Ger, France - 22nd August 2007
By: Mistigree
This monkey is terrifying, but I can open my mouth larger than him !!!!
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Posted Sep 6, 2007, 7:59 pm
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Toulouse, France - 5th September 2007
By: Mistigree
Look what I found in Mistigree's kitchen !!!!! This tea box reminds me of my origin !!
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Posted Sep 9, 2007, 11:21 pm Last edited Sep 9, 2007, 11:22 pm by Mistigree
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Toulouse, France - 15th September 2007
By: Mistigree
Here is Le Pont-Neuf, one of the bridges of Toulouse, that crosses the river Garonne.
And this is a brick wall, typical from Toulouse. Mistigree finds that the walls of Toulouse are like the walls of Dublin in terms of colours and bricks !!
I don't know, I've never been to Dublin by now !
Look what I found at the corner of a street !!! A pub !!! Just like in England !!! Apparently it is quite new because Mistigree hadn't seen it before.
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Posted Sep 18, 2007, 10:02 pm Last edited Sep 18, 2007, 10:05 pm by Mistigree
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Toulouse, France - 16th September 2007
By: Mistigree
Today, I nearly fulfilled one of my missions : visiting a space camp ! I say "nearly" because it is not a real space camp that I went to, but a big museum about space, called "La cité de l'espace".
Here is the map of the museum. It is really big and as we arrived a little bit late, we couldn't visit all the sideshows, but I saw many interesting things nevertheless.
Hey look ! I was welcomed by Youri Gagarine and Neil Armstrong themselves !
First we went to visit the exhibition rooms inside that was about life in space.
This strange suit is a thermal regulation suit, that cosmonauts wear under their space suit so that they have a normal temperature. I wouldn't change my tshirt for it !!
Here are showed different space machines.
Then it was time for a short movie at the Astralia cinema.
This cosmonaute was at the entrance of the cinema and I absolutely wanted to have my picture taken with him !
The film was called "Destiny in space" and showed a team of astronauts, how they were eating, sleeping etc...
As it was a 3D movie, we had to wear special glasses... Please, don't laugh at me, there weren't glasses that sized me !!
After the movie, we visited the park where you can see this replica of the Ariane space rocket !! I was so proud posing in front of it !!
Of course, I thought of Ham, the first monkey who was launched into space from Cap Canaveral on a Mercury space rocket in 1961 !
I guess he had to train hard to be able to do this experience and survive the flight.
Inside the replica of Ariane, they have installed games, and I played guessing ones ! Do you want to try to answer too ?? Here is the question : Are all the stars in a constellation situated at the same distance from Earth ?
I also enjoyed this game about seasons in the different continents where I had to make the earth turn with a hand lever !
After Ariane, I saw ERS 2 Radar Satellite replica. The real ERS 2 was launched in 1995 by Ariane 4 and can deliver pictures of seas, ices, and it can even take pictures of the Earth through the clouds !
And this is a launcher Soyouz replica ! It can contain 3 cosmonauts !
And last but not least !! I was so excited when I saw MIR space station !!!
Of course the name MIR is written here in russian (Mistigree learnt some russian at school, so she knew that !)
We could visit the inside of MIR. I was curious about those drawers. Mistigree told me they contained pre-packaged food.
Look how the cosmonautes have to sleep inside MIR !! I doubt wether it is comfortable !!
There were command buttons everywhere. I wish I could have pressed them but Mistigree told me I couldn't !
Hey !! Look at me !! I'm in weightless conditions as this astronaut !
Besides, I AM AN ASTRONAUT !!
Look at the blue planet here ! It is the earth where we are living on !! It looks so small ?!
I like the reflection in the helmet as if we were on the moon !
Then it was time to leave unfortunately, but I will keep a wonderful memory of that day in La Cité de l'Espace, that's for sure !
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Posted Sep 22, 2007, 10:07 pm Last edited Sep 22, 2007, 10:26 pm by Mistigree
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Toulouse, France - 23rd September 2007
By: Mistigree
Yesterday evening I tried to read a book in French (but not from a French writter). I know that niftylite, my mentor, likes this book and I wanted to read it too, but I need to improve my French first as it was too hard for me to understand everything !
Then Mistigree showed me a postcard of New-York (it is an old poscard, there were still the twin towers at that time) as one of my mission is to visit the Big Apple !! But it seems the next country I will be travelling to is... Russia !!!! Yeah !! I'm going to visit kristl in Moscow in a few days !!!
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Posted Sep 23, 2007, 2:02 pm Last edited Sep 23, 2007, 2:05 pm by Mistigree
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Post office, France - 1st October 2007
By: Mistigree
Today, I'm leaving France... At that time, I'm in a box at the post office, waiting to fly to Russia... Fortunately, I'm not alone, I'm going to travel together with Bertold... I'm a little afraid because he seems a bit boring, always talking about books and Dewey classification...
My last picture from here was taken in the townhall... I'm posing with François Miterrand and Jacques Chirac, 2 ex-French presidents !!!
If only I could be the ToyVoyagers' President...
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Posted Oct 1, 2007, 8:52 pm Last edited Oct 1, 2007, 8:54 pm by Mistigree
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London, England - 15th July 2010
By: niftylite
OH GOOD LORD!!!
after literally YEARS of being lost - i've FINALLY BEEN FOUND!!!
...in my mentor's old bedroom drawer.
niftylite thought she'd lost me, along with my brother brian (who unfortunately sill hasn't been found... *sniff*) but apparently i was home all the time.
i must make up for lost time!
who will start me off on this new part of my expedition?!
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Posted Jul 15, 2010, 7:53 am
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thames river, london, UK - 5th August 2010
By: niftylite
today was a great day!! it was my mentor's birthday recently, so for her birthday present her boyfriend took her on one of those SUPER ROMANTIC riverboat lunch tours along the river thames. since it was going to be super romantic - i decided to tag along!! what do they say...? "three's company"?? :-D
we started off at embankment pier, here's me waving goodbye to all the chumps who didnt have tickets for the boat! hahaaa!
after we set off, i had a quick look at the menu, which looked GREAT!!
...but apparently i was only allowed tea, so i sat and waited for that to arrive (i like tea!)
we saw loads of famous london sights, that i'm sure this one needs no introduction!!
this is the london aquarium, the saatchi gallery, and the dali museum!
the HMS Belfast...
then, after the boatride, we walked along the southbank centre, where we saw this little art installation - a colourful little london made from bricks and toys!!!
then we wandered and did some sightseeing...
*serious, patriotic face*
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