Polar bears -voyage

The trip from Brno was tedious and long. Standa traveled on freight train and he didn't have a comfort of sleeping or dining wagon. His wagon even wasn't heated. He didn't mind. He had his cage and a whole barrel of fish to eat. They were fresh first day, second day they were not fresh anymore, and the third day they were not good, but the third day was Standa already in Hamburg, Germany. In Hamburg they boarded, with the help of lift, the boat. The bear and his keeper were left on the deck. Standa enjoyed his voyage immensely. The keeper looked grumpy, cold and miserable. Standa loved an ocean on the first sight with its waves, seagulls and fish. He admired sunsets (he always missed sunrises because he slept), flying fish, dolphins, whales...They fed him very well with fish freshly caught in the ocean. He could taste squid, Atlantic cod, turbots, brills, topknots, megrims, flounders, dobs, soles, kingfish, salmons, tuna, herring, Atlantic torpedo. chevy octopus, dogfish and catfish. The sailfish landed on his nose once. By the end of the trip his belly looked like marching band's the biggest drum. After a week the boat reached the harbor, and Standa was, somehow, looking forward to meet his bride. "I hope she will be not too bossy. In that case I would prefer to be transferred to another zoo." A veterenian, a new keeper and a driver were already waiting in the harbor. They lowered the cage with the polar bear into the truck and served him fresh, still alive, halibut. Standa had to catch the fish couple times, and, oh my, it was delicious! He didn't have much time to say Good bye to his Czech keeper. Standa's cage was secured on the back of the pick up truck. New York looked bigger then Brno, and also noisier. The bear closed his eyes, flatenned himself on the bottom of his cage; he felt sick. He didn't opened them until he felt a wind whistling around his ears, eyes and nose on highway. It was a long trip. The vet and keeper were worried, since he came from milder climate, the bear will not catch a cold, so they put a blanket over the cage. The blanket blocked his view, so Standa tore it here and there with his claws - and the blanket flew in the air and off the highway to the snowy fields. They stopped couple times to feed him a fish and they had to use a restroom - not Standa - Standa went to the corner of his cage - he didn't eat his fish, because he didn't feel well. After several hours they arrived to the city zoo. The air was much colder. There was snow. He remembered snow from Brno. All animals were white, except Canadian geese, grey elephants - and baboons. They kept him separate from his bride in quarantine for a while, so he could calm down. "What I will do with her?" He also went for a checkup, but he was asleep. so he didn't remember anything. He knew he was healthy so he couldn't understand a slight disappointment - and then smiles...