Travelog for: Susy

Hello World!
First of all, let me introduce myself.
I'm a cute little mouse princess from the Kingdom of Spain, specifically from the castled city of Granada.

Like any good princess I must know the World we live in and be a kind ambassador of my kingdom to many other cultures.

However, let it be clear, I am a princess but I am not spoiled, I can use public transportation, in fact, this is how my story begins.

Here I am with my friends Capote , Sir James and the current Voyager of the Week: Phinook


To begin my story I should of course first show you where I'm from, so here I am in the center of Granada:


and here's the main post office


here's a painter being inspired by the people in the streets of Granada:


and this is Granada's Town Hall


Granada is a city with a very rich mix of cultures, and here I am on a Moorish street in the city center.


in the centric Bib-Rambla square there's a pretty fountain with nice pink roses that nicely match my dress.

That brown tower in the background is the Cathedral's bell tower.


Back home we decided to make a cake, so here we are with all the ingredients ready:


And we helped to make the mix


It was nice to work together


But the cake was so yummy we forgot to wait before eating it to take a picture.

Anyways, I hope this will be the beginning of a great adventure around the World.
Here I come!,
Love,
Susy

Hello again world,
Today I joined my mentors to run some errands and on our way back we stopped in a few nice places. Here's the local Plaza de Toros (bullfighting ring).


There are many pretty buildings in Granada, here's a government building in the center.


Love,
Susy

Hi everyone!,
This weekend we went on a trip to the countryside, we spent the weekend on a countryhouse with some friends. The view was beautiful, here you can see the small town of Otívar:

Like many Andalucian towns all the houses are painted white and it looks very pretty.

We had a barbecue made in this rustic oven:


and we got to play in the well. We also threw in coins and made wishes.


Cheers,
Susy

Hi!
Today we spent the day walking through the city center, here's me in a nice Andalucian style building:




The medieval door that you see behind me used to be the entrance to Granada during the 12th century. It's called the Puerta de Elvira:


Then we took a bus, the building you can see here was an old jail and is now the current hall of justice for Andalucía:


We arrived to the famous "Mirador de San Nicolás", a very nice lookout out point to see the whole city of Granada and my home castle the Alhambra:


The Alhambra was a fortified city built by the moors with several palaces inside.

Here's part of the old fortified wall that used to surround Granada.


After all that walking I had some really good paella and a refreshing soda.


Then we went down to the city center walking through the Albaycín, which was the old Moorish neighborhood. The Albaycín has very small streets and it's very easy to get lost.



On our way down we found a very nice cat.




Here's another view of the Alhambra:


Finally when we got down we found a very pretty ice cream shop:


I shared a vanilla ice cream with Phinook.


We visited some arab shops and in one store they had a nice fountain with big fishes in it:


What a nice walk we had today!
Love,
Susy

Hello everyone,
Today we made a very special cake, it was extremely chocolaty, very colorful and pretty.
We wanted to make a nice pattern with M&M candies, so first we practiced on a plate, and after trying several ideas we went with one we found online:


Then, when we felt we were ready, we all helped put in the candies on a chocolate cake we had made earlier. Our hosts shared the cake with some friends and everybody was impressed by our work  .



Buen Provecho!
Susy

Today we visited the zoo in Madrid,
It was very nice to see many animals from many places, very good to get prepared for my trip around the World indeed.
Here I am with some pretty deers:


And here I am at a very impressive dolphin show:


The monkeys were cute and fun, but a bit too smelly for me:


This nice camel was very kind, he even posed for the picture:


Here I am with my travelling buddies, some giraffes, ostriches and a zebra:


And here I am with Capote and some pretty flamingos.

I like their color, it goes well with my dress.

Cheers,
Susy

Hello from glamorous Marbella!

It is a very pretty city, but we didn't take many pictures, we tried to just relax.

Here's a view of the dawn from our room:


You can see a bit of the mediterranean sea on the left of the first picture.



Love,
Susy

Hello,
We saw a very pretty rainbow, and although it's very faint in my picture, I also like the color of the sky (I bet you can guess why ).


The Sierra Nevada mountains are covered with snow!, how very pretty.

I love how Granada has a so many things nearby, including sky slopes and the sea.

Today Phinook was heading back home after his very long trip, so we gathered to say goodbye.


He prepared to get into his box


He had to take his hat off so he could fit


And then... I decided this was my chance. What better travel companion to start my trip with than with the Voyager of the Week, Phinook!.
So I jumped into the box as well:

He was happy he would have someone to talk with during the trip.

Oh well, closing time.


We'll sure miss you Granada


Love,
Susy.

Hello Mum,

after a long Trip in our dark Box we will arrived Today and i will told you Mum  here is frozen
I see  SNOW in the Mountain and Phinook told me that we go in 1 or 2 Weeks in the Mountain for ski.
Today only  some Pics because i am tired and will sleep well with Phinook on a Fireplace in the Living Room. Enjoy and bye Mum

HI THERE!

Today I arrived in Austria - just in time for Fasching  Fasching is the time of year, when all of Austria dressed up and celebrates It's like carneval 

Host mum told me that all the other toys where allready in costumes, so I immediately decided to dress up before meeting them - and then letting them guess what kind of toy I was. I borrowed my dress a bear, called Kuhbärt, who dressed up as a princess, and borrowed a costume from him.

Perhaps you can guess what I dressed up as - as a cow 

The other toys were all really really nice, but they didn't stand a chance guessing that I was a mouse normally.

Next, Drescher, Mr. Curious and me decided to do a dress up dinner party 

We went to a big closet and tried to find the perfect costumes. Of course the guys didn't try on more than one outfit- but I loved all these clothes so much, that I just couldn't settle on one outfit.

Just when I had decided on an outfit (rich lady of the 1980s), I saw how beautifully Mr. Curious's costume as a princess was, and decided that we should all have a princess costume  - for a princess dinner party.

Yet even though it was so much fun, we went to bed early, because we were all so tired. I told Drescher and Mr. Curious about my journeys to Switzerland and my home in Spain, when we lay in bed.   It was really comfy to ly in bed and talk about our travels.

I haven't seen much of Austria yet, but so far I liked it immensely 

Love,
Susy

Today we went to host mum's school, and we had so much fun there - especially since we didn't have to learn a single thing 

I first have to apologize because not all pictures are sharp...

First we played a word guessing game on the blackboard- because that's what you do in school 

Then we helped host mum to fill in an attendance list 

We also had a look at all the books which are used for English teaching (well , ok I admit, that is not even half of them  )

Then we were allowed to copy some papers for hostmum- and when she wasn't looking we made a copy of ourselves- it was so much fun


Love, Susy

Dear family,

You know that I am not really used to snow- but lately there has been so much of it in Vienna. It is really freezing outside, and that's why host mum told me to borrow a warm jumper, a scarf and a hat, before we went outside today to enjoy the snow. (It was a pretty cool outfit, all in  pink, I looked great in it - though I say it myself)

Well, so as I said we went for a walk in the snow- and it was simply fabulous- everything looks like it was enchanted. We explored a cave, climbed on trees, found a lovely looking bench, on which we took a rest- and then even built a snowman!!!

Yes a snowman. We split the work, and Mr. Curious built the biggest snowball, which is for the legs, Drescher built the second one which is for the belly, and I built the head. We then thought that we had finished it, and had a good look at it    WE were shocked- it didn'T look like a snowman should. 
But hostmum explained, that we had done it perfectly. We would simply have to add some finishing touches, like giving him a face and arms, and some clothes. After we had done so it really looked perfect 

Back home, we were allowed to eat our lunch in bed. Which was really fine by me as I wanted to warm up anyway. It was so comfy! 

Love, Susy

Hello there!

Sorry I haven't made an update in quite a while, I just didn't find the time...

A few days ago Mr. Curious got his shirt, which was send to him by his owner. It turned out to be a football shirt, and it also turned out that Mr. Curious is a huge soccer fan, and was very curious about what a game with us would be like.

So he explained all the rules to us, and then we started building our goals. When we had found another player- Hearty, a bear, which was my team mate, we started playing- two against two

It was very exciting. I managed to score a goal against Drescher and Mr. Curious, but when I was protecting our goal, I could only stop one of the two baööy Drescher tried to get into our goal.    I really enjoyed playing nevertheless 

We only stopped playing when we realized that we had accidently played with two balls for a while. When stopped the score was 2:1 for Drescher and Mr. Curious - so I lost. But it was great to play football, and I made a new friend, Hearty.

Love, Susy

Hello there!

As Easter approaches, I have already learned much about traditions in Austria- as for yesterday, it was Green Thursday, which is the day when Austrians traditionally paint their Easter Eggs. This tradition can be traced back to the Middle Ages 

Well, beofe we started to paint the eggs, we of course wanted to get some hints on how to color them perfectly- so we spoke to the one and only Easterbunny himself - who gave us really good advice 

We started by unpacking the eggs and then continued by awing- because we were quite taken aback by the large number - there were as many as 30!!! 

Well, that was when we realized that we had much work to do, so we immediately put them into hot water to hard boil them. Then I read through the instructions of the color, and realized that we had a bit of spare time- that was when Mr. Curious and I decided to decorate ourselves- Easter Style 

We did not have too long, before we had to get the color ready, and put the eggs in it (They were quite heavy to lift, but they looked so pretty I loved every minute of it) When they had been long enough in the color, we pulled them out again, andstarted decorating them even more by putting pictures on them  I loved how pretty all the eggs looked, even though each of us made them differently