Travelog for: Betzi

Hi mom!!!
This year we go to the festivities of Sants. This neighborhood decorates its streets.
The first street we found was this one decorated as a hell and it was a criticism about political corruption.


The next street was a forest.


This street was decorated as the house of Club Super 3. Club Super 3 is a TV program for children where we can see some different cartoons. Here, we met Son Goku and Vegeta and Shin Chan with his family.




This TV program is also a club. Look!! This is my membership card!!!!


And this hand is the mascot of the club. It’s a super hand!!


Oh, oh!!! In another street we found an Alien spaceship!!!


Waaahhh!!! A baby Alien attacks me!!!


Better run…


Ufff!!! We are safe now in this zouk


And walking, we arrived to Venice!!!


And in the last street we found a dragon. Can you see the knight at the left of the picture? This is the story of Sant Jordi (Saint George). The story tells that a dragon was frightening a whole village during a lot of time, eating its sheeps, cows… The people of the village decided to sacrifice a person per week to calm the dragon. But the random select the princess to be immolated!!! And when the princess was already in the cave of the dragon, a knight, Jordi, arrived and killed the dragon whit his sword. From the blood of the dragon, some red roses were born. The knight took one of them and gave it to the princess and returned her to the village. It’s a romantic story but poor dragon!!! I think he wasn’t as bad as people though, he only was hungry!!!

We go on holiday to Madrid!!!! Yeehaaaa!!
As Zero is a postcrosser too, he has a friend in Madrid, and we all go to meet her I’m very nervous!!!!
During our trip, we saw some interesting things: a bow situated in the same place where a meridian pass, some windmills and a bull, the mascot of Spanish trademark, Osborne.




Look!!!! We arrived!!! This is our hotel


We left our things at the room and we took the underground. We met Auri, Zero’s friend, in Madrid center. She’s a lady dragon



We met in “El oso y el madroño” sculpture, a symbol of Madrid.
Z-Auri!!!! Nice to meet you!!!!!


She showed us some interesting places during the day.
Km 0, the central point where all the roads starts.


Plaza Mayor (yes, a relaxing cup of “café con leche” )


Calle Velazquez


Teatro Real


Catedral de la Almudena


After a long way, we had something for dinner.


And before to take the underground back to the hotel, we visit “La puerta del sol”, where people celebrates the end of the year eating grapes.


Great day!! Thank you Auri!!

We went to Warner Bros Amusement Park, a temathic park with characters of Warner Bros Pictures and some superheroes.
Here we are in the entrance of the Park


Look! We saw el Oso Yogui! (Yogi Bear)


We went in the Clark Kent's office and we saw a fountain with his special mark



After, we went to Gotham city and we saw Batman and we ride on the Joker's bumper cars.



We arrived at the far west and we go on a train an a horse carriage.





And, finally, we arrived at Cartoon Village, where we visited Bugs Bunny's and Piolin (Tweety's) home.






It was a funny day!

Today we meet Auri again. She will show us more places in Madrid.
First we visited Plaza España and we saw a monument to Cervantes (the one who's sitting) with his two most famous characters, Don Quijote y Sancho Panza.


Then we went to Templo de Debod, an egyptian temple dating from 2200 years ago, which was devoted to the cult of the gods Amun and Isis. It was donated to Spain by the Egyptian government in 1968, as a token of Egypt's gratitude for the aid provided in rescuing temples of Abu Simbel, in Nubia.



We were hungry so we ate some typical food in Madrid: bocata de calamares (calamari sandwich)


After lunch, we visited Calle Alcalá where we saw Edificio Metropolis...


... and La Cibeles, where the fans of Real Madrid celebrates when they team wins.


And the, we went to visit Plaza Colon, where is situated a monument to Cristobal Colon.


To do a snack in the afternoon, we ate another typical food: chocolate con churros.


Now is time to say goodbye... We have to come back to Barcelona, so we give a very big hug to Auri. She has been a perfect guide!!! We will miss you, Auri, we will be in contact!!!!

I have arrived in Beautiful British Columbia....awaiting my arrival was "Prickles" the hedge hog...She is my new travel mate while here.

Prickles was so nice to greet me when I arrived...she is happy to meet me.

My hosts have a couple dogs...this is Charlee checking us out...she has grabbed me a couple times and taken me around the house for a tour....

Prickles and me! We will be great mates!

After resting for a few days from my long travels, we enjoyed going to the movie theatre to see the new Muppets movie....

My hosts also have 3 cats...Koda is my favorite because he likes to snuggle and keep me warm!

I love soccer, but I am in Canada, so of course I HAVE to go see some hockey being played...my hosts husband is a goalie, so we were able to watch him in the tournament....they didn't win the tournament, but I sure enjoyed watching the game with Prickles.

Here Prickles and I are....such a fast and exciting game!

I was so lucky to be here when my host Arlene had family over to celebrate a birthday! Now that is what I call a Birthday Cake!!

My host Arlene took me and Prickles with her to the ceramic studio. I met a few interesting little faces there.

Here I am, helping Arlene paint her mug...it was so fun!