My Birthday and Friends

My birthday has just passed. I had a lot of fun. I had a birthday party at an Indian/Japanese restaurant. The restaurant was an 'all you can eat' buffet. YUMMY!! I also made a cake and brought it in to school! The cake is French and is called Chocolat Saucisson, which means chocolate sausage! Don't worry there is no actual sausage in it!

For my birthday Mum, Dad and Sean gave me a big 'Little Marcel' suitcase and some very cool shoes! I wear them every day!

A couple of days before my birthday, I went to Charlotte, Raphaelle and Constance's house for a sleepover. The night I arrived we were told to get ready for bed and then we all stayed up until 1 o'clock in the morning and painted old t-shirts and played on roller skates! It was fun.

Tonight all our friends are coming over to eat a big Thai feast! It will be great fun!

I want to share with you my Chocolate Saussicon Recipe:

Ingredients:

200g milk chocolate

100g butter

100 icing sugar

1 egg

1 packet of Arnott's plain tea biscuits

15 marshmallows

Procedure:

Cut the marshmallows into 4 pieces each and put them in a bowl.

Crush the biscuits and put them into another bowl.

Melt chocolate until most lumps are gone and the put in the butter to melt with the chocolate.

Put in the icing sugar and stir until smooth.

Put in the biscuit crumbs the egg and mix them in.

Put in the marshmallow bits and stir.

Cut 3 squares of aluminium foil.

Grab the mix with your hands and put it on the aluminium foil in the shape of a sausage.

Roll the aluminium foil around the sausage like a sushi roll. Squeeze the ends of the aluminium foil so you cant see the sausage any more.

Put it in the fridge for minimum 4 hours.

Bon Apetit!

Grottes de Thouzon

After just coming home from the Gorge Du Verdon, we have visited Les Grottes de Thouzon. The Thouzon Cave was discovered in 1902 while excavating for a quarry. Many years before they discovered the cave, there was a river called the Sorgue running through the ground making the cave. The water escaped via 'chimneys' in the cave. Eventually the water ran out so now it's a cave. But it is still in perfect condition.
It is an amazing cave because of it's localization: in the outer part of an old limestone massif. The sight inside was amazing. I liked the hollow stalectites. The longest one was 1m20! There were also some mini "pools" - a mini dam with water in it. At one point on the tour the tour-guide turned off the lights in the cave and we had a light show with music. It was very beautiful.

Hello everyone,
I just spent a couple of days visiting the Gorge Du Verdon. The Gorge Du Verdon is the second biggest gorge in the world!

There is a town just before the start of the gorge, called Moustier. In Moustier, there is a big waterfall. There is a hotel right next to the waterfall and I have a feeling that those rooms are a little noisy! While exploring the village, we walked up over 500 steps to an old church overlooking the village. While we were walking up to the top, I saw some wild, stinky mountain goats standing on top of a 20 meter cliff drop.

The church at the top of the hill was very beautiful with lots of carvings on the walls. From the cliff face above the church, to the the top of the cliff on the opposite side of the valley, there hangs a large metal chain above the village. Hanging from the center of the chain is a large golden star. This was placed by a knight in the 13th century after returning from a successful crusade. It's still there today.

We went to a pizza restaurant for dinner. The pizzas were very good. The hotel we stayed in was nice because there was a good view of the gorge.

In the morning we headed off for the actual gorge. We stopped at all the lookout points whilst driving the windy road, and at one, there were some men doing rock climbing and absailing down into the gorge! The cliff face that they were absailing down was a sheer drop of over 300 meters. On one stop we walked down a path for an hour to the very bottom of the gorge, ate morning tea by the river and the walked up again! It was great fun.

At the top of the gorge we continued to drive until we reached the most eastern end and a village called Trigance.

When we arrived I was really surprised because our hotel was actually a medieval castle!! Inside there were a lot of swords and armour hanging up on the walls, and our room was decorated with medieval furniture and tapestries. The castle was built in 1220.

For dinner we ate at the castle restaurant and I had chicken and chips. Dad had pigeon and foie gras!

The next day we headed back to Moustiers via the road on the other side of the gorge. We stopped at at town called Aiguines. It is a beautiful town overlooking a big lake. We had an ice-cream and lay in the grass in the park whilst reading books.

The Gorge du Verdon is a magnificent natural wonder of France!

Au Revoir :-)