Who goes bear?

here i am pretending to be a roman soldier!
if i had been a centurion, i would have stopped everyone and searched them for nutella - someone has to have them somewhere in israel.
small seal says if i was on guard duty and i heard someone coming at night i would shout 'who goes bear?' I'd rather just be grizzly at them instead.

love
bear
xxx

Where's bear?

hello friends,
here i am playing hide and seek again.
can you see me?
a virtual bear hug to the first person who spots me
love
bear
xxx

Now on myspace!

Naughty bear now has a space on myspace. The link is on the sidebar, but you can also look at it and become one of his friends by clicking here

Bear poem

Here's a sign I couldn't pass
It says 'Keep off the grass'!

Whine? No, wine!

All this siteseeing is quite wearisome, even for a small lovely bear like myself. So you can imagine my delight when we were taken to the Golan Heights Winery - and given some samples of their fizzy stuff. Sadly they didn't recommend any wines to go with nutella, but they do have a tasting room, which accommodates up to 60 people. at the end of the session, small seal assured me, it accommodates up to 120.

love
bear
xxx

Meeting the local wildlife

Can you ribbit? here i am trying to get to the bottom of a very large frog that was in one of the many hotels i poked my head round for a spot of luncheon. small seal was in heaven as she was served fish at just about every meal while i got my paws on as much fresh humous as i possibly could, it almost made up for the lack of nutella :(

still, this frog let me sit on his head for a quick snap, but then he told me to hoppit.

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bear
xxx

potty time!

here i am helping the nice people at the roman tibearias village. i'm helping them restore some old pots wot they have found. they make us stick the pieces together like a big jigsaw puzzle, hold them in place with masking tape and then glue it all together. i had to be very careful in case the glue stuck to my fur. that wouldn't have been very nice. if i'd tried to lick it off, my furry paws would then get stuck to my furry mouth - yuk!

love
bear
xxx

ps - did you get any valentine's today? small seal liked the card i sent her, it had two bears on the front having fun in front of a fireplace. couldn't find any cards with bears and seals on. maybe next year?

roman baths

do you remember the spa baths from the other day? well, here i am outside what would have been the roman version of the spa, just over the road from the modern spa complex in tibearias. there's not a lot of water in there now, thankfully, as i didn't fancy getting my fur wet again: just a bath once a year for bears! small seal was disapointed though, she was looking forward to flipping the water around with her flippers.
i wonder what the romans did for nutella?
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bear
xxx

bear necessities

some of you may be wondering what i packed to go away with - well on this trip, i took small seal, my pawsport and a change of fur. no nutella, no sun lotion, not even the kitchen sink. you could say i travelled with just the bear necessities!

i spent a lot of time in israel searching high and low for some nutella - did i find any? well, there was none here. despite being in the remains of an old roman town in tiberias (after all, nutella is italian) there was nothing to be seen here. but there was a marvellous looking cave to climb into, which you can see in the hill to the right of me!

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bear
xxx

spatastic!

it was a surprise to see that there were so many spas in israel: i must have been taken to at least four during the short adventure, almost one a day. this is me snapped outside a natural hot spring in tibearias - you can the fountains spraying my ears!
This was snapped on a lovely warm day as well, about 18C - a far cry from the snow and things that i've spent the day avoiding.

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bear
xxx

Bear's new adventure

Hello friends, did you miss me?
I've had a fantastic week visiting somewhere i've never set paws on before - israel.
sadly, i couldn't spy any nutella, so as you can imagine, i spent the whole week pining for some chocolate-hazelnutty goodness. but i did make up for it by scoffing three puddings at every meal - tee hee hee!
over the next few days, i'll be showing off all the exciting pictures small seal took of me during my travels. i'm starting with one of my favourites, which is me and the view over lake galilee. it was lovely and calm and very warm. i'd loved to have stopped for a paddle, but my nutella gatherers wanted to get back to the hotel for dinner. and who am i to refuse some food?

love
bear
xxx