around the world with ipuenktchen

hi, everybody.. oh snow... a bit only but better than nothing.. I had a great feeling!! :-))))) we made some pics in the early morning!!





and also we made a souvenir-pic with POSSY & CROSSY with the famous chocolates I (me, HENRIK!!) brought for them the day before yesterday!!! they were so thrilled about!!!!!!!!! :-)))))))))



AND last but not least today it's a holiday for the armenian minority: their christmas!! yesterday had been their holy eve!! because they believed in the birth of jesus only when the three holy kings had seen him by their own eyes and told about to the world!!

hey, what a day... a quite cold and foggy weather, jippieh; HENRIK likes it and feel home and so it was him, ipue brought with her down town today!!!

tabriz is an industrial city and there are loooots of sweets factories.. and also we have TWO of the most famous chocolate-factories of IR in tabriz!!!

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one of the most famous and best chocolate producers in IR is SHIRIN ASAL (means *sweet honey*!) from tabriz!! and they even have their own markets to sell their stuff!! oooh what a paradise HENRIK had seen, and he tried also their chocolate - ohhh yummmmmmi!!!!!!!!!!!!!



we bought some chocolate for his next host and of course
for POSSY & CROSSY!!



after we had a bus ride to the main postoffice and as usual we got the nice special stamp marks for all our cards.. but ipue keep them another ten 1o days until the *posttraffic* will be again normal and nothing will get lost...... :-)))))

today ipue went together with me, HENRIK, by bus downtown.. we had to buy new local postcards..



and what did she show me??? a traditional *winter-fastfood* *smiiiiiile* - pls have a look!!! people like it a lot and you can find it everywhere! it's very common in winter!!!

even we went also again to the BLUE MOSQUE, which is ipue's favorite place for buying cards!! as we had to wait for the guy who sells the cards we had a photo session in the mean-time ;-))))

the famous BLUE MOSQUE in tabriz is a beautiful sample of brick stone mosques!! built in 1465 and destroyed mostly in an earthquake in 1779, rebuilt in the seventies and working on the restauration of the painting inside until some years ago, it's again a breathtaking beautiful colourful building!!



when people are asking why the name of this old mosque is *blue mosque*, they must have a look at the southern part of the mosque, which was decorated with beautiful lapislazuli tiles!!



this design in blue mosque had been the *exam* for everybody in the courses of IR heritage in pottery design.. it is sooo difficult as ipue told me, and everybody who didn't got hopeless by trying to copy this design, had got a permament member of pottery friends association... *smile*





schaut mal genau hin - erinnert euch dieses motiv an irgendwas?? jau.... so isses.. die schwarzen zeiten in DE.. der typ hatte sich das zeichen nicht selber einfallenlassen, sondern es war schon abgekupfert - es findet sich an vielen stellen in der islamischen kunst! und es steht fuer die bedeutung der vier grundelemente
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