Helloooo! How are you going? Oh, please don't leave! I have just greeted you! I suppose you could go by boat or train or bus or taxi or even a helicopter!  What a variety of travelling options! 

   Talking about traveling, the other day I received a holiday postcard from Tina and Travis the Travelling Tourist Teddies ( that is a lot of words starting with  " t " together in one sentence! I think that I need a cup of " t" tea after writing that !) Australia Post did deliver it! 

  They have been visiting Italy. They were sooooo scared when they visited "The Leaning Tower of Pisa" ! They thought that it would topple down upon them! They got a neck ache from tilting their head as  they were  looking at the building!  Of course, they ordered a pizza whilst visiting the Tower, but the cheese that was on top of the pizza was soooo hot that it burnt their teddy tongues! The Italian chef recommended to them to have the Hawaiian pizza, which contained ham, pineapple and cheese, but they were sooooooo disappointed that they weren't given some Hawaiian leis to wear when eating the pizza! ( Just by the way, I always think that the word " pizza" is quite a funny and unusual word! The letter "z" is not used in a lot of words, and so to have two z letters together is doubly funny! )  

     They also visited Venice. Neither of my teddy friends can swim so before they left Australia they packed  some life jackets in their luggage. You really must be doubly or triplely careful these days when you visit water filled cities like Venice. What if the gondola that they were in had started to overturn! Very soggy teddies would have resulted! If they wore their life jackets, there would floating teddies if the gondola sprung a hole! They are very water-wise teddies! Oh, they also took their teddy bathers with them! They can't swim but you need to look like you do, you know! Tina has bright fluorescent  pink bathers, whilst Timothy has lime  green swimming trunks. You wouldn't be able to not see them! 

   Tina really , really wanted to visit Florence and buy some Eau de cologne 4711. She really likes perfume! When Tina and Timothy were discussing together their travel plans, Tina said to Timothy that  she wanted to visit Florence " to buy some 4711". Timothy's reply was : " But you can buy a cup of coffee for $1-00 from any 7-11 petrol station in Australia" . Men! ! Or to be more specific, male teddies! Tina was not impressed!  As they say, "when in Rome, do as the Romans do",so she just threw her teddy hands up in the air, just like Italians do! 

   All this talk of Italy has made me a little hungry! I think that I will have some spc spaghetti from the kiosk shelves! Yummy yum yum! 

  Until next time,

       Your friend, Kiosk Ted Strath