Travelog for: Mukhsin

After that, we went on to Avebury, which is a little village right next to a really amazing big stone circle.
We stopped on the way to look at a white horse carved on the hillside though - as I said, there are quite a lot of those in the area and I don't think anyone really knows why they were put there.

Avebury is a wonderful prehistoric stone circle....it's also quite mysterious!
Here's Mukhsin in front of one of the stones - as you can see they are rather big! You can see a bit of the village behind him there.

And here's another shot of him in the stone circle:

Spotted some other cows there too!

Went on a weekend trip to the seaside!
Arrived in Brighton from London by train. Here's Mukhsin in Brighton station.

The town does date back hundreds of years, but it got especially popular during the reign of King George IV, in the late 18th century. The King really liked the town and he stayed there a lot before he was King, too.
So a lot was built then, or during Victorian times, in the 19th century.
Here's an example of some of the Victorian architecture.

The weather was pretty good, but Mukhsin's first response was, 'What? This is the beach?! Where's the sand?!'

Well at least the sea was there!



Went out on the pier, where there are lots of fairground rides and silly coin machines where you can win prizes. We didn't do those though. The pier is pretty old although it's not the original Victorian one, that one burnt down.


We even had a little paddle in the sea but the water was rather cold!!!
Then we had a walk around the town. The oldest part is called the Lanes. The streets are very narrow and it's easy to get lost in there! I went on a Ghost Walk there that evening but Mukhsin was resting then so I didn't take any photos. But apparently there are lots of ghosts in there! This old wall apparently has a ghostly Nun walking through it sometimes! The guide said we might feel cold there, but I didn't really.

Here's some more of Mukhsin checking out the Lanes.


After that we visited the Brighton Pavilion. It was built by George IV for his weekend getaway. He really liked Oriental stuff and of course he had a lot of money, so it's really fancy, and really exotic looking!!!


Unfortunately we could not take photos inside.
Finally, we had a really nice meal in a vegetarian cafe that Mukhsin really liked! Oh, it's got a cow on the sign

Well, back to London again!
Mukhsin will soon be on his travels again, so I thought he should visit a few more places in the city.
Here he is at our house - it's not a fancy place, I'm afraid!

And face to face with my housemate's cat, Shaggy Marley!
Shaggy is the king of the house so he had to check out the new guest! I think Mukhsin won the staring contest though!

Anyway, very early on Sunday morning we set out for central London. I thought it would be nicer to go then, because the workers will not be around like on weekdays, and it was too early for most tourists to be out of bed! I was right! It was really quiet.
First we took the London Underground to Covent Garden Station.
Here's the train we went on!

And here is Mukhsin inside the station

Covent Garden market is a really nice place to go for souvenirs and stuff, but early on Sunday, of course it was all closed.


We walked from there to London's most famous square, Trafalgar Square, with the really high statue of Admiral Lord Nelson, and some lions around him which represent the British empire.


Normally there are a LOT of tourists there and you can barely move!!!
Here's the National Gallery in the background.

There are a lot of paintings in there by really famous old artists, like Leonardo Da Vinci and Vincent Van Gogh.
But of course it was closed...
Also looked at St Martin in the Fields, the lovely old church there.

We walked to the Admiralty Arch at one corner of the square - oh there's something about Malaysia there too...

We walked through the Arch and then we were on the Mall, the road leading to Buckingham Palace, where the Queen lives. At this time it was rather misty, and starting to rain!! But it was still ok though, because it was so nice to be there when no one else was around.
This is the Mall. It has flags up because I suppose the handover ceremony of the Olympic games had happened recently. Some of those flags have the Olympic logo for London in 2012 on them. Most people I know really hate that logo, it's very ugly, and I hate to say it, but most of us also think it looks like Lisa Simpson is doing something really naughty to a man!!! I didn't tell Mukhsin about that though!

well, here is Buckingham Palace, I'm sorry it's not a great photo though.

It's of course the Queen's main residence, although she has quite a lot.
These big fancy houses nearby all have something to do with the Royal Family as well.

And St James' Park is on the other side...it was very nice there in the mist, it looked very green, and there are still quite a lot of flowers out.



From there we walked to Westminster. Here's the building where the Queen's horse guards live.

And here is our Houses of Parliament, where our government meets.

Finally...this giant ferris wheel is the London Eye. I've still never been on it though! It was closed too, but anyway it would have been too misty to get a good view.

And that was that.

here I am in Queensland and I was very happy to see that I had some Toy Voyager friends here waiting for me.
I have become such great friends with Sebastien L Green, a tiny hedgehog Clem (87518) and Mister Beans.

Today we all set off an a big adventure, travelling through three states and one territory.
Some photo's will take a while longer so my host will hopefull add to this later.
I visited the Great Ocean Road at the very bottom of Australia.
I met alot of cows on my travells, including one who looked just like me.
I also went to the Bendigo Pottery.

We just managed to get some lost photo's ready so here I am visiting Shepparton and the painted cows.
There is even a MonaLisacow, an Aussiecow, a Spidercow, a Chickencow and many more.

On our travels that day we came to a place called Cowabbie.

Continuing my trip, I travelled up along the Snowy Mountains Highway to Canberra and then on to Sydney for a Postcrossing Meet-Up.
It was a fun holiday.

What a fun weekend I had.
I visited the Big Pineapple on the Sunshine Coast at Nambour, then went to Caloundra Beach for a seafood meal.
Not that cows eat seafood, but those prawns were OK.

I am sad today, Sebastien and Clem are going on their travels.
Now it is just me and Mister Beans.
Oh wait, On Friday Luv Lion came to stay.
I really like him.

Lucy K and me Arrived to wyrdwood's house at following days. Mutant-bunny Pöpö and Marco were again 1st ones to greet the new visitors. It was raining so much in Scotland, that we had to spend the day inside.

It was also Brunswick's last day with Wyrdwood, so we were pleased to spend the day telling stories about our travels to each other. Wyrdwood's dogs and bunnies joined too, althou nöpö was the only one who could tell us from faraway places.

We are going to see the area as soon as our host is feeling well enough to go outside the house. I hope I wont catch the flu

It was Bedfrog Andy's last day with us, as wyrdwood is going to send Andy to his new home today. Nöpö wanted to teach me and  Lucy K  how to play Munchkin. He, and other creatures at here, loves the game. We had fun, playing games is good way to spend time on cold and rainy days like today. It has been too rainy lately. Every time I look out of the window, I see waterdrops ... oh well, That's the weather like here in Scotland.

I hope Bedfrog is going to have fun at Finland, where he is going. apparently it's even more colder there than here....hrr...

My host moved month ago, and her life has been real chaos. She have not had money to buy new camera either. Poor girl. I have spent my time with my host's dogs and bunnies. Weather has also been really foul, so I am glad I have been inside all the time.

Today I'll travel to Finland to see my new host. I am pleased to go there, I have heard so much about wyrdwood's homecountry. I just hope i'll not freeze totally when I arrive