Travelog for: Super Grover

Sweet global warming! Sunbathing in Norway in November - who'd've thought? 

I am now on my way to Delphine in Switzerland! Oh, what adventures await me..!

Hi Mom! I've been soo busy visiting Switzerland that it's only today that I have time to upload pictures.
First of all I voted! The political system of Switzerland is what we call a "direct democratie". It means that each time the government wants to make changes in the Constitution, the people has to vote to say whether it's ok for them or not. We vote 3 or 4 times a year. On the 30th on November Sunshine had to vote for 5 things among them the prohibition of smoking in bars and night clubs, the legalization of marijuana. The results are the following: yes for the interdiction of smoking and no for the marijuana.

Then last week I vsitied a Fribourg. The most beautiful thing in this little town of 35,000 inhabitants is the medieval part of the town. You can see it on the following pictures taken from the modern part of the city. As you can see it's really green although it's winter but it's being snowing since we took this photo. Now it's white everywhere!!!

Fribourg is alos know for it's cathedral St-Nicolas whose tower is the symbol of the town. I went inside to see its gothic style. It is not as big as others cathedrals of France or Germany but it's nice.

Snow, snow and snow everywhere! It snowed again last week. Fribourg has not been so white for a long time. Here some pictures of Smooch and I in the snow

Sunshine is a student of Art History and English Literature. She showed me the building of the University of Fribourg where she studies. Fribourg is a town of 35,000 inhabitants as I've already written. In addition to these inhabitants many students live here because 10,000 people study here. Besides there are other schools like school of Architecture, Engeenering, Nurses, primary school teachers, social workers or school of arts. The town is very young! That's nice!

We took new pictures of the cathedral St-Nicolas. As the city Hall is nearby, I saw it too!

As Sunshine likes art, we went to the art museum of Fribourg. As it was closed, we only saw the nice building (an old house) and the garden where there are a lot of sculptures. The last one (the colorful) has been made by Niki de St-Phall, a famous woman-sculptor. She was born in Paris from american parents in 1930. In 1971 she married Jean Tinguely, a famous swiss sculptor born in Fribourg, and acquired the swiss citizenship. Jean and Niki, dead now, are the symbols of Fribourg although they lived in Paris! You can see their works in many famous museums all around the world and in Switzerland too

Some areas of Fribourg are built on little hill like Sunshine's. She wanted to show us the building where she lives from the top of another hill. We walked there. Oh it was not high at all but as the pavement was slippery, it was a bit dangerous to "climb" on there!

And the pictures of Sunshine's area seen from the hill called "Le Guintzet" It's mainly a residential area but there are also a primary school and a church. A few shops like a bakery or a grocery shop and one or two cafés too but the center is so close that one dooesn't really need a lot of shops!

It's time to decorate the house of Christmas!! I don't know if it's also a custom in Australia but in Switzerland, under the Christmas tree and in addition to the presents, we put a Christmas Crib. Sunshin's Mom made one herself and it's so big that in the house they don't have a Christmas Tree, only the cirb! The tree is outside on the balcony.

Hello!
I arrived here in Hamburg some days ago but my host Jenny was really busy with her last exam for this term. She just passed it this morning.
When I arrived here in Hamburg I met some excited TVs who were really curiuos about me.


We had some funny time together but I was very tired from my trip and needed some rest.

Bye,
Super Grover

Hello!

After I had some rest Jenny took all of us to a trip to see the harbour of Hamburg. There was a lot of snow here and it was really cold. But it was really interesting. First we had a view over the harbour from the train station.

The harbour has a lot of little bridges to go down to the ships.

As it started to rain just then, Jenny decided to take us to the old tunnel under the river Elbe.

Then we had a beautiful view over the harbour from the other side of the river. It was just a little sad that we had the rain.

I was also able to see some ships


After the rain stopped we had a little picknick in the snow. It was fun to be with all the other TVs there.



The yellow ship is a ferry to the musical "The Lion King" which is located in the harbour. But they are also used as regular ferries when they are not needed for the musical.
We were very tired and hungry after we had seen so much of the harbour and we were happy to go home. I hope to see more of Hamburg soon!

Bye,
Super Grover

Hello!
Some weeks ago Jenny took us to see more of Hamburg. We went to the city centre and saw the towm hall of Hamburg. I really liked it, it looks really beautiful.

Afterwards we went to the Alster along the so called "Alsterarkaden". It really doesn't look like a city in Germany there. We also saw a lot of ducks and swans, they live there in the summer and in winter they are brought to a warmer place.

Then we finally arrived at the lake Alster. It is located in the centre of Hamburg and it is really beautiful. The weather wasn't that good, I think it would be even more beautiful in the sunshine.

Jenny told me that we will go on a trip to Slovenia at the end of March and I am really excited about that.

Bye,
Super Grover