(F.I.Y Stegersbach is a city in Austria) During the month of March, my father found us a house farm near our house. After visiting the horse farm, my father agreed to sign my brother and I for a few horse lessons for beginners, now I know how to ride a horse by myself! During the First Lesson, I learned how to clean a pony’s fur as it had fur that was shedding after winter. To clean the pony we needed some brushes and we had to scrub the horse fur with a bit of strength.

After my we cleaned the pony, my sister got to ride the pony! While my sister was riding the pony my brother and I were choosing our horse riding equipment. Before riding the horse, our instructor thought us how to put on the equipment. To get on the horse, the instructor helped us by giving a boost.

My instructor then clipped a sash to my horse so that he could control the movement of the horse as he didn’t want the horse to gallop away. For the starting, he thought us how to sit on the horse( the posture) then he thought us how to throttle when the horse is galloping. Throttling is like standing up and then sitting slowly so that the horse does not feel any pain when you sit down. There is always a problem with me and horses as when i ride a horse, after a while it stops so that it can poop or pee! If only there was a solution for this!

On our third lesson(I skipped the second lesson because it was the same as the first one), we had to go a sit on the horse and make sure that we were turned around so that we could only see the butt of the horse! After doing that, we turned around and the trainer thought us how to steer a horse and also how to ride it by ourselves. What I remember is, if you pull the left side of the rein with a bit of force, the horse will go towards the left and if you pull the rein towards the right, it will go towards the left. after a bit of practice my trainer let us ride it by ourselves.

At first I was feeling very scared but later on I was feeling a lot better!

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The Sagarda Familia is a church located in Barcelona which is still not finished. The church was designed by a Spanish architect named Antoni Gaudi. The construction of this humongous church started during 1882 under another architect named Francisco de Paula del Villar. In 1883 Gaudi took over as the chief architect as Villar had resigned. The cathedral is combining Gothic and Curvilinear Art Nouveau forms.

During 1993 Gaudi died at the age of 73 when he was run down by a streetcar and now he is buried in a crypt. When Gaudi died, less then a quarter of the project was done (this was a very sad thing). After some progress the construction stopped for a while because of the Spanish civil war and they continued around 1950. At 2010, CNC have enabled faster progress and passed the midpoint. However, some of the projects challenges remain, including the construction of ten more spires which each of the spires symbolising a biblical figure.

The cathedral will have 3 grand facades the Navtivity facade is facing the east, The Passion facade will be facing the west and the glory facade facing the south. The Navtivity is constructed between 1894 and 1930. The Passion facade is constructed between 1954 and 1987 and last but not least, the Glory facade. the glory facade stared construction during 2002 and is still constructing.

To help us understand the background history of this cathedral my father helped our family install the Sagarda Familia audio guide app! To use the audio guide, we simply had to look at the top corner of the board and see what the number is, after finding the number. you will have to . This app only costs $3.75 and is affordable for an audio guide!

The Cathedral is planned to be completed by 2026!

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Plaza de España is an attraction site located in Seville. The address of this tourist site is at : Av de Isabel la Católica, 41004 Sevilla, Spain. The website of this attraction is at http://www.andalucia.org/es/turismo-cultural/visitas/sevilla/otras-visitas/plaza-de-espana-2/  if you want more information you can go to this website. I will now let you read my story.

While we were in Seville, we were using a rental car to get around. When we reached Plaza de España, the free parking lots were limited so my mother had to go around in circles so that we could find a free parking lot. We eventually found a free lot very far away from Plaza de España and had to walk there. Unless your family has 7 people or more, I recommend you to use the public transport. It will be cheaper and more convenient if your group is small.

When I reached Plaza de España, the view that I had was stunning. There were ducks swimming inside a manmade pond which was made in the shape of a horseshoe. There many horse carriages parked waiting for visitors to bring around the Plaza and the vicinities.

While we were touring the Plaza, it started to rain which made us stuck! While it was raining, my father was telling us about the history of portable music players.

After the rain stopped, my father rented two canoes our family for 45 minutes. My grandmother, father, sister and I were in the first canoe while my mother, brother, grandfather were in a second canoe. The time was insufficient to go around the pond. Therefore, once we were half way we had to turn back. We had a race on who could reach the start point first. The race ended as a tie!

After we got out, we went around the Plaza again but this time, it was on the ground level. On the ground level there were some beautiful tile work depicting the cities of Spain.

Plaza de España is definitely a sight that you should visit.

I hope you can go there!!

and that is everything I remember about that visit!

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Flixbus is a bus company that brings you around Europe from just 5 Euro. This is probably for the very short trips but trust me, these 5 euro seats are available. We however, were planning to take much longer journeys and so we bought the interflix 5 cities pass for 99 euros which is really worth it.

Our first trip with flixbus was a Paris to Madrid direct bus which was supposed to take 16 hours. If we bought this ticket as a single ticket, it would have cost us 35 euro per person. As they do not have adult and children fares, this price would have been the same for all 5 of us. So having seen this price, 5 cities at 99 euro meant that as long as each ticket was above 20 euro, it was worth using the interflix voucher. We used 1 for each person on this ticket.

So lets start with the review! The bus was late by 1 hour but this was fine as we were handled well at the bus station. Also, this was the only bus in our 5 trips that was delayed.

In the bus, we had internet, toilets, tables (around the size of the ones found on aeroplanes) and power sockets. The seats are also comfortable and can recline for sleeping.

As it was a free seating bus, the first thing I did was to save 5 seats for my family to sit near each other while my parents loaded the bags in the bag compartment under the bus. To safe guard our bags, my dad locked them up. We quickly settled down and our trip began from Paris to Madrid.

After about 5 hours and a few short stops, we finally reached the northern part of Spain which is where Spain and France share borders. To my surpise, it was snowing there! Fortunately for us, the bus had to make a stop at a petrol kiosk for around 20 minutes to refuel. My brother and I took this opportunity to step outside and play with the snow. I ran out of the bus at the first instance. Since I was down first, I hid behind a snow patch and when my brother arrived, I jumped out and threw a snow ball at him. The time came for us to board the bus and watch as we went along the snowy roads.

Tick, Tock, Tick, Tock. As time went by, I sat and spent this time reading, playing, sleeping, watching videos on board the comfortable bus. We finally reached Madrid after 16 hours as promised by Flixbus and that is where I found out that there was an unexpected snow storm in Madrid 2 days before we arrived.

All in all, Flixbus is a very good bus service with nice busses and comfortable seats. The drivers are also very polite and often help with any questions you have. The busses are clean. The toilets are also clean.

I would strongly recommend using Flixbus for your trip within Europe. Book your tickets at: www.flixbus.com

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