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Things We Miss

Items — Kinnon: my Tim Horton hockey card collection. Kadyn: A/C because I can’t live without A/C. Brittany: a home; just having a home. Mark: my SleepCountry medium foam pillow; ah, the sleeps I would have if only I had my pillow… Food — Kinnon: my dad’s burnt butter pasta; Dad uses the good parmesan. Kadyn: I miss the snack food from home; everything that was in our “candy drawer” Europeans don’t have. Brittany: normal peanut butter; it’s different in...

Bern, Switzerland

Bern was great! It had so much beauty everywhere you would go. The first full day we went to the river. The river was the colour of Canadian glacier water, but a bit warmer. The river flowed very fast, you would see so many people just flying past you on the river. Only my dad went because Kinnon was too scared, and I didn’t want to go. My mom and I just sat on the grass watching the boys swim...

Get to the Choppa! Austria We Go!

Vienna, Austria was ok. Again, we had limited time here but it gave me a “just another old European city” vibe: lots of old buildings and history but no “wow” factor. Nothing that I could not stop staring at and nothing that I was excited to see (re: St. Stephen’s Cathedral was definitely quite beautiful). It is an old sleepy city in a way, where you walk and gawk, eat supper and go to bed early. We don’t want to...

London, England, UK: Theatreland

London was great! we were there for 4 days. All the days were great. I enjoyed the eye, attending musicals and all their little shops. we go to London on a train. it was a pretty easy train, but I did not feel good. It was 2 hours so not bad at all. Once we got to London we went to our apartment. At first, I didn’t like the apartment and location but it was perfectly fine. It was not...