around the world with ipuenktchen

boah, what a fantastic day ahead!!!!

after breakfast ipue and her hubby got ready to go out - they told me we would go to their garden at 25 km tehran road to show me real winter in IR!!!!?!?!? they met so many things in their car, I guessed we'll have a great day staying there a long time???!!?!





first we went across the city (pic1) to pick up yashila_81 and lili_6789 from baghmisheh!! juchuuu!! so I said good-bye to their home (pic3) we passed the new bridge (pic2) as well as the shahriyar monument! hossein shahriyar (pic4) was the most famous contemporary poet of azerbaijan; the monument built also by ahad hosseini, you know him from the *horse-tramway* from some days ago! he made poems as well in azeri as in farsi!





btw it was always interesting to see the traffic lights, showing how many seconds you have to stay when it got red - or how many seconds you may still go when it's the green light showing.. we took a photo today, but because of the sunlight not very well noticeable.. (pic5)



after we took the road to gurigoel (pic6+7) the nice lake beside the garden, ipue showed you long time ago here in another season! arrived at the garden's door there had been some wild dogs, *waiting* for us (pic8) - the garden was sooo beautiful with all the snow and sunshine (pic9) even we had our break with coffee & tea outside!! (pic10)





as here was today a mourning day, the 40th day of the mourning time of emam hossein, who died as a martyr in olden times there are a lot of ppl who are taking a vow and prepare some lunch or baking bread or making a dessert for charity, and so we got a special kind of safron-rice-dessert, where the donor wrote even *ya hossein* by cinnamon!! it looks beautiful and the taste is marvellous!! (pic11)







our meal was the iranian kind of makaroni, yummyyy, rice prepared by steam, not only boiled in water. - we stood there the whole day and were back home at 8 PM.



then the sad moment arrived.... ipuenktchen gave me the three packages (pic12), metting each of it in a bag, to bring with me as a souvenir, and finally we said good-bye, kissed each other, wishing all the best for our future - aaand I jumped in one of the bag and ipue took the last photo of me (pic12) and yashila_81 took me with him.
BYE-BYE TABRIZ!!!! :-((((((((((((((((((





thank you, dear ipue - it was so nice with you and your family - I appreciated to much to have a glance at your amazing country!!! - and I'm really curious - WHO WILL BE MY NEXT HOST!!!!!!!?!?!?!????

yesterday finnish postcrossers reached the milestone of 1.000.000 sent cards!!!! bravooooooooo!!! HENRIK is soooo PROUD for his country!!! in postcrossing had been just recently sent out all together worldwide 6.000.000 cards and our dear small FINLAND had a part of ONE MILLION!!!!!!!!!!



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ipue.. told me today, they got a ticket for me and yashila_81 will pick me up to go together to TEHRAN on THU, the iranian weekend (THU/ FRI), and from tehran by a straight flight to COLOGNE/ DE on FRI!!

I'm sooooooooooooooo excited - BACK TO EUROPE!!!!!

and in the afternoon we'll have a GOODBYE-PARTY at home!!!!



on TUE or WED I'll leave kuye ferdows to go to baghmisheh,
the quarter where yashila_81 and lili_6789 are living, to be ready whenever yashila_81 has to leave......

pls stay tuned!!! - they told me, today the goodbye-party and
on TUE a final *day out* - I'm so thrilled!!! :-((((((((((((

zum 4. und 5. mal hat es gestern und heute 2 - 3 cm geschneit..
will das denn diesen winter gaanix werden - mit dem winter????

wir sind heute zu dritt - mit mir, HENRIK, in die stadt gefahren.. aber der *schnee* war ja da eine enttaeuschung.. auf den baeumen vllt noch ein klitzekleines bisschen, aber sonst ueberall schmutzig und nass..

immerhin war unsere einkaufstour erfolgreich!!!!
our shopping was successfull and as me, henrik, I'm not sure how long I can stay in tabriz I enjoy everyday when we are going out..

here the municipality building - built in the thirties of last century by the germans!!! nowadays used as a museum. (backside)



here you may see the famous *gonga* (pferdebahn), die vor -zig jahren auf schienen, aber von pferden gezogen, von der stadtmitte westlich geradeaus bis zum bahnhof ging. es ist ein monument von AHAD HOSSEINI aus tabriz, der in paris kunst studiert hatte und vor jahren von der stadt zurueckberufen wurde und seitdem hier viele werke geschaffen hat!



ein anderes foto mit der moscheekuppel mit noch etwas schnee stammt aus der el-goli-allee auf dem rueckweg, als schon wieder die sonne schien!