My Holiday

It has been quite a while since <i have had access to the internet.  We are now in Finland with my friend Nina.  It is much cooler here thank goodness.  Today was about 23 degrees – just right.  Yesterday we left at 10am and caught a large ferry type boat to an island in the Finnish Archepeligo. There are about 10 000 islands in Finland.  The one we went to was 5 hours away in the ferry.  Once we got there you could walk around the island and have a guide talk about the large lighthouse on the island.  There is a school on the island with only 3 children attending it.  They wanted us to live on the island so there would be some more children for the school.  There is one shop, a motel, a library which is open once a week and lots of little holiday cottages.  There were 14 friends with us for this trip and we were all staying in little cabins on the boat overnight.  HOWEVER, just our luck, at 10pm the cabins started to FLOOD!!!!  Oliver and Alix thought we were sinking!!  Anyway a pipe had burst and all the downstairs flooded.  At 10.30pm we had to pack our bags and got shifted out to backpacker type accommodation.  All very exciting.  The next day we left at 1pm to head back to Turku which is where we are staying in Finland.

Isabelle, in Paris we did go to Euro Disneyland.  It was a great place but there were way too many people.  Most of the rides had a one and a half hour wait which did not make it much fun.  It was also very hot.

Jack, in London we spend a lot of time on the red buses and we did take the brown route like you mum told us.  We had a great time in London and visited Hamley’s which is a 7 story toy shop.  What a great place.  We also went to Harrods and had a look around but most things were way too expensive so i didn’t buy too much.  

It is one week until we get home.  The time is going very quickly.  We are all still very tired and worn out from too much walking and talking and seeing.  We are not eating as much as we did in Italy.  Fnland food is very different.  I don’t think anywhere in the world has better food and gelato than Italy.