Travelog for: Honeymooners

Hi!

A new toy arrived today here. He is Rico the Tiger from Germany. 

We had a welcome party, we ate all chocolate candies what Rico brought from Germany. They were so yummy! 

Love,
Honeymooners

Hello!

Today Kurnau wanted to show us something.
He said the place where we will go is great. He was so mysterious... 
So, we went outside and started to walk.



Kurnau said this place is called Harju. It's like a small hill just next to city center. And there's such a great and long stairs there.





We all climbed up these long stairs.



Up there is the building called Vesilinna.
We were so exited, because Kurnau said we are going to up in this high tower to see great views!



There's the city center. And the lake in the picture is named Jyväsjärvi.
Look, the lake is so close to city center!!!
And by the way, did you know that there's about 188 000 lakes in total in Finland? Lots of lakes, isn't it? So cool! 



There's the sport stadium of Harju.



And there's the view to the direction where hostmom is living.
She is living just next to the lake.



On the downstairs of the building Vesilinna, there's the Natural History Museum (Keski-Suomen luontomuseo). We visited there.

There's hirvi (a moose). It's the biggest animal living in Finland.



There's joutsen (a swan). It's the national bird of Finland.



And there's susi (a wolf).



There were showing also some interesting informations about stone materials and Finnish nature.







It was such a great place to visit!

Love,
Honeymooners

Hi!

We watched the Opening Seremony of the Olympic Games from TV.
It was a cool show!   

Love,
Honeymooners

Hei! Hello!

We enjoyed the sunshine today. 

We went to see the lake just next to hostmom's home. We think she is so lucky to live in this beautiful surroundings: lots of trees and a lake just next to her home.

It's so Finnish thing: there's so much forests and lakes in nature of Finland.

Love,
Honeymooners

Hei! Hello!

Look what we found!!!
We both think this sign is nice. It's so nice to know how far away we are.
So many kilometres...

Love,
Honeymooners

Hei! Hello!

It's time to continue our honeymoon, and go to see new places in new country. We will travel to Japan!

Today we searched some information about Japan from Internet, and we found many beautiful pictures and interesting things. We both believe our journey there will be great.
We also looked the map of the world, and we noticed it's a long way to travel between Finland and Japan. It's good that we have each other, so don't have to travel alone.

Kurnau said goodbye to us. And then all others came to say it, too. All have been so nice to us, that we propably are going to miss them all. Finland was a nice place to visit.

But we are not only ones to leave here. There's three other ToyVoyagers saying goodbye, too. (Niiskuneiti, Druri and TobiHH will all travel to Germany.)

We are looking forward to see Japan!

Love,
Honeymooners

Hi!

We are already in our envelope, and travelling to Japan!
It's so dark here! Hopefully we will arrive soon and safe to our next host.
Goodbye Finland!

Japan, we are coming...

Love,
Honeymooners

Hi!
At last we arrived in Japan
It's very hot here. Let's step inside the house.

Hi,
Takamatsu-city faces the Seto Inland Sea which contains more than 2000 islands.
It's very calm water.

Love,
Honeymooners

Without a doubt, Chinese food is one of the most popular international cuisines in the world. Here in Japan, there are many Chinese restaurants and we can eat good lunch in a reasonable price.

Hello!
We stands on the top of the mountain between 2 cities, Takamatsu and Sakaide. It's an amazing view of the Seto Inland Sea. Can you see the Seto Ohashi Bridge across the sea?
In mountain we saw a very strange statue of Ushi-Oni. It is a creature which appears in the folklore of Japan.

see you soon,
Honeymooners

Sushi!

The old photo studio, the location of the scenes in the movie "Crying Out Love, In the Center of the World"
We drove to the neighbor town Aji. This old photo studio was used a location in the movie. People in love visit here as a "holy" place
Just a few minutes walk took us to the coast. It's a beautiful day!
 

Socrates in Love (Crying Out Love, In the Center of the World)

This is Ritsurin Garden, a typical Japanese garden. It is located in the center of the city, among the modern buildings.
For 228 years long since 1642, the Matsudaira family, the Federal Lord of Takamatsu owned and maintained the garden. Today the garden is open to public.

Sayonara, Japan
hanachan added some note pages to our passport. It's nice printing of Sakura flowers.
We folded origami paper into pretty shirts. These are souvenir of Japan. Tomorrow we're leaving for the new place.
See you soon!