Travelog for: Jelle

Hi mum,
I'm leaving to go to my new host and my friend Ranil is saying  me "goodbye". We hope to meet again in the future!
Love,
Jelle

Hello mummy!
I`m in Russia! Maria is preparing for New Year. Did you know that people in Russia celebrate Christmas on 7th of January. So the first great winter holiday is New Year. We decorated Christmas tree at Maria`s flat and next Friday are going to her country-house to decorate everything there and celebrate New Year together!
I`ll keep in touch

Hello mum!
We are expecting New Year night!
We are at Maria`s country-house. We have decorated everything and cooked some party-dinner

Happy New Year, mummy!

Hello mummy!
We are having fun at the country-side with snow! We had a short walk and found special winter boots - felt boots!

Dear mummy!
Why did you send me here?! It is awfully cold in Russia, the temperature is about -25C!
But we were strong and went to the street to build snow man!

Today I`ll show you Tsaritsino park!

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The estate is known from the late 16th century, when it belonged to Tsarina (queen in Russian) Irina, sister of Tsar Boris Godunov. At that time it was called Bogorodskoye. In the 17th century it belonged to the Streshnevs and then to the Galitzines. In 1775, when the estate was bought by empress Catherine the Great, it received its present name, which means “Tsarina’s”. In 1776-85 architect Vasili Bazhenov built a new palace for the Empress here, but in 1786 Catherine ordered it to be partly pulled down. Until 1797 architect Matvey Kazakov was working on the construction, but the palace remained unfinished. Currently, in Tsaritsyno there are a history and architecture museum, a landscape park with an adjacent forest, an art museum, the Biryulyovo dendropark, and a cascade of the Tsaritsyno ponds.

This week is named "Maslenichnaya" - when people make pancakes and celebrate the end of the winter. At the one photo you can see scarecrow - at the end of the day people will burn this scarecrow to kill the winter.
You also can see children haing fun and all of us sitting on the ice sculptures. There are many sculptures here, but our camera can`t show it normally. 

We are packing our suit-case. Where are we going? You`ll know it in a week

Hello all!
I`m in Germany! the weather is not really sunny, but it is warmer than in Russia
The most important impression is my visit to the toy museum!!! There are so many old but nice toys there...
One day when I`m old and can`t travel any more I`ll join this museum I`m sure!

Hello! I`m again in Russia. And now I`ll show you the heart of Russian Federation - Red Square!

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Red Square is a city square in Moscow, Russia. The square separates the Kremlin, the former royal citadel and currently the official residence of the President of Russia, from a historic merchant quarter known as Kitai-gorod. As major streets of Moscow radiate from here in all directions, being promoted to major highways outside the city, Red Square is often considered the central square of Moscow and all of Russia.

Hello mummy!
Today we have a nice river-trip.
We started from the Bolotnaya Square:

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Bolotnaya Square is a square in the center of Moscow, in Yakimanka District, south of the Moscow Kremlin, between the Moskva River (north) and the Vodootvodny Canal (south). The square is bounded by Bolotnaya Embankment of the canal to the south, by Serafimovicha Street and the House on the Embankment to the west, and by Bolotnaya Street to the north and to the east. The square had the name of Repin Square, commemorating Russian artist Ilya Repin, between 1962 and 1994. The square is built as a pedestrian open space.

But now it is famous for many people who just married coming here to bring the lock of their love. There are many trees with these lock. Look at the first picture. 

The ship was going through the Moscow river and we had a look at the center of Moscow from it.

Hello mommy!
As summer has not been the warmest here,we haven't got time to go beach,actually the weather has been quite bad.But slowly summer starts to get into winter and now we are into picking berries and making hay.Our host got 2 chickens for birthday from her friend.Somehow chickens need to alive winter,so we helped host.In the picture you see us only sitting,but we did help too ; )

Today we decided to look Rakvere's main tourist attractions and also see some nature.As afternoon was not too warm and not too cold either,was perfect to do it.

I joined too,even Rakvere is my hometown,because its more fun to do with good company and I told of my hometown also to Mr.BigBran, Franz-Ferdinand, Bombus and ClaireSquirrel.

We walked on the oldest street in Rakvere,saw the highest point in Rakvere(Rakvere vallimägi),Rakvere's Castle,sculpture Tarvas.




We had really nice time together

I am going to America!
Write you soon mommy..

Okay, so I didn't actually arrive in time for Halloween, but my new host staged a photo shoot for me and other toys around some of the Halloween decorations!

I was here in time to enjoy the Thanksgiving Day feast!