around the world with ipuenktchen

what a great day - yesterday our dear host ipue.. had her birthday and the gathering of the foreign women living in tabriz!!!! :-)))))))))))))))))))))))))

and believe it - her guest OLDIEOMA, a great, great cooker!!!!!!!! was preparing THREE very PROFESSIONAL cakes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

original tiramisuuuu!!!


a quarksahnetorte - topfentorte as the austrians call it!!!!


a fruitcake (erdbeeren & johannisbeeren)


they had been 1o - and they were chatting as they had been 5o persons or more.... boaaaahhhhhhh....
and if you remember FLAT STANLEY and me, POSSY, & CROSSY, too - so in fact we had been THIRTEEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



they brought so nice gifts for ipue, and most of the women had given plants for the garden!!! as they made an *agreement* for the b-days in summer it's best to bring nice plants than any other *rumsteherchen* - as they are no longer the youngest to clean everywhere and the whole day things they don't need.................



and for sure ipue got also a lot of beautiful cards!!!!!!
;-)))))))))))

and a very sweet souvenir from ipue's childhood - her sis send her mini lenticular cards both had in olden times among their toys.. wow - where she had found this?? perhaps in a fleamarket????? it was a nice surprise!!



and BY THE WAY - TODAY is OLDIEOMA'S last holiday in tabriz!!!!!!!
pls stay tuned - we are going to take breakfast now, and after a taxi will come to bring us downtown as we have a long list for last shopping in tabriz!!! and in the eve we'll have a nice walk in elgoli park to take some shishlik and so on..

and as it's better to stay busy ;-) we'll have our next guest, a young cyclist from hamburg!! ;-)))))))



and last but not least around 3 AM oldieoma had to check in at tabriz int'l airport for leaving for VIENNA back home!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

by for now!!

the sweet summer eves in tabriz are great. the weather is so handsome and a very nice light wind always - and what a crowd in our parks!!??!!?!!!!! vacation time arrived!!!!!! the open-air-restaurants invite ppl to take a shishlik or smth else...! ppl are so busy to bring out half of their home to spend a nice eve in el goli park!! the kids excitedly waiting for the fun park, and the elder ppl enjoying their open air dinner!! sitting there watching ppl and chatting together - mostly until 1 or 2 AM!! the pools is waiting for clients going by boat and so on.. well, it's a nice atmosphere........

btw - on the tentative list of world cultural heritage site!! pls keep your fingers crossed for the registration as a world heritage site this year!!!!!!!!!



there are so many areas called *saray* the different parts of bazar and we get never tired to see another one!!!! some of them had been restored, some of them still not... and other are contemporate buildings!



it's a special world!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



yesterday we had seen other parts of the old bazar!