Travelog for: Druri

Hello!

I'm a tiny dragon. My name is Druri.
Druri name is derived from Old French origins, and it means "friendship".

I'm going to tell you my story. Are you ready to listen?

I have spent my hole life in a shop in Madrid's airport. My biggest dream has always be able to travel in different places, learn and see new things.

Then I saw a kind-looking human, who watched me. She took me on her hands and said I'm cute, and then I realised: this would be my chance. So, I ask if this human could take me, and could give me a life outside the airport's shop. This human started to smile, and she adopted me right away. Oh, it made me soooo happy! 

I started to call this human as my mommy, mentor, mmm105. She promised that I will see the World. Wow!

This is how my story began. Would you want to help to continue my story? Would you take good care of me, and take me with you in different places so that my journey can go on? If so, let my mommy know about it.

kisses,
Druri dragon

My very first journey started right away, in the same day as my mommy adopted me. And I already met other ToyVoyagers, who were travelling with mommy: TobiHH, Wayne, Kit-Kat, BarryO and Ronja. We became friends!

It was quite late last evening when I arrived here.
This place is Riviera del Sol, and it's Mijas-Costa, just next to Mediterranean Sea. I'm here about one week with my mommy and toy friends. This is nice place to spend a holiday. 

These pictures are from our hotel. Is it look nice?

Hugs,
Druri

Hi! I was walking on the beach of Mijas-Costa, it's a part of the hole beach of Costa del Sol. There were so soft sand. I really liked walking there without any shoes or sandals or something. 

It really feel like summer now!  Sun is shining and it's so warm (about 29 degrees Celsius).



When I continue walking on the beach, I found this small cave! How cool is that? 
We all went inside to the cave, just because we all toys are too curious, hih. 





Because I wanted to see the big ocean even more better, I decided to climb on the rock. It's the same rock as the cave has.
Other toys climbed there, too.
Can you see me? I'm on the rock's wall. 



From this picture you should see me better, because it's closer-look photo.



After walking on the beach I wanted to enjoy sunshine.
So, I took a sun bath, it was soooooo relaxing!



While walking back to hotel, I saw a flag of Andalucia (one part of the country Spain), and a flag of Spain.



Hugs,
Druri

i Hola !

In the evening I visited in a zoo named Biopark.
It's located in the town named Fuengirola, one of the town in Costa del Sol.

There was amazing in the Biopark!!!  There were so many animals there, and the hole zoo was like a tropical paradise!

I met different monkeys, tigers, alligators, parrots, flamingos, hippos, frogs, snakes, birds... etc.

The most exiting thing was that we all were able to go inside the place where they kept monkeys from Madacascar (the first photo). And when we were there with those monkeys, one of them was interested about mommy's backbag, and tried to take a look inside of it. Hih!  Maybe the monkey was hungry and searched food from mommy's bag... Or maybe he was only too curious.      But it was funny thing anyway.

Hugs,
Druri

Hello!

Here you can see a view of town Fuengirola.

I visited many times in Fuengirola, because it was a place where we had to change a bus, if we wanted to visit another cities.

This photo has been taken very near of the bus station of Fuengirola.

Hugs,
Druri

i Hola !

Today I visited town named Mijas. It's beautiful small town. Just look,  how breath-takingly beautiful views there is! 



I saw a very old church, and I went to see it closer.
We are sitting on the wall of the church. Can you see me?



Well, now you can see me for sure! 



Then I walked on small streets of Mijas. In a background, there's a nice mountain there. And if you look very carefully, you can see the white building in the mountain, it's a cathedral.



How nice, they have donkey-taxis in Mijas! I said 'Hello!' to donkeys.



And here is the Plaza de Toros, an arena where have bullfighting shows every week.



At first, there was a flamenco show. It's a typical dance in Spanish culture. It looked nice!



Then I watched the bullfighting. I have to say, the bullfighters were very brave!





Hugs,
Druri

Hello!

I had a great time in the hotel room, too, because I met many new toys there. Mommy's godchild was travelling in Spain, too, and she has many toys with her. We all wanted to have a group-friend-photo, so we took it. And now I want to show it for you.

Hugs,
Druri

Hello!

I visited today in a great place: Gibraltar. 
Gibraltar is a British overseas territory located on the southern end of the Iberian Peninsula at the entrance of the Mediterranean.



Because Gibraltar is British overseas territory, there's some double-deckers, offcourse. I think those red busses look nice and unique.
In the backround of the photo there's a part of the Rock of Gibraltar.



This is the lighthouse, it's called "The Europa Point".

"The Europa Point Lighthouse was built by Governor Sir Alexander Woodford between 1838 and 1841. It was fully automated in February 1994 and its loom can be seen over a distance of 27 km (17 mi). It is the southernmost lighthouse for which Trinity House is responsible and the only one outside the UK." (Wikipedia website)



My journey in Gibraltar continues...
Now I am inside of the Rock of Gibraltar. There's a cave, a big one, and inside the cave there's many dripstones!!! Cool!!! 
I'm in the stalactite cave! Wow!!!



Outside the cave I met a monkey of Gibraltar.
These monkeys have a bad reputations, because they often try to steal from humans. Luckily they were in kind mood today, and didn't try to steal anything from mommy.



This is one view from the Rock of Gibraltar to the city and the sea. Is it awesome?



And this is one view from the city to the Rock of Gibraltar.



Then I did something really exiting thing!
I drove in a cable car to the top of the Rock of Gibraltar!!! 

And now I'm on the top of the Rock of Gibraltar.
It was a windy place, so hostmom had to take photos quickly.



And there, on the horizon, there's a mountain from Africa!!! Wow!!!
I can see the part of Africa!!! 



...and the closer-look photo of Africa.



Then happened something really surprised thing: I saw The Olympic Torch!!! Yes, the real one! 



It was a nice day! 

Hugs,
Druri

i Hola !

Today I visited in a city named Benálmadena. It's also one city in Costa del Sol.

We stopped to watch a nice fountain on the street. It was funny fountain, because it changes the sizes of water (first it was small, but then it suddenly turns out to be a big fontain, and then small again etc...). 



There's a mountain named Mount Calamarro in Benálmadena. And there's an opportunity to go to the top of the mountain using cable cards. So I drive cable car today, too. But this time it was much longer way (about 2600 metres), and it took about 12 minutes to go in one direction.

It starts here.



And now I'm in the cable car. Wow, views are great!



On the top of the mountain there was a bird show. I managed to be in the same photo with this owl.



Do you think these views are beautiful? I think so, and I enjoyed watching these landscapes. I was walking on the top of the mountain (about 800 metres over sea).











Hugs,
Druri

i Hola !

Today I visited in the Princess Diana Park, in Mijas-Costa.
I think the park is beautiful, especially the entrance to it.

Hugs,
Druri

i Hola!

It's our last day in Spain today. In the evening we are going to the airport of Malaga and start travelling back to home, Finland.
But before that, we had a nice day to spend, and we were in the city named Torremolinos.



I saw some beautiful flowers there.





Look, how nice "stone family" we found! 
Can you see me? I'm just in front of the "stone mom".





Here are we: girls (Ronja and Kit-Kat) in the middle, and boys (Wayne and TobiHH) in the left side and (me and BarryO) in the right side, and a small fountain behind us.



Hih! I climbed on the BIG sized pineapple!!!     



Ha haa, I was kidding!!! 
It's not a pineapple, it's a palm tree. Hi hii...
But it looks like a pineapple, don't you think so?



It was so fun, that we searched bigger palm tree, and we all climbed on it.







And this is how this city (Torremolinos) looks like.











Look, there's flags of so many countries there!
In the middle there's the flag of European Union, so I think there's all countries' flags who take part in the EU.



There's very nice beach in Torremolinos.



Isn't this bench wonderful? It's so cheer-up! 



Hugs,
Druri

Hi!

I'm in Finland now going home.
The hole journey in Spain was amazing!

I feel very sleepy, because the flight was in night-time, and I couldn't sleep in the airplane.

ZZZzzzzz Zzzzzz zzzz zZZzzzZZZ zzzzz

Hugs,
Druri

Hello! I'm home now. I'm little bit tired, but happy.

Today 3 new ToyVoyagers arrived here. And guess what?!? They all are sheeps! So funny coinsidence! 

New toys are Lina, and Mr. and Mrs. Honeymooners.

We all said welcome to them, and then we had a welcome party. It was nice!

Hugs,
Druri

Hello!

An envelope arrived today. We all were so curious, what would be inside of it. Kurnau opened it, and we others were looking.



We were sooooo curious! A secret envelope from China...



Oooooh, it's another ToyVoyager! It's Totoro from China!



It's great to have more friends! 



Hugs,
Druri
xxx