Travelog for: Eddy Bear

I also did alot of sightseeing in Vienna. A few our host took me and the other toyvoyagers to the city center.

We saw the old "Hofburg" which was the former residence of the Habsburg family. Nowadays it hosts the Spanish riding school, some museums, the President's office and the national gallery. We also passed by Heldentor which is just next  to Hofburg.

Then we went to Karlsplatz where we visited this wonderful church with its 2 towers and we had a look at one of the most beautiful subway stations in Vienna. It was built in "Jugendstil" which is very similar to Art nouveau but can only be found in Vienna.

We also saw the 2 museums: one is for nature and the other one for historical arts. They are built face to face and look exactly like twins.

We continued our sightseeing-tour to the opera (oh, how much would I love to watch a play there but I was told that bears are not allowed in there - what a pitty!) and to the Austrian parliament.

Then I saw the Secession with its golden roof, a kind of Gallery, also built in Jugendstil and the Old Imperial Theatre.

Have you ever heart about Hundertwasser-Haus? It's the most colourful house in Vienna created by Friedensreich Hundertwasser. There is nothing special inside just normal flats, but it is soooo beautiful!

Today we did a trip to Slovakia and visited Bratislava. How exciting to go abroad not being packed into an envelope but seeing how to pass the boarder 

It was a freezy day but we had great fun walking through the city center, visiting the Christmas Market, the opera and then walking up the big hill to the castle. We sat in a restaurant and had a (not very typical) lunch for quite some time so when we came out it was already quite dark. So my host says sorry for the bad quality of the pictures... But in reality Bratislava was a very interesting and beautiful place!

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I celebrated Christmas in Vienna this year!! With all the traditions they have here, with a little chaos (since I'm staying in a family with 3 little kids) and with alot of joy!

The kids were very excited about Christmas and could hardly wait for the big day to come. So they had an advent calendar with 24 little mooses and every morning I helped them to find the "Moose of the day" - how funny 

We also did alot of preparations and decorations, one day my host even decided to bake a crib from Gingerbread! Hmmmm how delicious - but it came out soo beautiful that nobody wanted to eat it...

We had a wonderful Christmas tree - such a big one that it didn't even fit on the photo, ha, ha! There were many decorations on it and some chocolates (well, I helped to organize everything so I was allowed to pick the first chocolate, yummy!)

Christmas Eve itself was very funny! After everything was prepared the "Christkind" came (kids in Austria don't believe in Santa I was told but in the Christkind), we sang some songs (well, I guess the family won't get famous as a choir...) and then we all were allowed to open the presents. They were really lucky to have me with them this year because I helped alot with that!!!

After Christmas we left Vienna to go on a winter holiday. First we stayed at my host's parents in Upper Austria which was very nice because there was some snow and I enjoyed to play outdoors alot! Strange thing, this snow... but I got used to it and finally I really liked it! And I was soooo happy to fullfill my 2nd mission

The family went skiing several times and I joined them to the mountains. Well "mountains"... these were no real mountains (at least not what I expected from Austrian mountains...) rather hills but I was told that we would go to the real mountains pretty soon

Well, and that was exactly what we did a few days later. We went to Zell am See, a small town beautifully located within the Alps very close to Austria's highest mountain "Großglockner". And there I found some real mountains!!!

I was allowed to go skiing with my hosts again! We went up to "Schmittenhöhe" (more than 2000 m) by cablecar, which was a completely new experience for me. The view from up there was really amazing towards all the other mountains (some of them are more than 3.500 m high!!) So I managed to complete another mission - yippieh!!

On the last photo you can see me with some of the other Toyvoyagers I got to know here: Decker, Cassiopeia, Jade, Frankie, Kanga and Smooch.

Since my host loves Salzburg and since it was only about 100 km from Zell am See we once went there to do some sightseeing and enjoy a lóng walk through the city center. So I got to see the old fortress on the hill, had a walk through "Getreidegasse", the most famous street in Salzburg where I also saw the house where Mozart was born. Then we went to listen to the bells in a tower called "Glockenspiel", had a look at the big dome and we also visited Mirabell castle. I was told that it is very beautiful to walk through its park in summer when they have tons of flowers growing there!

My little bear seems lost in the post, Vienna to Argentina  lets hope he turns up soon, been over a month now... watch this space for hopefully he future travels

An hour after writing this I have heard Eddy has turned up ... hurrah my first little t.v.,  it took about 6 weeks but he is alive and kicking...

And here I am!!
just posting some pictures of my arrival before we travel to the beach!!

Last weekend we went to Villa Gesell. It was cold, but we went to the beach anyway.

I arrived home, and her I am with Dawsun and Miss E, oh what fun I will have before I go on my Russian Trail.

Hello!! Greatings from Russia! Today I've arrived in Novosibirsk and met my host Oksana. She took me in the post-oofice and brought home where I found 5 other TVs-
Hedgie, Elizabeth, Smith, Harold, and Hector. We are friends now.





Here I show my diary to my new friends and tell them about my trips.

Yesterday Oksana took me to the place were she works- she works in the local magazine.
Look what funny bunnies I met there! One of Oksana's colleagues made them. They smell cinnamon, coffee and vanilla


Oksana's company prepares some gifts for their clients who have proffessional holday- the day of builder. Here I'm with these gifts



What lovely flowers!


Oh, I found a golden fish in one of the rooms! Oksana said that I could wish something and that golden fish will make my desire true


One of Oksana's colleagues also likes handmade bears:


It's written  here that they collect money to buy a friend for their golden fish ))