Boats in Venice

Canals are the roads of Venice.
On the canals there are boats instead of cars, taxis, buses, fire engines, amambulances and police cars.
Vaporettoes are buses, gondolas are carriages, speedboats are ambulances,fire engines, police cars and taxis.
There's even a fruit & veg boat.


Did you know:

- That 1 ride in a gondola costs €100?
-That Vaporettoes only go in the big canals because they don't fit in the smaller ones?

Barga cathedral

I went to Barga with my grandma and grandpa,my auntie Annie and my sister,Carmela. Then we went to the cathedral.

Cathedral.

The windows of the cathedral were made of translucent marble.

Translucent marble.




There was a giant candle painted with pictures of Jesus and his followers.

Giant candle.


There was a view of the hills through the door.

Door view.




There was a giant statue of saint Christopher made out of wood.

Saint Christopher statue.

Reptiles y anfibios en Bagni di Lucca

Cuando llegamos a Bagni di Luca en octobre, hacía mucho calor y había muchas lagartijas tomando el sol en un muro.








En nuestra cocina encontramos un sapo muy pequeño y lo sacamos al jardín.

Siena

We arrived in Siena and had a picnic in Piazza del Campo.















Then we went to the Duomo.





















The floor was covered in figurative panels.
















Then we went to a cafe and went back to a hotel in Florence.

La Cúpula de Santa Maria del Fiore

El miércoles fuimos a Florencia. En Florencia vimos muchas cosas muy bonitas, pero mi favorita era la cúpula de Santa Maria del Fiore. La cúpula de Santa Maria del Fiore la diseñó Brunelleschi entre los años 1420 y 1436.



















El interior es un fresco gigante del Juicio Final.

















Para ver lo de cerca hay que subir la cúpula. Para llegar arriba hay que subir muchas escaleras dentro de la cúpula.

Pisa

I went to Pisa on Sunday. My favourite building was the Baptistery because it was covered in heads. These are the heads on the Baptistery.









This is the whole Baptistery.





















This is the Duomo (cathedral in Italian).















And finally here is the famous Leaning Tower of Pisa.

Facades in Lucca

Facades are fascinating, especially on churches. They always catch your attention. This is San Michele. There are thousands of columns, all made of white, green and pink marble.
















This is Saint Michael killing a serpent.



















This is one of the columns.

This is a frieze on top of the door to San Michele. On it there is a dragon, a centaur and a two-tailed merman.

This is San Frediano. The mosaic is of Jesus Christ.

This is another little church which I don't know the name of.

The secret path

I am in Bagni in Lucca in Tuscany in Italy. We're here for two months and a half. I wanted to go exploring with my dad in the garden of Villa Fiori.

So me and my dad went to the garden of Villa Fiori and we found a big gap in the trees and we went through the gap and we found a path next to the river.

Along the path there was a little old house.

Inside the little old house there were a few electric wires. You could also go into the bottom of a little tower and then you would need to go up on to the pavement and go home.

Forest of gnomes

I went to a house in the country. They had chickens. One of them was called Kiwi. The other was called Hueca.

We went to a forest where there were lots of little doors and windows.

Me, Alice and Carmela played hide and seek in the bracken. I got bitten by a tick. Apparently you can get Lyme disease from them.