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More from Paris

17/9/2010

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Almost cruise time for us but let me catch you up on more of Europe.
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With my cousins, Louis and Henry, and their Mum and Dad
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Louis and I using Henry as a table to play cards on - it was quite late!
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In front of the Arc de Triomphe, leading down the Champs Elysee
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A Big Pointy Thing in Paris

8/9/2010

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We met with my cousins and Aunt and Uncle in Paris and almost went up the Eiffel Tower with them............but the boys were tired so we went for a nice French dinner instead. Snails are actually tasty but they were a bit too chewy for me!
Anyway, next day we went straight back to the Eiffel Tower and up we went. There are 3 levels and most people go to level 2 where there is a really good viewing platform. It feels like it is really high but when you get in the central lifts to go to the 3rd level (the TOP!) then you realise just how high the tower is. 
We loved it although my Mum was nervous in the last lift - it is mostly glass so you can see all of the iron girders around you as you go up and up and up! 
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Level 2, still a long way to the top
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At the top!!
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Over 16,900km from home! :-(
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France - but not Paris yet!

22/8/2010

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I have been in and out of France now but not yet Paris (except for a dirty train station and the rather nice air port).
We went to the beaches where the D-Day landings occurred in 1944. A lot of people died there from England, Canada, America and of course France and Germany.
We went back to England after Normandy - it is fun being able to just change direction and go to a different country when you want to. It is like heading to Canberra and then deciding to go to Goulburn instead. Well, kind of like that.
Hope everyone is enjoying winter. We are hoping to have a white Christmas in North America so I will be looking forward to Summer as well when I get home.
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A German machine-gun post on the beach known as Juno - where the Canadians landed.
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An observation post on the headland at Arromanches - no troops landed here because they wanted to keep the beach clear to construct a huge floating, artifical harbour
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    Molly: Hi guys, it's me, hope year 5 is treating you well!! My teachers this year are a real drag!! Mum and Dad; boring! I know you won't have that problem at Batemans Bay Public School.........!!!??!! 

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