hotel buildings. Here are some that I saw. They looked quite scrufffy and run down.