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EXCITING NEWS!

Hey everyone, I’m back with another post! But this is not just any ordinary post, actually this is special. Our family is leaving Europe and heading to Africa! In Africa, we are going to be seeing some amazing things. But this report is about Europe. I’m going to be giving an overview of all of this first continent out of the three we will be going to on this trip. Feel free to take a long time reading and processing this report because this report will have a lot of information.

EUROPE:

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM 🇬🇧: Our first destination on this trip was London. We had been thinking for a long time about the first place to go, and it turned out in the end to be London. And I think this was a good idea! Before that, I had never went to the UK. We went to the Imperial war museum, British museum, Kings cross station, The National Gallery, Greenwich, Sky garden, HMS Belfast ship, Tower of London (search on this site for Lily’s report), and the Cutty Sark ship (search on this site for my report). All of these I would advise you to look up and/or visit one day.

Good site for more info on London: press the link down below.

http://www.localhistories.org/london.html

Youtube video from our channel about London:

SPLIT, CROATIA 🇭🇷: I had barely even heard of this country before we made plans to go there, and I had most definitely had never heard of such a wacky name for a city, like SPLIT. What? You’re probably thinking. Who names their city Split? Well there must be a story behind everything. I learned that a long time ago. You probably did too. In Croatia there are Roman ruins. Well, yeah! That’s because Rome took over all of Europe! But in Split there are some extremely impressive things. These include, a whole burned and destroyed city called Solona, and a huge, well preserved palace built by the all famous emperor Diocletian (search on this site for my report). Which we all saw.

Great site for Split history:

https://www.total-croatia-news.com/split-history/8421-a-brief-history-of-split

YouTube video from our channel about Split:

SARAJEVO, BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA 🇧🇦: Over thirty years ago, there was a war in the old country of Yugoslavia. There were many cultures involved. But the craziest and worst things happened in Sarajevo. It was called a siege. We learned and heard stories about people’s experiences in the siege. A siege is where one large group surrounds all around. So the citizens of Sarajevo would not be able to get out of their city for supplies. Many people died this way. It was sad to learn about all of it but was also a really good experience learning about it.

A little timeline of Sarajevo:

https://www.latimes.com/travel/europe/la-tr-d-sarajevo-timeline-20140727-story.html

YouTube video from our channel about Sarajevo:

BIOGRAD NA MORU, CROATIA 🇭🇷: In Biograd, we went sailing and did tennis. We called it tennis and sailing camp week. Since me and Lily had never took sailing before that first day, it really turned out to be a blast. We road on the trapeze, and even flipped the boat over on the third day. It was creepy to have our boat slowly leaning to one side and then tilting so much it completely flipped over and threw us off. But, eventually it just HAD to happen, and, we did learn from it (Search learning ` for lily’s report). For tennis camp, our whole family got mixed and private lessons. My parents played matches against the locals. My sister and I had lessons with the local kids every few days. But all in all, it was kinda busy, but in most ways, it was a fun week.

YouTube video from our Chanel about Biograd Na Moru:

ATHENS, GREECE 🇬🇷: In Athens we saw some of the most amazing Greek ruins in the world. Well, obviously there are Greek ruins in Greece because Greek ruins are Greek! And yes, that’s true! So, my family wanted to start seeing some ancient civilization. Athens is the place to go. We had known we wanted to go to Greece for a really long time before we left, but I actually did not know we would go to Athens. But why is Athens so cool? The Greek acropolis and the ancient agora is the answer. Huge walls and temples sit on the top a a HUGE cliff that you can see from miles away. The most well known thing there that we saw was the Parthenon. Most of the statues and frescoes are in the British museum Which we saw in back in London. Others are in the acropolis museum. Other temples on the the Greek acropolis include, the temple of Poseidon, and the temple of nike (the god of victory, I know- I confused it with the brand too). The ancient agora is considered one of the first shopping malls. It was a huge section of unbelievable ruins.

History of the Greek acropolis and agora:

Agora: https://ancient-greece.org/archaeology/agora.html

Acropolis: https://ancient-greece.org/history/acropolis.html

YouTube video from our Chanel about Athens:

KALAMBAKA, METEORA, GREECE 🇬🇷: There are a lot of Amazing places in Greece that are not just Athens. For example, Meteora. Meteora is a large section of crazy cliffs surrounding a few towns in Greece. Kalambaka is among these towns. After Athens, our family wanted to spend a little more time in Greece before leaving, so we took a car trip around Greece. And we started in a small town in Kalambaka . Why not one of the other towns near it? Because unlike anywhere else I’ve ever heard of, there are monastery’s on top of the cliffs. The monastery’s are places where Christian monks have lived in since the thirteen hundreds. Sometimes, in the morning, you can hear them chanting from somewhere above. There are six monasteries, and each is unique in its own way. It was a once in a lifetime experience.

How the monks live in the cliff top monastery’s:

https://www.thebyzantinelegacy.com/meteora

DELPHI, GREECE: Our second and final destination on the Greece car trip was Delphi. According to a myth, Zeus (the king of the gods), sent two birds flying in opposite directions, and he said that wherever the birds met, would be the center of the world. And guess where the birds met? Delphi! So to mark down the center of the world, Zeus brought down a large rock carving which can be seen in the archeological museum of Delphi today. Delphi was an Oracle. Priestesses who supposedly could talk to the prophecy God Apollo would answer questions to anyone who paid them. They would ask Apollo (who would tell them the future) and then pass on the information to the questioner. We saw the temple in which the priestesses would be stationed, the treasury of Athens, a Greek theater, a roman amphitheater, and much more. (Search, what did the ancient Greeks eat? For my ‘’Delphi report)

The oracle of Delphi and more:

https://ancient-greece.org/history/delphi.html

VENICE, ITALY 🇮🇹: My sister really wanted to go here. Personally, I did too. Venice is like a bunch of islands split into canals. When we arrived in Venice, we took a water taxi from the airport. That’s right, a water taxi! In Venice, they don’t have cars (must b good for having less pollution!). Only walking and boating. So to get around, we just walked across bridges and took a few water-cabs. There are a lot of unbelievably crazy and awesome things in Venice. We saw the Doges palace, which is a fancy Venetian palace decorated with paintings and lots of gold (yeah, the Venetians were RICH!). We also saw the Bridge of Sighs (look it up o the internet!), the Peggy Guggenheim museum, and the famous around the world art festival, the Biennale. Which I all recommend.

All about Venice:

https://www.britannica.com/place/Venice

ROME, ITALY: Rome was my request because I wanted to see some more ruins. We saw and went inside one of the wonders of the world. The Colosseum is one of the most visited land marks in the world! But as I said earlier, there’s a story behind everything. There are a lot of stories behind the Colosseum. But see the report before this for information about that, because I don’t want to want to make this 15 pages long! In Rome we also saw the Roman Forum, which was the ancient place of government for Rome. The Vatican was also really something. Saint Peter’s Cathedral was just huge! We got to see the Sistine Chapel which is a church decorated with some of the most famous paintings ever by Michelangelo. (Search, touring the Colosseum in Rome for me and mom’s post)

More about Roman history:

https://study.com/academy/lesson/roman-civilization-timeline-facts-contributions.html

SICILY, ITALY: Surprise, Surprise! Another car trip! But this we went to a few towns and cities in Sicily. First, we went to a beach town, San Lorenzo. We went to the beach right in the back of our Airbnb every day we were there. Then, after, we headed to a small city called Noto. While there, we met up and stayed with friends and mostly just hung out. But, we did a little bit of walking around too. Following Noto, we stayed in a town called Piazza del Armerina. There was a huge Roman villa with the name, Villa Romana del Casale and some of the best preserved mosaics in the world there!

More Info on Villa Romana del Casale: https://www.thethinkingtraveller.com/thinksicily/guide-to-sicily/archaeological-sites-in-sicily/villa-romana-del-casale.aspx

Lastly, we went to the Valley of the Temples. Yes, its a Valley of the Temples! We saw ancient city walls, a village of ancient houses, and over four temples!

The city of the temples: https://www.thethinkingtraveller.com/thinksicily/guide-to-sicily/archaeological-sites-in-sicily/the-valley-of-the-temples-agrigento.aspx

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