Motor bike museum

 

Today we went to visit a motor bike museum. Wow. There were over 800 motor bikes. Some of them were really old - over 100 years old. Some of them were racing bikes and some of them were bikes that were really special.

 

We were very lucky to be able to sit on some of the bikes to get our photo taken.

We met a new friend 'Norton Bear' and he is very keen to come back to NZ with us for a holiday. We were telling him all about the world's fastest Indian motor bike. It comes from Invercargill and Kermit was telling us all about how they made a film about it. We got some photos with Norton Bear sitting in a motor bike that had a side-car.

 

 

 

 

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Next stop

"Nana comes from Sligo Bay"

Sligo was our next stop. We didn't get to see the bay but the town was lovely. We had tea in the yellow pub.

I love to hear them play the fiddle.

The whistle and the bodhran drum.

And though I love the rock and metal, Irish music is much more fun.

 

 

We wanted to hear some Irish music so we went to pub for tea and after tea we sat and listened to a band play some great Irish music. They used a whistle, bodhran drum, mandolin, banjo and guitar. We bought their CD so you will be able to listen to it when we get home.

 

I love to live in Aoteroa. I love to have my friends at home.

But I'm saving up to go to Cork, To kiss the old Blarney Stone.


 

 

Our last stop was Cork, and the castle at Blarney where you get to kiss the stone. We had to climb up about a 100 steps to the top of the Blarney Castle to get to the stone. Only Maggie would kiss it. It was really hard and scary as you had to lean backwards and out to the edge. A man was there to help you. We just took the photo. I hope you like it.

Also at the Blarney Castle was an amazing garden with witches kitchens and fairy rings. We saw this tree that reminded us of the tree in Crinkum Crankum. We made Maggie climb up in it so we could take her photo.

We had one more night in Ireland at a place called Kilkenny before we had to catch the plane and fly back to England.

 

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Travelling the Song

Maggie taught us how to use the camera so all the photos in Ireland have been taken by us. It is really good fun. We hope to visit all the places in the song.

We had to fly into Dublin airport and we stayed two nights there. Dublin isn't in the song but it is the biggest city in Ireland.

This is Maggie in one of the cute narrow streets in Dublin. Notice the cobbled street.

This is some traditional Irish food - Irish stew. You can see all the potatoes. Irish people love potatoes.

 

"Grandad Murphy comes from Belfast"

That is the first line of the song so Belfast was our next stop. We went to stay with some friends of Maggie and Stephen. They lived close to Belfast in "Downpatrick". While we were there Stphen looked up the place where his Grandma came from and we all went for a drive to Portadown to have a look where she lived. Lots of people in NZ have family that came from Ireland a long time ago. Some of you might have relatives who came from here. It got us thinking that Kermit might too and would you believe it Paddy McKermit was living right in Downpatrick and was a friend of Rosa (the friend we were staying with.)

 

This is Rosa and Paddy McKermit. We had a lot of talking to do catching up on all our long lost relatives.

The next day we all went into Belfast and had a good look around. Did you know this is where they built the Titanic. There is a big display all about it. We went and had a look but didn't go on the tour because it was just too busy. Maybe another time.

 

This is Stephen standing on the place where the Titanic was built. You can see the tourist building in the background.

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A trip to Ireland

When Maggie and Stephen said we were going to Ireland Kermit was really excited as he remembered singing this song at Ascot School. It was always a fun song and he thought it would be great to go to all the places that the song talks about. So before they went Kermit taught Dooby Bear this song. (Mrs Perry could find it and teach you too.)

Irish Music

Grandad Murphy comes from Belfast Nana comes from Sligo Bay And though their hands are old and sore I love to hear them sing and play.

Di di Diddle I diddle I di, Di di Diddle I diddle I di, Di di Diddle I diddle I di, Di di Diddle I di, Di di Diddle I diddle I di, Di di Diddle I diddle I di, Di di Diddle I diddle I di, Di di Diddle I di.

I love to hear them play the fiddle. The whistle and the bodhran drum. And though I love the rock and metal Irish music is much more fun

Di di Diddle I diddle I di, Di di Diddle I diddle I di, Di di Diddle I diddle I di, Di di Diddle I di, Di di Diddle I diddle I di, Di di Diddle I diddle I di, Di di Diddle I diddle I di, Di di Diddle I di.

I love to live in Aoteroa. I love to have my friends at home. But I'm saving up to go to Cork, To kiss the old Blarney Stone.

Di di Diddle I diddle I di, Di di Diddle I diddle I di, Di di Diddle I diddle I di, Di di Diddle I di, Di di Diddle I diddle I di, Di di Diddle I diddle I di, Di di Diddle I diddle I di, Di di Diddle I di.

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The Closing Ceremony

The closing ceremony for the Olympic games was really fun. There were lots of interesting colours and patterns and music. This photo looks like the Union Jack flag and all the athletes came out and filled up the spaces. It turned into a big party to celebrate.

 

 

This is some of Team NZ coming out into the stadium. We were busy waving our flags and cheering.

 

It was exciting when Batman and Robin came into the stadium and joined the party. We got this good photo for you.

 

At the end there was a big fireworks display and it was all over for another 4 years. It would be really great if we could go to Brazil for the next ones.

 

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More Olympic Games

Today is the last day of the games. This morning we got to watch the marathon. It was really exciting. It was run on streets in London. We could see Buckingham Palace where the Queen lives and the big statue called the Victoria Memorial statue. There were thousands of people lining the streets to cheer the athletes on. You can see the runner from Uganda in the photo. He won the gold medal.

 

 

 

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Olympic Games

Today we were really excited because we got to go to London to the Olympic Games. Jessica, (Maggie's daughter) had tickets to the Archery and were allowed to go too. Archery is where they have a bow and arrow and they shoot it at a target. The best score is when you hit the bully's eye. We went to London on the train because there are just too many cars and you would never get a park in London. You can see us with our ticket. We weren't allowed to take any photos at the archery if we wanted to use them on the Internet so we just have this one instead. Did you see the opening ceremony? We got to sit up late and see it on the TV. We really liked the bit where James Bond came and got the Queen and took her in a helicopter to get there.

 

You can see some good photos by clicking on this link on this link.

olympic archery photos - Google Search

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