yanniplatt

I'm back it was brilliant, Here is the full lowdown of the hoedown in Paris Arrived Monday morning about nine o'clock, had to catch a bus into the city from the airport. I settled in to my hostel and met a neighbour from Columbia, he asked me if I like to party, I was a bit scared about what that entailed for a Columbian! Headed off to my first trip, the eiffel tower. My hostel was only a ten minute walk away. I had been in Paris two hours and it was just like the film French Kiss where you are looking for it everywhere and not seeing it then all of a sudden your in a quiet street, you look up and there it is magic! But not for long it disappears behind tall buildings, ... read more

On saturday the 30th I travelled to Edinburgh for the famous Hogmanay (Scottish new years.) Edinburgh is an absolutely gorgeous and it was 'heaving' (scottish term I have learnt with tourists for the hogmanay festival and mostly Australians, I heard Aussie accents everywhere! In my hostel room there were four other Australians. The city is beautiful and not what I expected, the castle is on an enormous rocky hill right in the centre of the city. all along Prencess Street gardens there was a Christmas Market and fair rides, One of the rides was swinging so close to a building that I was sure there was going to be disaster. Saturday night was the night afore international, starting in the park all the revelers marched behind a pipe band to george square where there were brilliant ... read more

Yeah I'm here with my Scottish family, so good to see them, they make me laugh so much. The first day I arrived we went to Ayr, nice town. I had a scottish breakfast, not keen on black pudding! Today we went to Stirling Castle, Banockburn and the wallace monument. SO much history 9it was great. I climbed the monument, a memorial to William Wallace the hero of Scotland, (Braveheart) all the way up these tiny narrow spiral 246 steps. I got a certificate to prove it! An the view at the top was amazing, but freezing. Scotland is beautiful. Then we went to the famous battle of bannockburn sight and I got to try out all the old weapons fun! Stirling Castle was reall nice, on topof a hill with another great view it had ... read more

Last night we went to Torrevieja this nice fishing city it had a great foreshore with nice market stalls along it. When it was getting dark we walked to the church which had this amazing minature nativity scene it was incredible, so much work went into it, it had heaps of different scenes from the story and all these amazing details and a few scenes with things Torrevieja were famous for like the salt hills that they process. It had the pyramids of egypt when Jesus' family had to flee there and the marriage of Mary and Joseph and the visits of the angels to Mary and Joseph. There were really cute funny details too like someone falling off the roof, and someonw with their skirt up warming their bum in front of the heater!! Today ... read more

Two days in Spain so far so brilliant! It is soo beautiful and warm it has been so good to escape the cold and rain of London. I went to the beach yesterday Playa Flamenca (Flemish Beach) it was beautiful I paddled in the mediterranean sea. Yeah! I even had to put sunscreen on it was gorgeous weathr not quite suitable for swimming. The Aunt I am staying with celebrated her birthday yeaterday so we went to a really nice restaurant for lunch. Today we went to La Pagan on the Mar menor (small sea) It's really famous in summer for it's mud baths we're people cake it all over their skin let it dry in the sun and then wash it off. It's supposed to be good for it. But there was no-one in there ... read more