Travelog for: _Lilly_

Hi mummy,

today I arrived in Austria and cute triceratops welcomed us. Her name is Trixi and she is our tour guide. In the next few weeks she will show us Vienna.
I’m so exciting. I also meet new friends.



Bibi is the white mouse, the cute penguin is Luc Zeke and the tigercat is called Sylvia.



Love you, Lilly

Hi mum,

today we started our tour and we visited the “Ringstraße” (a big circular road with famous buildings). 
We named our group TVTV (Toy Voyagers Tour through Vienna). We drove with the subway to the town hall (Rathaus).







Trixi told us that the “Rathaus” was designed by Friedrich von Schmidt in the Gothic style.
Facing the “Rathaus” is the “Rathauspark” with a huge place. Through the whole year the place is used for celebrations and events.



Afterwards we had a little break at the drinking fountain.
Trixi said that water from Vienna comes from two mountain spring water pipelines and it has a very good water quality.



Then we saw the Austrian Parliament Building, which was build from 1874-1883.
The architect responsible for the building in a Greek revival style was Theophil Edvard Hansen.





Trixi liked the statue of Pallas Athena.



During our walk over the “Ringstraße” we visited Museum of Natural History of Vienna and Museum of Art History.
The two buildings were opened in 1891 by Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria-Hungary.
The two Ringstraße museums were commissioned by the Emperor in order to find a suitable shelter for the Habsburgs' formidable art collection and to make it accessible to the general public.







After them we went to the “Hofburg Palace”. It is a palace that has housed some of the most powerful people in European and Austrian history.
It currently serves as the official residence of the President of Austria.



Next we visited the “Burggarten” behind the “Hofburg Palace”. We saw the famous “Mozart Monument”. 



Last but not least we made a break at the hotel “Sacher” and eat “Sacher Torte” (chocolate cake).
It is one of the most famous Viennese culinary specialties.



Bye bye

Hi mummy,

yesterday our hosts told us they needed help to look for a new desk for them. Naturally we all wanted to help. So we drove to an “Ikea”.



We looked and measure some desks. After long thinking our hosts made a choice.



Afterwards we had a break at the canteen.



Then we helped to bring the new desk to the car.





See you, Lilly

Hi mummy,

today we visited Belvedere, which is a historical building complex.









It consists two Baroque palaces the Upper and Lower Belvedere, the Orangery, and the Palace Stables.
The buildings are set in a Baroque park landscape. The Baroque palace complex was built as a summer residence for Prince Eugene of Savoy.



Afterwards we went to the botanical garden near Belvedere. It contains to university of Vienna.
Trixi told us that a botanical garden is a well-tended area displaying a wide range of plants labeled with their botanical names.
We studied some cacti and learned few botanical names.



There were so beautiful flowers, it was lovely.



Love you, Lilly

Hi mummy,
last week we visited “Schönbrunn Palace”.



First Trixie showed us the garden behind the palace. The sculpted garden space between the palace and the Sun Fountain is called the Great Parterre. The French garden, a big part of the area, was planned by Jean Trehet in 1695.





Then we went to Roman Ruin. It was designed by the architect Johann Ferdinand Hetzendorf von Hohenberg in 1778.



Afterwards we met two ducks and we had little talk. Their name is Freddy and Jo and they live in the garden since their birth. They know every edge in this beautiful garden and told us to go up to the gloriette. Up there we can make the most beautiful pictures of the palace, they promise us.



So we went up the hill and saw the beautiful gloriette.



Then we turned back and had a lovely sight of the palace and the town.



We made a break and Trixie told us some facts about the palace and the garden. One the way home we made a stop at the famous “Neptun Fountain”.



Love you.

Hi mummy,

last week we had bad weather, so we couldn’t visit some sights =(
Our host suggested us to play some games on the WII and Playstation. She gave us some multiplayer games and then we played the whole day. It was so funny.









I hope next week we will have better weather =)
Love you, Lilly

Today was a nice day. We helped our hostmum to cut the flowers for the last time in this year.







After cutting flowers, we made two beautiful flower bouquets.











Then we went in the garden again and put tulips in the soil. In the spring our hostmum will have nice flowers and can make some new flower bouquets.







Bye

Today, we had to say good bye. I will miss my new friends, but it's time to go and find new places.

Bye

HOME, SWEET HOME

I'm back and it feels great!
I would like to thank all hosts I have visited so far, thank you for taking me to so many places and showing me so many new things. A special "Thank You" to Muhlikuhli who gave me a nice post card, Mummy likes it, too .

Now I'll rest a bit and then I am ready for new adventures.

CU
Lilly

Mum told me that tomorrow something very wonderful will happen. I
am soooo excited!!

More tomorrow

Lilly

Now I know it: A little cat moved into our flat. Awwww, she is so cute <3. But see yourself...
By the way: Her name is Feli.

Wohoo, I'll spend Christmas together with Susie's! 

See you there
Lilly

Muuuuuuuuuuuummmmmmmyyyyyy it's me Lilly!
This morning I arrived at host mum's office. I was hungry when I got there so she gave me a pudding with cinnamoncookie flavour. Very yummy. 
While waiting for Susie's to be done with work I looked around her office. There's a lot of christmas decoration. 
In the evening we got to her place and I was welcomed by Druri. He is a TV from finland.

I'm excited to see what it's gonna be like to be here.

Love you

Yours Lilly


 

Good evening Mom,

it's just two more days till Christmas. Yeah! 
There is a whole lot of stuff to do.
We baked three different kinds of cookies (vanilla cookies, chocolate cookies with spices and marzipan balls with almonds).
And we prepared a dessert (cinnamon ice cream). Hmmmm.... 

Now it's time to go to bed because there will be even more to do tomorrow.

Lilly

We really had a lot (more) to do today.
In the morning we prepare the dough for a cake that had to go to the fridge for a while. Than we "packed" the cookies which host mum took to a christmas luch with friends.
When she came back in the afternoon we finished the cake, wrapped christmas presents, and also prepare the ham for tomorrow. Hmmmmm now it smells so good.