Travelog for: Hedgie Hedgehog

Hi,

From today on i'm a ToyVoyager.
My name is Hedgie Hedgehog and i'm a little orange hedgehog with a yellow and orangegardenpants.
I love to see the world and visit beautiful placeses.

My brother Hema Hedgie is going to travel arround the world also. He is a Geocaching TravelBug. He is traveling from cache to cache with a lot of different people.
I hope il will see him again after we have traveld a long time.

Now it is time for me and my host to find my first host so i can start my journey.



My journey till now:
01* Crizle - Australia
02* Kira1997 - Australia
03* Oksana - Russia
04* Abby - Canada(i'm here now)


Future hosts - Shana10214 - USA, Florida
- Em Hoefler - Canada
- Olgamaus - Germany
- Minnihiiru - Estonia
- ................



Greetings,
Hedgie.

WhooooHoooo,


I'm going tor travel to Australia.
That sounds verry cool.

I'm going to make myself ready for this long travel.
Will take a picture from me and my brother and than start traveling.

It's time for me to travel to my first host: Crizle in Australia.
I'm cannot wait  to meet here and see something from here country.



This is the envelope where i'm going to travel in,



Take my first look inside of my travelroom.



Me and my travelbook. After my big adventure my host can read about all the placeses i vistit and the things i did.



Something sweet for my first host. i hope she likes it.



And then it is time to say goodbye to my friend Luna. I will mis here a lot because she is so sweet to me.



Time to go in the envelope



Bye mum. I hope to tell you soon about my adventures



And then the evelope is closed.
My mum will bring me to a postbox in The netherlands soon so i can travel for the first time.

Wheeeee! What a trip. I love flying.
I arrived in Ipswich which is about a 1 hour drive west from the capital city, Brisbane and I was so happy to come out of my bubble bed and find some other travellers waiting to meet me.

It was raining on and off for two whole weeks which is very unusual here so we couldn't really visit anywhere.
Instead, I played alot in the dolls house with Aus Bear who is my mate.

Today we went to Brisbane on the train and that was a fun trip. It takes an hour.
It is a nice city and we looked about, had coffee and then bought postcards.

Today only comes once every 4 years, or Leap Year.
Crizle and I stayed home today and visited the budgies who were very chatty and happy to see me.
Then I visited the Fairy who lives in the garden, and wandered out to look at the roadworks.
When the postie came he had a surprise.
It was Kiwi all the way from New Zealand, who is a toy traveller and here for a visit.
We really like each other alot.

We have had four great days on the Gold Coast.
I visited Pacific Fair Shopping Centre, and Surfers Paradise beach.
I stayed at Crowne Towers on the 15th floor and wasn't a bit scared of the heights.
The views were really beautiful.
I also went to Point Danger which is on the state border of Queensland and New South Wales.

St Patricks day and we had green food all day. What fun!
We also welcomed a new toy to our house.
Her name is Mira and she is a little dog bought to help the Mater Hospital Little Miracles.
She is going to become a Toy Voyager too.

What a fun time I have had at Easter.
I ate way too many chocolate eggs and felt very full.
I went to the Queens Park Nature Reserve and chatted to some ducks, then walked in the lovely Nerima Japanese Gardens.
Nerima is Ipswich's Sister City in Japan.
I saw some fish and some turtles and lots of different birds there.....but no hedgehogs because there are none at all in Australia.
There were some lovely trees and plants though and I liked the Australian Grass Tree best.
On Easter Monday we took a drive and I met some kangaroo's.
The problem was that they were not at all friendly and kept running away from me.

More fun photo's at Easter.

Today I have said goodbye to my friends here and I am going to travel right across Australia from the East Coast to the West Coast.
I LOVE adventures.

I  finally arrived in Busselton today gee it doesnt take long from the other side of Australia

Hello mommy!
Today I've finally arrived in Russia, Novosibirsk!
It was such a long trip from Australia- I was sent here on May, 16.
My new host's name is Oksana. And here I've met 3 other TVs- Mittens, NormaNikkers and teddybear Donald. So mommy, please don't worry about me- I'm fine and I have a very good company here )
Oksana promised to take us to the cinema house tomorrow.
I will write you later. Now I need to rest, because I feel very tired...

Today we had a very nice day! At first we went to the post-office, because Oksana wanted to send some travelling notebooks to Germany. We went to the centre of Novosibirsk by the Metro. It was very exciting!




Then Oksana showed me some interesting places. For example this is Vladimir Lenin's monument. Look very big!


The local museum:


And this is the House of Opera and Ballet:


In the garden near the theatre:





Some other monument:


All these are situated on the main square of Novosibirsk-
Lenin's Square:



Later in the morning we went to the cinema house, we watched the new American cartoon "Kung Fu Panda". We liked it very very much, because the panda there was so-o funny!






And in the evening Oksana went to the concert hall to watch
some Celtic musical festival and we asked her to  take us with her. The festival was great!

Yesterday evening Oksana took us with her to another Siberian city- Krasnoyarsk. She decided to go there to visit some dolls' exhibition and see the city. We went to Krasnoyarsk by train. It took us about 14 hours to get there.





On the square near Krasnoyarsk railway station.




The church not far from the hotel where we lived:



We were very lucky because on June,12 Krasnoyarsk celebrated not only the Russia's day, but also Krasnoyarsk's 380th annyversary. We could see the carnival on one of the main streets of the city. It was great!!


Here we are in the Patio Pizza. We are going to eat pasta )


Krasnoyarsk has many very interesting and beautiful buildings. There are many old wooden buildings:


In the historical cetre of Krasnoyarsk:


Krasnoyarsk has many flowers and trees on the streets.
Tulips are just everywhere there!



We could see many artificial trees with electric lamps instead of flowers. They looked fantastic in the evening!


There are many sculptures from plants and flowers on Krasnoyarsk streets:


We are on the bench of  conciliation/peace:


Some church:


We had a small trip on the steamer "Rocket" about the Krasnoyarsk river Yenisey. The steamer was very fast!



We visited the local Krasnoyarsk museum which was build in the beging of 20th centure in an Egyptian style:


That's the way Russian old house looked like many years ago:

Today morning  left our hotel and went to the exhibition of dolls and teddybears. It was very interesting!
































In the evening we are going to take our train and return in Novosibirsk. See you soon!