England

Two weeks ago we went to England. It was fun because we had a lot of the family there for my grandpa's birthday. The cool thing was that we surprised him with us coming. First Ana and I ran down the garden and my grandpa turned round and said "Is this a dream?" The party was great we had balloons, party poppers, party hats and the most amazing meal. For starters we had smoked salmon and toast. Main coarse was roast pork, roast potato's, mushrooms and Spinach Bake. For dessert we had tiramisu. Unfortunately I did not get any dessert because I was watching a movie. My grandpa got a cool present - it was a glass globe and the countries were made of broken shells.

The next day we went to Borough Market which is one of the biggest food markets in London. It was cool because there were stalls that had lots of prepared meals that you could buy and eat straight-away. There was also a chocolate stand which had a big variety of chocolate covered fruits. I also saw these giant, white and fluffy mushrooms called puffballs. We had breakfast there and I had a bacon sandwich. Here are some pictures from the market.

The day before we left we celebrated my cousin Alexandra's birthday. We bought her a pair of red leather gloves and a red pashmina scarf. She also got a red beret and a PlayStation 2 with the game Dance UK. At the party there were gold balloons and gold party poppers.

While we were in England I swam in the Thames that goes past the house. It was freezing when you jumped in but if you went in slowly you could stay in there for an hour.

Now we are back in Italy in the warm weather.