Travelog for: Monkez

Guess what I found in the kitchen? Hee hee!
A lovely yummy banana! 
What a hardly resist yellow thing!

Here people called it 香蕉,
sounds as "heung-jiu", or can simply called it "jiu",
since "heung" is a word that describes the good smelling,
"jiu" is banana, so it is good smelling banana.

"heung" is also the name of Hong Kong, it means "good smelling harbour".

I think here's the nearest place that I can get to see the Tsing Ma Bridge.
This bridge was built to connect the new international airport at Lantau Island.
The upper part is for all kind of transportations,
the lower part is for the train/subway/tube,
but people are not allowed to walk on the bridge. 

I also met an intelligent grey parrot called "siu ying"~

Glad that I went to this chinese calligraphy and painting exhibition.

It funny to see the tigers coloured in red,
and a goddess holding a huge piece of gold in hand.

Don't you think it's pretty to see the words in square shapes?
Ver different from English.

The word that I learnt today is "me/I"
sounds as "ng-o". 

Hello !

Just wanted to say that I arrived finally at my next host !

Will update with photos later. Just wanted to let you know now!

Love,
Monkez

Hello !

Today I arrived at my new host BlackCat.



When I was lying in my opened envelope, I suddenly heard a voice saying: "Hello friend, come out!"



It wasn't really easy to get out, so the little one helped me.



He told me his name is Ceryni and that he is another guest of BlackCat.



I hope we'll have a lot of fun here.

Love,
Monkez

Hello,

today we went on a geocaching tour with BlackCat and her boyfriend. And we saw some nice churches, which I want to share with you.



















It was a nice day !

Love,
Monkez

Hello !

Today we visited the Margarethenhöhe, which is a part of Essen.

Here you have some infos that wikipedia has:
Founded by Margarethe Krupp in 1906, the garden city with its 3092 units in 935 buildings on an area of 115 ha (284.2 acres) (of which 50 ha are woodland) is considered the first of its kind in Germany. All buildings follow the same stylistic concept, with slight variations for each one. Although originally designed as an area for the lower classes with quite small flats, the old part Margarethenhöhe I has developed into a middle class residential area and housing space has become highly sought after. A new part, Margarehenhöhe II, was built in the 1960s and 1970s but is architecturally inferior and especially the multi-storey buildings are still considered social hot spots.

BlackCats boyfriend is working in a company which is located in the Margarethenhöhe, so he knows some nice places where the tourists normally don't go. But see yourself, we made a lot photos this time.

































It was a long walk, but we had a lot of fun!

Love,
Monkez

Hello !

Today we had a long and stressful day, but we made a lot of photos and I want to show them to you.

Our first stop today was the zoo in Gelsenkirchen. It is called Zoom. The zoo has 3 parts - Alaska, Africa and Asia. We saw a lot animals, but see yourself:














That's Antonia. She is NO baby polar bear, she is vertically challenged. She is really old already. And she has to life alone, as the other polar bears would kill her...

















































We had a lot of fun in the zoo!

Love,
Monkez

Hello again,

later that day we had a walk in Hattingen Blankenstein. It is a part of Hattingen, where you can see a castle and such. It is really old and I loved it a lot. Hopefully you like the photos as well.



















































After that walk, we went home and just went to bed. We were so tired.

Love,
Monkez

Hello everyone,

today we made a walk through Haltern (am See). Why do I write (am See)? It is because it was just added for tourists. The city is still called Haltern everywhere, but the signs say Haltern am See and such. It is just for tourists. Funny, or? Changing a city name for tourists...

We had a nice time in the old town of Haltern. But see yourself, we made some photos.






































It was a nice day.

Love,
Monkez

Hey,

today we had a short walk to the "Langenberger Sender". There are two big antenna towers. You can see them from nearly everywhere in Velbert. So it was nice to see them so close.











Nice over there, hmm?

Love,
Monkez

Hello !

Today we visited the Baldeneysee (Lake Baldeney). It is a lake in Essen. We really enjoyed our time there!









Isn't it nice there?

Love,
Monkez

Hello,

today we had a nice and sunny walk through the fields in Essen-Kettwig.















It was nice there. Wonderful nature.

Love,
Monkez

Hello everyone,

today BlackCat visited a pen pal who is living not so far away from her home. We went with her and had a lot of fun in Viersen. You will see on the pictures.





















It was a nice day. Hope we can visit other nice places soon, too.

Love,
Monkez

Hey,

today we had a walk in the forest near BlackCats home. It was a really nice walk and we made some photos to show you.



















It was really nice there. So calm and warm.

Love,
Monkez