Treacle's adventure so far...(2009777)

Hello!
Today we went to the Museum of Natural Science, the Naturmusem Senckenberg.  You can see me outside the museum in front of on of Frankfurt's skyscrapers.  This one is called "the pencil".  Also just outside the entrance of the museum there is a dinosaur, he was really very, very large.  Quite scary for a little bear!  You can read more about the dinosaur here.  When we got inside the museum I decided to put my belongings in the wardrobe locker, but unfortunately I fell totally inside the locker and got locked in.  So I had to wait for two hours for my friends to come back and rescue me!  At least I got to see the dinosaur though and he was brilliant!  More soon!
*cuddles*
Treacle

Hello!
I've travelled down to Frankfurt for a quick visit.  The first thing we had to do, of course, was find something to eat.  You can see me with a huge jug of beer.  (I only had a sip of the Königs Pilsener, too big for a little bear like me)  I always find it hard to know how to spell, I was a bear with a beer, lol!  There was so much good food, I had waffles with plum and cream.  Very, very tasty!  Then it was time for the christmas sweeties, I got a bit muddled up with the sweets, but luckily no-one ate me and I was safe, phew!  More soon!
*cuddles*
Treacle

Hello!
Well, I'm back in Sweden now and moving onto my next adventure. I've waved good bye to my current travelling companions and said hello to my new one (hello Anders!) We went to see Cats at the "Cirkus" theatre in Stockholm. You can see me searching for my seat on the balcony and then trying to make myself comfortable on my seat. The seats in the theatre are nice and spacious, but this makes it a bit uncomfortable for a small bear like me, you can't really see anything because the seat in front is a bit tall. So I tried to tilt my chair a bit higher, but of course I fell inbetween the seat and it's back, sigh. Luckily I was rescued by a lovely person in the audience who let me sit on their knee for the rest of the performance, hurrah! Thank you!!! More soon.
*cuddles*
Treacle

Hello!
A very brief update from my way home in Vienna.  Well, nothing to say really.  It was a bit of a boring change of planes.  Nothing to do, everyone was very bored.  There wasn't even a nice place to take a picture! So I practised my jumping!
*cuddles*
Treacle

Hello!
This is my last update from my wonderful Balkern adventure.  I've had lots of fun out here, I've not got into too many scrapes, but that's not a bad thing!  I'm in Tirana, which is the capital of Albania.  I really do love travelling you know and I got a bit edgy on my last day here.  I went to see the National Historical Museum, you can see the facade on the front called the Albanians.  If you look really closely on the left hand side, the people are all looking up and shooting.  What they didn't know when they made that mosaic was that they were actually looking at/aiming at a little teddy bear that was jumping up to try and get a better look!  Whilst I was in a jumping mood I also visited the statue of the national hero Skanderbeg, I wondered if I could jump up next to him, but it was far too large and far too dangerous, so luckily I didn't manage it.  You can see me in the hotel too, I thought that the toilets were very strange in that hotel!  They had strange bridges too, you could fall off one of those!

Finally I decided at the airport that I'd try to jump over an aeroplane, I managed it too.  Tee hee!  Oh well, time to leave Albania and the Balkerns.  It's been great!
*cuddles*
Treacle

Hello!
We took the train from Pogradec to Durres, which is on the coast.  It was a 6 hours train journey even though it's not very far!  So I sat on the train all day.  The train was probably the worst train that I have ever been on!  All the windows were cracked, really nasty!  When I got to Durres I went to the beach, because I love beaches, but the beach was really, really horrible, it's a bit cold to swim anyway, but it was nasty!  I don't think I should stay in Durres very long, definitely time to move on!
*cuddles*
Treacle 

Hello!
We travelled through the former Yugoslavian republic of Macedonia by bus and ended up in the south west of the country.  Here we crossed the border into Albania and got as far as the city of Pogradec.  You can see me in  front of the big and beautiful Lake Ohrid.  It was so windy that you can see my scarf flapping around like crazy!  You can also see me in a really typical Albanian scene, lots of families have a little piece of land and on this land they put a cow.  Very rural and idylic.  Moving on now!  Back on the train I think!
lots of cuddles
Treacle

Hello!
I hopped onto the night train and travelled south to the former Yugoslavian republic of Macedonia. It really is a very silly name! It's silly because the Greeks (back a long time ago) had a place called Macedonia and the people here in this area didn't like them ... so they decided to call themselves Macedonia too. Very silly! In the pictures you can see me in front of the most famous landmark in Skopje, the stone bridge. I also visited the museum, which was really badly damaged when the earthquake in 1963 happened. This half standing building is there as a reminder of all the people that died. I also tried to make friends with a bull in the middle of Skopje but it didn't go well... After all the traveling around I got tired and decded to go and write postcards in a cafe instead. It was hard work, but I got them all written and posted without getting into trouble at all! Phew! Time to move on again now!
*cuddles*
Treacle

Hello!
I've now arrived in the capital of Serbia, Belgrade. We visited Kalemegdan, the historical fortress and park in central Belgrade, in front of the place where the two huge rivers, the Danube and the Sava merge. I found a funny pipe think and wondered what it was, so I climbed inside to find out. I suddenly realised that I should get out of there really, really quickly - it was a cannon!!!! Luckily it was an old one in the war museum, phew! I really do need to be careful when exploring! I tried to shoot a hole in the wall with the cannon, but I was too small to be able to move the level. Time to move on anyway! A new update soon!
*cuddles*
Treacle

Hello!
I am now back on the train again heading east from Montenegro into Serbia. I do love trains, but they can be quite dangerous for a little bear like me! I woke up after a lovely refreshing nights sleep on the night train, but unfortunately I tripped and my scarf got stuck on the ladder, sigh. Luckily my friend Dan was there to rescue me, phew! We're nearly at Belgrade now, so a new update soon.
*cuddles*
Treacle

Hello!
We took the bus out of bar for a trip to the seaside. I don't think I like these Balkern beaches very much. In Jamaica and Fiji the beaches were fantastic and soft and yellow and sandy. But here they are filled with pebbles that are very uncomfortable to lie on! I'm told that they are filled with people in the summer, but as it's December now they're a bit cold and empty. I lay along way from the waters edge to make sure that I didn't get covered in water again, but still, somehow I managed to get covered in pebbles. Sigh, it's not my day! I think it's time for another country....
*cuddles*
Treacle

Hello!
We're in a town called Bar, and of course with a name like that, you have to have fun! Bar is the main harbour city in Montenegro and one of the places that the Serbs go to to see the sea. You can see me on the balcony of the hotel (I'm sure I caught sight of a little crochet jumper disappearing down the corridor) and of course a picture in a bar in Bar! More from Montenegro soon.
*cuddles*
Treacle

Hello!
This is amazing! I've travelled down to the worlds newest country! It's not often you can say that! Montenegro, like all the countries around here have been parts of other countries, but the most recent were Yugoslavia and Serbia. We're in Kotor and just like Dubrovnik it's really beautiful and the view was amazing! I'm a little scared of tall walls now though, so I took a quick peak and then moved straight away and on. Luckily I was still with Mini-Sven, so he made sure that I was safe and sound! Another update very soon.
*cuddles*
Treacle

Hello!
I decided to leave the beach and the funny wooden contraption and thought I'd go and take a closer look at the old city wall. It's a lovely wall and you can see the mediteranean very well from the top of it. I lost my footing though and slipped, luckily my really good friend Lizz was there to save me, hurrah! She caught me just in the nick of time, phew. I was so shaken by this that I had to sit for a while on Lizz's lap and calm down. It was a busy lap though as a little local cat had also taken up residence there. Once Lizz had left though the cat decided that my lap was the next best thing and sat on me instead. My lap really isn't big enough for a cat though and I got a little bit squashed! Oh well. I also met another travelling companion - Mini-Sven! It was brilliant to catch up on travelling tails together, pop on over to his blog to see more about our meeting! It's time to move onto a new country now I think!
*cuddles*
Treacle

Hello!
After being buried on the beach I though it was best to go inland and do something safer instead. I found this strange hole in a wooden contraption, so I decided to look through it, but I couldn't see anything, but I had a strange feeling that if I didn't move on soon I'd get into more trouble so I decided it was time to leave....
*cuddles*
Treacle

Hello!
I was enjoying Dubrovnik very much and went down to the beach. I was lying there all happy when a big cruiseship came sailing by. It made such a wave that it washed over me and I was tumbled around with all the pebbles and ended up being buried ... again! I had to be hung up to dry again, I don't think my ears will ever be the same again! I still like Dubrovnik though and I'll stay little longer.
*cuddles*
Treacle

Hello!
We've travelled over to Dubrovnik. It is so beautiful! I didn't think it would get any more beautiful than Split, but the views here are wonderful! To get here we had to travel through Bosnia-Herzegovina, but we didn't get off the train, so I have no pictures from there. There is a wall that goes all the way round the city, you can see me infront of it, very pretty. In the wall there are some old sheds for the guards. I decided to try one out for myself, but the door closed behind me, luckily I was small enough to squeeze myself out. Phew, close call! Did you know that bears can climb really well? I decided I wanted to get the best view possible, so I climed onto the roof. Rather dangerous for anyone but a very experienced bear to do! Dubrovnik is so lovely that I think I might stay here a while and not rush off. I'll explore a bit more I think!
*cuddles*
Treacle

Hello!
We've travelled all the way down to Croatia and the city of Split. Split is a city that has been involved with many countries, after World War I it was part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, which then changed its name to Yugoslavia. After World War II it became part of the socialist republic of Croatia, it ll got very confusing. So here I am anyway in Croatia having a wonderful time. I met a new friend, but I wasn't very sure if he was just talking to me because I was his next meal. So I went off to the old part of Split and one of the old gates in the wall. As I was wondering around I found a very, very cool poster with a bear on it, very cool! We're not hanging around in Split for long though, moving on! 
*cuddles*
Treacle

Hello!
I've made it overseas again, braving the post. There have been a lot of postal strikes in the UK and it took me longer than usual to get through the post, I got quite scared at one point that I'd gone missing and would end up stuck in a cupboard again! Luckily I arrived in Sweden safe and sound to be with my fantastic friends again. We went to a birthday party before the real adventure started and I felt a little bit lonely with everyone partying away, so I decided to make a new friend, Vassi. His fur was very warm and soft so I sat on him for a little while, chatting away. I was so warm and comfy that I fell asleep and managed to get myself underneath him. I'm sure that Vassi was trying to be helpful, but oh no, not again, I found myself in the same position I was in Poland when I met a dog there! Sigh. I decided to hurry on and leave for my next big adventure...
*cuddles*
Treacle

Morning!
Well, I've been home long enough now, so I sat at the computer for a while to work out where I should go next. Luckily there is a new adventure about to start, so I'm hopping straight into the post (into the same post box that I fell into earlier!) and I'm off for some more overseas adventures. Hurrah! I just hope that I don't get into too much trouble!
*cuddles*
Treacle

Evening!
I've gone on an adventure into London. We had to get up very early and went to the station, where I had to stand on the platform in the drizzly rain. There wasn't much space, even for a small bear like me! I had to hold on very hard to the pole to make sure I didn't get trodden under foot! We commuted into Liverpool Street Station and then down into the London Underground. I had to hold onto the hand rail really hard so that I didn't get swallowed up! We finally got to the training session where I was allowed to keep the free pen, calculator and sweet. It was fun in London and I definitely have to go back and see the sites some day, but we went home the same day.
*cuddles*
Treacle

Morning!
I've been very busy since I got back from my travels and I spent today catching up on all my admin, phew, it builds up so fast! I decided to write some postcards, but when I got to the post box it seemed so huge! I managed to climb up to the top of the post box and even got the postcard in through the hole, but as usual I managed to get into trouble and fell through the hole myself. Luckily the postman wasn't far away and he rescued me. I think I need to go on the road again before I get into too much more trouble!
*cuddles*
Treacle

Morning!
I've made it back home. After an amazing 7 months I'm back home again! It's quite strange really. Of course when you've been away for a while there is always lots of housework and gardening to do! I thought I'd help out in the garden. There's a damson tree that was a bit sick and had to be 'pruned' so I climbed up in the tree and helped cut one of the branches down. Climbing trees with a saw is very, very dangerous though and of course I fell out and managed to get myself caught underneath the branch. Sigh. Because it was a damson tree there were loads of damsons that came down too, so I thought I'd be safer in the kitchen helping to make damson jam. I really thought I'd fall in the jam mix, but luckily I managed to keep myself out of any more trouble, which is good because being in trouble once was quite enough! A new adventure soon!
*cuddles*
Treacle

Evening!
Well, this is it. I'm now at the airport at Montego Bay on Jamaica ready to fly back to the UK again. I've had a wonderful time with Rosey & Al on their honeymoon. Maybe they'll take me some place again! I think it's probably time to have a rest from travelling, I just hope that I don't get into too much trouble! I'll let you know how I get on! 
*cuddles*
Treacle

Morning!
We're coming to the end of our time in Jamaica now and I thought it was about time I investigated the hotel properly. You can see the beach you can drink wonderfully cooling drinks, but the best bit was the garden. There were loads of fantastic plants and I had a brilliant time posing all over them. I didn't get into any trouble at all. Hurrah! We're leaving soon, so I'll send my last update from Jamaica soon.
*cuddles*
Treacle

Morning!
We've travelled out from the hotel to a small village called Nine Mile. It's called Nine Mile because it's a mile away from Eight Mile, which is a mile away from Seven Mile. Briliant huh! This is where Bob Marley was born and grew up! It's brilliant. I'm sitting on the a very colourful rock, this rock is where Bob used to meditate and sang about it in Talking Blues. You can see our rasta guide singing and throwing his dreadlocks around. I tried to do this too, I think I did a very good job! Another lovely day on this wonderful island!
Another update soon.
*cuddles*
Treacle

Evening!
We've driven down to Kingston. You can see our coach driver in the picture, he had the most huge hair ever!!!! From Kingston we drove along a road as far as we could. Once the coach couldn't drive any further we had to get out and walk. We had to get up really early in Kingston so that we could walk up the tallest peak on Jamaica in time to see the sunrise. You can see me having a little rest, it was a very long walk and I do have very short legs! It was definitely worth it though, the sunrise was really quite spectacular! You can see me sitting on the concrete triangulation point at the top of the mountain. A wonderful day! 
More soon!
*cuddles*
Treacle

Afternoon!
Wow - that's all I can say.  The beaches on Jamaica are just amazing!  I'm lost for words.....
More soon!
*cuddles*
Treacle

Evening!
We've made it to the hotel in Ocho Rios after our long flight to Jamaica.  It's a lovely hotel and we were greeted in the room by a towel sculpture!  It was a very pretty swan and of course I had to sit on it!  It would have been a perfect size for me to have ridden, if it had been real!  It was such a lovely hotel room that I had to go around posing on all the places that I could find.  To stop myself getting into trouble I went and took in a show at the hotel.  It was very nice as were the drinks from the bar.  A lovely evening, but I was so tired at the end of it all, being a bit jet-lagged and everything, so by the end I just crashed out on the lovely big bed.  I'm not sure where my travelling companions slept, this bed was the perfect size for me!
More from this wonderful island soon!  I think I'm going to like the Caribbean!
*cuddles*
Treacle

Afternoon,
I've had a wonderful flight over the North Atlantic Ocean! I think I should insist that I have my own seat more often! The hold is such a dark cold place to be, this was brilliant! I even had a hand set that I use to watch the inflight entertainment system with. The leg space was excellent, I'm not sure what people mean when they say that there isn't much leg space, I had oodles!  The food was lovely, all in all a really lovely experience, it was a little hard to sleep though, I was so excited! I managed not to get into trouble, which was good, so maybe I'll be flying person class, rather than bear class again!!
*cuddles*
Treacle

Evening!
The honeymoon has started! I did my best to help pack everything all neat and tidy. I decided that I didn't really want to be packed back into a suitcase on this journey, I wanted to see everything! So I sat and helped navigate along the really busy motorways and the helped get to the airport, it was so shiny and wonderful! It was very early in the morning, so I helped order and ate a really large breakfast too. Yum! needed some sustenance to help get me through the long flight ahead! More soon, I have to run to catch the flight! (Good job I'm not really running, my little legs would never make it in time!)
*cuddles*
Treacle

Evening!

I had the most fantastic time at the wedding up in the Lake District.  After I'd been rescued from the ceiling with all the balloons I was allowed to go to the ceremony and the wedding breakfast and met the lovely bride.  I even had my own little bottle of champagne and a little flower corsage.  It was a really lovely day and I didn't get into any more trouble at all!  The hotel the wedding was at was on the edge of a lake and the day before the wedding we all went out on one of the boats and had a lovely evening.  You can see the lake and wonderful mountain scenery behind me in the top picture. Lovely!  This would be a nice place to return to, but it was a little cold.  I think it's time to follow up on finding the best beach in the world.....

A new adventure coming up, I'm about to go with the happy bride and groom on honeymoon!  Hurrah!
*cuddles*
Treacle

Evening!
It's the day of the wedding and I had a wonderful morning helping out blowing balloons up!  They really were very big!! I got buried under a pile of them as I was blowing them up, so I decided to help by holding them instead.  You'll never guess what happened!  They were helium balloons and I got carried off up to the ceiling and over the other side of the room!  It was just as well that we were in a small room or who knows where I could have ended up!!! Phew, I was brought back down to earth safe and sound though!  More from the wedding soon!
*cuddles*
Treacle

Evening!
I arrived safe and sound in Penrith from Fiji.  It was a bumpy ride and I ended up at Penrith station all ready to go to a very special wedding!  I waited for a lift for a while on a handy traffic cone, but in the end thought that I should probably phone for a lift.  I'm only a little bear and don't have a mobile phone, so was very please to see the phone box next to the station!  Phone boxes though are very big places for little bears, but with  bit of clambering about and hanging around I managed to get a call through to be picked up.  But, yes, you've guessed it, whilst checking to get my change I got into trouble :(  Still, I was picked up very soon after that and rescued, phew!
An update very soon!
*cuddles*
Treacle

Afternoon!

This is my final blog from Fiji.  It was definitely time to leave, I could feel that getting into trouble feeling coming back again (well, I was hungry and I was sure I could smell honey and bears are supposed to forage......)  I've had a wonderful time with Björn and Emma, thank you so much for looking after me so well.  i didn't get into nearly as much trouble as usual, so thank you!!  It's a good time to go home, there has been a big earth quake and now Fiji is on a tsunami alert, so it's good to be heading back to Europe again. (I wanted everyone to know that I am safe and sound!)  This has been a brilliant adventure though!

*cuddles*
Treacle

Evening!
We've driven round the island and reached the mountains.  They're really exciting!  The roads got smaller and smaller and more rugged and stoney.  We were really glad of the sturdy car that we had!  It was really misty and very pretty.  Made a real difference to the wonderful sun on the beach!  My time in Fiji is nearly at an end now.  Sigh, it's lovely here, I think I'd like to stay!  Another update soon!
*cuddes*
Treacle

Evening!
We're still on Fiji and there is only so long you can lie on the beach before you have to go and do something else for a while!  So we decided to hire a car to drive around the island.  It was great fun, lots of trees and sun!

More soon!
*cuddles*
Treacle

Evening!

It's so lovely to be here in the sun, relaxing.  It was such a hard time in Australia working, that sitting and basking in the sun is just the ticket! It was actually winter in Australia, so some of the places were quite cold, especially Perisher, where it was perishingly cold!  The local drinks in Fiji are very nice, the beaches are fantastic!  I really do think I'm in paradise!  Could any beach be nicer anywhere?  (I'll have to do some research!)  Because of the sun though it is always best to cover up a little, especially your head and you can see that I covered up very carefully to avoid getting sunstroke.  I think my favourite part of the day the though has to be sunset, I'm sure you can see what I mean in the photograph!

Another update soon.
*cuddles*
Treacle

Afternoon!
We've now reached the wonderful island of Fiji.  It was quite a long journey!  I felt quite tired, after working so hard in Australia and the time difference was so great that I was quite jet lagged, so we all slept for a very, very long time.  Not quite as long as the koalas in Australia do, which is 20 hours per day, but still a very long time.  You can see the view from our hotel room.  Totally awesome, this is the life.  I could get use to this!
More about Fiji very soon, I think it's time for another little sleep!
*cuddles*
Treacle

Evening,
Well, after spending some time in Pilbara working it was time to move on again.  To move onto a new country we had to go all the way across to Sydney.  It might not seem a long way to go from one side of Australia to the other, but if you compare the size of Australia to Europe you'll see that Europe will nearly fit in Australia, it's a really, really long way!  You can see the view out of our hotel window over Hyde Park.  I wonder if this park got its name from Hyde Park in London? Anyway, this is my last adventure from Australia.  After all this hard work I think I need to go somewhere to relax!

A brand new adventure from a brand new country very soon!
*cuddles*
Treacle

Evening!
My new travelling companions and I have travelled north in Australia.  The suitcase was very comfortable, but  was glad to come out of it again!  We're now in Pilbara, which is one of the regions in North Western Australia.  The name came from the Pilbara Goldfield.  My companions went out working, but I was too tired after travelling so far north and had to stay behind.  This was probably a good thing though as I'm sure I would have definitely got into lots and lots of trouble!  You can see me all dressed up in the work clothes, they didn't really fit, so I was definitely safest at home, I could easily have been run over by the 600 tonne trucks.

Another adventure soon!
*cuddles*
Treacle

Afternoon!
Today is a very exciting day.  I've said a very sad goodbye to Lizz and Dan and have started on a new adventure.  (Although I know I'll see them both again I've had a wonderful time with them!) I was put very carefully into Björn and Emma's suitcase and started a new adventure!  We're in Perth at the moment, but I know I'm going to have a wonderful time coming up.  I can't wait to see what adventure I go on next!
*cuddles*
Treacle
 

Evening!

I've journeyed to a magic cave.  It's actually called the Jewel Cave and it's on the road northwest of Augusta.  You can see me in the cave.  It was very dark and a little bit scary, but was so beautiful with lots and lots of stalagmites and stalagtites.  You can see me on a magic stone, well I'm not sure if it was magic or not, but the guide told me it was, so it must have been!  It definitely glowed and was very very pretty!  I'm on my way back to Perth now and onto a new fabulous adventure!

More very soon!
*cuddles*
Treacle

Evening!
I've now gone to the most south westerly point in the whole of Australia.  It's the point where the Southern Ocean and the Indian Ocean meet.  I know this because there was a lovely sign telling me so!  We had to travel out on a really point bit of land to get here, I did think it looked like a tongue, you'll have to look on the map, very funny!

More soon from Down Under
*cuddles*
Treacle

Evening!

We've made our way to Georgina Park in Augusta.  It's a lovely place where the sea is very warm.  You can see me at the beach.  You can catch a boat from here and go whale watching to see humpback whales.  I decided that it would be better if I stayed on dry land though as I do get a little bit seasick and I remember trying to row a little rowing boat back in Sweden earlier in the year!  I was happy though because I did get to see whales from the beach.  You probably can't see, but they're in the photograph, behind the boat in the distance.  I was happy to have seen them from there! I had so much fun watching the whales in fact that I was nearly forgotten and left behind.  Luckily I spotted that I was about to be left behind and jumped up in front of the car.  It's not really a good thing to do because I was nearly "akterseglad", which is Swedish for mown down, or sailed upon.  Everything was ok in the end though and we carried on our journey to our next adventure!

More soon!
*cuddles*
Treacle

Evening!

I was so right about having adventures anywhere!  I'm still in the same hotel as yesterday, but I managed to get into trouble again!  In every hotel room I've been in there is always a safe so that you can lock your valuables up safely.  I managed to get myself locked in!  Luckily my friend Dan was able to rescue me, phew!  It's not just safes that are dangerous though, even food is!  I was busily trying to lick the last tiny bit of honey goodness (did you know that bears like honey?) out of a little pot when I managed to get my head totally stuck inside it!  I saw the funny side of it though and decided that I should wear the pot like a helmet from a suit of armour, just like Ned Kelly.  Ned Kelly was a bushranger and folk hero, he was always getting into trouble and he was known for wearing a suit of armour with a helmet just like my honey pot here!.  You can see that I did my research in the fourth picture, I'm reading up on Ned so that I can avoid getting into trouble like him!

We're leaving this area now, so an update from somewhere else very soon!
*cuddles*
Treacle

Morning!

There are always adventures to be had, wherever you go and I had a little adventure this morning!  We are now in a new hotel, still in Perth.  It's just as posh as the last one, so I though, I need to tidy myself up a bit.  I've been on the road for a while and it's probably time for a shave!  So I had a shave and this was fine.  Next I thought, it's probably time to have a wash, so I got into the sink and began to have a wash with the soap (you can see it in the second picture).  What I hadn't realised was that it wasn't soap, it was bath foam, so I got covered all over in bubbles.  I didn't mind too much though, it was much lighter and nicer than sand or snow and made me nice and clean, although it did tickle a bit! Luckily there was a drying stand nearby, so I could dry out nicely.

oh, well.  Another adventure very soon, I'm quite sure!
*cuddles*
Treacle

Morning!

I've now travelled further west and arrived in Perth.  We decided to stay in a lovely hotel the Sheraton hotel to be exact, yay!  You can see the fantastic view out of the window of our 19th floor room.  Wow!  The best bit about staying in lovely hotels is that there are lots and lots of pillows, so comfortable!  But sometimes there can be too many pillows for little bears and I fell off :(  Oh well.  That's the dangers of travelling I guess!  Another update soon!

*cuddles*
Treacle

Hello!

Our next stop on this trip around Australia was Adelaide.  A lovely city, but we didn't spend long here.  You can see me here waiting for a bus before carrying on with our journey.  We sped our journey along to get here by flying a bit, which did feel like cheating, so it's back on the bus and hopefully another train ride soon!

Another update soon!
*cuddles*
Treacle
 

Afternoon!

I'm really, really loving Australia!  I'm having a really cool time! We've travelled to the ski resort of Perisher.  I had no idea that you could ski in Australia, a total surprise!  I expected hot and sunny weather the whole time, wild!  Once I found out you could ski though, I had to try it out!  You can see me trying to ski, but the ski poles where just too long for me, sigh!

So I decided to go for a walk instead, but it started to snow and I was really quickly covered up to my head in snow.  It was just like being on the beach all over again.  Luckily my trusty friend Dan was there to rescue me.  Unlike sand though it meant I got a bit of a clean, which was quite nice!

There is actually quite a lot of snow in Australia, especially if you are a little bear! Another update very soon!

lots of cuddles
Treacle

Hello!
We went south out of Sydney on the train and to Australia's capital city, Canberra.  It's a lovely place.  The roads are all built in a circle around the centre.  It's quite strange with all the circles and straight lines, very easy for a little bear to get lost!  You can see me at the Youth Hostel in bed (lovely large bed!).  I had to make myself presentable, so I combed my fur very thoroughly, being in the capital city and everything! Our first trip was to Mount Ainslie, which had the most amazing view over Canberra, you can nearly make out the circle streets! Then we went to the big War Memorial with the Anzac parade behind me.  The white building that you can see on the horizon is the parliament building, quite a long straight parade!

We're not staying in Canberra long though, time to move on!  Another update very soon!
*cuddles*
Treacle

Hello!
I've made it to the other side of the world.  It's so cool here, well, I say cool, it's quite warm so far!  I've come to Sydney, but I'm not staying long here, you can see me on a cool Sydney Suburban train heading straight out of town.  I think I'd like Sydney, but I know I'm going to have such adventures in Australia!

Another update very soon!
*cuddles*
Treacle

Morning!
There is such a lot of waiting around at airports when you want to go a long way away.  I'm here in Abu Dhabi International airport, the capital of the United Emirates.  Sitting and waiting, drinking tea, sleeping.  Everyone around me seemed to sleep, so I thought I'd use the same position as them, it seemed to mean that there was less snoring.  Anyway, I'm nearly at my destination country now, hurrah!  Then I can go and see some trains!
*cuddles*
Treacle

Morning!
All good adventures start at an airport and they don't get much bigger than this!  (Both the adventure and the airport!)  Heathrow is totally massive, very easy for a little bear like me to get lost in, luckily I just sat quietly and the only trouble I managed to get into was nearly sliding down inside the chair and getting lost in the dust.  Phew!  There wasn't really much to do at Heathrow, but I'm sure I'll be back here sometime, I'd like to try to find some place to go that all the bears could have their photos taken, like the metal man at Schiphol Airport, that would be cool!  Anyway, that's all for now, another update very soon!

*cuddles*
Treacle

Hello!

I'm off on my travels again, hurrah!  First though I had to go to a birthday party and eat lots of birthday cake.  It was nice to touch base in England again before flying off into the big blue yonder and very tastey!  More very, very soon!
*cuddles*
Treacle
 

Hejsan!
I'm back in Sweden now, the last leg of this mighty fine adventure.  You can just see out of the window of the train that it was dark and rainy, yuck, November weather!  I think my next adventure might have to somewhere hot and sunny, hmm...  You can see in the pictures that I got a bit bored on the train you can see me with my legs crossed needing to use the little bears room, trying out my scarf in new and fashionable ways and then finally practising my karate moves.  It's always good when you're travelling lots to take opportunities to keep supple.  So this is the end of this adventure, but I know where I'm going next and it's going to be lots and lots of fun!

I'll be blogging again soon, but I think I might be out of range of a computer for a little while...
Take care.
Lots of Love
Treacle

Morning!
I'm on my way home now.  We've caught the boat from Gdynia and are on our way to Karlskrona in Sweden.  There wasn't much to do on the boat though, but I kept myself as a busy as I could, I'll let you know all about that later!  I've had a really great time in Poland and the Ukraine, but it's nearly time to start planning a new adventure!
Lots of love
Treacle

 Good Morning!
I've just finished an adventure in Leba, right in the north of Poland.  I'd had such a dull time in Lebork that I thought it was time to have a real adventure.  Leba is famous for it's sand dunes, so I jumped on a bike and pedalled off 7 kilometers outside the town to see them.  The sand dunes really were magnificent, they looked like a desert!  Too much like a desert, I walked and walked and didn't take enough water and I got lost and it got windy and I got buried ... again.  It was horrible.  Luckily my friend Dan rescued me (for the third time) from being buried in the sand and took me me to the town where I could rehydrate myself with an odd raspberry drink and take shelter from the sun.

Phew, that was a close encounter!
My adventures in Poland are nearly at an end, we're on the way home now.  It's been brilliant fun though!
lots of love
Treacle

Morning!
My adventure continues, on the train as usual and I was left wondering where to go next in Poland?  (Thus the scratching of the head!)  I was a bit bored really, so I looked at the travel guide to see what would be fun to do next.  I thought Lebork looked like good fun, so I got off the train there and went to the bus ticket office to go out and about.  Unfortunately it was shut, very annoying!  So I decided not to stay in Lebork for very long and left straight away!

Hopefully more fun adventures soon!

lots of love
Treacle

 Morning!

I'm still on my adventure in Poland and it's been very exciting. We got on a boat and went to the town of Hel.  Hel is a 33 kilometer very narrow peninsular, if you look at the map, you'll see how thin it is!  You can see that I wanted to get a better view, so I sat on the gunwale, and managed to slip, but luckily I was caught by my good friend Toni and he saved me!  Phew, thank you Toni.  A close escape there, it wasn't a very good place to sit really.  Whilst we were in Hel we saw a stall selling lots of other teddies.  Unfortunately I was mistaken for one of the bears on sale and ended up on the stall.  I was rescued again in the nick of time!

Because Hel is on the peninsula there are lots and lots of wonderful beaches.  I did some nice sunbathing, but I ended getting buried again, beaches are so dangerous!  Sigh.

It was soon time to leave though, so I sat and waited at the railway station for a train.  More from my adventure soon!
Lots of Love
Treacle

 Afternoon!
I've travelled al the way up through Poland and am now in Sopot.  The weather luckily has improved and I got to go to the beach again.  Hurrah!  I love the beach.  Luckily I avoided getting buried in sand again, phew!  That wasn't so fun.  After the beach we went to a restaurant and had a lovely cool drink.  It was funny though, there was a man on the table behind who said almost as much as I usually do!  More from my adventure very soon!
lots of love
Treacle

Morning!
We've been on the train and have now made it all the way back into Poland again and are in Wroclaw, before the WWII this was actually part of Germany!  We stayed in the hostel Babel, which was funny, I thought I should have a babel fish so that I could understand everyone  That's the funniest thing about being in foreign countries, it's hard to understand people, but I'm a bear so I don't always need words to be understood!  The weather turned a bit wet on us and I had to spend some time inside so that I didn't get wet. That was definitely very boring! More from my adventure very soon!

Lots of Love
Treacle

Morning!
I made it to the beach!  I was so happy.  After all our travelling by train down to the south coast it was wonderful just to lie in the sand and sunbath for a bit. This beach is called Arkadia, just outside Odessa city.  All the posh people come here, so I felt in very good company. Unfortunately the beach is a very big scary place really and I managed to get myself buried in sand. :(  I think bears must be quite unhappy here because I found a poster of a really sad bear.  I wonder why he was so unhappy!  I was sat thinking about this  and feeling a bit hungry on a bench when I spotted anohter poster of Ikra, Russian caviar, so I decided I should try to find some to eat.  It's been lovely in the Ukraine, even if I did get buried in sand, better that than sunburn!  It's time to leave here now and travel back north again by train.  I wonder what adventures I'll have on my way home?

lots of love
Treacle

 Morning!
I've finally made it down to Odessa and I don't mind telling you, I was soo hungry. It was a very very long train trip all the way south down here from Sweden. So of course we had a McDonalds.  Believe it or not it was quite nice after all the train food!  We did a little bit of sight seeing, you can see me in front of the World War II monument.  I have  feeling you could see monuments like this all over the world. :(

I finally got to see the sea.  I was very excited!  This is the Black sea, I so want to go to the beach and go sunbathing!  I can't wait!  To get to the beach you had to take a cableway.  I had to hang on really really tightly so that I did't fall off. Quite scary for a little bear like me!

More from my adventure very soon!
love
Treacle

 Afternoon!
My journey southwards is nearly at an end.  We're heading for the coast and very very soon we're going to be there!  I'm so excited about going to the beach, I just hope I don't get into too much trouble whilst I explore everything...
lots of love
Treacle

Good Afternoon!
I've now left Poland, this picture is the last sleep, when I woke up I was in a totally different country.  Very exciting!
I did rather like the tea cups on the train, very ornate and pretty, I wish I could take one home with me!  I wonder what excitment I'll have in the Ukraine?
lots of love
Treacle

Evening!
I'm still in Poland, still on the train!  I decided that I should revise my language skills, so I read the "pointy at what I want things" book very carefully!  We're on the way from Warsaw to the Ukraine, so it's a really really long journey.  I had to make myself really comfortable with enough space on the seat!  I had a very nice sandwich at Lublin,
but got a bit full after eating the whole thing!  It was such a long way that I got a bit bored and tried to explore the cabin,
but got myself a bit stuck. Luckily Dan was on hand to set me free again, phew!

More updates from the train very soon!
lots of love
Treacle
 

Good evening!
I've gone on a train trip to Poland! I've had a really exciting time on the train, with delays at borders and all sorts of fun and games!  I've now stayed in my first hostel in Poland,  the Oki Doki Hostel, there was newspaper everywhere and I mean everywhere!  On the windowsills, on the ceiling, on the walls!  I stayed up all night reading, so I was a bit bleary eyed when I finally got up in the morning!  It was totally brilliant though!  I got to stay on the top bunk and managed not to fall off!  More very soon!
lots of love
Treacle

 Evening!
Whilst at the Stuga I met a new friend, Kevin the one-clawed crayfish.  We had a great time together, chatting away for ages, but then we had a bit of a disagreement and Kevin got a bit scary with his one claw and we didn't talk much after that!  I've been having lots of fun looking at all the wonderful plants here, but I got a bit close to the fence and got stuck, so I had to be helped out again (thanks Dan!)  After such a great time here in Småland I sat and enjoyed the sunset over the lake.  This is a wonderful place and definitely hope to come back again!
Another adventure very soon I hope!
lots of love
Treacle

Hejsan!
I've been in Småland celebrating Midsommar.  I think the pictures tell the story.....
Lots of Love
Treacle

Good Evening!
I've now flown back from Greenland back to Sweden again.  You can see me in these pictures on the night train from Malmö to Stockholm.  Before I left Greenland though, I did try to phone home and let everyone know I was ok, but it was a bit hard to work the phone with my paws.  As you can see I've been a bit accident prone, even on the train whilst I was washing my face I got trapped in the lid of the basin!  I slept very well on the train as you can see. It's been a really wonderful adventure and I've met lots of wonderful new friends and been rescued quite a few times too!  Thank you for looking after me!  Another adventure soon I hope!
lots of love
Treacle

Hello!
We went on many walks in our time in Greenland and I've learnt that it's a very dangerous place for a little bear to be.  You can see the lovely waterfall in the background, but it is so easy to slip and fall!  You can see that I slipped twice, but luckily my really good friend Dan was on hand to save me from the river.  Thank you Dan!  I've had a wonderful time in Greenland with all my wonderful new friends!  It's time to go home now!
Lots of Love
Treacle

Good Afternoon!
Whilst in Greenland I went on many adventures, some of them were quite dangerous, but luckily I survived!  I went for a wonderful walk, I had a good view of where we were going from a trouser pocket, I felt like a kangaroo!  You can see a wonderful view out over some sand.  This sand was no ordinary sand, it was quicksand.  We had to make sure that we kept to the edge otherwise we'd all have been sucked down into the earth as quick as a flash!  There are lots of interesting flowers and trees in Greenland, the purple flowers are called Azalea and were wonderful.  Really hardy to survive here!  The tree I'm sat in was really cool too, but I don't remember what it was called.  At one point we were attacked by a swarm of horrible mosquitos, they even managed to bite their way through my fur, horrible!

It was a very long day for a little bear like me and I was so hungry by the time I got home and I slept like a log in my wonderfully comfortable bed!
I'll write another adventure tomorrow, but be warned, it's not for the faint of heart!
lots of love
Treacle

Halarj!

That's how you say hello in the language that the people from Greenland speak.  I've come over to Greenland for an amazing trip!  It is wonderful over here!  I think I expected everything to be all snowy, like in the picture on the bottom left, but it was mostly like the pictures on the top, lots of rocks and patches of green everywhere. But then, we didbn't go very far into the country.  Have a look at the map and in satelite view and you'll see!  With global warming I think more and more of it is becoming green and less and less white :(

I met a nice new friend, a polar bear and her cub.  They showed me around and helped me out whenever I got lost.  It was a very big and scary country and I got into lots of scrapes.  I'll tell you more about my adventures in Greenland very soon and about the wonderful things I saw!
lots of love
Treacle

Morning!
I've travelled with my wonderful companions down to a little sommar stuga in Småland.  It is quite traditional for Swedes to have a little red house (or stuga) out in the country and this is where we've gone.  It's a lovely little house and of course I offered to help in all ways that I could!  You can see me watering the plants and breaking up stones with a little fire.  Saturday was of course the Swedish national day and so I helped put the flag up.   The fourth photo is from a mile stone.  A Swedish mile is equivalent to 10 kilometers, so it's quite confusing really, the quarter of a mile is two and a half kilometers!  lol!  Anyway, I need to do some packing, I'm off to a new country soon, very exciting!
Cuddles
Treacle

Morning,
I've made it back from Germany all the way to Sweden.  The weather has been totally awesome!  I've discovered that Swedes like to be out in the forest a lot, which is brilliant, because that's my favourite place too (being a bear and all!).  Orienteering started in Sweden in the late 19th century and started in military training and has become a really really popular sport.  I loved it and want to do more!  Anders showed me all the rules and I helped him find hidden pathways in the forests that only bears know.  We were a great team!  I'm now getting ready for my biggest adventure yet, but you'll have to wait and see where I'm going!
lots of love
Treacle

Hello!
My trip to Germany is nearly over.  I've had such great fun, we've done loads of cool things. You can see me in the Old Elbe Tunnel.  It was really funny, to get cars down into the tunnel they had to take the car into lift and then drive through the tunnel.  It was fun though!  You can see me looking out over the harbour too.  I always like to try to make as many friends as I can and I made friends with a very nice German bear, his name was Herman the German Bear!

The lady in the statue is Zitronenjette, she sold lemons on the streets of Hamburg and lived from 1841 - 1916.  She's a very famous lady in Hamburg now.  I'd like to think that if she'd still been alive I'd have bought a lemon from her to put in my coke!

That's all from Hamburg, more exciting things soon!
lots of love
Treacle

Morning!
I've been having the most wonderful time in Hamburg with my friend Anders.  We've been to see some really great places!  You can see me looking out from the top of the Michaelis Tower and looking back up at it again!  It was originally built in the 17th century, but it's been destroyed twice and rebuilt again!  I also had great fun with the model of the city.  I don't normally feel so large!  It was nice to sit in the city and look down on everything else for a change!  More from Hamburg soon!
lots of love
Treacle

God Morgon!
I've been sent over to Sweden to help with some university work.  I'm at Linköping University (at the Norrköping campus) helping out my lovely new friends Anders and Maria with writing some examination questions.  It was good fun and I worked as hard as I could.  Sweden is very nice and quite different from The Netherlands!  Another adventure very soon!
Puss o Kram!
Treacle

Evening!
I've returned from The Netherlands and am passing through England onto my next adventure.  I was sad to say adjö to Hanna, but maybe she'll take me somewhere exciting later in the year. :)  We went to Colchester Castle.  It's a Norman castle built on Roman remains, we went down into the crypt and up onto the roof, very exciting!  The best bit was trying on some chain mail, it was a bit smelly and heavy, but fun!  I had a very nice couple of evenings back at home before being sent on my way to Sweden, so hopefully I'll update with another adventure very soon!

lots of love
Treacle

Hello!
My time in The Netherlands has finished and as we went through the airport I saw this big metal man and remembered that I've seen this man before. I'm the third bear to go through this airport and have my photo taken sat here.  I wonder who'll be next?  Another update soon.
Lots of Love
Treacle

Afternoon!
My trip to The Netherlands is soon going to be over, but I've done some really cool things.  I'm hearing rumours of some really cool places that I might be visiting soon, so I'm not too upset that I'll be leaving soon. You can see me with the dentist, I ate too many sweets yesterday and had to pay a visit to the dentist.  It's always best to be careful when eating sweets!  See the tooth in the dentists hand?  I loved seeing the windmill and also the Christmas tree made of clogs, wonderful!  That's al for today.  Another adventure very soon.
lots of love
Treacle

Afternoon,

I'm having the most wonderful time with my new friend Hanna.  She's taken me to lots of wonderful places.  In this trip I've tried cheeses and sweets and all sorts!  We're in the little village of Zaanse Schans, it's really small, but wonderful!  You can see me at the Cheese Farm D Catherinahoeve.  You can get all different flavours of cheese, pepper, smoked garlic, herbs and  I'm sitting on dutch mustard!  In the other pictures you can see me trying to decide what traditional old sweets to have and you can see traditional Stroopwafels on my knee.  They were definitely the best!

I'm going to go and have a lie down now as Ive eaten too many sweets, but I'll update some more later one!
See you laters!
*cuddles*
Treacle

Evening,
I've gone on a day trip to Luxembourg.  It's a very small little country, but a very very important one!  I've had a great day, saw the statue of the Grande-Duchesse Charlotte, she ruled Luxembourg from 1919 - 1964.  I felt very honoured to be in the palm of her hand.  We then celebrated with a glass of something nice and cool. My guide LIzz has gone back home and left me in the wonderful company of Hanna.  I hope to have another adventure with her before going back to England.
*cuddles*
Treacle

Good evening!
I'm in another country, I've come to The Netherlands and am in Amsterdam for a couple of days.  I've had a wonderful time and I think the highlight has to be the Heineken museum.  You were shown everything from the brewing of the beer, to pulling pints and even the drinking of it.  (I wasn't actually doing the drinking though as I'm too young still) I really want to come back to Amsterdam and see some more of the wonderful sites here!
Another adventure soon.
Lots of cuddles
Treacle

Morning!
My Easter trip was to Italy, the home of, um, spaghetti!  I went skiing with some very lovely people who looked after me very well.  We tried to find a helmet to keep my head safe, but they were all too big.  It kept me nice and snug and warm from all the snow though when we had our spaghetti lunches up the mountain.  The snow was quite slushy and heavy, but it was good fun!  Now, where shall I go next?
*cuddles*
Treacle

Afternoon all!
I've just been to my first wedding.  I had such fun!  I travelled with the best woman, she had so much to do from organising the groom, doing a best woman's speech and making sure things ran smoothly.  This included making sure that I was dressed all neat and tidy, so I was put in a trouser press, just to make sure I was all ready!  Luckily I survived and you can see me with the bride.  It was a very long and tiring day and I slept so well afterwards in the wonderful four poster bed.  I've never been in such a posh bed before, it was very, very lovely!  Another adventure soon I hope!
Take care.
*cuddles*
Treacle

Hello,
I've gone on my first trip since leaving my cupboard.  It feels great to be out and about.  I'm in Geneva visiting some family (hello everyone!).  The weather has been awesome bright sunshine with lots of snowcapped mountains all around the city.  I went into the city and saw the biig water spout, that was fun.  I also went to the United Nations Office and saw some amazing rooms and even the UN's emblem on the wall, you can see me in one above.  I've had a lovely time with my family and am looking forward to my next trip.  Hope everyone is well back at home.  Take care.
*cuddles*
Treacle

Hello!
So, here I am, now in the United Kingdom, I was stuck in a box, but I've been liberated and am going to continue on my travels.  I'm so excited at being on the road again.  It's been so long and I'm so happy!  I wonder where I'll go?  I'll wonder who I'll meet?  I wonder if I'll bring back some momentos of the countries that I go to.  I'd really like to collect a book of postcards about all the places that I go to with stories from the people that I go with.  Whatever happens, the world is my oyster and I hope to have lots of fun and lots of cuddles!
*cuddles*
Treacle

Hello!
I'm Treacle the Travelling Teddy, or just Treacle for short.  I am so happy to be able to join all the other travelling bears on this website.  It's such fun to be able to share my adventures with everyone!  I'm a bear who's been on the road for sometime, but I got stuck just after starting my travels, so I've not gone very far.  I was born in Canada, the cold, cold ski resort of Whistler, this picture is of me on a ski lift.  It was rather nippy!  I've got a nice warm scarf now to keep me warm, thank goodness.  I loved Whistler, a lovely tree lined resort with some high mountain tops.  I even had some cousins of mine sleeping in the tree roots around the resort waiting for the summer to arrive so they could come out of hibernation.

Anyway, I'm looking forward to sharing my travels with everyone, so I'll post again very soon.  Keep an eye out for where I end up....
cuddles
Treacle