F. M. Baer, JOLFA, Iran

turtles


Posted Jun 29, 2013, 9:29 pm
Hello from Sweden <3

Today mom, dad, 10C and I arrived at Sweden.

We took the Öresund Bridge from Copenhagen to Malmo - it is a wonderful feeling to drive over this great bridge:

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We drove highway E4 to the north and after a delicate lunch in Ljungby we reached the Lake Vättern:

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This lake my dad wants to circuit next Friday together with 20.000 other crazy cyclists. Oh-oh....

We arrived at Vadstena Camping, a nice place at the lake. We parked our camper and mom and i explored Vadstena by bicycle.

Here you can see me at the drawbridge to the castle:

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and this is the beautiful Vadstena Castle, built in 1545:

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After a rest at the castle we drove back to our camper along the lakeside.

I slept very well this night.
turtles


Posted Jul 1, 2013, 5:52 pm
Today was a sunny morning, only a little bit cold, said my mom - I didn't agree ;)

Dad relaxed at the camper and mom and I started for a little bicycle excursion. We saw a lot of these beautiful red wodden houses, which are typical for Sweden:

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and these wonderful alley:

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Then we arrived at Lake Tåkern. A lot of wild birds live here. And last year the Naturum (=Information Center) was dedicated. Visitors get a lot of facts about the lake and the birds there.

In front of the Naturum is a nice resting place:

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Look at the big bird's eggs! I don't want to meet the bird, which has laid these eggs!

And this is the Naturum:

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The lake is located behind the building.

After buying some postcards (roll eyes) we looked at the interesting informations.

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hmmmmm - what a nice green thing - i think it lives in the lake.

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And these bird gave me a lot of advice for a better look. What did he think? I'm a very handsome bear.

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Oups! The birds at the lake are closer then thought....

May i introduce: Nils Holgersson

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After a little break (for writing postcards - *roll eyes*) and a walk at the lake we started to the next sight: The Rök Runestone

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It is located near the church of Rök and mom and I lay in the grass in front of the church and looked at the clouds in the sky...dreaming

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The day was away too fast, i think.
turtles


Posted Jul 3, 2013, 5:43 pm
A bad weather day ... but i had a lot of fun during visiting Gränna.

First i took a cup of coffee at Fiket's

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and had a look at the interesting old fotos at the wall:

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I enjoyed this old-fashioned and cozy cafe - and the sweet tasted very good too.

Gränna is known for its red and white polkagris stick candy, also known as peppermint rock. So i visited a store which sells this candy:

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and bought a polkagris stick for Mondkind

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These look very good and tast minty.

The red and white sticks are the classic polkagris, but there are a lot of variety of shapes, sizes, and colors now:

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Very interesting, but i have to go to Motala now....see you :)
turtles


Posted Jul 23, 2013, 1:59 pm
It is Sunday today - and finally a wonderful sunny summer day.

So turtles and i decided to make a excursion along the coast of the Baltic Sea from Kühlungsborn to Graal-Müritz. Turtles says, it is one of the most beautiful places on earth...

We started early in the morning in Kühlungsborn and saw a lot of boats at the port:

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Near the station Heiligendamm i met the "Molli", a steam-powered railway in Mecklenburg:

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This is one of the passages to the beach in between Heiligendamm and Börgerende. The silver looking plant is seabuckthorn:

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We met a lot of other cyclists on the way:

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In Warnemünde we took the ferry from the city center to the district "Hohe Düne". We saw a big cruiser:

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The beach at Graal-Müritz. We are not alone, as you can see, but we found a little place for our beach towel:

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Turtles went swimming and i shared a "Buhne" (=groyne) with a friendly seagull:

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After swimming we did some sunbathing. I built a sun protection with turtles cap:

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This is the way along the beach. Earlier in the year bloomed the dog roses and it looks very beautiful says turtles:

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We started our way back through a wonderful shady forrest:

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And looked at the old harbour in Warnemünde:

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A last beautiful forrest, called Ghost Wood near Nienhagen:

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We reached Kühlungsborn at 6 P.M. and turtles drove us back to Lübeck in her car very quickly. That was a great day for me. I enjoyed the trip very much.

See you soon - i hope :D
turtles


Posted Jul 26, 2013, 6:02 pm
Time to say goodbye ....

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Tomorrow i start a big journey. Thats why i have to say goodbye to my best friend 10C, George and Georgina and Wuschel.
Especially 10C was a little bit sad and gave me a big "Good-Bye-Hug", but i promise to write many postcards to him.

See you soon :D
turtles


Posted Jul 29, 2013, 9:02 pm
Today turtles was very excited. She made me a Bandana, because it shall be sunny and hot this day. Where will we go?

First we drove to Hamburg and met with mondkind and her son and Possy & Crossy. How nice! Possy and Crossy had a lot to report and Nicole looked very happy.

We took place in front of the car and turtles gave us a booklet of Robbie Williams. And then she showed us tickets! We will meet Robbie Williams for a concert in Hannover! Yeah! Rock 'n Roll!

I started immeditely learning lyrics, but P & C started dancing:

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We left mondkinds son at her nice auntie and did the last meters by train. In front of the stadium we found this beautiful poster:

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Because we were very early, we got fan zone bracelets from the security people. Mondkind and turtles were enthusiastic and we went to the park and sat down under a tree...and waited...and waited...and waited.

Then we could enter the stadium. At the entrance were a lot of people:

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Look:

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During the concert the whole place (which is empty at this moment) was full of people! And we were near the stage :D

After a long time of waiting (with some rain...), the show started with Olly Murs, who did a great job!

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And then HE came - the one and only Mr. Robbie Williams:

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Can you imagine, how close to the stage i was? Wow!!! I saw everything! And P & C had a lot of fun too. I heard they screaming ;)

After the concert, which was too short, we took a drink in a beer garden. And i needed a shower, because i was whiffy.

What a wonderful day! Thank you Mr. Williams for entertaining us!
ipuenktchen


Posted Jul 30, 2013, 5:57 pm
hi. leutz, today on her way back home from the concert in hannover via hamburg turtles reached the beautiful little village schoenkirchen, where she met IPUENKTCHEN!!!!! it was hard to say goodbye to my beloved mom, but Possy & Crossy are with me, and we got great buddies during all this time together at turtles'!!!!!!!!!!!!!

so I'm very curious now to see IRAN!!! but not yet!!!!!!!!!!!!!
but ipue told us, we'll leave KIEL tomorrow ahead to hannover, to stay there a few days to arrange all her luggage and then going to hamburg to reach the plane to tehran.... and also she told me, teh has 40 degrees... oh my god, and I forgot to take my bandana with me.......

:) :o

and just on my first pic with ipue you may understand why she gave me her special nickname: *MASCHI KLAPP-OHR* - strange, isn't she????!?!!!!!!?!?!



turtles


Posted Jul 30, 2013, 5:58 pm
Today i have to say goodbye to turtles. She will take me and P & C to Ipuenktchen. And next week we will do a big journey. I'm excited.

Turtles asked us, to make a last photo for mondkind, but P & C was so jittery, that they couldn't keep still.

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Please hold the line - i'll be back soon :D
ipuenktchen


Posted Jul 30, 2013, 6:37 pm
hi leutz!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
we are leaving kiel.......... here we say goodbye to the *hoern*!!
ipuenktchen


Posted Jul 30, 2013, 6:41 pm
hi, leutz - again news from our trip ahead to hannover........
here you see pics from HAMBURG... ipue saw her beloved HH on this holiday-trip only from the train.... poor ipue.....

:rolleyes: :thinking:

but better than nothing......

ipuenktchen


Posted Jul 30, 2013, 6:48 pm
and here we reached Hamburg - some impressions from the trains...

- lombardsbruecke
- main station
- deichtorhallen
- spiegel-verlagsgebaeude
- elbbruecken
ipuenktchen


Posted Jul 30, 2013, 6:52 pm
hi, leutz... and here the famous & beautiful HUNDERTWASSER-Bahnhof in uelzen on our way to hannover...........
ipuenktchen


Posted Jul 31, 2013, 11:02 pm
ey gosh - today I had my first ride downtown hannover at the occasion of the famous MASCHSEEFEST 2013!!!! and it was soooo great!! what a crowd, it seems ppl like to go out here a lot!! and not only on weekend, but also during the week!! we had so much fun with ipue and her hubby and friends!!!!!! btw it was nice to have my shawl, because it was a bit cold beside the lake.....

we only reached to take ONE photos with each of us....
better than nothing................... :-)))))))))))))))))))))))
it was at the monument *menschenpaar*, during the *third reich*...
made by georg kolbe in 1939.
http://olaf.pytalhost.com/galerie/Menschenpaar.php
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maschseefest
ipuenktchen


Posted Aug 2, 2013, 5:32 pm
last ride downtown before leaving germany!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
such an awfull HOT weather, hannover 34 degrees, but in fact I felt more..... it was sooooooooo awfull... (believe it, ipue told me, they have only 31 degrees at her 2nd hometown tabriz now!!!!!!!!!!)

we went to an ancient graveyard to say goodbye to ipue's mom.. :-((( and again smth to do at a bank office.. and some little things to bye again... and a last *bratwurst* and and and.... and at last she show me one of her favorite views, the *anzeiger-hochhaus*, the only building survived from WWII...... with a beautiful artistic stop of the tram in front!!!!!!!!

leutz, I'm so curious and cannot wait anymore what will happen the next days!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!??!?!?!!??? dear, dear mom KROETE, as well as I miss you up from now, but it's so amazing we'll start very soon for my great oriental adventure!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ipuenktchen


Posted Aug 3, 2013, 3:57 pm
uiiiiiiiih, I wasn't ready to have such a nice event, when ipue told us to go out, just in the same street of our host!!!! the annually *Letter-Museumsfest*with some interesting things to get familar with!!!!!?!

first we saw the letter-ladies with their amazing hobby *KLOEPPELN*!!

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http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kl%C3%B6ppeln

and next we got information about middle-european mushrooms!!!!

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finally a hunter-chor and a cute lady with a hurdy-gurdy were cheering up the visitors!!!!

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btw I was really trembling in the arms of the orang-utan... ey gosh............ but it was nice to have a goodbye-pic all we four traveltoys together!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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ipuenktchen


Posted Aug 5, 2013, 9:43 pm
ey gosh.... our travelling from letter, germany, to tabriz, Iran, took just 24 hours!!!! believe it!!!!!!!!!!!
but it was a great adventure for me as I'm for my very first time in this part of the world!!!!!!!

we got up in letter at ipue's friend's at 6 AM, the last breakfast with *broetchen* for a long time.....
and ipue's friends brought us with all the luggage to hannover main station!!! and it was great to have the help of them at the train, too, to met all the suitcases and bags into the train!!!!!! believe it, we had SEVEN pieces of luggage!!!!!!!!! and it was a bit difficult to manage them with only two elder persons to change into the local train later......

ipue told us, she hate ICE-trains... and really we were again so uncomfortable, as several groups of *football-kids*, going to a holiday camp on sylt island, each group 40 kids, spread everywhere in the train, and no free seat again............. well, we finally arrived at hamburg!

there we had to change only the platform - and we reached the local train to airport at time!!! while sitting in the S-bahn ipue's son2 was calling, if everything was ok!!!!!! ey gosh - what a timing!!! to tell us they are still arrived in tehran, ready to come to the airport, 40 kms outside teh, to pick us up!!!! we were REALLY THRILLED and so happy!!!!!!!! then a last glance at our beloved hamburg here and there... and we arrived at airport station!!!!!! yeaaaaaaaaah!!! here we got a luggage-trolley and everything was easy up from now!!

:D

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then we went into the queue at IranAir desk!!! this tooks less than an hour!! and the lady was so kind.. everything was ok, ni we had too much luggage nor to heavy cabin buggage... and so we were free only with the small luggage, and we decided to go on the terrasse of the airport to have a last coffee and alsterwasser and a yummy cake!! we TVs were very impressed of the many airplanes starting and landing.. and one hour later we went to look for our gate to be next to the entry of our plane!!!!

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I was so excited and couldn't really built a sentence... oh my god.... my first flight!!!!!!
later ipue told me she took some pills again travel-sickness with her, perhaps I would need them. but very proudly I can let you know, dear mom, I was sooo courageous and didn't need them at all!!!!!!!!!

:p :cyclops:

then we had our flight!! longer than normal, as IRair-planes are fuelling nowadays here & where and we had to go for budapest!!!! what a pity, only to see the airport of this beautiful ancient city, ipue told me, she had been there on her last trip 2 years ago!! and so ipue went at the opened door to take some pics for evidence we had been here!!!!!!!!

:p

but she told me at the same time, for me it would be too dangerous, and she didn't allowed any of us to come with her near the door!!!!! well, that's life....... :-((( after 1 h fuelling we continued our flight and with a bit delay of half an hour we reached hot tehran, 36 degrees still in the evening!!!!!!!

when we came downstairs by escalator we saw dear lili_6789 and yashila_81 behind the glass wall showing posters with *ingrid* and *firouz* written on, as they were from a hotel or a company looking for their unknown stuff!!!!!!!!!!!!! leutz, we died laughing!!!!!!!!!!

yashila_81 came inside to help us!!!!???! then we had to pass our luggage through the screening machine and got free to go out!!

:o

and what a surprise now!! our pilot was a cousin of lili_6789!!!!!!!!
*die welt ist ein dorf* as the germans are saying!! It's a small world!

ok......... we got a large taxi and went 40 kms to tehran!!!!!!!!!yashila had reserved the bus-tickets for the last bus to tabriz at midnight, and believe it, leutz, we reached the bus terminal 20 min to midnight!!!!!!!!!!!


ipuenktchen


Posted Aug 5, 2013, 10:28 pm
the rest was fun, to go by bus to tabriz and arrived there at 8 AM, having a nice breakfast with the tasty BARBERI bread - WHO needs BROETCHEN????????????????

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and dear mom, don't worry, it's so nice here!! next I'll tell you more about!!
but now I have to sleep!!! I love you, dear mom!!!!!!!!!!!!
we all are tired now.... sorryyyyyyyy..

:rolleyes:


ipuenktchen


Posted Aug 10, 2013, 10:23 am
hi, leutz.... today we had a look around and entered the beautiful park Shahgoli close to ipue's!!! it's really a cosy corner there and the breakfast-picnic with her friends was superb!!!!!

it's a holiday again *eyde fetr*, end of ramazan!! and here we are!!!!!!!! do you remember a postcard from shahgoli?????????

love you, mom!!!!!!!!!

ipuenktchen


Posted Aug 11, 2013, 8:22 pm
ipue had her game-gathering today and it was so funny to see all the elder women with her daughters or daughter-in-laws died laughing without any end............ mostly they got headaches finally............. tztztztzzzzzz... the playmo-convention tried to join the *halli-galli*... and we had lots of sweets and so on.. a yummy icecream, too!!!
mom, when I'll be back home one day I'll teach you some new games I learned here!!!!!!!!!!

;) love, F.M.Bear

ipuenktchen


Posted Aug 12, 2013, 8:08 am
mommy - I miss youuuuuuuuu!!!!
the hot weather here in tab is much more comfortable than at our home, mom!!!!
****es herrscht eine relative Luftfeuchtigkeit von 30.1%.****
can you believe it???? that's why when we were on the road from tehran the view around was really autumn-like!!!!!!!!
they had no rain since early spring!

so I'd profite from the great weather and told ipue to bring me outside!! and so she did and she took some awsome pics from me!!! pls enjoy!!!! it's for you, mom!!!!!!!!
ipuenktchen


Posted Aug 14, 2013, 6:04 pm
ey goshhhhhhh - today I learned a lot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ladies-gatherings mostly are dangerous for shy little guys like ME!!!!!!!
Ipue knew this and wouldn't take me  with her, but............ I pressed her again and again and finally she told me, I will regret..
but we went together - I was in her handbag... and when we entered the salon and I had a very little look out from her bag and saw all the ladies with their large decolletees and minijupes and so on, ey gosh, as Ipue told me, I regret deeply to come  here.......

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and this was the b-day-cake for this little guy there, who had his b-day-party today...

turtles


Posted Dec 23, 2013, 12:08 pm
Dear mom :)

thank you so much for paying the ransom money.
The bee-gang promised to set me free before christmas...

...I'll hope the best.

Love,
Bear
ipuenktchen


Posted Dec 27, 2013, 2:09 pm
oyoyoyoyoyoyyyyyyyyyyyyyy - happily arrived back home at ipue's.....
:thinking: :rolleyes: :stare: :o :) :( :D :D :D
what can I say.......... lucky bear I am!!! I could never imagine I'll see my host ipue and my buddies ZIZZI-Zebra, JORIS the second, POSSY & CROSSY again!!!!!!!!! Ipue told me, I was more than 4 months under the pressure of the b-gang!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-(((((((((((((((((((((((((((( and about 2 weeks ago my dear mom TURTLES got a call they asked for money.............. to pass me back!!!!?!?!? for sure my mom was ready to pay and also she accepted don't let the cops current... a huge secret - only to see me back home safely and healthy!!!!!!
:thinking: :rolleyes: :stare: :o :) :( :D :D :D
and so she scraped all her money together to get me freeeeeeeeee!!!!
oh my dear mom - I miss you so!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
but now I'm patient to continue my trip to middle east, cause I know you are well and you know me, I'm well, too!! and everything came to a happy end!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
how lucky we are!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! thank you, dear mom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
:thinking: :rolleyes: :stare: :o :) :( :D :D :D
well, and today they blindfold me in the early morning, met me in a car, and we went by car not so far.. and they hustled me out of the car!!!!! :-(((((((((((((( mom, it was sooooooooooooooo cold!!!!!!!!!!
(ipue told me, only -18 degrees C!!!!!) imagine, mom!! it was sommer when they kidnapped me, in august...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
I went by foot, and it was so difficult with all this snow. when I arrived at a fast-food-shop and asked the address, they could help me only to make a paper-hat for me.. not that usefull against the coldness...
:thinking: :rolleyes: :stare: :o :) :( :D :D :D
later I found a young couple and asked them to bring me to ipue's with their car. I was really tired and nearly FROZEN!!!!!!!?!??!!?
when they rang the door for me, I breathed a sigh of relief - nobody can imagine what I was feeling!!!!!!!!!?!?!?!?
much more when Ipue came out and brought me into the cosy and warm house!!!!!!!!!
:D :D :D
mom, I'm so thankfull!!!!!!! will never forget this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
and when they told me, there are only a few days untill christmas, I got really thrilled!!! mom, what an adventure!!! and sorry, don't worry, I lost some weight, because they don't gave me that much food..... :-((( but it doesn't matter!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

and here are some pics from my happy return home to ipue!!!!!!!!!
and how happy I had been when I heard, Possy & Crossy were coming back home also safely after a large adventure!!
kiss you and miss you, my dearest mom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D :D
ipuenktchen


Posted Dec 27, 2013, 5:59 pm
dear mom!
I got up very late, as I was so tired from my walk in the snow and the stress if I could find ipue's home or not.........

after breakfast ipue told me, she'll provide the cake she made just yesterday before my arrival to make a coffee-party for us toyvoyagers!!! wooow, how great, and so we were around the table with so much cookies, and sweets and cake and so on.. and chatting about everything happened since August!!! thx, dear ipue!!!

and here are some pics, dear mom, made by ipue as well as by CROSSY!!!!!
ipuenktchen


Posted Dec 27, 2013, 6:13 pm
hi, dear mom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
we got up very early and went to the airport!! ipue had a guest from her home-town and we went there to pick her up!! back home we had a great breakfast, and later ipue asked us to come with them downtown for sightseeing!!! oh yes, great idea.. as I had seen nothing during the last 4 months.....

so first we went to the blue mosque, and then comes a pic from the khagani's garden with blue mosque in back, later we went to eat some beans, so yummy!! and from there we had a look to the ancient citadel of olden tabriz from about 1.000 years ago, and at last we entered the potter's house, an ancient mansion of qajar era from about 200 years ago!

here are some pics for you, dear mom!! kiss you!!!!!!!
ipuenktchen


Posted Dec 27, 2013, 6:29 pm
my dear mom, in the evening ipue announced us another programme, as we were invited for *yalda eve*, the longest night of the year, a traditional holiday in IR!!! and it was also the b-day of ipue's son2!!!
ppl have the habitude to keep the last water melons for this night, and pomegranates and also cotton candy!!

here are some pics for you!! it was a funny eve!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ipuenktchen


Posted Dec 27, 2013, 6:40 pm
hurry up, buddies!! another sightseeing downtown tabriz, as ipue's guest will leave today in the eve by train for tehran!

mommy, here you can see us in tabriz bazar - here the carpet bazar, the worldwide largest covered bazar and a world heritage site! from there we went to a restaurant to have a yummy meal! then we picked up the backpack of our guest and went to the railway station to be in time there for the train!!!

it was great to see more from ipue's 2nd home town, but why it is sooo cold????
kiss you, mom!!!!!!  :-))))))))

ipuenktchen


Posted Dec 27, 2013, 6:57 pm
hello, dear mom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

today is a mourning day... and the ppl have habitude to prepare different dishes for charity depending to their solemn promises, and so we got a yummy dessert today from one of ipue's relatives. made by rice, saffron, water, and later a calligraphy on for decoration made by cinnamon!

kiss you - miss you, dear mom!!!
ipuenktchen


Posted Dec 27, 2013, 7:03 pm
in many places of the world ppl are celebrating today christmas eve!!!
and so we did!!! waiting untill it will be dark outside, sitting around the christmas tree and have a yummy meal!!!!!!!!

mommy, I really miss you!!
lots of kisses, your bearli
ipuenktchen


Posted Dec 29, 2013, 5:55 pm
again -13 °C... - dear mom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I hope you don't have so cold weather....................
although today we had a ride downtown with ipue's son2 for bazar!!
I like it!! and here are some pics for you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://ipuenktchenworld.blogger.de/static/antville/ipuenktchenworld/images/sabolamr2.jpg

again sabolamr-mosque, more than 1000 years old!!
and a glance at fruit-bazar - we bought tons of fruits and learned their name!! and also strange things like the vine leaves for famous *dolme* and sweet lemons, chickpeas and pomegranates and so on!!!!

later we went to the wholesale part of bazar and they bought a lot of things and their car looked like they had a shop to sell all these things again.... LOOOOL...

and last but not least on our way home we found an antique shop, the owner *akbar almani* - that means *deutscher akbar*.. *german akbar*.... hehe...

love, baerli
ipuenktchen


Posted Jan 2, 2014, 9:47 pm
hi, mom - A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR FOR YOUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!

hopefully for the last time there was another day with the master thesis of ipue's son2 :-))))))))))) pls keep your fingers crossed, after a few minutes he'll send it again to his prof.. this time we hope instantly it will be ready to get print...............!!!?!?!?

it was quite boring for us..... he had been more than 40 days working on now, with nearly no break. how strong!!!!!!!!!!!! and in fact he started to write for in spring and later a trip around the country to different cities for searching - thumbsup!!!!!

miss you, mom - kiss you, mom!!!!!!!!!!!
ipuenktchen


Posted Jan 6, 2014, 4:18 pm
boah, today I heard a great info - in the eve we are leaving for TEHRAN by TRAIN, the capital of iran, and as I heard with such a crowd... 14 millions inhabitants, an awfull traffic but great opportunities to do and to see!! I'm really thrilled, dear mom, and as you know me best, I LIKE to go by TRAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and I'll tell you EVERYTHING!!!!

;) :D :p

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and so we did!!!!!!!! at 6.30 PM we left tabriz, first we had a yummy tea-time, pls mom, have a look!!!!

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we had a private cabin for our own and so we had space enough, coz ZIZZI_Zebra and POSSY & CROSSY where with us!!!
we slept quite early, at 10 PM, as everybody was so tired......

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good night, dear mom, sleep well!!!!



ipuenktchen


Posted Jan 6, 2014, 4:32 pm
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the train made it step by step, not that fast, but very safe and solid!!
we got up at 7 AM near tehran and at 8.15 we arrived!!!!

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in the great hall of the railway station there was a money-machine and ipue asked me to have a glance and took
a photo of me and the money-machine when someone was inserting his card!! the others were quite jalous,
as ipue took mostly pics from MEEEEEEE!!! 

:D:cyclops: :p

well, I'm the guest - and as we say in german *der gast ist koenig*!!!! (means the guest is the king!! hehe...)
IR ppl have the same idea!!!! lucky me!!!!!!!!!!!

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the railway station is pretty downtown southern tehran!! and we took the bus to arrive to the city center!!!!
everything I saw on our way I liked a lot, except the really bad air-situation!!!!??!?>! :-(((((
here you may see for instance the famous milad tower we passed nearby, no foggy weather.. no, no!! :-((((((((((

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ipue told us, northern tehran is full of mountains, but we saw NOTHING!!!!! can you imagine this?????

on our way to the hospital for the medical treatment of ipue's hubby we passed also the armenian cathedral!

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when we were ready to leave the hospital again, we entered the flat of ipue's son1, who was absent.
we had a yummy lunch there!!!! and everybody slept again ;-))) near midnight we went to the bus terminal
forward back to tabriz!!!!!!!!!!!

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the bus company told us our arriving time 7 AM.. woooow, how fast are the busses comparing with the train!!

:o

this was a GREAT DAY, dear mom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(and I've a surprise for you..........................)

;)
ipuenktchen


Posted Jan 7, 2014, 11:34 am
an nowwwwwwww, my dear mom, here comes the SURPRISE for YOUUU!!!!!

today it was a remarkable day for me, as we had a postcrossing meetup at ipue's!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! mom, this was so great!!!
I love postcrossing, as you know!! you teached me well about!!!!!!!!!!!!!
and as we bought a lot of cards from tehran, we had a gathering today on ***Twelfth Day***!!!!!!!!!

we had little JORIS from lili_6789 together with his homemate JULIE and POSSY & CROSSY and little ZIZZI_Zebra and me, F.M.Bear!!!! do you think, this fitts
one of my live-missions, *to meet other toyvoyagers*??????????????????????? I think so!!!!!!
pls let me know, I'm so curious and thrilled to fullfill my first live-mission!!!!!?!?!?!?!!?!!!!!
(and mom accepted as ipue told me later, thank you, mommy!!!!!!!)

EDIT
and as the card is arrived at the end of january I add it now, so you can remember it always...

:D



ipuenktchen


Posted Jan 15, 2014, 11:21 am
hi, dear mom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
today I get in touch with you via an internet-cafe in downtown tabriz!! here they call it *coffeenet*!!!!!
the last ten 10 days my host-mom ipue had probs with i-net and her stuff at home, two laptops she damaged!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! can you imagine this??????????????????

:(

well, so when I saw downtown a phone booth I would give a try to call you, as since longtime ago ipue wasn't able to update my TV-account!! but no chance, as I didn't remember your cellphone No.... what a pity, I got so saaaaaaaaaaad......

:cyclops:

then we entered the main-post-office to send out finally after this post-break because of the season holidays!!!!! and I got HAPPY!!! (surprise, surprise, dear mom - and next life-mission is expectable!!!!)

:D

later we passed the ancient town hall, nowadays the town museum - and everywhere old and dirty snow and ice............. :-((((((

kiss you, mom!!! excitedly waiting...........................


ipuenktchen


Posted Jan 17, 2014, 10:41 pm
hi, mom!!
again I got soooooooooooo excited when ipue told us we'll have a weekend out!!! very early she waked us up, we had a fast breakfast and went to the bus terminal, and believe it, at 8 AM we were sitting in the bus leaving tabriz!!!!!!!!!!!!!! here you can see us in the bus - as we are quite tiny we needed only one seat!!!!

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we had a break on the road in SARAB and here you can see what kind of large samovars they are using for all the ppl coming by the busses waiting for a tea!!!!!!!

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and very soon we jumped again in the bus forward to ardabil!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
when we arrived, boaaaaaaaaaaah, we understood there is a wedding we are invited!!!!!?! it's the wedding of dear lili_6789's little brother!!!! and here we are at the bridal couple's place!!

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later we had some pastry and juice and for sure the wedding-cake..

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after a power-nap for everybody we went out again for the wedding-dinner!!!!!!!!

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ipuenktchen


Posted Jan 17, 2014, 11:20 pm
hi, again, dear mom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

last night after the wedding party we slept in Ardabil and so in the morning we went out to have a little sightseing as ardabil is the city of sheikh safi mausoleum, a wellknown world heritage site!!!

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built by shah Ismail I.

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in front of the sheikh safi complex there are some shops to sell famous sweets and other things from ardabil like honey and lavashak and souhane konjed and so on.....

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and after a yummy lunch we left ardabil forward to tabriz!!!
but before we had a great chance because of the excellent weather we were able to see the sabalan mountains, 4.811 m high, an extinct volcano, the 2nd highest mountains of IR!!!!!!!

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ipuenktchen


Posted Jan 21, 2014, 8:29 pm
hi, everybody - believe it!!!!!!!!!! yashila_81, ipue's son2, got it!!!!!!!!!!!! TODAY he got successfull to reach his MASTER DEGREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and everybody was soooo happy!!!!!!!!!!! JORIS and ZIZZI_Zebra and POSSY & CROSSY and me, too, and some of yashila_81's fellow students and one of his close buddies of his mil.serv. and his parents had been with him!! we missed only the  lovely lili_6789, but yashila_81 knew she had been with us, and finally she sent dear little JORIS as a lucky charm!!!!!!!!!!! and it worked!!!!!!!

GREAT CONGRATS!!!!!!!!!! :-))))))))))))

we brought funny pastry from tabriz and went by train, in the morning the awfull traffic.. then had a breakfast at the flat of ipue's son1.. and entered the university, the faculty of letters and human sciences.. where yashila_81 had prepared the room 222 for the defense of his master's thesis !! it was so exciting!!! and finally he got!!!!!!!!!!! everybody was so happy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

oh mom, my time in IR is soooooooooooo fascinating!!!!!!!!!!!!!! kiss you!!
ipuenktchen


Posted Jan 22, 2014, 3:55 pm
still in tehran for the windows of ipue'son1 - the next adventure... as it should be started in the morning at 7 AM, but the truck arrived in the afternoon and the first window entered the flat at 4 PM!!!!!!!!!! they are just working hard and hopefully will be finished this eve!!!!!!!!!!
it was so interesting for me - I've never seen PVC-windows!!? and the weather was spring-like and we could pretty support the open windows - holes in the wall the whole day!! I'm so curious when we'll get back to tabriz!!!!!!!!!!!!!?!?!

yes, they worked so fast and now at 8 PM they finished the windows - but with a *but* like usual.... the factory only sent white silicon, but the windows are white only from inside, but brown from outside.. and they didn't sent brown silicon... so there is a reason we had to stay another night in tehran, waiting for the stuff in the morning to continue.............................................

:o
ipuenktchen


Posted Jan 29, 2014, 11:07 am
hi, dear mom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I really got thrilled when hostmom ipue told me, you got my card today!!!!!
juchuuuuuuuuuuu - the surprise worked!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

pls stay tuned for the pic - I didn't add it here not yet as I wouldn't spoil the surprise!! :-)))

and btw, mom, do you think I fullfilled another life-mission????????????
(*write my mom a postcard from every visited country*)

@our dear followers
pls have a look at my posting on 6th jan, when we had our postcrossing meetup and I wrote this card and each of us TVs  signed it!!

ipuenktchen


Posted Jan 30, 2014, 10:50 pm
hi, dear mom,
do you remember we often played together *Mensch ärgere dich nicht*???? we heard in the news this game (called *ludo* in english, *t'en fais pas* en francais)  will turn today to 100!!!!! can you believe it??? and at the occasion of this anniversary we had a match together!! can you guess who won?????????? 

:cyclops: :D ;)

btw ipue told us, we have SNOW again this night, and I'm so excited if she'll allow us to go out to have another snowball-fight!!!?!??????!?!?

:rolleyes: :D

kiss you, mom, and bye for now!!

pics on the screen: (c) schmidt-spiele

ipuenktchen


Posted Jan 30, 2014, 11:48 pm
mummy!!!!! ipue told us, we have SNOW again this night, and I'm so excited if she'll allow us to go out to have another snowball-fight!!!?!??????!?!?

when she finished her things to do she brought me out into the yard for a short moment - it was great, still snowing!! but, mom, it wasn't cold that much, and I think the snow will get very soon melting.. :-(((((((

sleep well, dear mom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ipuenktchen


Posted Jan 31, 2014, 9:22 am
hey, dear mom!! greetz from winterwonderland!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
we got eyes like a plate in the morning while seeing all that snow!!!!!!!
hehe, ipue's own weather forecast wasn't that serious!!!!!!!!

:p

it was great in the yard!! mom, I wish you were here, too!!!!!

:stare: :cyclops:
ipuenktchen


Posted Jan 31, 2014, 11:23 pm
hi, mom, party, party, partyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!
and as ipue told us *never without our traveltoys*!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-)))))))))
and so we went last eve to yashila_81's for another party because of his master's thesis!!!! they were working for the whole week and finally THU and FRI endless parties.... with yummy food, best friends and live music of it's best!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

and we traveltoy-buddies had a nice eve, too: JORIS, JULIE, ZIZZI_Zebra, POSSY & CROSSY and meeeeeeee!!!

miss you, mom!!! love and lots of kisses!!!
ipuenktchen


Posted Feb 3, 2014, 10:55 am
uiuiuiuiiiiiiii, dear mom, it's so cold again in good old tabriz.. last night again -12 degrees C... and my dear hostmom finally was pitiful enough, to knit some stuff for meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee, yeaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!! and just now we went out in beautiful sunshine to have a photo-session!!
do you like it??? yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeahhhhh, I'm the happiest bear in the world!!!

miss you, mom, kiss you, mom!!!!!
ipuenktchen


Posted Feb 5, 2014, 7:30 pm
hello, dear mom - and here comes the next surprise!!!!
today we had a - as they call this in german - *ueberraschungsgast*!! with a huge delay of nearly 4 h ipue's son1 arrived for a short visite. and because of the delay there was time enough to pamper him with some goodies, as ipue made an originally german *kaesekuchen* and a traditional food of northern germany he like since his childhood *eier mit senfsosse*!!!!! and of course I helped her *smile* mom, how much they where chatting!!!!!!!!!!!!! I feared they will forget to eat the cake and the dish!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!??!?!?!!!!

ipuenktchen


Posted Feb 8, 2014, 10:42 pm
hi, dear mom, lucky ppl here, always having a beautiful blue sky!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
and so we went again to ardabil, as you know I've been there  before, the home town of lovely lili_6789!!

I saw for my very first time *yashila_81 on stage*!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! pls have a look and enjoy!!!!!!! it was a concert of traditional azerbaijan music and ppl got thrilled, when yahila_81 entered the stage!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

but first pls have a look at me in the city when we were looking at the huge advertising of the concert!!!! ZIZZI_Zebra and Possy and Crossy had been with me!!!!yashila_81 picked us up from the bus.

the first singer is the native singer from ardabil and next we had yashila_81 in action!!!!!! he's such a great tenor!!!!!!! and ppl couldn't stop to applaud him!!!! and they even had a ladies chorus!! it was really a great event!!

thank you so much, dear yashila_81!!!!!!! congrats!!!!!!!!!!
ipuenktchen


Posted Feb 11, 2014, 1:30 am
ey goshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh... mom, what a hard day today!!!!!!?!!? together with her 3 guests and ONLY MEEEEE as a traveltoy (!!!!!!!!) we had a day full of sightseeing in tabriz!!!!!!!!

as you know the tabriz bazar belongs to the world cultural heritage of UNESCO!!????!?? pls have a look, dear mom, and also at the constitution house with the heroes from 100 years ago in front as a statue!! I like them!!!!!!! inside the museum so beautiful coloured glass windows, and the door, mom, so great, with two different door-knockers!!! one for men and one for women, and the ppl inside understand from the tone of the knocker is there a man coming in or a woman!!?!?!!!! and if it will be a man, the women inside the house had to be veiled when the door gets open!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

from there we went to nobar bath house for a yummy lunch!! and later to the blue mosque and khaghani garden and some other places where we didn't took photos and I forgot the names...

pls stay tuned for some picsssssssssssssssssssssss asap, dear mom!!!!!!!!
ipue is still toooo tired!!

EDIT:
here come the pics from our sightseeing walk in ipue's second hometown!!!
ipuenktchen


Posted Feb 11, 2014, 4:16 pm
mom, last eve we heard lots of cannon beats!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
because today we have the most important holiday of the IR revolution in 1979... the dawn from 1st feb untill 11th feb, when the leader in future entered his country and finally the victory of the islamic republic is celebrated every year and now the 35th anniversary!

kiss you, mom, miss you, mom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 
ipuenktchen


Posted Feb 13, 2014, 10:08 am
hey, mom!!!

things happen at ipue's!!!!!!!!?!?!?! mom, you cannot believe it!!!!
this night when other people, normal people are still sleeping, ipue called a taxi and we went beside the autobahn in front of elgoli park - by -9°C°!! waiting there, and after a short moment I understood.... a bus arrived and a young girl with her bicycle left the bus and followed us and went to bed immediately - so tired, poor girl!!!!!  for a very short minute I was thinking it was YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!?!?!?!?!?!

I took place on the bicycle, so greaaaat, mom... very dirty, but a great bicycle!!!

and ipue told me, in the morning we'll have another SURPRISE!!!!!??!?!?!


kiss you, mom, miss you, mom!!
ipuenktchen


Posted Feb 14, 2014, 1:28 am
heyyyyyyyyyyyyy, mommmmmmmmmmmm!!!!
untill today as my host-mom ipuenktchen told me I had 50 POSTINGS in this travellog here!!! believe it!!!!!!!! and most of them are written by ipue!!!!! 42!!!! and only 8 by YOU, dearest mom!! hopefully I'll be back home soooooon to spend more adventures with youuuuuuuuuuuuu!!!!!

:D

miss you, mom, kiss you, mom!!!!!!!!!!!
ipuenktchen


Posted Feb 17, 2014, 12:45 pm
hi, mommmmmm!!!!
today my hostmom ipue showed me a pic, taken by her guest last week, just when ipue was taken  a pic of meeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!! isn't it great???? it was taken at the entrance of mashrouteh-house, the ancient place, where an ancient salesman provided his home to the group around the heroes sattarkhan & bagherkhan for their privily meetings about 100 years ago!!!

(c) MelTheo

miss you, mom, kiss you, mom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ipuenktchen


Posted Feb 17, 2014, 12:50 pm
hi, dear mom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

today hostmom ipue taught me the IR-money.. and she promised me to give me some pocket-money
every month, so I'll be able to buy some postcards or a souvenir or like that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
this is so GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I miss you, dear mom, hugsssssssssssssss!!
ipuenktchen


Posted Feb 20, 2014, 9:24 am
hello, my dear mom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
pls have a look at the funny *ampelmaennchen* of the tehran traffic lights!! I like them so much!!!!!!
do you like them, too????????

the highlight of this trip was the valentine's lunch with more than 100 binational women and some expats, mostly from tehran!! among them the only men: FMBear & Crossy and the garçons!! hehe....

and here smth about st. valentin *smile*
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentin_von_Terni

the residence of DE-ambassador is situated in a large parc and while having a walk there you can really forget all the crowd, the awfull traffic and air pollution around...........

it was an absolutely yummyyyyyyyyyyyy lunch - and ipuenktchen met lotsssssss of friendssssssss!!!!
and we found SPRING there!!!

and last but not least pls have a look at poor little ZIZZI_Zebra who have protected me because of my anatomic probs I need always smth or someone to hold me... :-(((( but.. ok....... pls have a look at mellat park!!!!! :-))) we had to do a walk after so much food!!!!!!!!!!

;)
ipuenktchen


Posted Feb 24, 2014, 8:58 pm
hi, dear mom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
today we had a walk at an ancient traditional neighbourhood called *Nobar* at its main street taleqani ave, and it seemed to us as it was a town for itself, you could find there everything neccessary for a traditional iranian life!!! lucky ppl, so comfortable - no need to have a car, to go by taxi, by bus.......... but sometimes they have a motorbike as a vehicle for the whole family, mom, dad and 2-3 kids... and they are proud and happy for!!!

craftsmen are working in front of their shop - here you can see a shoemaker!! and beside of him a man who is selling different sheep wool for traditonal mattresses and pillows.  beside of him a shop of spices and dried herbs!!! also the dairy shop with milk and ayran in front of the shop.

ipue-host-mom had her game-gathering nearby and before she would get fruits to take them home in the evening.. - here you can see us at a newspaper-shop, shown is a pic of the IR national football-team!! successfull football cheers ppl up everywhere!!!!!!!!!!! and yesssss - they have *red devils*, too!!!!!!!!

and for the men who are working hard there is a qahveh khuneh also a must to chill out and get the news while enjoying a waterpipe. btw it's fun the place where they have their tea they are calling *coffee house*


ipuenktchen


Posted Feb 26, 2014, 9:36 am
heyyyyyyyyyy, dear mom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
after this terrible robbering ipue had no cellphone any more for some months!! and then, mom, actually she is spoilt for choice.. she has two children and both cheered her up with a new cellphone...
*embarras de richesses*  - die *qual der wahl*......................................
and, mom, it will take time, untill she will be familiar with this types of telephone.. hahaaaa.....

:cyclops:  :p  ;)
ipuenktchen


Posted Feb 28, 2014, 12:58 am
hi, dear moooooooooooooooooooooom!!!
todayyyyyyyyyyyy I got sooooooooooooooo JALOUS!!!!!!!!!!
ipue show us at the TV-site the account of Kuma-chan, who got a meeting card from yooooooooooooou!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!??!?!? lucky Kuma-chan.... *soifzzzzzzzzzzzz* but mom, I trust you.....!!! hopefully there is another meeting card on its way for MEEEEEEEEEE!!?!?!??!????!?!?!

:cyclops:

and to let me get calm ipue show me just the SAME card, she got only a few weeks ago!!!! it was a *fehlkauf-joker-card* from dear gugumail!!!!! and the card is soooo great for TV-lovers!!!! the guys on the card are mostly looking like me!!!!!!!!?!?!

kiss you, mom, miss you, mom!!!!!
ipuenktchen


Posted Feb 28, 2014, 11:27 am
*singing in the rain.. siiiiinging in the rain*
good morning, dear mom!!!!!!!!
ipuenktchen told us, in this part of the world ppl get happy when it's raining, and so we did in the morning, when we got up and saw it was raining!! we gouched a lot all together untill ipue allowed us to go out in the yard!! I met my hat, mom - do you like it?? remember!!!!!!!!
kiss you, mom, miss you, mom!!!!
ipuenktchen


Posted Mar 5, 2014, 2:00 am
hi, mom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
great, I learned how to crotched!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
are you able to do this????????????????????????????

if you & you & YOUUUUU like to crotchet, you may get in touch with this dutch lady to take part in her project - as we did in our german forum of PostCrossing!!! and now about a dozen of young germanspeaking women are crotchetting and fianlly will send for her!!!!
http://www.postcrossing/user/Forestchapel80

and here is our contribution!!!!!!!!!!

see you soon, dear mom!!!!!!!!!!!!
ipuenktchen


Posted Mar 9, 2014, 8:13 am
hey, dear mom!!!
today we had been out and went to several places, this was fun!!!!!!
first we mad a visite at ipue's hubby's former secretary (both are retired, you know!!) and from the 6th floor we had a great birdeye view over the neighbourhood, where yashila_81 and lili_6789 are living, too!!!!!

pls stay tuned, mom, from there we went to another place, together with lili!!
ipuenktchen


Posted Mar 9, 2014, 8:22 am
here you may have a look together with us, as we entered a pottery-exhibition of one of ipue's first pottery buddies, when entered the classes of IR heritage organzation in 1998...... it was so nice! she's able to throw sooooo airy.... but I missed a bit the beautiful turquoise glaze normally seen on pottery of azerbaijan...
she was happy to see ipue in her exposition!! and she gave her a gift!! (mom, we were jalous!!!!!)
ipuenktchen


Posted Mar 9, 2014, 8:34 am
well, mom, we didn't went home not yet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
and here you may see not me but Possy & Crossy.... :-(((( we entered a new scarf-shop in a modern neughbourhood, and as it is only 2 weeks before the IR new year, they were soooo busy and we weren't able to take pics that much.. and also because I'm so large.... and cannot be hidden like P&C or zizzi for instance... :-(((

but the shop was worth to see.. it belongs to a nephew of ipue's hubby, and he was working there hard together with his wife and two other ladies... the IR women are mad for beautiful scarfs, specially for norouz, the beginning of spring!!!!!!!!!

mom, believe it, they show us a scarf with a price of 15.000.000 rials!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! who is mad enough to spend so much money for a scarf?????? ipuenktchen had chosen a beautiful black and white one for 280.000 and she got a bit ashamed for the price... never spent so much money for a scarf before, but it was really beautiful and worth to get it!!!!!!!

;)

btw ipue's hubby got the scarf for her as an *EIDI*, means a gift vor new year!!! mom, do you think we'll get eidi here, too??????????? I heard about that the kids will get pocket money from the elder ppl for new year holidays!!!?!?! so I could get rich, mom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'll keep my fingers crossed!!!

:p ;)

from there we went home! :-)))) miss you, mom, kiss you, mom!!!
ipuenktchen


Posted Mar 9, 2014, 8:51 am
woooow, mom, our first spring day today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
yashila_81 & lili_6789 picked us up to go to the garden beside gurigol-lake on the tehran road, 25 km...
and it was a great weather today!!!! pls have a look, we went on the trees hanging there like the eggs
on easter-holiday, heheheheeeee.... it was fun!!!!!

miss you, mom, kiss you, mom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ipuenktchen


Posted Mar 9, 2014, 9:07 am
hi, dear mom - first of all my very best congratulations and lots of kisses to YOUUUUUU and all my female followers here in the blog for the INTERNATIONAL WOMAN's DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

today we had time enough (as ipue's i-net wasn't working  :p ) to finish the granny square for dear forestchapel80 in NL!!!!!! do you like it???

see you soon, dear mom, miss you, mom, kiss you, mom!!!!!!!!!
ipuenktchen


Posted Mar 10, 2014, 11:14 am
hey, dear mommmmmmmmmmmm!!!!!!
wonderful spring day. todayyyyyyy!!! hopefully for YOU, too!!!!!
well, spring not yet.... but after 10 days we'll have IR new Year and the beginning of spring.. I'm sooooo excited!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! heard a lot about their new year customs....  and their new year is in SPRING - but not in WINTER... :-(((( like ours!!!!!!!?!?!!!

miss you, mom, kiss you, mom!!
ipuenktchen


Posted Mar 10, 2014, 11:26 am
mommmmmmm, moooooooom, dearest mommmmmmm!!!!!!!
I got thrilled, mom, really, when we were just in the yard for the pics with spring.. the mail-carrier arrived and he asked for Mr. F.M.Baer!!!!!! can you imagine this!!!!!!!! I understood nothing but only my name!!! and i made a sprint a the door - and I got soooooooooooo PROUD when he gave ME.. mom, believe it - he gave it to MEEEEEEEEEEE - a POSTCARD for me!!!!!! a MEETING card from BREMEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and even she added a haensel & gretel stamp!!!!!!
mom, dear mom, feel be kissed over and over and over!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I was really speechless!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
you may not imagine how JALOUS I had been when I heard you wrote meeting cards to other TVs!!! but now I'm the happiest TV of the world!!!!!!!!!! and I found your stamp and sig and the sig of my dear, dear MONDKIND and my friends LARISSA & SIROL!!!!!!!!!!! mom, pls give lots of kisses to them!!!!!!

and more kisses for you, your happy F.M.Bear

:D :D :D
ipuenktchen


Posted Mar 10, 2014, 11:26 pm
hello, dear mom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
what's up?????????? we had been out in the eve..... btw it was raining!!!
Ipue's hubby had invited at the 5-star-hotel at shahgoli park for the revolving restaurant!!!!!!!! we had much fun, nice atmospher and yummy dinner!!! there had been a lot of reasons to have fun together!!
1) yashila_81's master thesis 2) 50th anniversary of ipue & her hubby 3) the new baby in advance 4) yashila_81's new job!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
and so they had a lot of toasts and gifts and so on.... and also the print version of his master thesis!!!!!!! *smiiiiile*

at first pls have a look on a day view of the hotel!

ipuenktchen


Posted Mar 12, 2014, 5:30 pm
helloooooooooooo, mom!!!!
today ipue proposed a shopping tour and so we did!!!!
boah... what a crowd, mom, believe it.. like in DE in the last days before X-mas!!!!!?!?! but nevertheless we did our tour and here and there we saw interesting things - for instance the protestant church, in it's yard had been the elementary school of son1 of ipue!!! in front of the church yard is now a new street with an entrance at both sides for an underground multi-storey car park!!! when you come like ipue & her hubby not that often downtown you can find every time such *new things*!!! ;-)

next while looking for a dyeing mill we saw the ark, the ancient citadel, one of the oldest places of tabriz from 1.000 years ago, from backside.

in the meantime we got hungry and specially we TVs started to moan....... so we entered *Pizza2000* and each of us had a yummy food!! spaghetti with goulash and pizza with tongue and cheese!!

next we went to a famous nutshop and bought our nuts for the new year's visitors, the same some pastry..... ipue choose always a kind of pastry which is easy to keep for longer time, a wafer with a yummy peanut creme!

we asked some books from bookshops, but didn't found what we were looking for... and before jumping in the bus we passed by an antik shop which had islamic rosaries used like a curtain!!! beautifull!!!

mom, we got sooooooooooooooooo tired, you cannot imagine, arrived home and slept immediately!!!
miss you, kiss you, dear mom!!!!



ipuenktchen


Posted Mar 14, 2014, 11:12 pm
heyyyyyyyyyyyy, dear mom!!!!

we could very well understand our dear buddy JORIS how prouuuuuud  he got, when his mom & dad (lili_6789 and yashila_81) today came to ipue's  and spent a day together with us and his mom brought smth for HAFTSIN for NOROUZ for her mom-in-law!!!!!!!
pls enjoy the pics!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haft_Sin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haft_Sin

I'm so excited to learn everything about their NEW YEAR!!!!!  :D
ipuenktchen


Posted Mar 16, 2014, 10:31 pm
hey, dear mom!!!!

puuuuh... nice sunshine, mom, but a strong spring storm!!! and  I understand, it was so difficult for our host-mom nobody got lost... specially Possy & Crossy both together with a weight of only 25 g could be taken with by the wind....................

but all's well that ends well. and we arrived back home safely!!!!!!!!!!!!

first yo can see me on the Union Bridge, going downtown.
everywhere ppls and shopkeepers busy for new year, and as ppl need a nice flower for their HAFTSIN (pls have a look for at a link in our last posting!!)  we found beautiful hyacinths and tulips...

this time we found a path to see the ancient citadel from nearby, they are still working there and the wall around was destroyed in the meantime! to was after nearly 30 years ago for the first time ppl could see it from nearby again!

also very old houses from about 100 or 200 years ago beside the mainstreet could be seen from their more beautiful backside!!

from there we went by taxi to the new built mansour cross rd with its silk road tower and the carpet mosaic downstairs in the yard!! boah, mom, such a large and beautiful mosaic!!!!
and from there we took the bus straight home and everybody got really tired!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I wish you could be here, dear mom!! miss you & kiss you, mom!!
ipuenktchen


Posted Mar 17, 2014, 9:43 pm
helloooooooooooo, dear mom, and a special hello to K-town!!!!!!!!!

ipuenktchen had a surprise for us, we had dinner very soon coz at 8.15 PM local time in DE we promised to keep our fingers crossed for the football match 1. FC KAISERSLAUTERN ./. 1. FC KOELN!!!!! 2nd bundesliga... it's because of our dear BETZE, a HUUUUUUGE FAN of 1. FCK, and ipue has a fan-shawl and we tooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and because it was a very important match we were ready in time in front of the live-ticker!!! boah, it's sooooooooooooooooooooooo exciting.. now it's the break between first and second half with a result of 0:0.......!?!!

pls stay tuned, we had to be back now at the live-ticker!! see you soon!!!
and hopefully with GOOD NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?!?!

EDIT::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
no....... we are deeply sorry.... perhaps our fingers are too small to get a result when keeping crossed!!!?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?!??!?!?!?!? coz they finished the second half still with 0:0 when the final whistle was coming and the points are gone to cologne................. :-((((((((

miss you, mom, kiss you, mom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ipuenktchen


Posted Mar 18, 2014, 9:53 am
helloooooooo, dearest mom, I'm soooo excited!!!!!!!

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nouruz

pls stay tuned... this eve....................... we'll jump over the fire!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm sooooooooooo excited!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nowruz

so we had been with friends and we jumped over the fire!!!!!!!!!!!! we were so excited for!!!!!!!!!! that was so much fun. and they had some fireworks, too!!! and later there was a yummy dinner and very great traditional live-music!!!! we had a great eve. 

but we were a bit sad coz little JORIS went back home to his mom & dad - and he took ZIZZI_Zebra with him to go together for a little holidays at the caspian seaside......
ipuenktchen


Posted Mar 20, 2014, 8:44 pm
hey, dear mom!!
today I was waiting for one of the highlights of my stay in IR!!!!!
today at about 8.30 PM 1392 was turning into 1393!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
here you can see me at the *haftsin-table* at ipue's!!!!!! every family is preparing such a table and sit around in the moment when the year is changing! there has to be 7 things with the character *ssin* as there are for instance *ssib* (apple), *ssabzeh* (sprouts getting green), ssir (garlic), ssekkeh (coins), sserkeh (vinagar), ssangak (a traditional bread), ssamano (a special pudding).. and also candle, mirror, the holy qor'an, flower, goldfish, nuts, sweets, new banknotes and so on, and so on.........

and here you can see us on the haftsin!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
the whole haftsin you can see here: http://ipuenktchenworld.blogger.de/stories/2386149/
and it's a custom that the elder ppl are giving an *eidi* (means a gift for eide norouz) to the younger ppl, and so we got all new bank notes hot off the press! this should happen our purse should never be empty... :-))
ipuenktchen


Posted Mar 21, 2014, 7:40 pm
heyyyyyyy, dear moooooooom!!!!!!!!!

1.1.1393
ipue told me lots of ppl here are spending their new year holidays by *did-o-bazdid*, visit and return visit........... but nowadays many ppl are going for holidays to escape from all this visites, but in ipue's first nearly 15 - 20 years going for holidays was unusual and the visites was the greatest thing of new year holidays.......... but it's not so bad to go to see ppl which you never couldn't see normally.. perhaps only on mourning ceremonies.....  but everything is changing, and since there are the cellphones so common, it's a part of new year holidays to call who ever you could find...........  or send a funny sms..

ipue don't do this that much, but if they are doing visites, they like to spend time there, and so we did today at 2 places and saw other haftsins!!!!!!!!

wish you were here!!! miss you, mom - kiss you, mom!!!!!!!
ipuenktchen


Posted Mar 23, 2014, 10:12 am
heyyyyyyyyyy, mummyyyyyyyyyy!!!
again the main profession of IR ppl in new year holidays: to make visites and to have visitors.... for the moment we are still MAKING visites!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and here comes another HAFTSIN!!!!!!!!

miss you, mom - kiss you, mom!!!!!!!
ipuenktchen


Posted Mar 23, 2014, 6:27 pm
heyyyyyyyyy, dearest mom!!!!
from these haftsins you could pick up so many good ideas for easter decoration!!! believe it!!!!! today we saw again two other haftsins, beautiful enough!!!!

and here I am!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
miss you, mom, kiss you, mom!!!!!!!!!!!!
ipuenktchen


Posted Mar 24, 2014, 5:40 pm
hi, my one and only mom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

we have SPRING here, only spring!!!!!! IR new year is a spring holidays, the first day of spring even, and so it is!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! first we went today by foot in the el goli park near to ipue's! so many ppl walking there!!! and a nice haftsin, too!

today not that more private haftsins but great spring flowers downtown, because the temperature is higher there!!!

and a master pastry-maker with more than 10 - 15 different kind of handmade pastry!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! boah, mom, I even didn't saw that much different cookies and pastry in germany!!!!?!?!

and mom, do you remember from ipue's blog the GIANT-eggs, painted by students lately??? they met these eggs in different sighseing-points of tabriz, and today we saw these at 3 places!!!!! a really nice decoration!! psssst, mom, did you noticed what I've done with one of the eggs??? I've soooooooooooooooo much power!!!!!

;)

miss you, mom, see you soon, mom, kiss you, mom!!!!!!!!!!!
ipuenktchen


Posted Mar 25, 2014, 6:47 pm
hi, mom, today we had a ride downtown together with ipue by bus!! boah, mom, what a crowd!!!!!!!!!!??!?! mostly we passed our time at the small park, newly created when a quarter of the ancient saat roundabout were destroyed for a metrostation in future.... ipue told us the view at the ancient town hall is completely changed!!! and later we went to the handicraft exhibition beside khaghani garden and blue mosque!! we saw several haftsins and also giant-eggs!!!! and at last we had an ice-cream and turned back home by bus again!!

a great trip, and I wish you had been with us, dear mom, kiss you, miss you!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ipuenktchen


Posted Mar 26, 2014, 2:32 pm
oh, mom, my back is stiff, I'm soooooooooooo tired.....
although we had the spring-cleaning at ipue's during the weeks before new year it's neccessary to clean again in detail for the day we'll have on next FRI, when ipue & her hubby are waiting for visitors................ we prepared everything as we promised to do whatever is neccessary to do!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

and so we did!!!!! hard work, honestly...............
the whole day we had been outside in the yard, mom!!!!!!
and now I'm not able even to sit a the table and will only sleep as much as I can!!
see you soon, mom, miss you, mom, kiss you, mom!!!!!!
ipuenktchen


Posted Mar 27, 2014, 10:06 am
uuuuhuuuwoowuuwwwuuu..... mom, you cannot imagine!!!!!?!?
instead of chilling out and get better after this hard work yesterday in the yard in the eve we had *Apocalypse Now*!!!!!!!!!!! we all had to jump into the washing mashine - mom, how RUDE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! we all were crying, but ipue shut the door and the water comes on and we were thinking it was the last day of our life, honestly, mom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

well, now we are clean and ipue agrees.....
and this is where we are NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! hanging on the line...
I kiss you and hopefully see you soon, and lots of hugs!!!!!!!!!!!
ipuenktchen


Posted Mar 28, 2014, 11:01 pm
hello, my dear mom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
as it is the main goal of IR ppl to visit each other during the new year holidays, today it was ipue's turn to wait for guests!! and we were very excited what will happen....  the days before we saw she was busy to get nuts and cookies/ pastry and yesterday her son2 went to buy lots of fruits... and so on............... and when ppl are arriving you have to serve first the tea and cookies or pastry. later nuts and other sweets, and at last the fruits!!!!!!!! this is difficult coz they all don't arrive at the same time.. and you must not forget to whom you served whatever....

:rolleyes: :( :cyclops: :o

and, mom, ipue didn't let me to have a look at ppl's shoes, coz I was so pretty clean and so she wouldn't let me to get wasted again.......
miss you, mom, kiss you, mom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ipuenktchen


Posted Mar 31, 2014, 3:13 pm
ey gosh, mom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
when we got up in the morning we saw *S*N*O*W* everywhere! about 10 cm!!!! and ipue told us, at 4 AM she brought most of the very heavy flowerpots from the stairs and from the terrasse into her house, because it begans to snow and had been only -2 degrees C!!! what a hard job!! later the snow got melted very fast.. and ipue hurried a lot to give us a photo session!!! and we had a great snowball fight, too!!!
thx god I could use again my vest and bonnet knitted by ipue during this last cold winter here in IR!!!!

:D
miss you, mom, kiss you, mom and see you soon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ipuenktchen


Posted Apr 1, 2014, 5:43 pm
hi, dear mom!!!
ipue told me she will go out to shahgoli park nearby!!! the others were going up from today to their garden, but ipue don't like that much to stay there over night and so we'll go tomorrow *SIZDAH BE DAR*!!!!!! the last norouz holiday!!!!!!!! when everybody will go out and bring their *sabzeh* out preferably into a floating water!!! - but we have to wait untill TOMORROW to do this!!!!!!!!!!

TODAY in the park it was nice sunshine and full of ppl.. the snow was gone mostly.. and although it was quite cold, ppl were using the pedalos in the bassin!! so we had some pics!!

miss you, mom, kiss you, mom!!!!!!!!
ipuenktchen


Posted Apr 3, 2014, 1:31 pm
hi, dear mom,
SIZDAH BE DAR today.... the day of picnic and tenting country-wide and last day of new-year-holidays!!! believe it - I got sunburn today in the garden, although it was quite cold.. but all the snow was melting during this day out!! but we had a nice day!!! nice ppl, lots of food, playing the whole day, some live-music, too!!

here you can see us!!!!!!!!!!

miss you, mom, kiss you, mom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ipuenktchen


Posted Apr 10, 2014, 5:05 am
hello again, dear mom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm just counting, how often I had been in tehran since I'm at  ipue's!!!?!?!?? coz today we left again by bus for the visite of ipue's hubby's doctor and I saw nobody wasn't really in the mood to go........... :-((((

for me it's my 3nd trip to teh, and Ipue assured me that I saw no more than a veryyyyyyyyyyyyyy smaaaaaaaaaaaaall part of the mega-city with 14 mill. inhabitants!!!! normally it was her habbit each time to see another place in tehran, but since they are going so often for the medical treatment of her hubby immediately they went straight home and the same day back to tabriz....

now we left at 10.30 PM and here you can see me at 2.30 AM at zanjan for a break!
ipuenktchen


Posted Apr 10, 2014, 5:34 am
hey, dear mom!!

we arrived at 7.30 AM in the morning at arjantin terminal in the city center and we went straight for a breakfast just there :-))) and later arrived at NOOR hospital to do what we had to do :-)))

I got very happy to see one of the post offices in tehran!!!! and then we met the stamped cards into the mailbox in front of the post-office!! mom, you can see me on a bike!!!!!!!!!!!! my dream to ride a bike!!  ;)

and then, mummy, you cannot imagine, we met a santa claus, who had forgotten the calendary.. that soon will be easter and he really  should disappear!!!!

and while we had been in a taxi, the taxi driver entered a fuel station!!!!?! and it was raining a bit!!

from there we went home to the flat of ipue's son1 via the highways and you can see more from tehran - the still snow-covered mountains in the back! unfortunately we had no pics of the hundreds and hundreds tulips everywhere - tehran in spring, a bit raining and therefore with clear weather is really beautiful!!!!!
I was just counting, this time was my third time in tehran and I liked it most of all!!!!!!!

arrived at the home of ipue's son1 mr. ipue went to buy the famous bread we are always waiting for, and we requested some food from the restaurant in front, ppl were sitting still at the terrasse!! and you can
see us waiting..

yes, mom, and after a giant power nap the same eve we went back to the terminal leaving tehran, back home to tabriz!!

miss you, mom, kiss you, mom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



ipuenktchen


Posted Apr 12, 2014, 10:36 pm
hellooooooooooooo, my dear mom!!!
you know I like spring a lot and now we have here a beautiful spring!!
today we had a great photo-session in ipue's yard and each of us got phantastic colourful pics!!!
do you like my pics, too??????????

miss you so much and cannot wait to hug you again, mom, kiss you, mom!!!!!
ipuenktchen


Posted Apr 14, 2014, 9:06 am
oyoyoyoyoyyyyyyyyy - dear mom!!!!
I'm sooooooooooooooooooo excited!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
what a busy day!!!!!!!!!!!!!?!?!?! ipue waked us up in the morning, so we had to make our suitcase, to have a goodbye-party aaaaand soooo oooooon!!!!!!!! I don't know whether I'm coming or going!!!!?!?!?!?!?!

ipue told us, there is an only chance to leave for europe before fall.. and so we have to hurry up - AND...
then we have to stay a long time in our travel box.. waiting here and there.. untill get freed in VIENNA!?!?!
but she promised to add some board games and playing cards so we will not get boring.... hopefully!!!!!!
mom, dear mom - we will see us again quite SOON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! juchuuuuuuuuuuuu!!!!!!!!

the party was sooooo great, and we had even live-music!!!
it will be hard to say good-bye........................... :-((((((((((((((((
ipuenktchen


Posted Apr 15, 2014, 12:37 pm
salam, dear mooooooooooommmm!!!
last day in ipue's neighborhood!!!!!!!! untill now we had no pic in her alley.. at her super-market where she makes her weekly shopping, at the little cooperative where her hubby makes his daily dairy-shopping, at the grocery's and the pastry and so on.........

btw mom, we bought a fruit.. in europe ppl would say, it's unripe, but ppl here adore this at just this stage and eat them salted even!!!!!!

(mom, even we met the postman, but ipue was too shy to ask him for a pic..
and me.. well, even in 9 months I didn't learned any farsi word.... shame on me..............)

and also some more flowers from the yard... *smile*
the so called *kaiserkrone* and *tulips*, both originally wild flowers of IR!!!

miss you, mom, kiss you, mom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! see you very SOON!!!!

ipuenktchen


Posted Apr 15, 2014, 8:49 pm
oh, dear mom, untill the last moment at ipue's she's so kind with me!!!!
as she has her collegues-gathering tomorrow she was so busy today with eveything, but although she found time to take pics with me again and again!!!! :-)))))))))))))))))))))))))

so I helped her with the tartes she had on her plan for tomorrow for her guests!!!! we made two tartes, one with tomatoes and one with eggplants... and now Ipue worries a lot, if her collegues will agree or not.......  poor ipue.... she's very tired...............

and so we absolutely couldn't find the time to write all together another card for you...... I'm so sorry, dear mom!!!!!!

but then the door was ringing and.......... believe it, mom, my dear buddy ***JORIS*** was coming to say goodbye as he couldn't be with us yesterday for my goodbye-party!!!! and even he brought a little gift for you, dear mom!!!!!!!

miss you, mom, see you soooooooooooooooon, kiss you, mom!!!!!!
ipuenktchen


Posted Apr 15, 2014, 9:07 pm
hello, the worldbest mom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

we prepared all our stuff we had to take with us.

later was the very sad moment to say goodbye, to hug each other and everybody had tears in his eyes............................. I thanked ipuenktchen a lot...  and finally POSSY & CROSSY and me jumped in the travelbox. we promised each other to keep cool how long our trip will take time....

and ---------------------

THE END of my IR adventure!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ipuenktchen


Posted May 6, 2014, 4:05 pm
psssssst........... dear mom..

FIRST of all a big hug for you, best mom of the world, as I couldn't be with you at mother's day!!!!!!!
I'm calling you now from inside our travelbox.............................
today we heard some special voices and some noise, so we understood in our travelbox we are on an airport and later in the airplane - going to austria's capital VIENNA!!!!!!?!?!? we are soooooooooooo excited!!

miss you, mom, lots of kisses to you, dear mom!!!!!!!!!!
and be patient to get our news from vienna!!!!
I'm fine, hopefully you, too!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I cannot wait to be back home again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!??!?!
miss you, mom, kiss you, mom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
oldieoma


Posted Jun 1, 2014, 11:42 am
heyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy dear mom!!!!!!!!!!!!
todayyyyyyyyyyy we got FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
from our travelbooooooooooooooooooxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx!!!
and saw the daylight and got fresh aiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiir!!!!!!!!!!
and we had a look around in a nice living-room..........
no other TV.. only me and  Possy & Crossy!!!!!
and it was oldieoma talking to us!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

- waiting for new adventures... in the capital of austria!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
juchuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!!!!!

miss you, mom, kiss you, mom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
oldieoma


Posted Jun 1, 2014, 1:34 pm
hey, deeeeeeeeeeear mom!!!!

I made it much closer to you in the meantime!!!!!! AT is much closer to DE than IR!!!!!!! and finally oldieoma made us a yummy pizza!! it was great, some real food to get in our stomach after all these sweets and chocolates in our travelbox...........

miss you, mom, kiss you, mom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


oldieoma


Posted Jun 1, 2014, 10:12 pm
hi, dear mom!!!!!!! I was really thrilled this afternoon, when oldieoma picked us up to enter her garden, together with her 2 little grandsons, and we were playing there in the sand-pit!!! mom, this was fun!!!!!!!!

miss you, mom, kiss you, mom!!!!!!!!!!!!

:D
ipuenktchen


Posted May 21, 2015, 9:25 pm
Hi, mom and all our friends!!!
Today we were guests at lili's!!!! to honour youuuuuuuuuuuuu and me.... - so they decided to have their 13th international postcrossing meeting in tabriz today!!!!! thank you, dear mom, taking me with you!!!!

It was fantastic!!! lili_6789 prepared a great lunch and after we signed cards and cards and cards... pls be patient - perhaps there will come a card also for YOUUUUUUUUUUUUU and you and you!!!???!?!!

;) :D
ipuenktchen


Posted May 21, 2015, 9:44 pm
dear mom and all our friends and followers!!!!!
yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah, I'm again in IR!!! do you remember, this is my SECOND TIME!!!??!?!?!? just one year ago I had been here and even in jan and feb just in ARDABIL... once for a wedding and once for a concert!!!

:p :D

and so I can show you around and explain the sightseeing sites for you!!

:D

here we are at the worldheritage site *sheikh safi monastery*!!! I'm so curious to see your pics in my blog!!!!! hurry up, mom!!!!!!!!!!!
ipuenktchen


Posted May 21, 2015, 9:51 pm
postcards.. postcards.. postcards...  hard to find in IR..... but finally we found in various motifs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! puuuuuuuuuuuh...... we had been quite hopeless untill arrived at esfahan at this shop of a cute guy!!

and btw, here you can see the whole TV-gang which was with us!!!!!
LUIGI, ZIZZI_Zebra, ZORRO_Zebra, EkaPeli, CHRISSI, F.M.Baer & POSCHTI!!!!!!! it was a hard job, don't lose any of us.......

:p :D

ipuenktchen


Posted May 21, 2015, 10:00 pm
hi, mom, do you remember the film *mohn ist auch eine blume*??? made in IR, with great actress sophia loren!?!!?? ipue told me, whenever during may she's going to this part of azerbaijan province she must remember this film... coz she was fond of her!!! as there is full of poppies everywhere, soooo beautiful!!!!

here we are beside the chupan chapel, close to st. stephanos monastery near jolfa, both part of world heritage site *armenian monasteries in IR*!!!!

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