Travelog for: Stripes

Good morning,

we went to the Buckingham Palace today! *___*



There are so many cars here! :O





I think the gates looked rather impressive but the building itself is quite dull.

You can see the famous guards here. It's nice to watch them, they are always marching in step! 





Our next stop was Trafalgar Square, the biggest public square in London. You can see Nelson's Column here, it's 51m tall.



In the background (behind the fountain) there's the National Gallery.



Hugs,
Stripes

Hello,

I saw the London Eye today, the biggest ferris wheel in Europe



We even took a ride. Wow, what a nice view over London! *___*



Later we went to see the Big Ben. Brrr, it was sooooo cold and started to rain in the evening



That's why we decided to go to the cinema instead to watch "Star Trek Into Darkness". Host-mum and her friends have already watched it 2 weeks ago in Germany but wanted to hear the english voices ;> Such a nice movie!!!







Kisses,
Stripes

Hi mom,

this is my last update from London
We went to see the St. Bartholomew's hospital today ^_^



The St. Paul's Cathedral wasn't far away. It's stunning!





We also went to the Tower Bridge in the morning and could see the Tower of London







Back in the hotel we had a small farewell party with a pile of sweets



We took a last look out of our hotel window and left for the airport. HelgaHH and I had a really good time here and we'll miss London But it feels nice to come back as well



Love,
Stripes

Hi there,

host-mum went to a pond with us today. The first one was almost dried up.



Next to it there was a small hut with dirty windows







Love,
Stripes

Hello mommy

after all the rain in Bavaria it was finally warm again today so we took the chance and went to the nearby Max Reger Park in Weiden.







You can see the "Max Reger Halle" in the background here, it's a very big and nice building where a lot of interesting festivals take place!









Look! We even saw a small mouse, it's so cute!













In the park there even is a playground!





We saw a lot of small sweet birds in cages!



That's host-mum's favourite place in the park! ^o^





Hugs,
Stripes

Today has already been really busy and there is more to come!

I have arrived safely and I was greeted by Mr. Munchy and Lillepuss

It was all exciting! Then we all helped Jemma bag her BookCrossing books ready for our trip out tonight.

We are going to the Forest with her Guides (hopefully she will explain what they are later...)

Well; we are all going on an adverture tomorrow. We all asked if we could help book everything - you have to love doing every day things!

Here we are looking at the website of where we are visiting.

Google maps is showing us where we are going.

We are going to "BSL Pride Day - Party in the Park"; it is in London. There are going to be a lot of Deaf people there.

This is the map of where the Party in the Park will happen. We will need to get a train there.

We helped Jemma book our train tickets; we will need to use a device called the Tube. So we will need to see what she is talking about.

This is a map of the Tube; it is a train that goes underground. Hopefully it will not be to dark!

If we have time; Jemma will take us to another place which is near to the Party.

Hey mum; look where we've all been at.... London!

It was very sunny so Jemma tried to put us all in the shade. Look out her bananas changed in the weather! Jemma moved the bananas before Mr. Munchy could eat them!

The second place we went to was...Buckingham Palace! People did look at Jemma strangely! There were many people taking photos of the Queen's house. I know that I have been here before; but I thought that it would be nice to see it with the others!

To make up for us all missing the Forest Trip the other week, Jemma took us to the national headquarters of Girlguiding UK. Jemma had to put us all on her bag to be seen in the pictures...

What do you think?

Today a new arrival came to stay with us...Arthur is his name! We all greeted him as he came out of his envelope!

Today all of us went to a car boot sale; Jemma tries to go every week. We stayed in the car as people wanted to buy us!

We tried to confuse Jemma by moving around the car while we were waiting to park the car. Hopefully the weather will stay fine; as none of us want to get wet!

Hi everybody!

Im in Chile! 
I arrived weeks ago but only now I could get to my new host's home because I had to arrive first in another city and be alone and bored there sitting on a shelf... But now Im finally with her and she has already taken me out to explore the southern world
We are in the city of Puerto Montt, which translated to english means Port Montt. Take a look





Leslie told me that this couple is very famous and they're in fact a symbol of Puerto Montt, theyre called "Seated by the sea" (sentados frente al mar - in spanish) Creepy faces, but yeah.



Beneath those two towers is the main mall of the city and a big hotel.







And here we reached another part of the city called Pelluco.
The sea breeze felt lovely And the spring and it's blue sky make it all nicer!





And for a welcome present, I got a bag of halloween candies



This place seems promising, Im sure I'll have a lot of fun here 

Adios!

It was Halloween and we celebrated the way it has to be... with candies!



That's Peaches by the way, a toyvoyager visiting here as well. She's from Germany and loves candies just as much as I do 



Happy halloween!

Hello all!

We made what to me what my second trip in Chile. The weather was absolutely beautiful so we just couldn't waste is at home

First we headed near a place called Caleta la Arena (which means The Sand Fishing Village) , to take a walk in the countryside





The road was almost at all times next to the sea, very beautiful!



Here we arrived to the country side and started walking around. The first thing we saw were sheep



And then a cow. She was too busy eating to mind us though.







We entered a forest a little bit, to find a small waterfall that we had been told about.



Here it was, a very calming place



After a while resting there we walked to the fishing village. It was only around 1km away.



This is its beach of the village, maybe this is the reason why it's called "The Sand Fishing Village"







We saw a big ferry back there... and we thought why not board it and see where it takes us The landscapes around here are so beautiful that wherever it takes us, it can't be bad



So we hurried to it!



And we left! Woohoo. Back there you can see another ferry that had just arrived.



Behind me is the Andes Mountain range, and behind it is Argentina.









Here the ferry stopped at a small town called Caleta Puelche, but we didn't get off here.



After the stop here, we sailed back to La Arena and we drove back home.
It was a beautiful day! 

Greetings!
Stripes

Hello all!

Lucky me, I escaped the autumn and came to the south following the spring
This day wasn't so nice in the morning, but as the hours went by the clouds flew away and we saw the blue blue sky.

But enough weather talking, let me tell you about this trip

We woke up early early and drove to a small port to take a ferry to go to a very big island, Chiloé island.



The island is 45 minutes away across the sea to the south.



The first place we visited in the island of Chiloé was the Agüi Fortress, built by the spanish to fight the pirates back in 1779.
See how I'm learning?





This is the coat of arms of a city we were near to, Castro.





After visiting the fortress we headed to Puñihuil, a beach with Natural Monument declared islands



This is it, what a nice view!





I mentioned that these islands are a Natural Monument... and you might be wondering why, so let me tell you. It's because here penguins and many other species come to mate!

And of course, there are tours to sail around the islands, so we took one



Can you see two little white/black points behind me a little to the right? Well, they're penguins.
There are also many of them up there on the grass, but they're tiny!



There you can see some.



Sadly the little penguins weren't as photogenic as I am so we couldn't get any great shot of them, but hey! At least I saw them! 



It was a very nice day!
Love from Chile
Stripes

Hi all!

I visited the main square of Ancud, a city in the north of the Island of Chiloé.



There were many statues there. This is the Pincoya, one of the most famous characters of the chilean mythology. The legend says she is the spirit of fertility and can bring good or bad luck to the people of the island.



Walking a bit more we found the Trauco. He is probably the most famous character of the chilean mithology. Leslie told me the legend, it says that this creature who is not human lived in the woods of the island and attracts young women and can kill men just by looking at them.
Long ago in the past, when the legends were thought to be true, many women who got pregnant used this legend as an excuse and said that the Trauco was the father. 



This one is The Widow. She takes possesses men.



This one has a very creepy story, he is called Invunche and the legend says that he was kidnapped by witches as a baby and raised in a cave fed with black cat milk and flesh from corpses and his legs were broken and his bones deformed so he can't leave the cave 
Some legends this place has



In front of the main square was the church of the city. It used to be a big old church, but it fell with an earthquake so they built this new one.



Then we walked through the promenade, it was nice...







The day was very nice and I liked this city and most of all the interesting legends and statues! I hope you liked them too.

Bye bye!