Zheleznodorozhny, Russia - 25th January 2008
By: kristl
Today Squiggles has arrived!! We're glad to meet him! Before he came I was the smallest TV here, but he's even smaller than me!! We should take good care of him!
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Posted Feb 20, 2008, 10:14 am
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Moscow, Russia - 31st January 2008
By: kristl
Today Gina is leaving Moscow, but two other TVs have arrived - Snowy and Elisabeth, it's allways fun to meet new friends!!
We all say Good Bye to Gina and wish her many wonderful adventures during her journeys!
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Posted Feb 20, 2008, 10:16 am
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Moscow, Russia - 27th February 2008
By: kristl
Good bye, my friends! Good bye, Moscow!
Today I continue my journey and the next host I'll visit is ChristinaB in Vienna. I have another important mission - I have to deliver to Christina some stamps that Kristl wants to present her. I'll take care of them uring the journey.
Now it's time to get into the envelope.
Curly and Snowy came to the post office with me. Goo bye, friends, I'll miss you!! And allt he other TVs I've met too! But I'm looking forward to continue discovering the world!!
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Posted Mar 3, 2008, 11:42 am
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Vienna, Austria - 6th March 2008
By: ChristinaB
I was picked up from the postoffice today and my new hosts realeased me from my narrow envelope! How great to see the sunshine again! I was told that I'm in Austria's capital Vienna now - what a surprise. I haven't heard about this place yet but I'm very curious what I'll do and see here!
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Posted Mar 6, 2008, 5:41 pm
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Wachau, Austria - 8th March 2008
By: ChristinaB
I'm having a great time here in Austria! I'm in good company with Gulliver, another wonderful bear from Germany, Sputnik, a funny alien and Glory the little Americain bear.
Last weekend we went to Wachau with our hosts. Wachau is a beautiful valley at the longside of river Danube. It is an UNESCO world heritage site and it is very beautiful. It's famous for its long history, the wineyards placed in terrasses and for the apricots planted there.
We visited a little village called "Dürnstein" which was very nice. There is a beautiful blue tower there just next to the river, we went for a walk through the wineyards (no wine at this time of the year ;() and then we climbed up all the way to the old castle. It was pretty exhausting but the view was wonderful from up there!
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Posted Mar 15, 2008, 6:13 am Last edited Mar 15, 2008, 6:13 am by ChristinaB
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Vienna, Austria - 11th March 2008
By: ChristinaB
I did alot of sightseeing here in Vienna! I never ever thought that there is sooo much to see in this city!
One day our host took Sputnik and me downtown. And guess what! We got to see all these buildings in real that we only knew from pictures so far.
We started our guided tour at the city hall. Our host told us that there are always some events taking place at the big square in front of city hall: the Christmas market in December, the opera festival in summer, a circus somewhen in autumn and now we just missed a big ice-skating court.
Just opposite of the city hall there is the old imperial theatre and close to it we saw the Austrian Parliament.
We continued our walk to the wonderful "Volksgarten" where we found this temple. In summer there are millions of roses in this park and I guess it must be wonderful then, too!
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Posted Mar 31, 2008, 9:04 pm
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Vienna, Austria - 11th March 2008
By: ChristinaB
Then we passed by "Hofburg", the former residence of the Habsburg family. Nowadays it hosts the Austrian National Library, the Spanish Riding School, the President's office and several museums.
There were these beautiful gates around Hofburg, Heldentor and Michaelertor, and when we went through one of them we arrived at "Graben", a very famous and expensive shopping street. I would have liked to buy a souvenir there - but I didn't have enough money!!
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Posted Mar 31, 2008, 9:09 pm
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Vienna, Austria - 11th March 2008
By: ChristinaB
We arrived at "St. Stephen's" cathedral then which is said to be in the very center of the city. How amazing to see the colourful roof!!
Then we went on to the famous opera house. Oh, how much would I love to watch a play there!!
Close to the opera house we found "Karlsplatz" with one of the most beautiful subway stations built in a special style called "Jugendstil" which is very similar to "Art nouveau". At the same square we also found this beautiful church:
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Posted Mar 31, 2008, 9:13 pm
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Vienna, Austria - 11th March 2008
By: ChristinaB
Did you know that cafés are very, very important in Vienna? There are tons of them and I have been told that there are also special receipts of coffees that only exist in Vienna.
People here love sweets, too and I was really astonished when I saw all these beautiful rabbits, eggs, sculptures etc made of chocolate and marzipan. And of course I got to see the real "Sachertorte". Unfortunately we passed by in the early morning so the café was still closed...
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Posted Mar 31, 2008, 9:19 pm Last edited Apr 4, 2008, 3:57 pm by ChristinaB
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Vienna, Austria - 11th March 2008
By: ChristinaB
Imagine, I also saw the famous "Giant Wheel"!! And then we went on to this very colourful house created by Friedensreich Hundertwasser. There is nothing special inside, just normal flats - but it is sooo beautiful. Our host told us that in this house there is a special "law" which says that every citizen can decorate the wall around his windows as he/she likes but only as far as they can reach with their arms.
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Posted Apr 4, 2008, 4:04 pm
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Vienna, Austria - 14th March 2008
By: ChristinaB
Today we visited the big Easter market here in Vienna! It was really amazing to see all these wonderful eggs. We asked the sales woman there and she told us that there were more than 40.000 eggs waiting to be sold! Can you imagine how much work it is to paint them all?? Too much for a little bear...
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Posted Apr 4, 2008, 4:10 pm
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Vienna, Austria - 14th March 2008
By: ChristinaB
When we came back home we put up the Easter decorations in the flat. We made a big kind of tree where we put alot of eggs - I was really a great help!! We also found some other decorations in the cellar, and then we baked a little sheep! It smelled sooo good and it was really hard not to try it now. Our host said that we would have to wait until Easter Sunday, then we may eat it.
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Posted Apr 4, 2008, 4:16 pm
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Krippenstein, Austria - 18th March 2008
By: ChristinaB
We packed our stuff today and went to Upper Austria where the grandparents of our hosts live. It's in the very countryside and since it snowed alot during the past days our hosts suggested to go skiing. They did it very often this winter and were happy to go again - and so were Sputnik and I because that way we got to see a real "Austrian" mountain called Krippenstein (it is more than 2.700 m high). It still snowed when we went there and it was a bit foggy so they pictures aren't so clear, but it was a wonderful day and we enjoyed playing in the snow alot!!
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Posted Apr 4, 2008, 4:22 pm Last edited Apr 4, 2008, 4:32 pm by ChristinaB
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