Our Trip Away

I'll tell you about my favourite things from each country or place we visited...

First of all - my favourite thing in Paris was climbing the Eiffel Tower - I loved climbing up the steps. There were more than 600 steps I climbed up and then down again. This is us in front of the Eiffel Tower and the other one is me posing on the second floor of the Tower.

Part Two - on the way to Zermatt we saw snow at the Visp Train Station - it melted straight away. I saw really nice fluffy snow on the train after Visp on the way to Zermatt. When the train stopped at one of the stations on the way we hopped out and ate some snow. My favourite bit in Zermatt is skiing (accompanied by a loud and long squeal)!!!!!! First I had one day learning to ski with Andrei and the next day I had poles and was going down the beginner's slope on the Sunnegga mountain slope. One of my stacks was very good - I couldn't brake on the icy bit and there was a whole clump of soft snow and I went whoosh straight off the edge and my ski pole was up in the air and I was like a cloud in the sky and I went kerthud into that soft snow. Dad had to take his skis off and walk back and pull me out with his pole that he had and that was real funny!!!!!!! Our skis were longer than a metre - everyone's skis had to come up to their neck or chest. We had to carry our skis to the ski slope where Andrei taught us - they were very very very very hard to carry!!!!! One night we had cheese fondue and rosti (which is grated potato fried like a pancake). This is how you make rosti - you get some potatoes and peel them. Then you boil them and leave them in the fridge for a night so they are cold. Then you grate them and let the potato gratings fall lightly on a plate so they don't get compacted together. Then you put some in a frypan with some butter and cook them on high heat until they start going golden then you turn them a bit. Then when that side's done you get a plate big enough to hold the rosti and put it on top of the frypan and flip the frypan over holding the plate there so the rosti falls onto the plate. Then you slide the rosti back into the frypan onto the other side to make that golden brown. Then you have done it and you can eat it. You can eat the rosti with bacon, sausage, egg, cheese or ham. I love rosti when it is all oily and burnt a little bit. I have finished part two.

Next we went to Geneva and went for a walk that night before tea. We walked around and we saw mirrors and we saw a big square mirror that if you walked back in front of it you would be smaller than a dwarf. Then we had tea. Then we saw a running race and there were people all dressed up for the race - they looked funny!!!!!!! In the Netherlands there were heaps and heaps and heaps of bikes everywhere - there were bike paths and we'll show you a picture of how many bikes were parked in one area. In Amsterdam they have chips in a paper cone and they have mayonaisse on their chips. The mayonaisse was gross but the chips were really really yummy!!!!!! I can't wait to get back to Perth now -
it's time to say adieu adieu to you and you and you!