Travelog for: Phillip O-Feld

1. At home- with my mommy
2. Bresso (Milano), Italy- with annix
3. Prague, Czech Republic- with Krtecek
4. Sülfeld, Germany- with RikeH
5. Oregon, USA- with BunTraveler<---here I am now
6. New York, USA- with gisellesoto

Phillip is going to travel to Italy tomorrow. He´s very excited.

On the way to his first host. In Italy!

Hi mum,
very good news: I'm arrived in Italy! Together with me arrived also another TV, Tomi the Bear.
I'll write you again very soon!
Love,
Philip

Hi mum,
this is Duomo Square, in the center of Milano. Duomo is the name of the Cathedral. On the right there is the Royal Palace (which is now a museum) and on the left there is the Vittorio Emanuele II Gallery. I'm also visiting the oldest part of the town!
Bye,
Phillipp

Hi mum,
I'm, in a Castle! It's called Sforzesco and it's in the center of Milan. Close to it there is a park with a small lake... I'd have liked to take a bath but the temperature is a bit too cold!
Love,
Phillip

Hi mum,
in these days I feel like if I'm getting fatter... I don't know why!
Love,
Phillip

Hi,
today I'm helping my host to prepare the Christmas nativity scene! And I've also met Santa Claus!

I'm ready to leave, a new host is waiting for me!
But before leaving, my friend Tomi and I want to try a typical Italian pizza!
Bye bye Italy!!!

Dear mum,

I have arrived to my new host. To a lovely home in Prague, Czech Republic. On my arrival I found out that my new host is leaving this evening to go to Paris and she is taking me with her. We are also expecting two more TV to come tonight.

My host wanted me to see some sights of Prague before we head to Paris. So we went for a short walk. To be able to buy hot chocolate to celebrate my arrival we "killed the pig". So here I am with the money my host saved.

On our trip we saw Narodni dum at Smichov, famous dancing house inspired by Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire, passing along the Žofin (place of balls and other social and cultural events) and national theatre (the one with the golden roof). Finally we reached the Charles bridge and the panorama of Hradcany with Prague Castle (at the background) where we met another interesting creature Naomi. We thought she was also a toyvoyager but it was not.

Our short trip ended in the Choco Cafe a famous chocolaterie in Prague with the best hot chocolate and home-made lemonade in Prague. Our last stop was the Betlem Chaper - a place of a Czech reformer Jan Hus who was burnt in 1415.

It´s been busy but I enjoyed myself a lot. Now we are packing to go onto a new adventure.

Dear mommy,

yesterday we took a bus from Prague to Paris. It took 14 hours but finally we arrived. In Paris I met all the other toys and also two other toyvoyagers. I have become friends with them almost immediately.

Since we were tired after the journey we all stayed at home and relaxed. My host promised we would do some sightseeing tomorrow.

Today, our host went to school in the morning so we had to wait until the afternoon. But then the four of us (the host and 3 TVs) did a small sightseeing tour of Paris. It was nice weather so I left my hat at home.

First we visited Notre Dame, a famous cathedral in Paris known mainly thanks to Victor Hugo and his novel - the hunchback of Notre Dame. It was so beautiful we walked all around it and took pictures from different perspectives. We even went inside to look at the most beautiful vitrage windows.

Since it was nice, we decided to take the bike to get to our next sight. It is a special bike - the velib. The system of bikesharing is one of the best thought through in the world. There are stations where one can take or leave the bike every 300 metres all over Paris. And the first 30 minutes are free.

We stopped at the Hotel de ville - the townhall of Paris. It is a beautiful building on the bank of the river Seine. There is an ice-skating ring in front of the townhall. And a lovely merry-go-round for children.

We finished out tour at Centre George Pompidou - a museum of modern art that is in the historical centre of Paris but it is a modern building with outside stairs. There are also many artists in front of the museum.

Dear mum,

today my host took me and the other TV to Latin district - a centre of all students in Paris. We visited the Pantheon a church and a burial place of many important frenchmen (Rousseau, Voltaire and others) which is on the hill. Then we walked down toward La Sorbonne a huge building of the ancient universitie (today it has building all over Paris) and the Cluny Museum of medieval art.
The trip bruskly ended at Fountain of St. Michel as it started to rain. It was still a nice trip and we were quite tired so we had a small siesta at home.