Travelog for: Banyo

My host attended the Mega Finland 2011 -geocaching event in Tampere 11.-14. August. I was there too! Lots of caches all around, competitions, friends, new pals, searching, finding, being froggy, confusing mugglers... It was awesome! My host took only a few photos of us toyvoyagers - she was quite active with everything else

I visited the Moominworld with my hostfamily! It's located in Naantali, a small town near Turku (a bigger town in the southwest coast).

I met allmost all the Mooomin folk and their friends! I got to visit the moominhouse from the inside!

PS. they wanted to build the Moominworld first in Porvoo (where my host lives!) but the locals (not my host!) said no... They were sad to see what they missed...

My host was invited to a postcrosser-geocacher wedding and she took me with her  The wedding took place in Tampere, a city I feel I know well by now. The wedding ceremony took place in the old church of Aitolahti. The party was held in a manor. The theme color was red, which pleased my host especially There was food, drinks, quiz, postcard writing, singing, cake... The big box at the gift table was assembled by my host and many postcrossers donated money for it - there was stuff for both home and geocaching.

Iloista joulua! Merry xmas! God jul! Buorrit juovllat! Fröhliche Weihnachten! Feliz Navidad! Joyeux Noël! And so on!

I'm in Rome! My host took me & Gary Boldie with her on her honeymoon-10-years-late  We all expected plus degrees, sun and stuff. But... It snowed! It hadn't snowed in Rome for 27 years! It was really exceptional  I don't think many people can say they've seen snowmen in Rome. Or romans play snowfight! OR romans drive cearefully! 

Most of the sights were closed due to snow but we did see them from the outside. Here's a few.

While in Rome, we natuarlly had to pay a visit to The Vatican City. This is pretty much all we could see as everything was closed here too - or the lines way too long for us.

My host and I met a Toyvoyagers Freak from Germany! RikeH and her hubby came to Finland and had time to meet us on their last day in the country Both hosts had, naturally, a few voyagers with them too. My host showed all the best photoshoot spots in town 

My host visited Tampere, again. She went to Särkänniemi too, again. She took me with her, again. This time she had her last born with her, it was the kid's first time here! Särkänniemi was otherwise the same but they had built an Angry Birds Land in there 

Angry Birds was originally a simple mobile phone game invented and made in Finland by a company named Rovio. It became so popular (partially because it was really cheap to download) that suddenly we had Angry Birds plushies. Then came the pens, stickers, doodle books... Then came the comic books, sticker books... Then came the amusement parks!

The amusement parks came in Asia, without permission of the company but they decided to give permission (apparently it was easier than suing - and they get money anyway). The Angry Birds Land in Särkänniemi is the first (official) in the world 

Really simple but I bet it brings customers!

This is my 3rd anniversary in Finland! We had a small "hot chocolate & bun" celebration in the family  Nothing big, as my host and I will be flying to Australia next Friday! I'm going home mates! 

Hot and steamy Hong Kong! It's totally different to anything I've ever experienced  I had a good look at the city, also above ground level on a Sky Tower and at The Peak!

Why am I here? I'm heading towards home with my mentor! My home!

A few more photos before our flight to Sydney

I'm home! This is Sydney, Australia!


EDIT: on 5th August I was personally handed back to my mom, crizle <3