Marius & Gina (+Tascha)

Poor guy... sitting there and trying to get out. Don't you just love it ?
Well... it will get to a time where we, the humans, we will be in cages and some idiots will look at us from the other part of the glass and say: "Oh, that is sooooooooo cute !" Don't you think it belongs in Africa or where he was collected from ? And not in Bucharest in a cage with pple looking at him while he pees and shits ?
But hey, it's a good business...

In London, those little funny animals, you can see them everywhere in any park you go.
But if you try to catch them... you have to think about strategies, and maybe find some nuts.

Yes, it's true.

Many people go on their holiday to relax and have fun. We took ours to learn and get smarter .
This time, we had a lot of fun at the Science Museum, and learned about the carbon emission and how to reduce it. They have a lot of games there, from the stupid ones like "press here to see what Dr. Bouli finds out about the forest fire", to the most complex ones with strategies for saving people from buildings in fire. Very very nice.



But what astonished us the most was, of course, the IMAX 3D Cinema where dinosaurs and giant octopuses just jumped on us leaving us almost with a heart attack... .
We basically spend a whole day there without realizing it. Entrance: free. Food: normal prices. Gifts: tons (I (Gina) wanted to get Triops, but hey... it seems that I was just out of line... for reasons I will never understand... )

Then again, the British Museum: big, clean, lighted, white, noisy and silent, both at the same time.
Lesson of the day: history of people in North America. Strange people I might say . Most interesting stuff to say is about the fishermen, with their prayers and ceremonies to the "Salomon People" to ensure "the return of the fish". They were actually throwing the bones of the fish in the water after the Thanksgiving celebration, to ensure the regeneration of the fish for the next year. .

And then, the people in the Andes were celebrating the earth by holding festivals to the "tio (devil) in the mine", which actually embodied the generative power of the inner earth. The funny thing here is that after the Spanish conquest, the miners were forced to work hard and most of the prayers and offers were to this tio of the mine for protection and security of the mineral wealth. But now, the Indigenous and Catholic believes actually transformed this tio into the Virgin of the Mines, which they celebrate for the same protection . Which makes me wonder: and our God ? who was He ?

From 13th of September 'til 6th of April 2008 you can find there China's Terracotta Army, for those interested. I didn't catch it yet, unfortunately.

We really enjoyed every minute of our little holiday. It's impossible to get bored there. And it's impossible to be an ignorant. And until we move there for good... we enjoy the pictures.

Babay.

You should watch the entire movie with a lot of attention and see how the life of a poor green parrot looks like in our days...
Ladies and gentlemen... Mimi aaaaaaaand Eros...

You have to go !

You just have to go and check on the mosques, the Topkapi palace with the Harem . The Roman Tanks are great as well. You can find out there about Medusa, the beautiful girl who fell in love with Zeus son and Athena got jealous an cursed her and transformed her hair in snakes and whenever she would see someone she would transform the person in stone. In the tanks you can see two heads of Medusa: one placed upside down and the other on a part of the face. No one knows why...

The mosques are one of the most impressive things you can see there. And the prayers in the morning , in the middle of the day and in the evening just make you think that your life has a soundtrack, just like in the movies. Very very impressive.

And of course we couldn't miss the bazaar. Where it is impossible not to get hoaxed, even if you work there . We managed to negotiate an Aladdin's lamp and the shop's assistant got in a real fight with his boss because he gave it to us just too cheap.
Well this is life... or maybe this is what they wanted us to think. I'm saying this because when we bought a narghile, there were two kinds of: one with handmade designs on the top and one just of fine metal. And the handmade one was 40 lira and the normal one was 25 lira. And the guy tried to sell us the 40 lira narghile and when we negotiated until 25 he just put his nervous face and said OK, but he got the 25 lira one and packed it and gave it to us. You just cannot imagine how happy we were for such a good negotiation... but that only until we found out that, unfortunately, we payed its normal price, because it wasn't the handmade one but the metal one. WE GOT SO PISSED !!!!

That's it for now. We will put some very nice pics with the mosques and enjoy !