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Posted Feb 23, 2008, 11:29 pm
My name is Chip and I am small monkey.
I go crazy for bananas! I am very adventurous and love to try new things. Would you like to host me and have fun with me? I have been in Florida for a long time and it is time to see new places. Here is a picture of me on the patio.
Chip
My travelist:
1.Mosuha(India)ARRIVED
2.Anni Sugar(Australia)
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Posted Mar 10, 2008, 6:46 pm
Andrea says that soon I will be visiting India!! How exciting!
Today muumipeikko arrived from Finland. I am also with Yum Yum, my sister who is also a toyvoyager.
Chip
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Posted Mar 19, 2008, 6:15 pm
I wish you a safe and fast journey,
Posted Mar 22, 2008, 4:31 pm
see, you can't imagine, I just arrived in India....
That was really an extreme fast journey, lucky me!!!
Just a short note, because I don't feel very fine....
As I came today, Pien, Repa and Uli had decided to make a men's evening, watching german soccer (1. FC Bayern München vs. Bayer Leverkusen) and drink some chilled indian beer called "KingFisher". Of cause I agreed to that plan.
I was really fun and I immediately found new friends in these three guys.
Maybe it was because of the long journey or I am just to tiny to drink one bottle of beer on my own.... but.......
After I spent some time over the toilett, Mona will bring me now to my bed.....
... hicks ...
c u .....
Posted Mar 26, 2008, 9:45 pm
This time I didn't drink so much... just a little against the pain in my head....
And I really felt much better after that!
Posted Mar 26, 2008, 10:01 pm
It's like paradise, isn't it?!
We also tried some indian meal and I tasted all these different things, but anyway, the dried banana peaces were my favorits, even they were salted.....
Later I played with Pien...
We dressed like indian gods figures.... It was great fun.... Repa laught at us, he said we would look like cute girls, but he has no idea......!!!
Posted Mar 30, 2008, 10:02 pm
Together with my hosts I went to Mahabalipuram which is 60km south of Chennai to spent one night at a very beautiful beach resort....
It was sooooo great, I was even allowed to climb the palms to catch some coconuts... can you see me having fun?
Today, on sunday, we went to a place with very old caves and rock-cut figures and temples....
Look, they even build figures which seems to be my relatives...
Posted Apr 5, 2008, 8:34 am
This week, you could say, was really international...
if it depends on food...
On tuesday we went to a french bakery called "La Boulangerie". It is a non-profit shop run by some french men.
They teach poor indian guys to make bread, cakes, corissants and so on (absolutly delicious!!!), so that they later can work at a restaurant or hotel....
On Thursday, Uli could spent his lunchbreak with Mona and we went to a restaurant called "Picasso", where they serve mexican style food....yummy.....
And yesterday evening we went out with some of Ulis colleques to a nice restaurant called "little italy" and guess what kind of food they serve?!!?
Yes, I ate a whole big pizza.... pfuee... was great.
Now you might think, my host would never cook, but you must now, at the moment we broke the new degree record for this year... Arround noon it is about 40 degree hot, and my hosts don't have an AC in the kitchen, but have to cook with gas, which makes it even hoter inside.....
That's why we all more prefer to got out for dinner.... instead of helping Mona in the kitchen....
I think, today evening we will go to the german "Goethe Institut" here in Chennai, where they will show some short movies about human rights.
Mona didn't tell me, what we will do tomorrow, but on monday I will leave for Australia to visit Anni Sugar.
I am so excited. You must know, poor Anni is preparing for a surgery, that's why I want to got there, to be on her side and to hold her hand!
Posted Apr 8, 2008, 4:49 pm
Saturday we were at the cinema, saw the short movie event about human rigths, it was very interesting...
But the best thing was, that I drove with the threewheeler to this place.... juppppiiiieeee......
On sunday the guys and I cheers to my new upcoming adventures...
Posted Apr 8, 2008, 5:06 pm
Pien and I went to a temple, because he wanted to pray for me having a good journy. Ain't that nice?!
So good bye India, Australia I am coming!!!
I made some good friends with Repa and Pien, and also with my hosts. Thank you guys so much!
And you know, what they say: "You always meet twice!"
Bye Bye....
Posted May 1, 2008, 1:55 am
Last week I arrived in Wodonga; a large country town in Victoria. We're staying on a country property and there are so many animals!
Anni has been in hospital having surgery so her parents have been looking after both me and her. She gets her stitches out today and if everything is ok, we'll be travelling back to Melbourne where she lives.
I have a few photos I can't wait to show you. Anni forgot to bring her camera cord so they'll have to wait until we arrive at her home.
I miss you very much, but I'm having fun here.
Anni even helped me choose a souvenir to send you. We'll be sending it to you in the mail. I hope you like it!
Chip
Posted May 3, 2008, 1:23 am
Here are the photos from my stay in Wodonga. It's Autumn at the moment and the countryside was beautiful.
I even got to feed some goats. Unfortunately, I had to keep my distance after one of them mistook me for food!
And just as we were leaving, we spotted some kangaroos on the hill. It's a pity we couldn't get any closer to them.
Chip
Posted May 4, 2008, 12:42 pm
Well I'm back in Melbourne, and what better way to spend my weekend than to go to an AFL game at the MCG.
AFL stands for Australian Rules Football and is the most popular sporting competition in the country. There are 16 teams from all over Australia.
The aim of the game is to get the ball through the goals on your side of the field by kicking it. You can pass it to other players on your team by either kicking or handballing it.
There are four goal posts. If a player kicks it between the middle two, it's a goal. A goal is worth 6 points. If a player kicks it between either of the outer two, it's a point. A point is only worth 1.
It's a contact sport so there are always exciting moments, especially when players of opposing teams will jump on top of each other to grab the ball in the air.
It's hard to explain, but I hope you get the idea. Even I had a hard time following what everybody was screaming about!
We saw Hawthorn vs Collingwood. It was a huge game and there were 80,000 people in the crowd. Lucky we arrived early so we could get good seats and take some photos without people blocking the view!
The end score was:
Hawthorn Hawks 24 goals, 10 points. Total: 154
Collingwood Magpies 13 goals, 11 points. Total: 89
Go Hawthorn!
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Posted Jun 26, 2008, 9:24 pm
Katja, Dave and Dirkie came back on Monday and I finally got out of my envelope. I was there quite a while because I was posted in the beginning of June from Australia. Just before opening my package, Katja, my new host, had opened another envelope with another ToyVoyager in it; Super Grover. So he's my new TV buddy now 
Dirkie showed us around the house and also introduced us to Felix. He'll be leaving tomorrow, but it was good to meet him too!
You're probably wondering why I haven't updated earlier. Katja had so many things to do on Tuesday after holiday (emptying cases, washing clothes etc) and yesterday she was working for 24 hours so we didn't really get a chance to do anything until today. Today Katja went to the estate agent's so we took some photos on our way there and then we took some group pose photos too
There's a palm tree on the back ground
There's a nice tree with red flowers on it there.
That's us in Katja's car
That's all of us with Felix
Me on a small aloe vera
And all of us on a big aloe vera
And here are us again with a sauna elf. Hopefully I'll get a chance to try the sauna properly before I go. But it's been really warm over here so if it carries on like that, there's really no point having a sauna...
But that's all for today.
Good night!
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Posted Jun 28, 2008, 9:11 pm
Today we've been to Katja's work, well we are still here because she works 24 hour shifts. She works as an interpreter/receptionist in a small tourist surgery. She says that most summer days are very quiet, same as today has been, but winter time is really busy because that's when all the Scandinavians come over to Tenerife. Also Katja was bored while at work so she decided to look for some hotels and actually booked one in Puerto de la Cruz for next Saturday which is great because I've been told that the northern side of the island is very different from the southern side where I am at the moment so it'd be great to see that too and maybe we'll go over Teide when we come back *wink*wink*
We had a look around Katja's work place. There's not really much to see put here are some photos anyway.
That's us on the desk
This photo was taken from the front door, unfortunately it was too bright on the back ground and me and Super Grover are not in our best colours there...
That's us again on the x-ray machine
We were a bit too small to have an ECG done with this..
Ans that's us with some medical material
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Posted Jul 1, 2008, 11:39 pm
Today Spain won the football Euro Cup. My host is really not into football so you won't hear a big deal about it from me either. But we did take a photo outside her work with a Spanish flag decorating someone balcony upstairs, obviously to support the Spanish team. It must have worked
We went to a shop called Iceland today in Los Cristianos so we got some photos of Los Cristianos. We finally saw the sea too!
Well that's it for today. I'll write you soon,
Chip
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Posted Jul 9, 2008, 1:55 pm
Today we travelled to Puerto de la Cruz and stayed in a hotel called La Perla. The hotel is ok but not one of the best hotels so I wouldn't recommend it eventhough it was cheap and all inclusive. We had a small walk near the hotel and took some photos while we were out. We mainly just spent time in the hotel as it was all inclusive. Ok, finally photos here, I'm sorry it has taken such a while. There were so many photos to choose from (you can see all of them here)
This photo was taken on our way to Puerto de la Cruz. You can see Teide vulcano on the background.
This was also on our way to Puerto de la Cruz, a valley.
This is me and Super Grover walking in Puerto de la Cruz.
On this one you can see lots of small Canarian palm trees.
And this is a dragon tree. A very charasteristic tree for Tenerife.
I'll write you about us visiting mount Teide as well but that will have to be tomorrow. Sorry about all the delay, my host has been busy trying to sell their apartment.
Hugs,
Chip
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Posted Jul 12, 2008, 1:17 pm
Finally I've had a chance to tell you about our trip to Teide. We went there from Puerto de la Cruz where it was raining but when we got on Teide, there were no clouds about because we had gone through them. Teide National Park is one of the UNESCO world heritages and the vulcano, Teide, is 3718m high. We didn't go all the way to the peak because first you have to take a cable car and then you'd have to have a permission from the National Park council to climb up to the peak. Even my hosts haven't done that. They've gone up on the cable car that takes you to 3555m. The cable car leaves from 2356m so that's about the height where we were. We took loads of pictures but I won't put all of them here because that'd make this update really long. But you can see them all on the site I gave you in my last update.
This is us, me and Super Grover on our way to Teide, travelling through the clouds
And this is us again, travelling through clouds and road works...they are everywhere..
This is me and as you can see, we are above the clouds!
We're getting closer to Teide...
This is us with Teide on our background.
I was told that the Planet of the Monkeys and some Star Wars films were filmed here because it's very moonlike here. They covered the road with sand and chose places where there weren't that many bushes.
This is us again with Teide on the background and also the famous rock which is on many postcards. Katja doesn't know what it's called though.
And here's a bit clearer photo of Teide and the rock.
This is us with a tall plant behind us. Winter time they have red flowers on them and Katja says that they look really nice.
This is me again with Teide from another angle.
This photo was taken a lot lower down the mountain.
And on this one you can already see villages and towns and even the coast line.
Well I hope you liked the photos and I hope to update again soon!
Take care,
Chip
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Posted Jul 26, 2008, 7:29 pm
Today we've finally been on the beach!
It was really warm and the sand was nice and hot too. I think I even got a bit of a tan
Here are some photos of me on the beach
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Posted Aug 7, 2008, 2:34 pm
Also Katja's newest ToyVoyager Sportie came along. SuperGrover has started his voyage over to Norway a few days ago.
Unfortunately you can't appreciate the view as much on photos..
There was this big decorated cross on a hill
This is me and Sportie on top of the hill where the cross is.
The newly wed couple's car
After the wedding we went out for a drink to a bar in Puerto Colon
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Posted Aug 7, 2008, 3:11 pm
We couldn't find anywhere we liked in there so we headed towards Santiago del Teide. All the picnic tables were taken there.
Then we drove towards Icod and decided to turn back as it started getting cloudy. Then we thought about going to where there's a light house. The light house of Teno. We had to go there through the winding roads of Masca.
Here are some photos of the Masca valley. Unfortunately they aren't very good because you couldn't really stop anywhere to take photos and it was really difficult to take them because the car's turning all the time.
On our way to the light house we had to cross "forbidden" road. You could cross it but only under your own responsability. Then we finally arrived to Teno.
It was really pretty up there. The water was crystal clear.
There were lots of people sunbathing and swimming.
We had our picnic and also did some sunbathing for a bit.
There's the light house
These were taken on our way back home, on the "forbidden" road
Then in the evening to finish off the very relaxing day, we had a bath in candle light and also went to sauna.
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Posted Aug 21, 2008, 3:19 pm
We were staying in a really nice hotel called Monopol. There were loads of flowers and plants in the hotel and there was this flower woman who was replacing the droopy flowers every morning.
This is a small fountain in the hall room of the hotel.
There was also an old water filter system there on display.
The hall room was really really green (sorry about the blur photo)
Puerto de la Cruz at night
Church in front of our hotel.
This was taken outside Lago Martianez (lake Martianez, a pool area)
This one's taken outside Lago martianez too
Some more flowers at the hall
This is the flower lady
The hotel
Sea
At a Finnish karaoke pub
The future port of Puerto de la Cruz
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Posted Aug 31, 2008, 11:58 pm
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Posted Sep 22, 2008, 10:53 am
Today we went to a Chinese restaurant and then for a small walk.
Here's Puerto Colon beach:
And Torviscas beack:
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Posted Sep 25, 2008, 7:51 pm
Today we've been for a long walk, about 10km. Katja asked her boyfriend to go to work in her car because she had to go to the post office and if she had had the car, we would have not walked there.
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Posted Oct 10, 2008, 6:07 pm
Can't wait to see her again!