It is nearly the end of summer and I hope everyone had a good summer holiday!
Today, I would like to write about what I did during my summer holiday.
From 9th of August to 7th of September, I was in England.
It was first time for me to go on plane by myself, and what is worse, I had to change plane in Thailand, I was very very nervous worrying perhaps I could get lost some where on the way to England.
Maybe some people find it easy traveling alone, however, I was really sick before I got on the plane.
This time, I used Thai airways, and I thought it was quite nice.
Flight attendants were nice, food were nice, and movies which were on during the flight were nice as well.
There were movies such as "Ms. Potter", "Next" and some other new movies.
However, I was really tired, as it was at 1 a.m. in the morning my flight was, I fell asleep and did not watch the movies.
After long flight about 18 hours, I got to the Heathrow airport.
It was such a big airport and I nearly got lost.
At the arrival gate, my boyfriend was waiting, and we walked to the coach stop to get a coach to his house.
It took about 3 hours to get to the biggest station near his house, Exeter station.
His house is in a small town right near the sea, called Teingmouth.(pronounced like Tinmouth)
It is very beautiful town with many evil sea gulls.
The night we got to the town, it was very late, maybe around 4a.m. so we just went bed.
This is a picture of Teignmouth
On the first Saturday after I got to England, it was my boyfriend's mother's wedding day.
She was going to get married to the man who is Irish, have tattoos all over his body, and looks a little scary, but very nice.
Because it was their second marriage, they got married in the place somewhere like a town hall.
It looked very different from Japanese wedding, even I have never been to any, and only family members were there.
After wedding, we had a party in a pub inviting many friends of bloom and bride.
Everyone were drunk, and dancing crazy.
For few days after that, we spent relaxing, sometimes going shopping and beach.
From 19th to 22nd of August, my boyfriend and I went to France.
It was first time for me to go to France, and we got a small plane from Exeter airport.
Before the plane depertures, we had some problems.
Pilot said that there were some troubles with the propeller.(It wad propeller!)
Eventually, we changed the plane and left England.
However, I was a bit worried as it was a very small plane and had propeller!
We got to France, and first impression is not very nice.
At the airport, if we spoke in English, workers of the airport were unkind.
My French teacher, and my boyfriend who is half French, have told me that some French people do not like English speaking people, but I have not expected it to be that bad.
I felt a little sad facing the reality that some people are just hating others because of peoples nationality or language.
In the city of Paris, it looked very European, which is only natural.
Beautiful and old, and I enjoyed it very much from the inside of the taxi.
However, as soon as I got off the taxi in front of the hotel we were going to stay, it stunk.
It was such contrast of beauty and smelly of Paris.
First day, we just got some food, drink, and went bed.
On the second day, we went to Disney resort Paris.
it was a little hot and many people were there.
It was similar to Disney land in Tokyo, however, Paris one had another park called Disney studio instead of Disney sea.
It was very good in Disney land, however on the train back to the hotel, I was a little surprised.
French woman maybe around 22, was holding a Disney Barbie doll.
My boyfriend who can speak French told me that she said that she got it for herself and it was very expensive to her friends sitting nearby.
I do not say it is bad or waste of money, but I thought it was a bit like child.
After that, for 2 days in Paris, we went to Arc de Triomphe, Tower Eiffel, Shamps Elysees, Nortre Dame Cathedral, and Louvre Museum.
To the top of Eiffel tower, we walked up steps, and it was very high on the top.
In Nortre Dame Cathedral, there were very beautiful stained glasses and many people were praying.
Louvre Museum was very big and full of art.
Even a small part of ceiling, there were paintings and curving.
We also looked the painting Mona Lisa, it was much smaller than I have expected and many people were in front of the painting.
We had very good time and good food in Paris.
After we gone back to England, we went to the place called "Lands end".
It was the one of two ends in U.K., the other is the place called John O'Groats in Scotland.
My boyfriend and I also went on the steam train, and it was very good experience.
It was first time for me and I loved it very much.
I really had a good time in England, however, I was busy after I came back doing home works.
It was good to have two months holiday during hot summer.
