Travelog for: Barry

It's October 24th, 8:14pm in Germany. I'm still at home but I'm preparing everything for my big adventure. I don't know yet where I'm gonna travel first, but I'm so excited!!
The picture shows me on my mummys bed on my last evening in good old Germany (hopefully).
Gonna miss my home, but it's time for something new!! 

Mummy told me today that I'll travel to Mexico tomorrow!! Yaaay, that's awesome!! I think I'll spend the whole november there... Afterwards I'll be in Italy in december. I really can't wait to spend christmas time with my host!!

Well, mummy suprised me with some tickets for a DFB-Pokal match (German Football Association cup) of my favourite team, BVB Borussia Dortmund 09!! Borussia Dortmund is the german champion this year. Yesterdays rival was the SG Dynamo Dresden. The picture shows me with a ticket and my hosts muffler



The game was great!! But the fans of Dynamo Dresden were awful!! They set things on fire, throw quarter sticks and pyrotechnic on the field, took smoke-bombs and stuff like that... Besides there were big fights, many people got hurt.. the police had so much to do that evening!! The game had to get cut off at least 3 times due riot and hooligans... I can't understand why hooligans have to destroy everything..
However, the game was great, we sat in the second row and my favourite football player of all time, the lovely Mario Götze, was less than 10 meters away from me!!
That was such a nice suprise of you, mummy!! I really enjoyed it.
This is me at the stadium, the "Signal Iduna Park", during the game:



So, now I'm tired and I have to prepare for the big day tomorrow.
Lots of Love,
Barry

Today is the day!!!
Everything is packed, I'm so excited 
Sun is shining, skies are blue. A beautiful day for starting my travel to Mexico. I've been on the balcony for the last time for a long time.



Afterwards, I said goodbye to my dearest friends. On one side I'm sad to leave them but then again I'm soo looking forward to something new. I really can't wait!!



Well, it's time to go now.. I've passed the point of no return.
Lots of Love,
Barry xx

Hey mummy!
I finally arrived in Mexico!! I'm so happy I'm finally out of the envelope!
Also I'm glad I'm over here in this time of the year because it's so warm over here!
Niza my host was so happy about the postcards, the letter & the haribo gummies you send she says: thank you, thank you, thank you!
Unfortunately she's sick and she says we'll not be going out until monday, but she promises I'll have an awesome time here!
Also at the same time as me another TV from Germany arrived, his name is Schnappi!
Well that's all for now, send you lots of hugs & kisses mummy!
-Barry



Look how clear the sky is!


With my neuen freund Schnappi (:

Hey mummy! it's me again, Niza is so excited about having us here she's snapping lots of pics! So this was dinner (:

We had some "arroz con sardina" or rice with sardine, I was so happy we ate fish!


We also ate this delicious cake


We watched a movie


We got to meet some of the resident toys, even tough none of them are TV's the moose is from Canada, the giraffe is from the US and the pink bear is from Japan!


I got a bite of chocolate too!


This is Bastet, Niza's cat, she's persian and I think she was annoyed we took pictures while she slept :/


Tomorrow we'll post some more pics around the house (:
Love you mummy!
-Barry

Hey mummy!
We are just hanging around the house today, tomorrow Niza says she'll be taking us on our first tour around Mexico city after her classes! I'm so excited about it! (:
So here are some pics from this morning

Look at the sun! no cold weather, no rain, no snow! Mexico sure is a great place to be at this time of the year (:


We walked outside & found some chili peppers! red & green



This is cookie the dog



Well I just can't wait to see the city tomorrow even tough I've been peeking through the window a little bit :P
Love you mummy!
Barry

Hello mummy!
I'm so happy! Today we got to walk through Mexico city for the first time, it was awesome!
The weather was warm however it was a bit cloudy, Niza says it was better because that way we could walk a lot! also we were lucky there was not many people so we could take a lot of nice pictures!
Today we walked around the centre and it was so much fun

Our day started down in the subway


The latin american tower


A monument that was a gift from Germany!

On the back it says: to the mexican people from the german community, september 17 1921


Right under the latin american tower, Niza says we will get to see the city from the top soon!


One of the streets of the centre


A really nice building


Then we went to the Zócalo (or the main square) we couldn't really see the flag because it was hold like that in signal of respect to the secretary of government that died last week in a helicopter accident


This is Palacio nacional (or the main government offices)


This is the cathedral


El templo mayor (some aztec ruins that are believed to be the centre of the aztec empire) Niza says we can go through the excavations however Mondays all the museums are closed so we will have to do that another time


This is a model of Tenochtitlán (Mexico city in the aztec times)


The statue of the founders, the legend says the aztecs were told by their god to found their city where they saw an eagle over a cactus eating a snake, so this scene is represented in this statue


The portals of one of the buildings next to the Zócalo


Statues of some of the aztec emperors, Nezahualcoyotl, Izcoatl and Totoquihuatzin, that's some hard names!




The MUNAL (national museum of art)


After looking at all this amazing places we sat down for a snack, green tea & doritos :P


And that was all for today, now you can see how exciting everything was! After all the walking we came home to rest and call it a day (:
-Barry

Hey mummy!
We went around the city again and again it was pretty cool

Today was incredibly hot! so we had to get an slushy to freshen up a little


We went to el Palacio de Bellas Artes (or the palace of the beautiful arts) that is a cultural center built in 1934 and it's pretty nice!


A closer look


On the inside



This place also has murals from awesome painters which are from the mexican muralism art movement
This is an amazing mural made by Diego Rivera


Another by Diego Rivera


This one is from David Alfaro Siqueiros

There are many murals more but we couldn't take lots of pictures because there was a lot of people u_u

One of the fountains outside


Hemiciclo a Juárez, this a monument dedicated to former president Benito Juárez who was important to the history of Mexico


The Alameda central, one of the main streets in the city, you can see on the back the monument to the mexican revolution


When we came home for lunch we found a good surprise, another two toyvoyagers that are also from Germany! they are Sansibar and Lou
Niza lent us her Spanish-German dictionary so we can learn some español, maybe when I come back I can teach you some!


That was all for today, send you hugs & kisses mummy
-Barry

Hey mummy!
Today we didn't do much because Niza had leg pain so she couldn't walk much but we did go to the centre for a while

A nice french building


We went to the post office

The photo is not very good but you have to see it mummy! it's an amazing building!

On the inside


Niza sent some Frida Kahlo postcards


We walked by the latin american tower and took a pic with this sculptures outside


And we had a little cookie snack


That was pretty much it (:
Send you a hug!
Barry

Hello mummy!

How is everything at home?
Today we went over to Niza's grandma's house to have some breakfast (:
We got to meet her nephews & niece who absolutely loved us!

Santiago


Ali


and Nathan


he liked us a lot so he took us on a ride in his bike!


and he also wanted to snap some pics of us




We climbed over this pear tree, but all the pears already fell off so we couldn't have one ): only one was left and you can see it in the back


And we played a while in the leaves



It was a nice sunday! (:
Love,
Barry

Hi mummy!
Today we went around the city again and here's what we did:

Niza said I already have a picture here but since the weather was better and the fountain water went higher I could have a better pic so here's me at the Alameda central


We passed by the fountain of abundance that is outside of the national lottery building


Since 20 of november is the anniversary of mexican revolution and this sunday it was extra special because it was the 100 anniversary of the ending of it we went to the monument to the mexican revolution!

We were supposed to go up but when we got there Niza realized she forgot her student card so we couldn't go up ): however she promissed friday we will!

Here's the street towards the square of the republic (where the monument is) you can see the mexican flags (:


This is the sculpture of "el caballito" or the little horse which is modern, the side view is better but since they're doing work on the street we couldn't stand there to take pictures


When we arrived home we found another german tv! her name is Entchen


I can't wait for friday!
Kisses
Barry

Hi mummy!

Yesterday as Niza promised we went to the monument to the mexican revolution again...


And this time we got to go up! it was incredibly amazing because we could see how big the city really is!

On the entrance


Right under the elevator that took us up and has a height of 52 meters!


On the elevator!!!


When we reached the very top


One of the amazing views of the city


Another view on a level lower


Group picture!


Another on this telescope


It was pretty fun! and the views were absolutely amazing!
Barry

Hi mom (:
Niza apologizes for not making any updates, but this days have been a little bit crazy, anyways on wednesday last week we got to go to Mexico city's museum night!
It was pretty fun!

We started at the MUNAL (national museum of art)


With one of the paintings there


This was part of the promo for the 1986 worldcup in Mexico!


The beautiful staircase


The inside patio of the MUNAL!


There was a Picasso expo!


We also went to "El estanquillo" museum, the ceiling was beautiful!


With this cartoon figurines of former mexican presidents


Sorry about the photo quality but we were not allowed to use flash ): and also we didn't took a lot of photos because we had to get moving fast!

This week also we cooked pasta!!!
Here's us with the empty ingredients, we should take the photo when everything was still there but we forgot


Cooking the pasta


And the sauce...


Ready for the feast!


And we did a little toast with this delicious fruit wine, don't worry I just had a little bit


Well that's all for now, hope you had a nice weekend mom! (:
xoxo
Barry

Hey mom!
Niza says she's very sorry of not updating but things are a bit crazy this days around here, unfortunately we found out we will not be able to go to the beach for the holidays ): but Niza says we'll do some fun stuff and sight seeing!
Anyways...last Saturday we went to her cousins wedding, it was so much fun!!

The ceremony was held on a franciscan convent of the XVI century!


On the inside patio of the convent


Along the others on the fountain


The main cross


The convent also has a mini museum with pieces from the ancient cultures that lived here before the spanish conquer!

There were shrunken heads :S


Some necklaces & carved stones


With Lou and some pots & vases


Some excavations


With some stone figures


And then came the party, there were lots of dance & fun and we got to eat lots of sweets! including some bride & groom cupcakes!


It was very fun!
Lots of love, Barry

Hi mum!
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!


Yesterday we went to do some x-mas shopping...a bit crazy :/ but we got to see the tree at the Zócalo (Mexico city's main square) and some decorations




I'll show you some pics of the gifts & the dinner tomorrow, have a great evening! Love you lots
Barry