Travelog for: Luigi Palermo

hi from tabriz again to everybodyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!

today it was the last day of the stay of our dear Malaysian guests!!
and we had a group photo with all traveltoys at ipue's to say goodbye!!!

helloooooooooooooooooooo everybodyyyyyyyy!!!!

today it seemed to be a great day although we got obliged
to get up in an unsual time at 6.45 AM, but we reached to be
ready in time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

believe it............ dear yashila_81 came and picked us up to
go for SKIING!!!!!!!!!!!!! 50 km in north of tab there is from
olden times a ski ressort, where ipue's sons learned to go
by ski and we went often there... last time no longer time to
do, but last weekend and also this weekend  he decided to
go again.....

but a few kms before yam we met his friends at a tea-house to
get breakfast.. and even in front of this there was a bassin with
beautiful ducks!! I wished little kia had been with us...............
so ipue took some pics of the ducks to show to kia later. *smile*
although we arrived at the ski ressort quite early andat 9.30 AM
and  not yet that crowded!!!

while yashila_81 had fun by skiing with his friends we made us
busy by taking photos and looking at the sportive ppls and having
a walk around...

it was so great for all of us and we got very thankful for this day out!

hello, dear followers and friends!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

snow, snow, snow... never ending snow again in tabriz...
beautiful, but we have always to clean the yard and so on...
it's also a bit boring at the same time....................

heyyyyyyyyyyyyyy, dear buddies, followers and siblings!!!!

this time when ipue would go to meet her friends with
their game-gathering monthly twice she invited me to
come with her... I got really proud of!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
and all others of the TV gang got jalous, sooo jalous!!!!

and ppl believe it... I met a turtle.... and falled in love
when she kissed me to say hello!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!??!?!?!

ipue's friends were so busy with their game-boards and
memory and other games I never heard before... and so
I had time enough to speak a bit with the lovely turtle!!!
but we had so say goodbye.... and honestly, she was a
chrystal-turtle, very heavy and not so cosy like me and
most of the TVs.... and so I didn't allowed myself to think
again for her... it's better for me to banish the thought of her...
coz I'm a reasonable guy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

helloooooooooooo, everybodyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!

ipue's hubby today proposed to have a walk in shahgoli park
and later have lunch around... and so we did.. it was nice
weather, perhaps 4 degrees.. and it was fun to be there!!!
btw the water in the bassin was FROZEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ipue's hubby ordered a traditional stew and ipue a chicken kebab!
we had really a yummy lunch..

on our way back is was fun for me to meet KIA.. hehe.....
and back home everybody was ready for a power-nap... hehe.............

hi, all my dear followers and siblings at home!!!!!

we had a ride downtown and entered the ancient municipality of tabriz!!! wow... so impressing... nor ipue, nor her hubby had been there untill now!!!!although we passed by there untill now million times, coz it's situated just in the city center!!! such an impressing building from the thirties... now used az the city-museum!!

you can see here a pic of a handmade carpet from the former view of saat square!!

the next pic shows shahgoli while rebuilding the pavillon in the bassin around one hundred years ago.

in the next pic there are real negine ba arzesh!!?!?! real diamonds???? wow, how can wear such kind of shows!!!??!

these windows, seen in the next pic, for sure you remember from outside!!?!

and the real size sculpture of the gonga (tramway with horses) we had seen together with dear kroete/ turtles during her stay in IR at her place in gonga bashi!!

last but not least a small carpet.. but there had been carpets, oh my gosh!!! 112 squaremeters!!!! never seen before!!!!!!!!!!

it was a nice trip!!! - and perhaps you like to know, while leaving home we had a very light snow.. but everywhere still snow and cold temperatures!!!!!!

heyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy, guys & gals!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

because of Valentine's Day ipue-hostmom instisted we had to be clean and fresh and nice.. and so we had to take a bath!!!!!!!!!!! hehe... we ourselves decided to get a white-water rafting instead of chilling in a wellness-bath... yeaaaahhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!! and so we did!!!!! we jumped into the washing mashine!!!!!!!!
it was soooooooooooo amazing!!!!! believe it!!!!!!!!!! we had fun, only fun!!!!!!!!!!!! and besides we are clean & fresh & so on... hehe......

and pls notice, she only asked me and EkaPeli, coz we both are so courageous!!!!!!!!!!!!

hi, dear friends, buddies, followers allover there!!!!!!!!!!!

again and again the never endling snow in this winter 2016/ 2017..
and so hard to clean the yard.... ey gosh....
but ipue was so happy when she noticed the snow in the morning,
went out to take some photos...

then she went out, and came back in the night...
we rested under the snow!!!!!!!!!!!!!! pls have a look!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
but me, I was at my place, still with a huge hat of snow, but the twitchy EkaPeli,
who was with me, was falling down in the snow and we couldn't found him!!
poor guy, so he was obliged to stay out during the night.........
I'll keep my fingers crossed nothing will happen to him...................

helloooooooooooooo there at the baltic seaside!!!!!!

today it was the 15th day of snowing during this winter season!!!!!!
and it was the most and the beautifulest snow today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
as well as we were still sad about loosing EkaPeli ipue took some
pics...

but in the afternoon the great surprise, when ipue's charman arrived
to clean the yard and she asked him first to find dear EkaPeli, and he
found him immediately - and nothing had been happened to him!!!!!!

what a chance!!!!!!!! thxxxxxxxxxxxx god!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(yes, yes, toyvoyager's life is dangerous!!! specially at ipue's - hehehe....)

hi, dear friends, buddies and my dear family beside the baltic sea!!!!!

today ipuenktchen invited me and my dear buddy EkaPeli to go downtown to the ancient mansion of qajar era so called potter's house and she took part in an assembly of the pottery lovers association of eastazerbaijan!!! this is such a great place kept seriously by mostly women, provided by the iranian cultural heritage organization, first of all as a live museum, doing pottery, and teaching everything what's nessecary for!!!!!!!! they have also a permanent exhibition to learn about pottery in this province!!!! btw ipue has also two of her workpieces there. last year in summer they celebrated their 10th anniversary as an association!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

and last but not least we met the beautifel hens, created by miss nastaran khosrawi, which will move at norouz again outside into the bassin in the yard!!!!! great stuff!!!!!!!!

It was so interesting for me to learn about handicraft of IR..

and on our way back home ipue found a new shop and we saw a gorgeous painting of the tabriz pedestrian zone...

hi, everywhere!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

we got invited at lili's for a fairwell-dinner, as they are leaving soon
for holidays!!!!!!!!!!!!! and we played a lot with dear little kia and
the dear little viona!!!! and believe it!!! there was a sheep, living in
a BOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!???!! do you have ever seen such a crazy thing????

heyyyyyyyyyyyy, everybodyyyyyyyyy!!!!!

what a great day!!!!! we went together with ipue-hostmom to meet
dear sweet VIONA and the great KIA in their kindergarden!!!!!!!!!!!!
yyyeeeeahhh.... so great place to have fun and playing with other kids!!

surprise, surprise!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

helloooooooo, guys & gals and my dear siblings beside the baltic sea!!!

today another day out... ipue-hostmom brought us downtown tab
to see the silkroad-tower where dear yashila_81 has his language institute..
and of course we met him!!

it's a nice building with 18 floors!!! and some nice places around!!
as there is the famous carpet mosaic and also the metro station under
construction.. btw in this place had been the original father's house of
mr. ipue, which must get destroyed as well as many other buildings to
to let be space for the tower, metro station and the new cross road!!

later we went to another ceramic exhibition not far from there. on the road
we saw a very old entrance of a house for sure elder than 100 years from qajar era!!!
the exh in nar gallery was again beautiful and interesting!!!!

hi, dearest buddies, friends & followers!!!!!!

last eve we got surprised when ipue-hostmom proposed to go to the bus-terminal for a ride to tehran!!!!??!???! wooooooooooooow!!! tehran is always great.. I think I had been there before...

the first surprise was the new bus-terminal, veryyyy large and beautiful!!!

arrived at tehran, the capital of IR with about 14 millions inhabitants ipue had smth to do, but for fun we got we entered the metro to look for the famous NATURE BRIDGE, crossing the modares highway!!!!! so impressing and nice!!!!!!! but a bit far and hard to go.... it was a young lady, studied in tehran and canada, who had this great idea at an age of 26 and designed this award-winning bridge!!!!!!!!!!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leila_Araghian

later we went home, home to the flat of ipue's son1 for a photo-session with the TVs and then slept immediately before going again to the bus-terminal back home to tab!!!!

hellooooooooooooooooo again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I heard a lot of this holiday today... it's a bit like the last
day of the year in western countries with lots of fireworks
and so on.... tshaharshanbehsuri... the eve before the last
WED of the year it's called!!!!!

and the youngsters are so excited for!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
and in each yard or even at the cross roads ppl make a
fire and were jumping on to get lucky in the new year!!!!

ipue get invited since decades by her very best friend!!!!!
and this time I got honoured to be with them!!!!!!!!!!!