Fed, Sao Vicente, Brazil

TaisAfinskaia maria.forletters@gmail.com Posted Nov 1, 2009, 7:31 pm	Hello! I`m Fed. Nobody knows who I am: either cat or bear. But I prefer to think that I`m cat. I dream about journeys. I made some nice photos and hope somebody will like me and host me Today was the first heavy snow. I like it My travel plan: Nov-Dec 09 : Germany with babyamy Jan-Feb 10 : UK with BoboTuk Mar-May 10: Poland with Maraia June-Aug 10: Czech Republic with dzejna
TaisAfinskaia maria.forletters@gmail.com Posted Nov 2, 2009, 6:34 pm	Yesterday I visited "Garage" - very popular exhibition of modern art. I understand nothing in modern art, but it was fun  Big car for migrants, Russian planes (instrument) and chickens and so on.
TaisAfinskaia maria.forletters@gmail.com Posted Nov 8, 2009, 8:16 pm	Today my journey starts! I came to the post-office, bought comfortable box for traveling, said Good Bye to Maria and started my way to Germany! Hope I will reach my new host safe and sound! And quick! Bye for now! Yours, Fed.
babyamy Posted Nov 15, 2009, 8:21 pm	I arrived at my first host! When I heard, that someone started to open my box, I couldn't wait to jump out of it. I guess, I scared the little turtle Pepita a bit. She has alredy been here for a while and told me that Katrin, my host, has a lot to do for her university this semester, but she tries her best to write a lot of nice updates. Here are Pepita and me:
babyamy Posted Nov 20, 2009, 7:22 pm	It's my first real day at my first host's home and we're already on the road! Well, it's not too far, we are just going to Hamburg because Katrin needs to do some research for one of her projects for university. Here we are at the station Hamburg-Dammtor, heading towards the exit with the direction "University". Right in front of the station, we got a newspaper for free. While we are wating at the traffic lights to cross the street, I had a look at the headlines. A view back at the station: Now we are walking towards the state library. We passed the main building of the university... ...and a historcal place. It's a memorial place for all the Jewish people from Hamburg who had to go to a concentration camp during the Third Reich. Here I am in front of the library.
babyamy Posted Nov 20, 2009, 7:27 pm	My host loves to crochet these days. She has finished her first croiuchted sock and it even fits! Now she needs to start the second one, but she is working on her boyfriend's present now... It's something croucheted, but I can't show it to you because the boyfriends reads my travelog, too.
babyamy Posted Nov 20, 2009, 7:42 pm	A surpise parcel arrived! It's not another TV, but a package made by students for students. It contains some things which you can use in the lectures. When Katrin opened the parcel, Pepita and I couldn't wait and crawled into it. This is what we've found: a writing pad a pen a highlighter and poster stripes
babyamy Posted Nov 20, 2009, 7:47 pm	Look at this mess on the desk! While Pepita and I are relaxing and talking about life in Canada and Russia, Katrin is doing homework and a lot of other stuff. Let's hope that the desk is clean again on Sunday evening...
babyamy Posted Nov 29, 2009, 8:27 pm	Katrin got very excited when she came back home today. Her TV Etwas came back home after a year of travelling around the world. He will take a rest from travelling until the end of the year. Right now he is telling us from his adventures.
babyamy Posted Nov 29, 2009, 8:54 pm	Katrin has to go to another library today and since she arrived in Hamburg very early, she showed me some interesting places. The first place we found by chance: It's the McDonalds restaurant at the station Altona. It looks a bit strange, right? Well, McDonalds has decided to change the background colour of the logo from red to green. The we took the S-Bahn (a kind of subway) to the station Reeperbahn. It's one of the most famous streets of the world, because it's the city's red-light district. In German it is also called "die sündige Meile" (the sinful mile). During the day it's not really interesting there and don't look different from other streets, but at night it's a total different world. Today there are many clubs and bars and theaters, that's why it's called "party mile", too. In one of the clubs, the Start-Club, the Beatles started their career. When we walked along the Reeperbahn, we discovered some more interesting things: A statue of the singer Hans Albers an interesting wall painting the famous police station Davidwache A bar and the theater Schmidt's Tivoli At the end of the street we could see another statue in the distance, it's Otto von Bismarck. He is a very important figure in the German history. We was the first chancellor of the German empireand he was the one who invented several insurances for the people. Across the street is the Heiligengeistfeld, a huge field were these days is a huge fair, the Winterdom. Unfortunately it opens at 3 p.m. and it was still 9.30 a.m. We finally arrived the Hamburg Museum, whose library Katrin wants to use. But we had to spent some time outside because it opened at 10 am.
babyamy Posted Dec 1, 2009, 9:19 pm	At the weekend Katrin got a great surprise from her boyfriend: a self-made Advent calendar! There are 24 presents and she will open one each day until Christmas. In Germany Christmas is celebrated on December 24th. It's common for children to have an Advent calendar fillded with little pieces of chocolate, but today there are Advent calendars filled with everything. Katrin says that she used to got a self-made Advent calendar from her parents when she was younger. There were 24 little bags and they were filled with sweets.
babyamy Posted Dec 8, 2009, 9:03 pm	It was a cold but sunny morning and before Katrin left for Hamburg, she needed to drop of some book at the library. Since the sun was shining so nice, she decided to go for a walk and showed me Kellinghusen. This a street in the neighbourhood of where I stay now... Then we had a look at the pond of the local park, it is very small. A view along the street, in the background you can see the church, in the front the Christmas decoration. On the market place there is this tower of dishes. It is a symbol for Kellinghusen's known pottery called "Fayancen". Every year in August there is a huge pottery fair.
babyamy Posted Dec 8, 2009, 9:17 pm	When Katrin came back home from her trip to Schwerin today, there were some surprises waiting for her. Katrin got a postcard from my hometown! She says, that Etwas would like to visit Russia next year, he hopes to find some ghosts in this beautiful buildings. The other surprise has brought the "Nikolaus". In German it's a tradition that in the evening of December 5th the children clean their boots and during the night the "Nikolaus" fills them with sweets, nuts or even little presents. Katrin got tea with bamboo flavour. That sounds a bit weired, but it tastes like lime. Then Pepita, Etwas and I went into the living room and who do we meet there? Santa Clause! He tells us a bit about his job and how everything is prepared for the big night.
babyamy Posted Dec 13, 2009, 8:38 pm	Look what I have found! This is a tin whistle, a typical Irish flute. There were also some sheet music and I played for a while.
babyamy Posted Dec 15, 2009, 9:03 pm	Today was a big saying goodbye day. I'm travelling on to Poland and Etwas is visiting my mum in Russia. Just Pepita is still staying with Katrin, I hope she doesn't feel lonely without us.
babyamy Posted Jan 10, 2010, 6:52 pm	After more than three weeks traveling to Poland and waiting and waiting for my new host (I missed Christmas and New Year's Eve!!!), my box was finally opened. And who smiled at me? Right, it's Pepita! I'm back in Germany and safe at Katrin's house. Pepita was happy to see me again, she was very worried that I might have been lost. I won't stay long here but I'm very glad to see the light again.
babyamy Posted Jan 11, 2010, 8:27 pm	Before I travel on to the UK tomorrow, I wanted to spend some time in the snow and build a snowman. But it was snowing nearly the whole day and there was an icy wind, that's why I'm happy to be in my warm new box now. Hope to see you soon again!
BoboTuk don.deb@btinternet.com Posted Jan 18, 2010, 5:35 pm	Wow! I've arrived here at Stonyford. Stonyford isn't a big town - there are only two houses!  It is high in the hills in the very centre of England. Bobby and Oki, the Samoyed dogs who live here, were very pleased to see me. They gave me very big smiles! They took me to see the snow which has been very deep here, but now it is thawing. Then I had a ride on Pocket's scooter!
BoboTuk don.deb@btinternet.com Posted Jan 19, 2010, 5:55 pm	Today, Bobby and Oki took me to a big, big, big house called Lyme Hall. We had a walk in the woodland there and then Don took me ro a CaféBar for tea and biscuits.  He knew I liked zoos, so we sat next to a big fish tank. It was a bit scary, because this Pirhana fish kept staring at me - I think he was hungry!
BoboTuk don.deb@btinternet.com Posted Jan 20, 2010, 10:16 pm	Today we went to Buxton, a Spa town. We saw the Opera House and went for a walk in the beautiful Pavilion Gardens.  Then, we had tea and biscuits in a lovely Tea rooms.
BoboTuk don.deb@btinternet.com Posted Feb 6, 2010, 10:52 pm	Hi Maria and all my friends,  I went with Bobby and Oki to a Country Park which is a Nature Reserve for hundreds of Geese and Ducks.  Some of them had flown here all the way from Russia - just like me!
BoboTuk don.deb@btinternet.com Posted Feb 13, 2010, 7:04 pm	Today we went to Chesterfield, one of the nearest towns.  It is noted for its church which has a twisted spire.  It was market day and I thought Don was going to sell me!  But we watched a very colourful Merry-go-round (Carousel) and then went to a café for tea and crumpets. The weather is a little better but there is still snow up in the hills where Don lives.
BoboTuk don.deb@btinternet.com Posted Mar 2, 2010, 9:14 pm	The snow has finally gone now so Don took me with Bobby and Oki to see the canal boats, a few miles away, at Whaley Bridge. Most of the canal boats are used for holidays but some people actually live on them.
BoboTuk don.deb@btinternet.com Posted Mar 21, 2010, 8:12 pm	This weekend  the dogs stayed in kennels and I went on a trip with Don & Debbie to Stratford-upon-Avon, where Shakespeare was born. We saw the house where he was born. Outside was a statue of Shakespeare - but it grabbed hold of me! I saw the famous Shakespeare theatre beside the river.  I met some toys in a Teddy Bear Shop and told them about my travels. We had lots of tea and coffee!
BoboTuk don.deb@btinternet.com Posted Mar 21, 2010, 8:43 pm	We stayed the night at Ye Olde Talbot Inn, in the centre of the city of Worcester, where Don trained to be a teacher, a long time ago.  It is a very beautiful city with a university and a  wonderful Cathedral on the banks of the River Severn.  Traditional English breakfasts can be very big!
BoboTuk don.deb@btinternet.com Posted Mar 21, 2010, 9:10 pm	Today we travelled back via Shrewsbury, another old town. We lost Debbie in fashion shops, but she found us later for coffee.
Maraia Posted May 17, 2010, 6:29 pm	Hi Mom! As you know, I have some technical problems with camera. That's why I haven't updated nothing yet. I have some photos from Skierniewice -Maraia's family town. I spent there Easter. Ive met here other Tv's :Nie, Lucky Duck, Walter. We went to church with a basket with food. In a basket we have some bread, sausage an eggs. The traditional baskets look much better than ours. Traveling in Maraia's purse. I'm so Huge! Little pond next to Maraia's old school. It used to be only little puddle here. First spring flowers in garden ;] Maraia's father was on a three-week trip to India and Nepal and he gaves her some souvenir- beautiful marionette ;] I have on my head some nepal cap ;] And here I'm playing on a strange india instrument. What a noise! I've met some cute cats. As you can see, only one is completly black but I'm closet to conmplete on of my life missions Here I'm with Perełka (Pearl), she is sweet! And here is Dudek (just Dudek) and he doesn't like noone :P You can see in a picture! An the last one, the sweetest one, but it was hard to take some photo - Felka Maraia's boyfriend has a rock band and I went with him to play some music Bass Drums With Janusz How is he doing that? With Jacek - masked stranger And that's all for now! Greetz :*
dzejna Posted Jun 26, 2010, 7:04 pm	Hi Mum! Loads of things happend since my last update, so here we go. First you need to know that I arrived safe and sound in the Czech Republic yesterday. I met 3 funny toys who live here - they are sort of lazy to get out of bed, but it was ok for me as I was tired after the trip. So we were just resting and chatting the whole day. Here you can see us. And I must not forget, I got lovely sweets from them as a welcome gift! It was very nice (There is Bodie on the picture with the sweets. He is a lion = big cat, which is great!) Here in the Czech Republic I will be staying in the house with a small garden - it is very pleasant for us cats. So today I did some exploring and hangind around. I also picked up some strawberries... But, I went also to try a very special sport activity - target shooting. About 20kms from here is an open air firing range. And as my host has sport shooting as a hobby (you have to do special exams to be allowed to do such hobby) I was allowed to come too and try it myself. So here you can see me - I feel like James Bond! Or maybe better as Olivia Dunham from Fringe division, because this is exactly the gun she uses. (Do you know the Fringe series from the J.J.Abrams, mum?) After the shooting I was helping with cleaning the gun too... hard work. During the afternoon I also helped with painting the ladder and as a reward I got this BIG langos (it is food from Hungary - yummy!) So as you can see, I am quite busy here. I better rush, cause we are going to watch the last Star Trek movie in a minute. I will write to you soon again! Love, Fed
dzejna Posted Jul 5, 2010, 8:49 am	Hey Mummy, these days are really really hot, so we are spending most of the time at home searching for shadow. Also there are two days of National Holidays here in the Czech Republic and and together with the start of summer vacation it makes the roads crazy... Last night we decided for a bit weird way of barbecue... we used some funny sticks to make our sausages right in the fire! It was quite fun and the result was very good too. Check it out! (By the way, my host sais I am quite photogenic, I think I have to agree  ) Bye for now, Fed
dzejna Posted Jul 10, 2010, 5:36 pm	Hi mummy! There is really hot weather here these days, so we decided to go for a trip to the caves today... I am in the karst area, so I have to see the caves anyway, right? So why not right now =) I said. We chose the cave named Balcarka. And it was really really nice... Hope you will enjoy the pictures. This was taken before we actually went in. Here I am studying the information about the place. And this is me with the sculpture next to a parking lot. A tourist sign - look also in Russian! And here I am admiring the caves surroundings when coming to an entrance. And here we go to the caves :-) I was a bit afraid of the cave trolls but my host told me that they probably run away becuase of the tourists years ago. The insights of the caves were quite pretty. On the way back home we took pictures of the TV tower named Kojál which is 340m high! And I was admiring the nature again... Hope you are having fun too mum! Big hug, Fed
dzejna Posted Jul 16, 2010, 12:19 pm	Hey Mum, today I have brief update from this Monday. We went do city called Zlin, where my host studies at the university. It was very very hot day so after we were finished with the administration stuff at school, we decided to go to a café a the highest building of Zlin. We took a look around and had something refreshing to drink. Enjoy the photos! Yours, Fed
dzejna Posted Jul 24, 2010, 2:05 pm	Hey mummy! Yesterady we went to a ZOO! So, you know what it means? I have one life mission completed! Great news, do you agree? Twix and I we chose the ZOO in town called Zlin. (I have already been to Zlin, remember?) This ZOO is very nice and pleasant. It has four different parts, each one dedicated to a different continent. There is also a very nice castle right in the middle of the areal. Check out the pictures! Hope you like it. Yours, Fed.
dzejna Posted Aug 13, 2010, 3:05 pm	Hi Mum, hope you are doing fine, cause we definitely do in here! New TV came to our house this week. His name is Michel and he is German. But as he is quite experienced TV already, he came right from Hong Kong! Amazing, isn´t it? He brought us some special candy and beautiful postcard. As he wanted to stretch his legs after the loooong trip, we jumped into the car and went to see the Macocha Abyss which is nearby and we wanted to see it soon anyway. Here I am looking from the top view point. It was very impressive and very nice. On the second picture you can see small grey platform behind me. That is a lower view and we went there by foot. And this is it... Tourist signs we saw on our way back up. After this trip we decided to go to have a langos. I had one before, right when I came to the Czech Republic, remember? I told the guys it is quite good, so we bought one and some coke and a fried cheese in roll for Twix. Yummy yummy! The buffet is nearby biiig lake and our host insisted we have to go boating! We were quite scared, but we managed! You know what this means? One more life mission completed! I was also trying to paddle, but it is quite hard job... anyway, we had great afternoon! Bye, Fed!
dzejna Posted Aug 21, 2010, 6:55 pm	Hi Mum! Yesterday I wen for my last trip here in the Czech Republic. After the weekend I will be off to Netherlands. This last trip was another ZOO, this time specialized only in Africa. On the way back home we stopped in very nice town Litomysl for the dinner. We took couple of pictures on the very pretty square. Check it out! Bye for now!! Yours Fed
dzejna Posted Aug 22, 2010, 7:11 pm	Hi Mum, today was a small airshow in the village, so we decided to check it out! And you know what we saw? Helicopters and ultralight airplanes... Look, I am even sitting on the top of one! When we got back, we decided to do a goodbye party for me and Timothy III. (Timothy III. is brand new TV of my current host). We sat in the garden, enjoyed the sun, good food and colourful drinks! It was very nice and pleasant... after this lovely goodbye I am quite ready to go! I hope I will meet with the guys again some day. Bye, Fed
dzejna Posted Aug 23, 2010, 8:18 am	Hi everybody, I am already at the post office and soon will be heading to Netherlands! See you there... Fed
Sollie Posted Aug 28, 2010, 4:20 pm	Hia there mommy! I arrived in The Netherlands today, and brought with me the most horrible weather, ever! A box was delivered in Elst... When it was opened, it was a plastic bag inside... And in that bag...was ME!!! Hi there!!! And some *chew-chew* candy! I didnt have the time to eat them all, so my new host got to try some aswell I have never been to The Netherlands before, so i was excited to look outside to see how it looked like! And i guess i brought the really bad weather It was raining THE WHOLE DAY, lots and lots and lots, very much water... I got to know Isabel...she was very playfull tho, so i will stay a little away from her... And the other cat, Jessy, was very sweet, im gonna like it here, they are very friendly! My host made me macaroni as my first dinner here, and it was super delicious While we were eating she was telling me that next week, we are going to NORWAY! Im so super excited, and can't wait! Thats 3 countries in a little over a week, im like...a super traveler! Love, Fed
Sollie Posted Aug 28, 2010, 4:23 pm	Just saying hi, first night here went well, i slept good, and having a good time. I went shopping with Ragnhild, and we bought some candles and stuff, so we could decorate the house a little for the fall! Its very nice to have something special for eacht season, don't you think? This is what we made... Cool, huh? With all those little leaves! Love, Fed
Sollie Posted Oct 19, 2010, 6:22 pm	All ready to go to NORWAY! Im traveling in this bag... While my host travles with this huge thing!  Check out the bag, she was at the Eurovision Song Contest in Oslo in May, how cool is that!  Tomorrow is the big day!!! FED
Sollie Posted Oct 19, 2010, 6:29 pm	This is how it looks like on Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam, it was VERY busy, lots and lots of people, going all over the world! We had plenty of time, and were checking out different shops and had fun before we entered the plane. They had a very pretty aquarium there too...it was very pretty to see the fishes swim around...Check out the blue one there!  I could have stared at it for hours, but we had to move on, the plane wouldnt wait for us! hehe Plane spotting  And buy some food before we boarded! This is before we started...it was really getting nervous now... The plane wasnt that full... I started to feel sick just after we started, but my host was really nice to me, and helped me out, they had bags for plane sickness aswell, and i threw up a little  I felt better after that, and started to enjoy the trip much more... Its very nice to look out the window... You can see so much! (Except when its really cloudy...hehe) We landed at Oslo Airport at 22.00, all went well, and after we drove to my host mothers place, we talked alot, and then went to sleep! FED
Sollie Posted Oct 19, 2010, 6:31 pm	We were in the car most of the day, and in the shopping mall the rest of the day  Thats why we didnt make too many pictures today  Love, FED
Sollie Posted Oct 19, 2010, 6:48 pm	We went to an old fort today, its lying in the hills of Kongsvinger, and its an old fort from somewhere in the 1600! Its was a great vieuw there, and the day was perfect, so good weather! Its a museum but is also still used as a post for the military. The building of the fort started in 1673, and was ready in 1681. Just some of what i saw from up there... Im not sure why, but they had several art pieces on different places in the old buildings, and it was open for everyone to see, so we took a wlak around and looked... Some where very pretty, others...weird... I liked this one very much!  This one was weird...i think the theme had something to do with war, and what it can do with people...it was very dark in this room, and this is all you could see, and it looked very spooky, but when you opened the curtains to the door, and let the sun in, you could see what it was... And it wasnt harmfull at all! That was the point of the artist aswell! I liked it, even tho it was very strange... We were sitting outside in the sun for a while, it was very warm, and good weather! And we went back to the apartement of my hosts mother, and had a great evening there  FEDster
Sollie Posted Dec 13, 2010, 8:03 pm	Today we went geocaching, its like treasure searching, but with a GPS, and its FUUUN One of the caches (as they are called) was close to a shopping mall, we were sitting inside this pretty mall, doing some calculations, trying to find the treasure... The other one was a little more difficult, this was one of the places we had to go to, its outside Kongsvinger trainstation, and we had to search for numbers on this statue... The trainstation...its being renovated... And this is close to where the cache was! Im not going to let you know where it was or how it looks like...cause that would spoil it for other people who are playing this, but it was fun i tell you! This was near another cache. Good thing about geocaching is, you get to go places and see things, you never knew excisted! People living near by, knowing about pretty places or things worth taking a look at, they plant theese trasures, and you can hunt them, and you will see the most increible, pretty and interresting places in the whole world!!! This is me at Kongsvinge Soccer field, they are called KIL... It was getting dark, but we got a cache here too Nice huh? Its through a fence, but still..it was a very pretty sunset! A look of Kongsvinger... And this ios by a lake by Kongsvinger, called Bæreia. Many people come here to swim in the summer But it was too cold here now... Norwegian beer doesent taste too bad It was a fun day! <3 Fed
Sollie Posted Dec 13, 2010, 8:18 pm	Yaaaaaaay! We went to a MUSEUM today, and open air museum of Norwegian old buildings and things and stuff, and it was SO MUCH FUN and so much to look at! Just take a look at this, isnt it pretty??? Its like im IN the 1800 of Norway...wow... Inside one of the old houses... Inside the stave church It was very dark there... This is where they had the people who had misbehaved, on sunday, when the "good" people went to church, they could spit, thrown stones and show the person who had been bad, that they did not agree with what they had done. It was really humiliating to stand there, and that was the punishment for stealing or cheating or something like that... Me, posing, as a misbehaviour They also had a more new part of the museum, with houses and stuff from this period, like houses from the 1900s and cars and shops and such... They are pretty too! Inside, there was even more stuff, but this was more furnitures and such. People have made this themselves, painted them and made them pretty, had it in their livingroom, and handed it down from generation to generation, its old and used, you can see it, but its got charm and history, and its handmade and REAL. It was an honour to walk through this museum, and look at it all. Many times this must have been used to go to church, little kids on their way to church on christmas eve, with a blanket over them, the horse pulling it through the high snow, on a cold winter evening... Wall painting made from a very famous Norwegian painting from the new romance time. Its called "The wedding trip"... Before we went home that day, we also went up into the mountains, to look at Lillehammer from the top... And it was pretty Love, FED
Sollie Posted Dec 13, 2010, 8:29 pm	Just a little video hello from Lillehammer! Hugs, FED
Sollie Posted Mar 26, 2011, 5:12 pm	Hi mom! Im finally on my way to my next host, this time im going to Brazil! Looking forward to it, since it has been pretty cold here in The Netherlands! I hope to see alot of new things there and have fun with my new host. Big hugs, FED in the mail.
MorgenSter Posted Jun 3, 2011, 8:53 pm	Hi Mommy!!! I'm not lost!!!! I got to Brazil... I actually arrived around a few weeks ago, but my host was having serious problems and couldn't turn up here... But... she never forgot me... she took me to places and now I want to share the first photos!! With her cats Kimi(black) and Mia(calico) Eating some corn!!! Bye bye and til next timeeee!!! Oh Out of the 5 black cats I was to take pictures with... 1 down!!!!
MorgenSter Posted Aug 9, 2011, 10:26 pm	New evangelic church Old train station that is no longer in use Quick visit to the beach THE BEST PHOTO MY HOST EVER TOOK!!!! We are looking at Santos

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