Edinburgh, Scotland - 23rd November 2011
By: Fridoline the mole
Dear Mummy. I'm sorry that you haven´t hear earlier from me. Mary and me had an internet problem. For several days I am now in Scotland. It pleases me very well. Edinburgh is a great city. I already visited Edinburgh Castle. Tomorrow I will travel into the highlands. I also will look after Nessie at Loch Ness. Best regards, your Mr Carrot!
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Posted Nov 24, 2011, 5:39 pm Last edited Nov 24, 2011, 11:10 pm by Fridoline the mole
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Edinburgh, Scotland - 24th November 2011
By: Fridoline the mole
Dear Mummy. What a nice mistake, because Mary was indeed a beautiful location indication for me. Of course I'm not in the Seychelles. I think she has mistaken for Latitude and Longitude. Although, the Sychellen or Mauritius would be a nice goal for me, too. Maybe sometime soon, Mommy? We have corrected the error. Greetings from Scotland and good night. Your Mr Carrot
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Posted Nov 24, 2011, 11:00 pm
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Edinburgh, Scotland - 26th November 2011
By: Fridoline the mole
Dear Mum. Have a look what I did today. Monday it´s time to say goodbye to Mary. It was a very wonderful time with her. I will miss her. But I also be happy to coming home!!! Your Mr Carrot
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Posted Nov 26, 2011, 10:35 pm
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Post Office, Germany - 2nd December 2011
By: Sookie
I'm on my way to Nonnariina!
I hope i'll travel first class and be there as soon as possible!
See you soon!
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Posted Dec 2, 2011, 12:47 pm
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Jyväskylä, Finland - 19th December 2011
By: Nonnariina
Hello!
Here we are again. Nonnariina hadn´t time to upload this because she is very busy at school. Christmas is coming and she have many tests.
Talking about school I visited school last week! I saw clasroom and Finland`s map
Pupils were 9-10 years old and very nice! They were very excited about me and said that I´m cute! They taked me out at break and I swinged and slided with them. I had great fun! Children told that carrot is in finnsih "porkkana"
Children`s names were wrote to their deks as you see at photo.
The sad thing is that snow has smelted allmost everywhere. It´s dark and rainy. But they said at tv that there will be snow before christmas. I and Nonnariina hope so. Expecially Nonnariina loves snow.
I have also been with Nonnariina in her amteur theatre trainings. There was about 70 children and youth practising play for summer.
I hope that you are fine!
Bye!
-Mr. Carrot
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Posted Dec 19, 2011, 5:29 pm
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Jyväskylä, Finland - 27th December 2011
By: Nonnariina
Hello!
It´s long time since Nonnariina write here and christmas is over, but here we are and I have a lot of things to tell you!
So, Christmas was wonderfull!
I ate well
In the morning we ate rice borrige with cinnamon, it´s trational Finnish ´christmas food. Porrige was served from a large kettle and there was one almond hidden in porrige. Person who got almond gets a little present or gets chance to wish! Funny, isn´t it?
In the afternoon we had real Finnish Christmas table
In Finnish Christmas table there is
-big Christmas ham with mustard,
-Karelian Stew (trational Finnish food http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karjalanpaisti),
-carrot and potato casseroles (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casserole)
-potaoes and salad called rosolli, wich inculeds boiled beetroots, carrots, potatoes, apples and pickled cucumber.
As dessert we had cinder breads, choclad and Christmas pies which are filled with plum.
Then we went to Christmas sauna! There people stroked themselves with some freshly-smelling birch twigs!! They called those twigs "vasta" or "vihta". And they really hit themselves with it!! Weird I think, but I tried and it was quite nice! I have picture of me and “vihta” and sauna. And one picture of me and Finnish children book (in the book´s picture there is also sauna and fiction characters stroke with “vihta”).
Oh, I almost forgot! In the morning we also went to Christmas church.
In the evening there was the most exciting and happy thing: Santa Claus came!! Wow! I was so excited And guess what?? I get change to sit in Santa`s knee ! He was really kind! I was little bit scared… Then we get presents and Santa leaved. And I get present also! Santa knowed that I`m here so her´s photo of me and my new shirt and hat!
It was a long day and I slept well. Today I have just relaxed and ate more Christmas food
I also visited dollhouse! I ate with little bears. I met Pippi Longstocking (Peppi Pitkätossu in Finnnish) who is a fiction character by Swedish author Astrid Lindgren. And Barbie and Ken were also at home
So, this was this-
Bye!
-Mr. Carrot-
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Posted Dec 27, 2011, 8:48 pm Last edited Dec 27, 2011, 8:53 pm by Nonnariina
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Kauhajoki, Finland - 31st December 2011
By: Nonnariina
Hello!
At 28 th December I travelled to Kauhajoki to meet Nonnariina´s grandparents! Kauhajoki is a little town in westside of Finland.
We travelled by car and it taked about 3 hours to arrive.
We visited a huge shop called villageshop Keskinen. It lies in place called Tuuri (in English it mens Luck). There are only 500 inhabitants in this village.
There are many "the world biggest things" in the area of village shop.
For example there is a huge horseshoe monument
I have also picture of shop...
In the dark photo there is the yard and house of shop´s owner.
If you want, you can read more here:
http://www.tuuri.fi/en/villageshop/today
And guess what we found at the shop´s yard?! A giant red kicksled! Nonnariina lifted me to sit on it and taked a photo
I also saw nice lights.
I also saw a forest. There were many fallen trees, because there had been many storms in Finland during Xmas time.
Hug!
-Mr.Carrot-
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Posted Dec 31, 2011, 12:03 pm Last edited Jan 1, 2012, 4:07 pm by Nonnariina
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Jyväskylä, Finland - 8th January 2012
By: Nonnariina
Hello again!
Did you have great strat for year 2012? I hope so! I had, I saw many great fireworks and I ate well. And I shared jokes with other toyvoyagers and laughted so much!
Good news! At least we have snow at Finland! So, I have been outside very much. I played at snow with Peculiar and Squabby. We made snowcastle!
This is my last upload from Finland. Tomorrow I will leave Nonnariina and travel to Russia! It´s so exciting!
Have a great day and hug!
-Mr. Carrot-
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Posted Jan 8, 2012, 1:40 pm
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Moscow, Russia - 18th February 2012
By: Dangerousebeans
Hi, mum!
Today we decided to be engaged in good business and to help birdies to live happily. You know, in Russia it’s really cold in winter, therefore wild animals in the city have problems – where to live and where to eat. My host lives near to park, so we solved to create a feeding for titmouse and sparrows - almost free, but effective!
At first we take a juice package, certainly empty. I like an apple one - beautiful green box, reminds of summer among white snow.
Then we measure distances accurately and line everything by the pen. Hm, it is not so convenient to me to hold the handle by my paws.
Now we take a knife and start to cut out apertures. Not so simply, when a knife is bigger than you!
We paste a paper over edges to help birdies not to wound when they would fly inside. Well we also can do more beautiful! What do you think?
We insert a branch so birdies could eat sitting. I have found chopsticks - excellent idea!
Last but not least - a tasty feed! For this case we bought the real delicacy - apples, peaches, grapes, cherry, seashell crumb, seeds and cereals. Sounds good! Now in park there will be the thickest and healthy titmouse and sparrows.
Finally, we adhere a feeding to a tree and wait for visitors. Bon appetit!
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Posted Feb 18, 2012, 7:02 pm
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Moscow, Russia - 3rd March 2012
By: Dangerousebeans
Hi, mum!
Terrible snowfalls still storm in Moscow; therefore we continue to visit museums! I’m waiting for spring, streams and birdies so much! =) Today we have decided to visit the Polytechnical museum – one of the oldest scientific and technical museums of the world that emphasizes the progress of Russian and Soviet technology. The museum was opened in 1872 and it is completely devoted science development - chemistry, physics, electronics, there are over 190 thousand museum subjects. Our excursion was very interesting and informative. Everywhere I saw tablets in English that has allowed receiving tons of new knowledge for non-russian tourists. And also there are interactive models which will make a science more fun!
The very first exhibit that we met is the Soviet nuclear bomb – RDS-1. Its non-official name is The First Lightning (Pervaya molniya) and it was used in the Soviet Union's first nuclear weapon test, code-named Joe-1, in reference to Joseph Stalin. It was exploded on 29 August 1949, at Semipalatinsk, Kazakh SSR, after a top-secret R&D project. At Lavrenty Beria's insistence, the RDS-1 bomb was designed as an implosion weapon similar to the Fat Man bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan; it was an implosion type weapon with a solid plutonium core.
My host says that we live in very strange world when for peaceful life it is necessary to make bombs. If the USA after the attack of Japan stayed monopolist in nuclear arms, nobody could know, what would be a destiny of mankind. Thank God that Cold War hasn't outgrown in Third World one.
Then we have passed in the huge hall telling about the oil industry in Russia. Can you believe, that earlier oil extracted from wells like water till middle of 19 century? And was transported by camels. So weird!
I have been very impressed by a huge platinum nugget more than 9,5 kg in weight. It was found in the Ural mines. Host told me that platinum has been found for the first time in 1819 in Russia. But it was very cheap and was called as "rotten gold", nobody needed it. You know, a word "platinum" literally means «small silver». Such scornful name can be explained by bad fusibility of platinum so it was estimated twice lower than silver. Well now this nugget costs more than 530 thousand dollars! Certainly, it is a model, because it would be too dangerous to keep it here.
In a museum it is possible to see development of art processing of stone, one of the first natural materials used by the men. Russian masters, unlike European ones, aspired to follow more unique natural drawing and beauty of marble, than templates. This marble mosaic table-top has been created in the Peterhof Lapidary Factory in 19th century. This well-known factory produced beautiful things for the Hermitage!
Look, there is a steelmaker's spoon It is made more than 40 years ago. So interesting that it is used not for the basic work of metal fusion, but for removal of tests. By this spoon a steelmaker scoops liquid metal and sends it to experts to find out, which components don't suffice the quality.
Here it is a first Russian TV with new, for the first time in the world applied standard of clearness in 625 lines - "Moskvich-T1" (Muscovite – T1). I can't understand, what could be pleasant to watch it! Seriously, it is easier to listen to radio, than to crowd round the TV!
It is very amusing record player, isn't it? I saw many record players - they have these huge pipes which strengthen a sound. But this one has zither - the string resonator. Zither strings vibrate from a sound. Each string of a zither responds on a sound of "its" note, strengthening it. So unusual!
Also we saw different models of cars created many centuries ago. This one on a photo has been thought up in 1600 in Holland! Amusing, it is look like overland ship. Imagine, if such cars drive on streets today!
And in the end we have come into a hall of high technologies - computers! A group photo for memory! (There was very strict keeper who didn't like toys on technical devices)
There is the main stage in working out of modern computers is presented – the machine tool which reads out punched cards. We have been told that at the beginning – in 1820 - there was a weaving loom working this way. The pattern which was necessary for weaving was set by them. Inventor Herman Hollerit has decided to use a similar method for processing of results of population census in America. Processing of results of last census has been counted almost seven years! And the population continued to increase … But the machine automatically processed results. Finally results have been processed for six weeks!
And at the very end of excursion we have seen this remarkable gadget for electricity development. Looks like a bicycle connected with wires. You should twist pedals, and in a case a device that is sufficed of electricity – the hair dryer, a mixer or even the TV - starts to work! What a pity, that my legs don't get to pedals
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Posted Mar 3, 2012, 6:04 pm
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