Travelog for: TibiPanda

Hi!

It's Kristl here. TibiPanda is on her way to Emsta, Australia

Just arrived.  My flight was long and the seat wasn't that good. 


So, this is what Australia looks like.  I had imagined it would be sunnier.


The flight was long and I had to find some food, but there's not that much around.  Will have to look harder

Today I went to the Races.  Well, sort of.  I went to Randwick Racecourse at least, with my Host, for her Exams.  I was most disappointed to hear that the horses were not running.


This was as close as I got to a normal race-goer, just a picture of Megan Gale ... Or so I'm informed.


I didn't quite get what was so interesting about these books, but apparently they were the height of importance

We went to Townsville, in North Queensland.  The flight was delayed, so we sat around for a while.


Then I got bored and tried to fly there myself.  That was very tiresome on my arms.


When we finally got there, there was a lot of packing to be done.  Let me tell you, seven days of packing and cleaning?  It takes a lot out of a little panda!


I tried to find a crocodile to fight, but the closest I came was a concrete one near the pool.  Since I don't swim, I was unable to get my photo taken with it.

Tonight I went Gingerbread House Making.  It was quite the local event, and my house has been regarded with much acclaim. 

It was however, rather hard to keep clean, what with all the icing sugar flying around

For New Years Eve, we went to see the fireworks from Garden Island, which is a Naval base directly in front of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. 

Unfortunately they would not allow camera's onto the base.  But those photos you see on the net or on the television of the fireworks was basically my view!  It was uterly amazing for a small panda. 

Of course, the city was packed afterwards, but it didn't spoil my mood.

Drove down to Harrietville in Victoria's highlands today.  I haven't seen many mountains in my young life, but I'm told that although this range contains the highest mountain in the country, it isn't all that large in world standards.  I shall have to check that out as I travel.


On the way down we stopped at the Dog on the Tuckerbox, just outside Gundergai.


Legend says:

Apparently, the original story wasn't sit, it was the same letters, but with a h added.

When we got to Harriettville, I wrestled a rare white tiger:

We came from Harriettville down to Mannix College, over the road from Monash University for the Australian Quaker Yearly Meeting.

It was long and at sometimes quite boring for a small panda, who wanted to go sightseeing, but was unable to go through a strange city unaccompanied.

I did however get to try the local delicacy:

I've safely arrived to Jerusalem, Israel! currently just looking around, and listening to alleycat complaining about her image hosting site which still doesn't work... real update will follow soon!

Today me and another voyager, Twinette Kani, had a walk around the Hebrew University campus where the alleycat works. This place looks like a park, very green and spacey, and there's even a small forest!

Some more alleys and Uni buildings (the round one is a synagogue), and the last one is a view out of the window.

Here are some long-due pictures of the snow in Jerusalem, from the end of last week! It doesn't happen often - maybe 1-2 days per year - so I was lucky to catch such an occasion! We didn't go anywhere special - just around the house - because it was too inconvenient to walk, everything is wet and slippery; but it was still enjoyed by the kids, and by all the workers who had an unexpected vacation because the traffic does not work!

And finally I'm on my way to England!

I arrived in England today. The weather was awful so I stayed tucked up with some bears Helly has made and caught up on my sleep.  Tomorrow I'm off to Wales. I'm travelling there in something called a 2CV. I don't know what that is, I hope it's not dangerous!

Well, I thought the weather was bad yesterday! I'm glad I had lots of bears for company last night, the rain was so bad I may have been scared.

I've discovered the 2CV is a car, a very bright blue and yellow car. Here I am with my new toy voyager friends Pierre Bear and Frankenstein, on my way to Wales for the day.

We nearly turned around, the weather was so bad, and with Steve, Helly, Pierre Bear, Frankenstein, Elephonse AND myself in the car it steamed up so much we couldn't see out the windows.