William Wallace

The William Wallace Monument is in a town called Stirling. It was built in 1869 to honour the Scottish hero William Wallace. He is famous for the Battle of Stirling Bridge in 1297 where Scottish clans got together to fight the English. They thought the English King was trying to rule over too much of …

Climbing Arthur’s Seat

Today we conquered Arthur’s Seat, which is a tall mountain that has lots of different tracks and is lots of fun to climb. The tallest point is the summit, Arthur’s Seat, which is 250m tall and is an ancient volcano. People thought it used to be called Archer’s Seat because it was high ground and …

Edinburgh Castle

Today we went to Edinburgh Castle and it is huge!  We went to these two different prisons places and in one of them I locked my parents in a cell.  They were not happy. I got to see where prince James VI of Scotland and prince James I of England ( they are the same …

London Eye London Dungeon Buckingham Palace

In the morning we went to the London Eye and looked around the glass oval as it slowly moved upwards. Once we reached the top of the London Eye we could see everything, we could see Buckingham Palace, the shard (a tall sky scraper ) and tons of houses! After we ate our lunch we …

A weekend in London

On Saturday we went for a huge walk by the River Thames and ended up at the Kew Fair. There were lots of stalls, food and rides, we went on the fast chair ride and I snuck on once without paying money. We met friends of our hosts and had a very, very long lunch …

Mythical Creature Lego Dragon from Hamleys!

I had a request to post a picture of my Mythical Creature Lego Dragon - here it is!

Tower of London

At the Tower of London my mum and I got audio guides and we did the kids tour and we laughed our guts out as ‘Rocky the Raven’ (the narrator on the audio guide) talked in a funny low Cockney voice every time we came to the execution sites. There have to be 6 ravens …

More Bath(ing) and HARRY POTTER STUDIOS!!!!

After we had breakfast and left the hotel and went to explore Bath. We looked at our map and then my mum spotted the Jane Austen museum3. The Jane Austen Museum is in Jane Austen’s old house. In the museum, I wrote a letter to 4D with a quill and it’s in the post now! …

Stonehenge & Bath

It took us 2 hours to get to Stonehenge, it really only took half an hour because I slept 3 quarters of the time. When we arrived we waited in another queue to check in. After that we got our audio guides1, we waited yet again in another queue to get on a tour bus. …

London!

I woke up and all the others in the house where we are staying were getting ready for school.  Their names are Arthur, who is 8, Miriam (who is called Mim) who is 6 and Jamie who is 4.  Their Mum Freeda made us pancakes for breakfast.  They have lemon and sugar or lemon curd …