by Maile Bowles | Aug 3, 2017 | Maile, Scotland
Overnight train from London to Scotland
My family and I rode on a train overnight! The rooms were very small and had a single bunk bed in each of them. I let Alex have the top bunk because I have a bunk bed at home. The bottom bunk was surprisingly cozy.
Bunk beds on the train
I enjoyed the train very much. The train went from London, England to Inverness, Scotland where we rented a car. You drive on the opposite side of the road in Great Britain which freaked all of us out. Our destination was Pitlochry. We drove to our new hotel which happened to be a palace. Before we arrived, we visited Loch Ness in hopes of seeing Nessie. We had one of the two suites in the palace. It was a house that had three floors! I got the top floor all to myself. My room was bigger than both of our rooms on the train combined.
Atholl Palace Hotel
by Jason Bowles | Jul 29, 2017 | France, Maile
My family and I stayed in a castle for one night. The castle was 800 years old! I was a little scared because it was dark, but the night went by fast. In the morning, we went to breakfast and made new friends. After breakfast, we packed our bags and brought them out to our rental car. After that, we got a tour of the castle from the owner. She showed us the secrets of the castle and told us the history. The owner of the castle’s daughter was taking care of a bird. They found him in the grass because he fell out of his nest when he was little. He didn’t know how to fly so they were trying to teach him. The bird’s name was Martin the Fisher. While we were there they even gave me my own castle! Alex wasn’t very happy that I got a castle and he didn’t get one. He even put my castle under siege! 🤣🤣🤣
Chateau Columbieres
Maile’s castle
Maile under siege
by Maile Bowles | Jul 26, 2017 | France, Maile
This is where Marie Antoinette wanted to pretend to be a peasant. Marie Antoinette’s servants would look at her dress and then sneak out and dye the sheep a color to match her dress and would put perfume on them to make them smell good. Part of Marie’s hamlet is now an animal rescue.
These are three of the goats at Marie’s hamlet.
