Potsdam - part 3: Sanssouci

Park Sanssouci was a really cool park to visit. We enjoyed looking at the statues and the fountains.








The heat of the day was getting to us, so we stopped for a refreshing drink.


The view from the terrace.


After our break we spotted this sign. It pointed the way to a dragon tower!


We followed the sign, but the first building we encountered was an orangery.


It had a fountain in the garden.


And angel statues.




Maybe the dragon tower would be at the end of this road.


Yes! There it is.


I think it is a cool tower.
There were lots of small dragons on the roof. Can you see them?


We did some more exploring after we saw the dragon tower, and saw the New Palace.


The heat and humidity was getting almost unbearable, so we decided to make our way back to the train station.


Next: St. Nicholas Church once more.

A trip to Rome - Park Borghese

On day five of our trip to Rome we started with a visit to a park: Park Borghese. It's named after the villa that's on the park grounds and that was build for cardinal Scipione Borghese.

There were some cool statues.


I really liked this one.


This was my owner's favorite statue.


We also saw a small temple.


It had all kinds of animals on the ceiling.


Can you see the wild boar?


I spotted a fountain with rabbits on it.


And there was a lake with a mysterious temple on an island.


In many of the trees there were cicadas and they were singing.


What a beautiful sound.


This is a statue of Nikolai Gogol.


He was a Russian playwright so that's why the statue had a mask in its hands.


All in all the park was lots of fun.

A Walk and Balloons

Yesterday evening we went for a walk in one of the nearby parks. We came across this really beautiful and mysterious lane.

Taking a short rest to admire the pond.

Today there were lots of balloons on our way to work once again! This time they were red and they said to vote for some kind of student organisation.

Saturday Shopping

It was a lovely spring day and me, my owner and two of my owner's friends went shopping.

On our way into town we came through the park, it's really beautiful and green there at the moment.

At one shop they had all kinds of porcelain thingies, like these eggstands.

We bought a little ceramic piggy there, which I might show you one day.

After all the shopping we went to get a smoothie.
Mine had raspberry, blackberry, strawberry and apple in it.

And I got a double chocolate muffin!
All in all it was a great way to spend the saturday afternoon.

Groningen

We went into town today to buy a new mouse for the computer as the old one stopped working yesterday. While cycling around town to get the mouse and our groceries we took a couple of pictures.

This beautiful building used to be the museum of natural history.

Iit was sunny today so we took a short rest in the park to enjoy the weather.

And lastly another picture taken in the park: The 'Muziekkoepel' which seems to be the music cupola in english if I have to believe Babelfish.