Author: Liam

Martin woke up with one of those dreadful morning feelings as he started to get up. The first thing that came to his mind was of course, food. He walked towards the living room with mixed feelings of tiredness but also enjoyment. He smelt his bread warming up in the toaster, that his wife prepared for him just before he woke up. He smelt that his toast was ready because of that fine smell of burnt bread, he went to the toaster and took a bit. What a great crunchy and crispy feeling that was happening inside his mouth, how he desired that as soon as he woke up.

Victor then was woken up by his parents. The curtains drawn wide open so the sunlight can do the job for them, no need for the constant wake up victor, it is time to get up. He remembered what was happening this day, so he forgot about the fact that he was tired and just said the casual greeting to his parents and headed straight towards the bathroom to get himself ready. As soon as he got dressed an all, he got a sense of joy in his eyes and proceeded to eat his morning cornflakes. His parents always hated the noise of the spoon hitting the bowl as he scoops for the flakes. Come on victor, why cant you just eat what we eat huh? just be a man! with the choice of words of what Martin said, he simply responded in a cheeky fashion, I’m a child, not a man. Stacey laughed and gave him a light nudge on the shoulder as in saying be careful when you talk to your dad like that.

Derek got all the suitcases ready and was ready to leave. Come on victor! we are all waiting for you here! just because you are younger than me doesn’t always mean that you should be let of that easily all the time, we have to go now! Dad nodded with agreement of what he just said, and soon after he opened the door so everyone can leave the house with all their luggage.

Platform 7, that’s the platform where we get the train from. it was a scary moment for victor, he rarely goes to train stations. He has the feeling that he might fall into the tracks when someone takes him there. He started to hide behind his mum and held her hand with a tight grip. Toughen up! you wont fall in the tracks unless you want to! The train was heard coming round the corner at a high speed, and seemed like it was going to crash into the barrier in the end of the tracks.

The doors shut closed and the train was moving in a steady pace. Victor realised that trains aren’t really as scary as he thought, and felt a sense of pride and courage by the thought that he overcame his fear and wasn’t scared anymore.

The journey on the train was a very long one. And they had to keep themselves occupied within it. Eye spy? No. That was a old school game that people used to play before all these new technology added into the world a few years ago. Stacey took a sigh and just handed everyone their ‘Gadgets’ just so they can shut their mouths whilst she relaxes on the train.

She looked out of the window and felt about how amazing life is. How everything is so beautiful in this world. Just as she was having her moment, she was awaken by the noise screaming. She turned around and just saw her two sons laughing at a youtube video. Turn the volume down or put some earphones in! I don’t want to hear that stupid noise all the time! at least give me some peace on the train.

The train was slowing down near the end of the tracks. There was a screeching noise as the breaks turned on. There was always a feeling of delight when we reached our destination, even if it took around 30 minutes to get to the hotel by taxi. As soon as the train stopped, we all had a smile on our faces and stepped out of the door. Taxi! I always liked to call for it and put my hand out, as it made me feel like i was in charge or something along those lines.

We were cruising along the road in the taxi, it wasn’t the standard london taxi as most people think of. It’s one of those off licence taxi’s that you just call from your phone and someone comes and pick you up. You can think of it as Uber, well that’s what I think of it… Anyways, it was a pretty nice feeling the moment we saw the hotel infront of our eyes. It’s nothing to what I expected. The blue and white stipes along the sides of the building looked amazing because of the reflection of the sun. I heard children in the distance, which made me even more excited about our holiday. As we drove into the complex itself, we were greeted by some friendly people with red shirts. They looked at our ID to make sure we aren’t one of those trespassers. After that was done, they wished us a good time.

Wow…. the amount of people that are staying here is magnificent. There is around 1200 people living in the whole complex itself. 3 hotels altogether. We took our suitcases and went to our room after we checked in at the reception. The lift was a funny experience for us. It seemed like a mini disco. Fancy lights, and even disco music in it. Pretty weird for a lift if you’ll ask me.

Our room looked amazing! We had our own cooker, fridge, everything you could ask for. The colours on the wall looked beautiful, the sofa has a nice softy smooth texture to it and the cushions were super soft as well. Why we need a cooker and fridge you may wonder? Because there is a supermarket inside the complex itself! so we don’t even have to leave to buy our food. Which is pretty cool to have inside a holiday resort. Most of the time you would have to leave and go to the shops to buy something. Although I wont be needing to go to the shops all the time, only to buy snacks and other minor stuff as we have breakfast and dinner for free!

The view outside looked amazing. You could see everything from up here you know. We saw children running around with balloons in their hands, whilst their parents chased after them. There was also a nice cool summers breeze floating around in the air whilst the sun was glazing down on everyone. The smell of freshly cooked hot dogs below gave me a feeling of joy and relaxation as I knew I’m going to be going down there soon enough to see what it’s like.

The battle of the Somme was not a pleasant one. A lot of death and sadness, a lot of bombs, shots and artillery being fired from different directions of the battle.  This battle started with the Germans invading France. There was 700,000 French deaths before the British came, and when we did come, 200,000 more French died along with over 400,000 British soldiers willing to sacrifice their life to save the French civilisation. The British were bombing no mans land and trying their hardest to wipe up the Germans. The attack started on 1st July 1916. Haig has even said that in June ( A month before the battle) There was no Training sessions or Commanders. So they must of worked hard to win this battle

Haig decides to attack along the river somme to distract the Germans from verdun and help build the morale of the french

420,000 British people died (in this battle) including 60,000 in this day alone. The French lost 200,000 men and Germans lost nearly 500,000. The reason why the British had to help was because the French has lost 700,000 before the battle

After heavy French casualties at the City of vurden, The Allies needed

The britsh began a five day artillery on the front line of German front lines

The battle of verdun looked very grusume and horrid, people running around no mans land getting shot and hiding behind anything possible. Weather that be a dead body if necessary. There was a machine gun turret which someone took out with a grenade.

Many people died, and at the end the soldiers berried the bodies.

Planes were bombing the no mans land and most of them crashed into no mans land causing big explosions.

This battle was the time when the first tank was introduced.