Last Summer, the Lambrou family decided to take a trip to London. The Labrou family are Mr Labrou, Mrs Labrou, the thirteen-year-old Mary, the nine-year-old Peter and the five-year-old Irene. They went there by plane. The flight was early in the morning and it lasted about three hours and a half.

They arrived in London and they went straight to their hotel. The hotel was in the centre of the town.so they left their luggage and got out to explore the city. They took a double decker bus and they went to London Tower Bridge, the Buckingham Palace and the Big Ben. Later, they ate at a cheap fish and chips restaurant!!! The food was delicious !!!After that the family visited the famous British Museum and, in the evening, they went to Trafalgar square for dinner!!

The next morning the family visited the London Zoo. It was a special day !!They decided to go to the London eye .as they were waiting in the queue to get their tickets, they suddenly realized that little Irene was missing.

Little Irene loved animals at the zoo. She wished to see them all. But her family walked quickly past the cages because they wanted to go to the London Eye. Irene realized that she did not see the tigers. So, she decided to return back. She stayed a bit behind the rest of her family and when they did not look, she left. She sneaked between the ticket clerks and went back to look at the tigers. 

On her way to the tiger’s cage, a man from the security department stopped her and asked: “Where are you parents?” Little Irene answered: “I don’t know. I only wanted to see the tigers.” She explained that she stayed behind her family. Her mum, dad, brother and sister went to the London Eye. But she wanted to catch up with them later. The security guard informed the police and they announced on the radio that a little girl called Irene Labrou was found at the zoo. 

Her parents, brother and sister were very excited about the London Eye. They decided to went on London Eye ride. When mum was buying tickets, she realised that a little Irene has lost. She went in panic. They started to called her name aloud but she didn’t answer. They didn’t know what to do. 

They decided to went back to the zoo on the same road and asked everyone about a small girl Irene. Mother was crying all the time and couldn’t believe in this situation. She blamed herself “It is my fault, she is only 5 years old” she said and started crying again.  

Small Irene couldn’t wait to see other animals so she decided to saw the all. She said nothing and escaped from the security guard. She was happy that she could see hippos, lions, elephants and more, more fantastic species of animals. Suddenly she realised that it was getting dark and her family didn’t come back for her. She sat on the ground and started crying. She was crying very loud when suddenly ...

Little Irene felt a tap on her shoulder, she turned around and saw a big gorilla. The gorilla had escaped. Irene hopped on to the gorilla’s shoulders and off they went. The zoo had already closed and the security guard forgot about little Irene. 

Whilst Irene and the gorilla were having so much fun, Irene’s family was on their way back to the zoo. Little Irene had the best idea, that she and the gorilla could open all the gates and let all the animals out. The gorilla and Irene ran around opening everything with the keys that Irene had stolen from the guard. 

After about 10 minutes, all the animals were free and running around the zoo. It was a bit dark, but everyone was having a great time, until all the lights came on and Irene’s parents appeared in the zoo. It seemed to them that it was a miracle: at night animals are running around the zoo and in the daytime, they turn into toys.

They saw Irene dancing with a big gorilla. The rest of the animals were not afraid of people, too. They took some food from children’s hands and were on cloud nine!

Suddenly everyone heard the police siren. It was growing louder and louder. 

The guard with the police officer came to Irene’s parents. They looked serious. 

The little girl understood that she did something wrong.

After 2 hours all the animals were in their cages. It was a hard work for the zoo-keepers.

The family soon returned back home full of emotions and great pictures from London trip. Now Irene’s parents are very attentive when they go somewhere with their children. They don’t want to pay the fine again!