Ferry to Dover

Today we were going to go on a ferry from Calais to Dover. So we did. It was cool on a big, new boat, and I enjoyed it very much. I didn't get sea sick (luckily) but I did feel a little bit sick. I played minecraft practically the whole way, stopping for a bit now and then to eat a giant chocolate 2 Euros and drink some hot chocolate (mmm, chocolate).

The difference between the 2 Euros.

I took a few photos of us about to arrive in England, and saw the white cliffs of Dover looming before us.

The white cliffs of Dover.

When we arrived at the other end, we got into the port and everyone suddenly realised that my feet stunk. Badly. Well, I couldn't help that! But everyone was complaining, so I had to take them off and air them out a bit before I could get into the car. They still stunk a bit (a lot), but luckily I couldn't smell it. Everyone else did, and they sure didn't like what they had to put up with for the car trip. They lived to tell the tale and so did I, and everyone is happy, so we forget and live on.
I love being in England again. It's a bit like coming to a second home with all my relatives here and everything. Have you been to England? If so, do you like it?

ANZAC Day

ANZAC Day is a wonderful and maybe sad day for lots of people in many countries, where they either have a good cry about the many soldiers that died for the country those many years ago or just sit there sucking in all the memories of the battle. Well, we went to a special ceremony in France where I am sure many people did both of those things. We parked the car and did a 2km trek to the top of the hill where it was held.
After we walked the long trek from the car to the seats, we got a booklet with all the songs and about the ceremony in it. I got a free badge and mum got some more for herself and my brother (happy birthday, bro)! With badges and books in hand, we headed for the seats. The front was packed, but the back had hardly any people there. So we had no trouble getting settled and ready for the ceremony to start. It was still dark when it finally began, and we all joined in and listened to what they had to say. It was luckily in English because it was an Australian thing, so I could understand perfectly. They had a good talk about all the amazing things the soldiers of Australia and New Zealand had done, and what they had given up for the countries that were involved. Some important people like Kevin Rudd had a talk and mum got a picture of him:

Kevin Rudd looking at his best...

It all went on for quite a while, so we stayed up there at the place with everyone else to see the dawn. It was one of the most beautiful sunrises I had ever seen (Delfi was better). Mum got a picture of the sun in an awesome position shining through the top of the big building that was built in memory of the battle.

The sun shining through.

Then after looking at the beautiful sunrise we headed off to our hotel (that stinks of cigarettes. Yuck).There we celebrated my brothers' birthday with a card and a hug or two.
ANZAC Day was very good to go to. Do you think you would have enjoyed it?

France

France greeted us last night as we flew from Greece to Belgium, then drove to France in a hire car. The journey was really tiring and long, about 15 1/2 hours, so we ended up getting to France at about 1:00am (2:00am Greek time).  Today in France we went around looking at the war memorial cemetries. I didn't really take any pictures of where we went and what we did, so I won't put any pictures on this post (again).
Anyway, we went around and looked at a cemetry and found my great, great, great uncle Toms' grave, who was killed in 1918. We also looked at the book with a list of all the people there. Sadly, some of the people that had died were only 18. I think that is just way too young to die, personally.  Some people had brothers that had died in a war, and then they had also gone and died in a war. It was so sad being there.
After looking around, we went and had something to eat at a nearby town. I had a fairly big hamburger with fries (I didn't say 'I would like to have a hamburger' like on the Pink Panther, however), and so did everyone else except mum who had a baguette with fries.
After all that we were full, so we went back to our hotel to have a rest. Looking at the cemetries was sad, but eating that hamburger was nice!