4 people -3 continents – 12 countries + 3 transit countries (Russia, Monaco, Vatican City) – 32 cities – 3 suitcases, 4 daypacks12 flights, 4 trains, 3 ferries, many tuktuks, car rentals, buses, metros, taxis, and innumerable ice creams!!! Final Reflections Mady: This trip encouraged me to help more – travel more, experience other things […]
Crete Mady – Crete is an island full of mountains and a beautiful coastline. Jade – It has been hot here, about 29 degrees Celsius each day. Jade – While in Crete, we went to the biggest water park in Greece as part of my birthday present. There were so many different water slides, my
Italy Genoa Jade: In Genoa, we walked to this beautiful street – I think the thing that made it beautiful is that in the alleyways, with two houses on each side, they would string wires across from each house and hang up as many umbrellas of different colours as they could hang up in the
Southern France – French Riviera Jade: We left Spain and flew to Nice, France. Nice is spelled like nice and it rhymes with rice! Antibes – French School Mady: Friday was our last day of French school. In French school it is so hard, we did 20 hours of French in one week. In my
Morocco Mady – We went to Tangier, Morocco by taking a ferry from Spain. In Morocco, I loved the beautiful architecture and the buildings that had walls made of tiles and arches. I loved that at night, while doing homeschooling, we sat out in the cold on the terrace and drank warm, soothing, mint tea.
Lisbon, Portugal After leaving Asia, we came to Europe. We got to Portugal and we went into a big apartment that had tons of beds. There was a knock at the door and someone said ‘a package for Mady and Jade’ but it was Gabe! Gabe and Nora are our friends from Toronto, along with
Vietnam Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) Mady – We are staying at a skyscraper apartment building that has 49 floors, we are on the 30th floor. We can see over the city and at sunset you can see the city light up one by one. Ho Chi Minh or Saigon is known by two names.
Impressions of Cambodia: There is a lot of greenery, the restaurants are outside, and there are so many fruit trees, because they have no winter. People work really really hard, all the time. much harder than Canada. They work outside in the heat, which we are not used to. And tuk tuks, are amazing, I
We have had a great couple of weeks in Thailand. This is what we have been up to in the last few weeks. Night Market – Hua Hin Mady: We went to a market and there were all kinds of different varieties of food. There were even insects to eat – and my parents tried
It is very warm here. In Thailand there are lots of trees and plants on rooftops and in between highways. They speak the Thai language which sounds way different than English. But some people at restaurants and airports, they can speak English. Everything you read is in Thai, but some things have English translations. This