Arven update

Hey gang!

I've been busy doing the same old same thing. Right now I'm in the city that never sleeps. But I haven't spend my whole time here. I still haven't told you all about Portugal...

I went with Diana to visit her temple in Évora, Portugal.


We spent New Year's in Istambul, Turkey.

Went back with Diana to New York, United States of the American dream! A rat's dream!

Meanwhile I've been to Puerto Rico for a deserved rest...


...and had an amazing flight to Toronto to which I was the commander!

Looking forward for my next trip. Air, land or sea, what I want is to travel! :-)

Episode XIII - Discovering New Zealand.

So after my educational trip, I went back to Kiwiland. There i met Tom, nice guy!

We decide to make a tour through New Zealand.

   

We went to the beach, saw some cricket and lots of national parks!

We also went to Stewart Island, Mount Cook and Fox glacier. 

 

  

I love this country!

Episode XII - Oxford for an education

Well apparentely i forgot to learn my ways in  New Zealand. So i went back to oxford to get my diploma....I went with Sarah, it was her first time in Europe, i think she liked it.

I also enjoyed summer camp in Eastbourne.

I went to hong kong last week.


I made a trip to Central to see the Old Peak.




then i met two new friends coming from Mumbai and Warsaw;



then, i'll planned to take a flight to a new destination !!!!
see you soon...

I spent the last days of 2008 with Sofia in Osaka.


We went together to the very famous temples of Nara.



Afterwards,I met, there, lovely japanese girls !!!

Paris- La cité de l'amouurrrrr

Hello!
Sophie (you remember her from Grenoble) brought me this weekend to show me her city!

So upon arrival, I was able to see the Eiffel Tower by night with the European Community symbol due to the current European French Presidency.


I try to find out if some other tourists were also visiting Paris and buying mini-Eiffel towers in order to find my next destination, but is not easy... so I decided to know Paris a little better.

We took the subway (it doesn't seem, but this city is huge!!!) to get a drink somewhere and on the next day I saw the Champs- Élysées and the Arc du Triomphe :D

ah! And I met Sophie's father.

And I also met Olivier and there was a small fury thing trying to communicate with us, but we couldn't understand a word...


Someone promised me another country in one month, so... stay tunned!

Relaxing on the slopes

Hi!
Remember Yves-Pol and Cyril from Grenoble !?
They took me on a ski trip, to get to know the mountains. First we went to Prapoutel (Les 7 Laux station).


They are just crazy!!! We were skiing on a middle of a snow storm.


Visibility was almost none.


Pedro joined us, got covered with ice, and got the flu! I just hope
its not the kind that can be passed to nice rats like me ;)


And finally, the beautiful landscape at St. Pierre en Chartreuse!
(with some better weather)


If you had to think of the two most popular cities in the World, which would you think of? Well, Sophie will take me to one of them!! See you all there!

Ohhh the French Alps!

I arrived to Grenoble, the door to the Alps. Surrounded by three mountains (the Vercors, the Chartreuse and the Belledonne) the city is concentrated on the valley, and astonishingly is one of the flattest cities of France.


I met Yves-Pol, that although is French, considers itself a Breton (they are very proud of their fighting capabilities against the Romans :p). Also the Italian Valentina, and the French Sophie and Cyril. You can only see my eyes in this picture, but I'm there alright ;)


Brzzz.... its really cold at night on this city!! The best way to fight the cold is to eat some really energetic dishes, especially Fondue.

Vive le fromage!! (you can't see me here, I'm inside the cheese pot)

Although I'm a cheese loving rat, these guys eat industrial quantities of fondue. I needed to relax a little, and we found a very nice place to smoke a Narguilé.

WAAAZZUUPPP!!

I flew to Asia and saw Bagdad from the sky

Hey!
After the European experience, I came to Asia, to visit the place
where almost half of the South Koreans live: Seoul, the 3rd largest
metropolitan area. That's a lot of Korean people!

There Pedro introduced me to Nguyen from Vietnam, Jefferson from
Brazil and Andriy from Germany.


We also visited the emperor's Changdeok Palace and the Biwon Garden :)
And of course the taste of the local cuisine, in a very typical Korean
restaurant :) (eheh! Try to find me in this picture ;))


Besides the local dishes, I also loved the White Rice Wine. It looks
like milk, but after a while gets you to sing karaoke until 4am :p

A passage through the small streets market, where you can find bargains.


And of course the Seoul Tower! On the top of the hill right on the
center of the city.


And a small walk through the city to find some bizarre sculptures...


Hey, there's my plane! Gotta catch yet another flight, a new destination is awaiting me :-)))


Maybe this time they'll let me take a picture of Bagdad from inside the plane...

Scandinavia

Hell Yeah, Life Rocks!!!

I'll try to be short 'cause posting in this blog takes a lot longer than I can spend in terms of time these days. I'll try to give you a flashback what have the latest months been like...

So I met Nokas in Lisbon and she took me to the scandinavian countries. Plus Denmark!


Here I am in the Ice Bar in Stockholm.


Say 'hi' to Mattias, from Stockholm's Pizza Hut.


Here I am with King Gustav in Gothenburg.


Here's me and the Little 'Hot' Mermeid in Copenhagen.


Here is me, Arven, the rat, at Oslo's Vicking Museum!

Gotta go, see you soon! :-)