Travelog for: Bombus

Hey,

today we met some famous persons. I was so excited. Fabi said we will go to Madame Tussauds and that there are a lot famous persons. We weren’t able to make much photos, as it was so crowded there, but we made two group pictures.

Here we go.

First we met Anne Frank. Her diary of the Second World War was published. Every child here in Germany reads it in school, normally. Did you read the book?



Later Fabi said she will be a politician now. We were all excited and asked to join her. So she allowed us and we did. We had a speech with Angela Merkel, the chancellor of Germany.





It was really great there. I really wish I could have seen more.

Love,
Bombus

Hey,

This photo is from the Berlin cathedral. The Berlin Cathedral had never been a cathedral in the actual sense of that term since it has never been the seat of a bishop.

Right from it you can see the “Alex”. The television tower of Berlin.



That was a long walk and a long day was over then. We were all tired when we came back to the hotel. So we slept really fast.

Love,
Bombus

Hey,

So this is the last update for our Berlin holidays. Fabi bought some souvenirs today which she wanted to share with you. You know in Berlin they have a Ritter Sport chocolate shop. Fabi was in there and got all crazy. She bought a 2kg “surprise” bag with a mix of chocolate inside. And now we want to share with you what was inside the 2kg bag.





And no: She doesn’t keep it all for herself. Some of the chocolate will be send away to friends and others will be eaten by her brother or her boyfriend. So she won’t eat 2kg of chocolate all alone.

So that was our Berlin holidays. I hope you like the pictures and enjoyed it as much as I did.

Love,
Bombus

Hey !

When you read this I am already sitting in the mailbox, waiting for the mailman to collect me and bring me to my next host.



I hope it will be a fast travel.

Love,
Bombus

It's sunny afternoon and I arrived Estonia !! I could meet other toyvoyagers : Brinda,HolgiHH,Albus and Mumu and I am looking forward for my great trips here : D

Hi mommy,

it was a really warm and sunny day,temperature was maybe 30 degrees !So really hot and we went to see Youth-Song and Dance festival 2011 in Tallinn,though we only saw songfestival It is really important event and Mari couldn't want to miss it !

It took place in open air, in the territory of Tallinn Song Festival Grounds.

It was almost a 6-hour long concert with different choirs and orchestras performing. The songs and music take the most powerful form when joint choirs start performing.

Song and Dance Celebration, the Estonian says. This is almost a sacred notion. It stands for the true birthday of Song and Dance, a great spiritual feast, a tradition not to be missed.

This is the festive reunion of an ancient folk, gathering from the cities as well as from the countryside;
small as a nation, but impressively large as a family.

Song and Dance Celebration is a true Estonian holiday, the Holy Day of the Heart;
which has been waited for, adorned for;
this is a brief moment of ecstatic togetherness, rising almost into the air in a mythical ship of joy and hope
a ship that has proved to be capable of carrying one nation over the most dangerous, most difficult rocks of time.

/Doris Kareva/

The Song Celebration tradition started in the middle of the 19th century and it has survived all of the twists and turns in Estonia’ s history.

and it still lasts and the next whole nation songfestival is in year 2014 The young songfestival means people till 26 years old.

Estonia and Song and Dance Celebration – these two belong together like Norway and skiing or England and the Oxford-Cambridge boat race.

I was proud to be there,around the people,Estonian flags,LOTS of people,singing and the feelings there..





we hardly had time to take photos ..

Hello

Today we celebrated Mari's birthday,well she is now 20 years old : D There were only 2 guests,what a big party,but we toyvoyagers joined and it looked like real party then.



Bombus,HolgiHH,Brinda,Mumu and me and we all are toyvoyagers!

Happy birthday for Mari!Palju õnne sünnipäevaks !(in Estonian)

Mari was offered a job in Finland and she decided to go,at the beginning of summer,she didn't know anything and thought she could host all TVs during 3 summermonths,but life went a different way and we joined with Mari to Finland,in order to see a bit and more Finland too.We had really heavy packages,so when we were finally there we took rest : ) I am resting on the table with Albus,Bombus,Brinda and HolgiHH.

Mari got free long weekend and we all decided to take a trip to Estonia to Mari's home,as we were already missing it and it was perfect time to do it.
As before leaving we did not have the moment to do sightseeing there,we decided to do it this time.The colourful autumn was already there,we rode by bike to see "main " turist attractions and a bit nature.
Though was tooo windy,we couln't ride through one forest we first planned,but maybe next time.






some old houses from the oldest street in Rakvere

try to find me...



and with my friend Brinda

its highest place in Rakvere,in winter children go sledging here,but now it was only green and there were no people at all.

Look far and you see castle!

that's Rakvere's laululava or means like singing ground or something here are often concerts in summer and also punksongfestival was held here

Rakvere's castle which was built in Middle Age,destroyed with wars and sometime restored


view over the roofs



castle from other side

it is sculpture Tarvas.

Tarvas statue is an auroch, which was made by the Estonian sculptor Tauno Kangro. It is thought to be the largest animal statue in the Baltic countries.
It is situated on the edge of Vallimägi hill and was erected for the town's 700th birthday. Along with the granite block it sits on, the statue is seven meters long, four meters high and weighs about seven tons.
The statue is made out of bronze. The names of the companies and private people who financed it are engraved in the granite block.


and it is famous for all tourists who visit Rakvere

Today was really busy day at home,though we were going home to rest and see Mari's family and pets,we also had to a lot of work.As it is autumn on the ground were a lot of apples and all needed picking up and so on.. well later we were so tired that ..


try to find us





here we are with Brinda

We are going to travel back Finland tomorrow and hopefully we will go looking around there also more ! Write you soon,mommy!

Once upon a time I went to walking trip around the lake with my TV friends Mumu and Brinda and with our hostmum Mari.First we saw a traffic sign that you can't drive this way by car either by roller.

We decided to walk down the "hill" to see the lake and we were all excited what else are we going to see there..
on the way decided to take a picture sitting on spruce

If you did not know mom,then Finland is called " land of thousands lakes " we could see the lake called "Gallträsk".


I was a bit tired of walking and it was perfect to sit there and look the water !

Everything looks really grey,because colourful leaves are past and yeah it is the worst time of the year and also was cloudy and it made it even more.But we had fun though

we decided to take friendsphoto with Brinda,because on the back was nice background : )

Me,Brinda and Mumu thought if we could take the boat and go sailing with boat.Mari didn't agree because we did not whose boat it was.

After walking around the lake we all returned home,because it was quite tiring,but the same good excerise for all of us

Hello mum! Today I visited Martin Markinnat with my hostmum Mari and Mumu.Martin Markinnat is the biggest Estonian event in whole year in Finland.It's a fair,which introduces Estonian's food,culture and handcraft at the same time in same place.And we all wanted to take a look there and we really saw many nice things




We bough some delicious chocolate also,but couldn't save any to take pictures,but Mari promised that we could buy it in Estonia when we go there next time !

As it's about 4 weeks left till Christmas its really dark here,during the days and some days we don't see any sunshine at all,what makes it even worse ? We don't have snow  : ( ! Today sun rised 8.44 am and set 15.31.. and it goes even shorter till Christmas,so we have whole time almost lights on and this evening I decided to colour a bit Mari's colourbook.

And Mumu decided to join me..


Do you like it mum ?

We missed a photo when we had a bit of snow and ice,but after strong rain all of it has gone  : ( and we all are waiting again snow.This year we got first snow in December,usually it happens in November or even in October.Now winter is officially here and it doesn't look like it at all!
Here I look out of the window

As Christmas is close by,its time to write and spend Christmas cards.Well I tried to help and learn how it's merry Christmas in Finnish and its " Hyvää joulua !" : D Later we went to outside to find mailbox.Before it we wanted to take picture.

me with Mumu and Brinda

We'll are looking forward for Christmas!