Happy New Year!

Happy New Year from Minky!

I'm going on a very big adventure in a weeks time so I will keep you updated!

J'taime Paris!

I went to Paris for a weekend in October.  I LOVED Paris! I have never visited a city and instantly fell in love with it.  The women are chic and the men are good looking, the arcitecture is stunning and art amazing.  I got to the Eiffel Tower, Louvre, Notre Dame and the Sacre Cour (my favourite).

Me at the Eifel Tower, too high even for a monkey to climb!

The Louvre where I saw lots of amazing paintings. They had some Michelangelo sculptures too, which I loved.

 

I wanted to run down the main hall like in A Bande Apart.

Notre Dame.  No hunchback or singing gargoles.

 Outside the Louvre.

Finally Serge Gainsbourg's house.  He was a true artist.  Sad that he is gone and obviously missed by people, just look at all the graffiti.  They should turn his house into a museum so he can be remembered properly.

J'taime Paris, j'taime.

Cyprus

Wow its been a while and its now 2011! Time flies when a monkey is having fun!

The last place I traveled to was Cyprus. I didnt like it very much really, it was very touristy and so seemed quite spoilt because of that.  I did monkey on up to the north though and that was the complete opposite!  Stunning coastline which I drove along, really beautiful.

I made a few friends in Cyprus.  It was lovely to talk to the locals although a lot of them found it difficult to understand my accent.  I guess they dont speak monkey very much.

Today

Oh i havent done this for a while. No pictures to show you, i havent been traveling lately :( but have been doing a bit of monkey business. I am going to explore some of England's fair and pleasant land while the weather is still ok-ish so i will post anything interesting i find later on...

Venice

Ah Venice. What a beautiful city. Every street looks like a painting and I wanted to photograph everything! I went to the top of the clock tower in St. Marcs Square and had this amazing view. It wasn't too high and there was a lift to the top which I liked. I went to the Doges Palace and the Peggy Guggenheim museum which was fantastic! Yoko Ono had given her a wish tree where you wrote your wish on a piece of paper and hung it on the tree.
It seems cruel that in a city built on water, you can't swim anywhere as its too dirty and there were LOTS of tourists but if you wander down the side streets its quiet and you lose your monkey self in the beauty of the place. And I didn't see any scary red dwarfs!

Verona

This is me at the opera in Verona. One of the best experiences so far on my travels. I sat in the big Roman open air arena and watched Madame Butterfly, amazing!

Next adventure

Well I'm feeling a bit poorly since my trip to Italy, i think i swallowed some nasty pool water but i am a monkey and i soldier on. I am returning to Italy today to see Venice for some more monkey adventures! I hope it isn't too hot though, the humidity plays havoc with my fur!