Travelog for: PinkyHH

Hello mommy!

Today my host, Hoots and I went to Rotterdam to the International Film Festival. We went by train, what an experience!









We had a cup of coffee in a very cosy restaurant.





The festival was very interesting.



Bye!

Hi!

Today we went to the postoffice to send out some mail.

Here you see me and the postoffice and the Dutch mailboxes:





And when we came home, my host introduced me to the Dutch honey, it's called: Honing.



Bye for now, till next time!

Hi mommy!

Today I went together with my host and Hoots to the heatlands not far from Ede, to see the sheeps over there. Ofcourse we made some wonderful pictures









The World War II Memorial:









Look, I climbed in this tree!





Till next time! Hugs to you!

Hi mom!

We went to the Dutch capital city, Amsterdam. Exciting!!!
Here you see the pictures we've made:

This is some graffiti in Ede:


This is the train station in Ede:


The floating flower market in Amsterdam:


A museum in Amsterdam on the Kalverstraat:


The big worldwidefamous museum Madame Tussaud:


The National Monument on Dam Square, a white stone pillar to memorialize the victims of World War II:


And this is the famous Krasnapolsky hotel on Dam Square:


De Bijenkorf, a big warehouse on Dam Square:


Amsterdam is famous because of the many coffeeshops. Here's a picture of one of the biggest coffeeshops on Rembrandt square:
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This is one of the many canals in Amsterdam:


This is the Munttoren (toren = tower):


On this picture you see the Tuschinski theater, well known in Amsterdam:


Hope you enjoyed the pictures as much as I enjoyed the day!

Love and hugs,
Pinky.

Hi mom,

today I leave the Netherlands to go to the Russian Federation.
As soon as I arrive over there, I will let you know!

Big hug, and thanks to Colinde for hosting me!

Love, PinkyHH. 

Hey, Mom! 

I'm in Moscow now and it's a beautiful city! My hostess is a 20-year old girl and she promises to show me the most exiting and wonderful places of her native city. Today we visited Kremlin and saw gorgeouse monuments of famous russian sculptor Ceretelli.

Moscow Kremlin has 20 towers and every tower has her own face and name. We get photos with 2 of them - Nikol'skaja and Spasskaja - in russian. They get their names from icons, that are hold over their entrances. The first icon is icon of Saint Nicolas, so the tower is called Nicolas' tower. And the second icon is "Jesus the Saviour". So, its name is Savior's tower.

Near Kremlin there is "Zoo" of fairy-tale creatures. You can see "Old man and golden (magic) fish" and "Princess-swan". Its' fairy-tales that every child in Russia knows - their famous poet Pushkin recreated them in poetry and made them so excellent!

3rd sculpture contains "Ivan-prince and frog-princess". It's a funny story about one king, who wanted 3 his sons to marry. They took a bow and arrows and each made 1 shot. 2 first arrows got into houses of princesses. But the 3rd son's arrow flow far far away and fall into a bog and a frog found it. So, he has to marry her (it was a rule of his father). But of course, it was a bewitched princess, and after some adventures they were happy 

Hi, mom! This weekend we visited a beautiful fair of violets. As the spring comes, my host wants something colourful to decorate her flat. There are a lot of different flowers: sprouts, seeds, buds and others. We saw different types of ground and fertilizing, you know, that violets like acid one? At last, we bought excelent little flower that is called "Godness of beauty"  Do you like it?

My host introduces me to her pets today. She has a funny dog Martisha - it's petit-brabancon. She is afraid of me and it takes a lot of efforts to make even one photo. In opposite, my host's golden fish named Kim is very interesting of me and want to descry closer On back side you can see another fish - telescopiform fish. His name is Ikabod (from Sleepy Hollow). It's very strange to me that these fishes can't look right ahead, but they must turn their bodies and use only one eye. So at the time of feeding thy can't see food, but just open their mouthes and swallow everything, that get into.

Hey, mom!

I want to add some my Easter (Paskha in Russian) photos! My host isn't too religiouse, but we visited her grandma and had a lot of fun  It's interesting, that  there is not Easter rabbit in Russia! We didn't go searching for eggs, we just changed them and kissed 3 times  It's religiouse feast at first, so the main action happens on a Saturday night - people put on their best clothes and come together in dark churches that symbolise a gloomy world without the light of faith. In the past, satanic creatures were believed to turn especially evil in the night before Easter. People didn’t dare to go outside after sunset as they feared every cat could be a witch and every dog a devil 

And there is special food on Sunday: Paskha and Culich
(Easter - is made from spesial cottage cheese, nuts and raisins
Little easter cake - is a bread with a lot of sugar and candied fruit.) Mmmmm, yummy! 

Hey, mom!
Today my host showed me some station of beautiful Moscow metro (subway). It's so deep and bright! There are a lot of statues and mosaics, some of them are really famous. For example, this soldier with a dog and a girl with a rooster. You can see, how they shine - that's because every second person touch it and ask for good luck  It's espessially important for students before exams.

And then you can see open subway-bridge with glass in place of wall. Somewhere lines of metro cross Moscow-river. And some of them run under water, but others run over and fantastic view appear before us 

Hi, Mom! Today it's holiday in Russia - from 1st to 3rd may and we travel to my host's garden cottage - dacha in russian. The dacha is far from Moscow - 1,5 hours on train. But ther is a beautiful forest and a field. The nature is fantastic! Also I saw garden-beds and hotbeds with domestic vegetables. I tasted cucumbers and tomatoes, they are delicious! And there will be strawberry in july. In Russia all people, who have dachas, grow fruits and vegetables for themselves  And I met a new friend - old black Cheburashka  What a stange animal it is! Maybe, it's bear, but with big ears? 

Hi, Mom!
Today was my last excursion in Moscow and we visited buildings, that are my host's favorite It's Cover Temple of Fily, just near our house. Once I saw a wedding there!
Then it's the Bolchoy Theater - she adores visiting plays with Evgenie Red'ko and Peter Krasilov - young rassian theater-actors.
Of course, it's Saint Basil's Cathedral - the most beautiful Temple. There are only 2 temples with such a strange and bright domes, covered with enamel -  this one and The Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood in Saint-Petersburg.
We took a break for eating an ice-cream in "Europe-Centre-Hypermarket". My host makes a shoppig there sometimes, there are a lot of little stores of expensive brands like Lacoste and Levi's. And it has beautiful lifts 
And last but not least ones are amazing skyscrapers "Moscow-city", that are under construction since 2001. They can be seen from almost any place of Moscow and, I think, they make city modern and shining. 

Hi, Mom! Today my host visit Italy - it's job travel, so she will not have enough time for taking photos. But, of course, I tasted delicious italian cuisine and read local newspaper - you can see - we are in Bologna now! 
My host work on ZOOMARK International 2011 - great international exhibition of products and accessories for pets. I saw a lot of rubber toys, cat toilets, shampoo for rodents and other useful things  We conclude contracts, meet directors and gve business-cards. I think, everything is successful!
Near Expo-Center there is a Botanical garden and I was really pleasant of wonderful roses - it's Mermaid roses - I can't even think, that they can look like that!