Son's Travel Diaries - aged 10

After sharing my rather earnest and slightly prissy travel diaries with you this week, I showed them to my son Rory. He roared with laughter and then reminded me that he completed a travel diary during our Mediterranean cruise in 2006. He has happily given permission for me to share some extracts with you.

What strikes me about them is how much more punchy they are; no unnecessary words. I also get the distinct feeling from some sentences that he has been listening to his father and picking up some choice language. But more than anything there is a great sense of humour. And see how he begins and ends each entry with the same words.

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Mediterranean Cruise - Rory - Aged 10

At Sea

Get up, have breakfast. Go kids club, do playstation, deck detectives (me and a boy called carl won it), basketball and table tennis. Had lunch, had circus juggling workshop. I learned how to juggle with three balls! Played shuffleboard with dad. Dad 72 Me 60! Relax at pool. have din, go to kids club to play a game called night at the races, I won the most money! Then we went to see a magician called Manuel Martinez who was really funny. He used some swear words. Then we went to see some karaoke.

Goodnight.

Genoa

Get up, have breakfast, went to Genoa aquarium. There was sharks, penguins and dolphins and other weird fish like the ugliest fish I've ever seen, the ocean sunfish. It was bigger than a shark.  It looked a bit like this [ see picture]
Went back to ship, had lunch, watched batman begins in cabin.  Relax on pool side, play gameboy. A boy helps me and wants to trade with me.  Had dinner, saw MOON show. It was wicked with amazing acrobats and singers and jugglers. It also had loads of lasers.

Goodnight.

Barcelona

Get up, have breakfast, go and visit church that had a really wacky design. Went to Barcelona F.C. Stadium.  Had fake photos done with cardboard cut-outs of ronaldinho and eto'o and with a replica champions league trophy to impress my friends.  I saw the real champions league trophy and saw the pitch.  Got back to boat, played gameboy at pool, played shuffleboard, it was first to 200 and I won by 55 points! Had dinner, saw Robbie Williams tribute, he was really good, he got one of the waiters to be a member of Take That!

Goodnight.


Naples


Got up, had breakfast, saw ruins of Pompeii.  They were really fascinating, they were so cleverly designed, it's amazing that the buildings were preserved after Vesuvius erupted.  It was really hot.  Dad nicked a piece of rock from Pompeii which stunk of 2000 year old piss! Had lunch at La Luna.  Played gameboy at poolside.  Me and dad did a quiz, we didn't win.  Had dinner, did games at kids club, I won the bingo! Saw George Michael tribute, he was really good.
GOODNIGHT





Livorno
Got up, had breakfast, saw Pisa and I climbed up the tower of Pisa.  Me and Mum got really dizzy because it was leaning! We saw the huge baptistry and the huge church. Got back to boat, had lunch, I hardly ate it because I was exhausted.  Had sleep in room, played gameboy at poolside.  Did quiz, we came second but mum and dad had a fight.  There was the first rain of the holiday but it came with a thunderstorm.  Saw chat show hosted by Fogwell Flax talking to Colleen Nolan! He was really funny and so was she.
Goodnight.