Prague to Amsterdam in review

Second half Review: Prague to Amsterdam

Dad asked me three more questions to finish off my review of our trip. The questions were:

1.  What 2 places did I like the most and why?

2. What 2 activities did I like the most and why?

3.  Were the people in Holland like I thought they would be? Why/why not. Give some examples.

Hard!!!!!

Here are my answers:

1.          The two places I liked the most were both on Holland. I liked Elburg and de Efteling the most. I liked de Efteling because it was a fun park and it was super fun going on all the rides.

 

 I liked Elburg for two reasons: 1) the old town was beautiful when we walked through it and we got to eat ice cream as well and, 2) Bert and Marijke live in Elburg and we got to visit them. I loved that because their dog was so massive and lots of fun and they were also loving people and extremely kind.

2.         I chose three activities because I couldn't decide which one to leave out! The three activities that I liked the most were: seeing the castles on the way to Fussen in Germany, de Efteling again! and the van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. I chose the castles because they were amazing and the tours were also interesting and not too long. When we walked out onto a bridge to look at one of the castles (Neuschwanstein) I wondered what it would be like to live there and wished I could!!
 

 

De Efteling was unreal for heaps of reasons!!! But the main reason was the cool roller coasters because they went fast and one even went upside down for a long way. It was awesome!!!!
 

 

The van Gogh Museum was really interesting because I found it amazing that they had so many paintings by van Gogh. The information on the paintings was also really good and I thought that microscopes with the paint under them was really cool. I had done some study on him at school but I learnt a lot more by coming to this museum.
 

3.          Some of the people in Holland were like I thought they would be and others were not. Some were in the middle!

Margot was not like I thought she would be because for some reason I thought she would be younger and have brown hair. But she was as old as grandma and grandpa and had grey hair like dad so I was wrong! She was also really lovely which I didn’t know if she would be like that or not before we went.

 

Dad told me Derk Jan was really tall and he was very tall indeed-so dad was right about one thing! But one thing is Derk Jan looks older in real life than some of the photos in Margot’s house.

 

Marijke was like I thought she would be because mum and dad had told me a lot about her and I had seen photos of her from when I was a baby and also from when dad went to visit her a few years ago. Dad also told me Marijke spoke perfect English and he was right – her English was amazing. I thought all the Dutchies spoke perfect English so they are clever aren’t they!?!

My last blog will be about a couple of questions dad asked to do about the trip in total.

Love

Clare

xxoo