Keeping Up With Juliette

Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post, Over the past few days, me and my family have been enjoying the swimming pool, since next week we will be back at home. On Friday, it was a hot day, so we decided to stay home. My sister and I had to do some revision and work anyway so it was convenient for us. Me and my sister tried taking some photos of each other by the pool in the morning but we soon left and went back inside because it was just so hot; a drastic contrast to the other days. After lunch and revision, we went into the pool, at around 3:00pm. We swam around for a bit and ended up meeting this French family, who were also lodging at one of the holiday homes in the village. We got along pretty well, but later on, we soon realised that they owned very different opinions to ours (let's just put it that way). They had a 10 year old girl and her 14 year old sister there. The ten year old was very sociable and willing to talk to us. She couldn't swim, habitual ...

Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post, After a swift flight to Portugal, we arrived at Porto Airport. We got our luggage, went through security, and got a shuttle to the nearby car hire place. The shuttle, or should I say mini bus, was 1 minute long. Good thing too, because I could not find my seat belt and neither could my mum. It seemed like it was ripped out of its place. However, the driver was really nice and I was luckily because it was not  too rough on the road.  When we arrived at the car hire place, we were greeted by a nice worker, who got down my parents details and driving licences and even wrote his name in Japanese. We mentioned where we were from and how my mum was French and how my dad was half Japanese, half English. That's why he showed us that he could write his name in Japanese. He even recognised that my dad's name, Hideaki, meant the mountains and the sun in Japanese. I know, its quite cringey, but also really cool that he managed to ...