Posted May 11, 2011, 12:00 am
You can see me below with the line-up of possible TVers.
To celebrate the news that I was the chosen one, I went to spread some toilet paper around (I stole it from the packet on the landing), as I have seen other Andrex puppies do
Posted May 13, 2011, 6:29 pm
The banner was finally ready and we all got into position for the arrival of the parcel. To be continued...
Posted May 14, 2011, 3:24 pm
Tiger and I rescued Mishuta from the parcel. He was surprisingly small as my mentor had thought he was much bigger when she saw him in the photos online. Small is good though, it means we can travel easier. Mishuta was quite shy but seemed to like the banner, and afterwards we had a picture taken of just us three. BUT THEN, Quackers was up to mischief again! He dived into the bag of sweets that had come with Mishuta and I grabbed his foot. Mishuta scuttled off in fear of all the noise, but luckily Coco was overlooking the proceedings and kept him safe. All the bears rushed over to see what was happening and I finally pulled Quackers out. As a prize my mentor let me have one of sweets, so I was chuffed
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Posted Jun 3, 2011, 4:47 pm
I can't wait to get there. See you next time I update mum! xxx
Posted Sep 13, 2011, 4:17 pm
"Jaanipäev"(John's Night,Midsummer) is today here,we do some BBQ,we didn't celebrate it as big as some people do,but anyway something we did.It's 2nd biggest holidays after Christmas in Estonia.
Usually Estonians celebrate "Jaaniõhtu" on the eve of the Summer Solstice (June 23) with bonfires. On the islands of Saaremaa and Hiiumaa, old fishing boats may be burnt in the large pyres set ablaze. On Jaaniõhtu, Estonians all around the country will gather with their families, or at larger events to celebrate this important day with singing and dancing, as Estonians have done for centuries. The celebrations that accompany Jaaniõhtu carry on usually through the night
We were not awake all night and we got even some rain,as it is "common " in that evening(night).
2 weeks ago Mari got rabbit and today he was first time outside and I was looking,together with other TVs what he is doing.
It is the street where I live now
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Posted Sep 30, 2011, 7:36 pm
Today I arrived to Germany! Im my new horst I meet Takkie, he is a TV too! And there is BubbleGum, he wants to be a TV and hope he can stard his journey soon.
Today we was on a playground and have a lot of fun!
Posted Oct 4, 2011, 9:04 am
Today we celebrated Mari's birthday,well she is now 20 years old : D There were only 2 guests,what a big party,but we toyvoyagers joined and it looked like real party then.
Bombus,HolgiHH,Brinda,Mumu and me and we all are toyvoyagers!
Happy birthday for Mari!Palju õnne sünnipäevaks !(in Estonian)
Posted Oct 4, 2011, 9:12 am
it's lake Gallträsk
You should know that Finland is the country of thousands lake and it was first lake I saw in Finland.
It was nice cloudy afternoon and we were walking around the lake.HolgiHH was also with us
Next we tried climbing the tree.After walking we returned home and it was time to take a little rest on the table.Later I heard I continue my journey and travel to Germany.I am so excited !
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Posted Oct 6, 2011, 5:45 pm
And today we go to the Zoo! However it was rainy. So we cant see all animals.
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Posted Oct 12, 2011, 4:01 pm
This well I have see in the city!
Today is a räiny day again. So we bake cookies!
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Posted Oct 16, 2011, 11:27 am
Today I will show you some pictures from the small village here. And some pictures from the house were I life for these days!
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Posted Oct 20, 2011, 8:23 pm
We have buy a pumpkin for halloween. We all tohether have make him emty, now its stand here to get dry..
And Look, we have see rhinoceros here.
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Posted Oct 26, 2011, 8:45 pm
Look what we have seen today! A house with a funny garden and a lion sit in the front of this!
And we have see a funny cow!
Posted Nov 3, 2011, 7:43 am
About the festival
The Punk Song Festival is a symbiose of the traditional Estonian song festival with lot of choral singers and the punk rock. The idea came from Üllar Saaremäe, artistical director of Rakvere theater in the Summer of 2007 and next year, June 7, 2008 the Punk Song Festival in Rakvere became a reality. Then the punk anthem "Anarchy in the U.K" was the only non-Estonian punk song in the repertoire.
This time, June 11, 2011 the festival is more international. Along with Estonian punk we hear also songs in English, Finnish and Russian, arranged for the choir and symphony orchestra+rock band. This festival is the main event of European cultural capital 2011 in Rakvere.
The arranged punk is still punk (not tango, bossanova or something else), but it sounds another, interesting way. We hope you will enjoy!
Though Mari is not fan of punk songs,but she went because she likes to get part of big culture events : )
reading song lyrics and also singing or trying to sing
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Posted Nov 3, 2011, 7:54 am
it was a really warm and sunny day,temperature was maybe 30 degrees !So really hot and we went to see Youth-Song and Dance festival 2011 in Tallinn,though we only saw songfestival
It is really important event and Mari couldn't want to miss it !
It took place in open air, in the territory of Tallinn Song Festival Grounds.
It was almost a 6-hour long concert with different choirs and orchestras performing. The songs and music take the most powerful form when joint choirs start performing.
Song and Dance Celebration, the Estonian says. This is almost a sacred notion. It stands for the true birthday of Song and Dance, a great spiritual feast, a tradition not to be missed.
This is the festive reunion of an ancient folk, gathering from the cities as well as from the countryside;
small as a nation, but impressively large as a family.
Song and Dance Celebration is a true Estonian holiday, the Holy Day of the Heart;
which has been waited for, adorned for;
this is a brief moment of ecstatic togetherness, rising almost into the air in a mythical ship of joy and hope
a ship that has proved to be capable of carrying one nation over the most dangerous, most difficult rocks of time.
/Doris Kareva/
The Song Celebration tradition started in the middle of the 19th century and it has survived all of the twists and turns in Estonia’ s history.
and it still lasts and the next whole nation songfestival is in year 2014
The young songfestival means people till 26 years old.
Estonia and Song and Dance Celebration – these two belong together like Norway and skiing or England and the Oxford-Cambridge boat race.
I was proud to be there,around the people,Estonian flags,LOTS of people,singing and the feelings there..
we hardly had time to take photos ..
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Posted Nov 4, 2011, 12:31 pm
Than we was in a little park...
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Posted Nov 6, 2011, 9:54 am
Yesterday we was in a park who called Fredenbaumpark.
We had a wonderfull day, but we havent see all of the park, so I hope we will go there again!!
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Posted Nov 10, 2011, 9:48 pm
Today we have bake! Look...
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Posted Nov 25, 2011, 4:08 pm
When we look out of the window there is a big building site, look
Today we was on a christmas fair
Posted Dec 22, 2011, 6:07 pm
Finally, I've arrived in Austria. Just in time for Christmas :-) Dragonfly had given me some sweets for my new hosts and they really liked them! I've already met TV Travel, who has stayed here since November. We ate some more sweets. I think I'll have an early night after my journey. Take care!
Posted Dec 24, 2011, 10:37 pm
Merry Christmas! In Austria, Christmas is celebrated on December 24. I had a wonderful day. In the morning, we decorated my hosts' Christmas tree. They have a cute nativity set and I also liked the small angel.
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Posted Dec 25, 2011, 2:51 pm
As promised, some more pictures of Christmas evening. I got a nice little present: chocolate with marzipan, yum yum! I should go for a little walk after eating so much
hope Christmas at home was lovely, too!
Posted Dec 28, 2011, 10:55 am
Yesterday afternoon we went to the town centre of Klosterneuburg, which is a beautiful town near Vienna. From a parking lot, we got a quite nice view of the monastery church. The concrete construction spoiling the view is a by-pass (which naturally gave rise to disputes when it was built). We walked some older roads and discovered a so-called spy (now closed) which people used to observe the street without being seen (we read that on a nearby board). On the town square we walked past a bakery and it already sold pig-shaped sweets as New Year's presents.
Posted Jan 1, 2012, 1:44 pm
Welcome to 2012!! Our New Year's Eve was very nice. First we ate some fish-shaped biscuits (they taste like ladyfingers). If you want to have a lot of luck in the new year, you must eat them without using your hands...paws....whatever
The fireworks were really beautiful. And we also poured lead. I'm not sure whether I've heard about that tradition before....?! We poured the molten lead into cold water and then tried to find out what the new shapes tell us about our 2012. But they just looked funny Happy new year, mum!
Posted Jan 2, 2012, 4:29 pm
This afternoon we had some time to visit some nice places in the city centre of Vienna. We went to the city hall. Unfortunately, we couldn't walk across the square because they were removing some stuff from the New Year's celebrations. But we still had a nice view of this marvellous building. We also went to the main building of the University of Vienna and walked through the entrance hall and the courtyard.
Posted Jan 2, 2012, 4:44 pm
http://www.hundertwasser.at/index_en.php
Even though the weather wasn't really nice, I enjoyed the afternoon!
Posted Jan 6, 2012, 3:22 pm
We had so much fun this afternoon! We played some games! We played the Simpsons edition of Cluedo. We had to find the murderer of Mr Burns. In the beginning it was not easy to draw conclusions but in the end I won, I found out that Smithers had killed Mr Burns at the house of the Simpsons.
Posted Jan 6, 2012, 3:28 pm
Posted Jan 11, 2012, 10:19 am
Yesterday afternoon we drove to a nice viewpoint where we could see all of Vienna and its surroundings. Curious77 told me the names of the bridges and some of the high buildings. We wanted to take some pictures on the other side of the church, too, but a strong wind came up and so I felt safer in her pocket
Posted Jan 11, 2012, 10:33 am
Posted Jan 14, 2012, 2:02 pm
Guess what?! We went to Madame Tussauds Vienna today! It was really cool to see so many famous persons - international and Austrian!
First we met two representatives of the former Austrian monarchy: Franz Josef and Sisi. We also saw Oskar Schindler. Then I took a look at a composition of Ludwig van Beethoven and spent some time on the couch of Sigmund Freud - not that I had any problems to talk about ;-)
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Posted Jan 16, 2012, 3:57 pm
There's a lot going on here! Travel is getting ready for his departure and we'll miss him lots! But another TV arrived today: Domino! Two dogs, I'm sure we'll have a lot of fun! We helped curious77 with some baking. She bought the pastry, but we used homemade currant jam from a friend. Delicious!!
Posted Jan 24, 2012, 5:07 pm
We couldn't do much last week due to bad weather but Domino and I had fun at our hosts' home anyway. This afternoon we went to a very nice quarter of Vienna. We went to Museumsquartier, which houses several museums...I'm sure you can spot the museum of modern arts
There are plastic couches in the yard in the warmer seasons and many people enjoy the sun between the museums. Just look at the strange lamp we discovered at a museum shop - poor fellow
Posted Jan 24, 2012, 5:11 pm
Posted Feb 2, 2012, 3:40 pm
Just wanted to let you know I'm fine. My hosts caught a cold last weekend and they are really sorry that we couldn't do anything exciting these days. Hope you are fine! Hugs from Austria!
Posted Feb 5, 2012, 3:53 pm
Since it is the Fasching season (carnival), my hosts had a little fancy-dress party. The theme was "underwater" so I decided to dress up as a turtle....joking! I dressed up as a shell
We helped our hosts decorate the flat and we ate some Krapfen (~ donuts with apricot jam). The guests had some very funny ideas....there was a Spongebob, Triton with some cute "tattoos" and a Titanic & iceberg. Those guys were really creative!
Posted Feb 10, 2012, 12:33 pm
Guess what?! It snowed yesterday. So today we took a little walk in the snow and enjoyed the sun at the same time. We even built a snowman :-)
Posted Feb 12, 2012, 3:31 pm
I had a nice weekend! I'm glad you liked the last posts and my little trick with the costume ;-) A very special parcel arrived on Saturday morning. My hosts had ordered lots of bars for hot chocolate from Zotter, an Austrian producer. Here's some info from the website: .."In August 2007 Josef Zotter launched his new production facility in Riegersburg, the ChocolateFactory..... He is not only one of the few European companies which process cocoa directly, but also the only manufacturer who produces exclusively in ORGANIC and FAIR quality starting with the bean. In this way Zotter clearly positions himself against standardised mass production ...." The variety of flavours is incredible! We also had a delicious lunch and spent some more time outdoors. Have a good week!
Posted Feb 28, 2012, 4:38 pm
How are you? I'm fine. Domino left today, it was a quite emotional moment because we have become very good friends. He goes back home now. I'm already curious to find out who my next host will be, but I'm just fine here until I continue my journey. My hosts bought some books, including English ones, so I read a lot. And there's a birthday to celebrate this weekend and I'm quite sure I'll get a piece of a delicious cake
Posted Mar 5, 2012, 4:01 pm
I'm very excited!! My journey continues! I'm looking forward to meet my new host! Today was really my last day in Austria. I enjoyed my weeks here very much. I even made another encounter, the Rote Pelzerer (the Red Furry), who comes from the farm of a very good friend's aunt. A very friendly fellow. But now it's time to leave.... My hosts are very sad but they are also looking forward to see my next updates! I'll write again soon, mum!
Posted Mar 10, 2012, 10:26 am
I arrived at my new host's home today. My host Katja and the TVs Snakey, Buzz BlueJay and Nook gave me a warm welcome.
It did not take long until a furious furry thing hopped onto the sofa to say Hello to us.
It was one of Katja's three ferrets, Shiva.
Bye
Albus Star
Posted Mar 14, 2012, 8:23 pm
We took a walk today in the district Luettringhausen. We brought Katja's friend's son to the soccer training there. In the meantime we took a walk in the surroundings.
We found a lovely place, hidden in the valley - an historic hammer mill. Iron and steel was produced here since 15th century.
A large millwheel was lying on the ground.
When we walkes further through the valley we saw a lot of meadows.
I like those houses here.
Bye for today
Albus Star
Posted Mar 19, 2012, 9:21 pm
we went out for a walk in the afternoon, although the weather is no longer that nice as yesterday. Here you can see the street where I am living at the moment, lots of lovely houses built in the early 1900's.
The next photo was still taken in the city centre.
Than we walked towards the outskirts of Remscheid, deep in a valley.
Here you can also find very old houses, much older than those in the city centre.
You can often find older industrial sites close to dwellings here.
Snowdrops are blooming everywhere.
We reached the district Hasten than. Here you can see two museums, the German Tool Museum and a Patrician Villa, built in late 18th century. In this Villa you can see how people lived in those years.
There is a park behind those museums, built as an outdoor facility. There are several machines outside. (We needed a little rest after walking so long.)
From here we still had to walk uphill for more than half an hour to get home - it's really exhausting here
Love
Albus Star
Posted Mar 20, 2012, 10:46 am
with the most lovely weather we could not wait to go outside in the afternoon. Out first stop was a small park in front of the police headquarter.
From here we went to the station. The old station was replaced by a new one about two years ago. A few months ago they finally finished a bridge for pedestrians from the station across a broad road.
Here you can see the bus station in front of the station. Katja told me that in about two weeks it will be a sea of blossoms. All the trees are Japanese cherry trees.
We went to the city centre than.
Katja showed us this coal tub, a present from Remscheid's twin town Wansbeck in Northumberland, England.
The music school is situated in the nice reddish building.
This modern building belongs to the adult ecucation centre.
Here you can see the central bus station. Lots of pupils are waiting to get home
Love
Albus Star
Posted Mar 27, 2012, 2:41 pm
we are having wonderful weather here.
We took a walk today to visit Muengsten Bridge, the highest railway bridge in Germany. The bridge is overspanning a valley between Remscheid and the neighbour city Solingen. We had to walk for about an hour to get there. Our walk took us through a rural area.
We went into the forest than.
There was a viewpoint. We saw the bridge here. Katja told us that we would still have to walk some time until we were in the valley under the bridge.
We were under the bridge than, but still not on the bottom of the valley.
The bridge is about 480 long, 107 m tall and was completed in 1907. There were restauration works in the last years, but there will have to be more in the following years. The brige was built of steel and it will have to be strengthened.
Out path led us downhill to river Wupper, flowing in the valley.
Parts of the soil are covered with anemones.
We crossed the river Wupper here.
Finally we reached Muengsten Bridge with a leisure park underneath it.
A lot of people were here, enjoying the lovely weather and the warmth of the sun.
Isn't this an impressive view, this bridge growing out of the forest?
The workshop of an artist blacksmith is situated here. He made some funny things, like the shark.
We took the bus back home, being a bit tired
Bye
Albus Star
Posted Apr 3, 2012, 6:53 am
we were really shocked this morning - it was extremely cold outside, about 0°C!
At noontime it became a bit warmer, so we took a walk with Katja's nephew and her brother-in-law in Hohenhagen, a district of Remscheid. It is a housing area with access to woodland and a rural area. You can see the outskirts of the neighbour city Wuppertal on the first photo.
We saw the frist spring flowers
The A1 motorway is passing by. A terrible storm in 2007 destroyed large parts of the forest, so you can see the motorway nowadays.
We saw deer in the forest. We took a zoomed photo.
This is the housing area. In the background you can see the water tower in the city centre of Remscheid, about 3 km from here.
Later we went to Katja's relatives to let her ferrets play in the garden.
Bye
Albus Star
Posted Apr 6, 2012, 10:44 am
my host had a day off work today and we had planned to take a long walk with two friends - and two dogs
We went to the neighbour city Solingen to take a walk around a drinking water dam, Sengbachtalsperre.
Nook and I enjoyed the lovely weather and running through the forest.
Signs warned us not to scare up game because they are having kids now.
This is Pepe, one of the dogs.
We even managed to take a group photo
Treats for all dogs!
The path was going uphill and we were high above the lake than.
There are also bridle paths.
The bright spot in the background is Remscheid, we also took a zoomed photo.
We reached the concrete dam, which is under construction at the moment.
Katja showed us Schloss Burg, a medieval castle, situated in Solingen-Burg. Unfortunately we did not have time to take a side trip to visit it.
On our way back to the car we came across meadows with horses and some riding stables.
Someone found a funny way to use worn out shoes
This was a really lovely trip.
Bye
Albus Star
Posted Apr 9, 2012, 11:44 am
Hi Mummy,
in the early afternoon we went to Katja's sister to celebrate Easter with the whole family. Today we could see the cherry trees at the station blooming.
So many delicous sweets!
Bye
Albus Star
Posted Apr 21, 2012, 6:39 pm
today we visited a medieval castle in the neighbour city Solingen, Schloss Burg, It is situated high upon a hill above the River Wupper.
Schloss Burg was built in 1133 by Count Adolf I von Berg on a hill above the river Wupper.That's why this region is called "Bergisches Land". Many people believe that it's name refers to the landscape with hills and valleys. (For those who do not speak German: The German word for mountain or hill is "Berg", so many people think that the name "Bergisches Land" means "land of many hills" )
About a hundred years later it was enlarged by Count Engelberg II von Berg. This is the man on the horse in the courtyard.
In Thirty Years War (17th century) large parts of the castle were destroyed. It was rebuilt then, but it was used for industrial purposes for many years. In the end of the 19th century they began to rebuild it as it appears today.
In the castle courtyard you can find souvenir shops and shops whose owners are doing an "old" handcraft, for example handmade brushes, brooms, soap, lovely yarns and wooden knitting needles, toys like swords and helmets and much more.
The round tower was the powder tower, it was restored about two years ago.
When we walked back to the car, we saw some of those lovely half-timbered houses which were built in 17th century.
Bye for now
Albus Star
Posted May 12, 2012, 1:03 pm
Oh, it is all quiet here 
My mum isn't back from university yet, I will have to wait many weeks. However Pinnochio and some others are here to keep me company. I have shown them my wonderful postcards that my last host Olgamaus let me take home, and I think we will have already eaten the chocolates by the time mum gets back :P
Thankyou for hosting me Olgamaus, and please let the other TVs with you know I arrived safely
I will miss them!
I am on a break now until the end of June, but I will be back
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