Posted Apr 29, 2008, 1:46 pm
I'm a sweet but sometimes obstinate owl. But that's only because i never gonna admit when i'm wrong.
I love to read and especially about spiritual things. Also philosophy is a real passion. Dont'be scared now that i only wanna do profoundly activities because i also love all the simple things in live that makes you happy like seeing the sun, when a child smiles at you etc etc. So you can do anything you want with me.
Eva has a book closet here at home and i especially loves this corner were you can find books written by Deepak Chopra, Paulo Coelho etc etc.
And this is me, waiting to start my journey!
Big hugs Desmond
Posted Apr 30, 2008, 9:29 am
1. AbbyB (Canada)
2. Olgamaus (Germany)
3. Haunted trail
4. home
Posted May 10, 2008, 5:08 am
I was greeted by Mausi and Dolly.
After meeting everyone, I set myself up on Abby's bookshelf, on her archaeology/anthropology shelf. Not exactly my cup of tea, but it sure is interesting.
Even though it's night time, I think I'll have a nap. Travelling for a week really tires you out.
Posted May 11, 2008, 2:24 am
This is the Maple Ridge clock. The horse symbolizes the protector of the valley. It represents a beast that fought for Mother Nature against those who were hurting the environment, but was gravely hurt in the process. Mother Nature set up the clock as a reminder to not hurt the environment.
This is the local court house.
City Hall
I wanted to visit the library, so Abby took us there.
I even had time to spend a few minutes in the spirituality and religion section.
This is the ACT theatre.
This park is behind city hall. I wanted to see the gazebo closer up, but there was a couple taking wedding photos and Abby said that we shouldn't disturb them.
This is the World War II memorial in the same park. On it are the names of everyone in the town who fought in world war II. On the back is World War I.
Posted May 12, 2008, 3:03 am
Posted May 12, 2008, 3:13 am
We celebrated with a special lunch at a local produce store.
There was barbequed BC salmon in special sauce, coleslaw and a bun, with peach juice...
And chocolate cake with fruit and custard on top for dessert.
Then everyone had to check their raffle tickets, but nobody won anything.
I checked out the gift shop and met this fine fellow.
We went exploring and found this boat, just sitting on the ground.
So, everyone posed in front of it.
Posted May 19, 2008, 8:23 pm
We took the Skytrain there. It is an automated train that runs every five minutes or so, and it travels on tracks that are raised high above the ground.
Us toyvoyagers shared a seat.
We got off the Skytrain and the first thing we saw was Science World. It is an interactive centre for families and it teaches all about different types of science. Inside the dome there is a huge IMAX theatre. The building is reminiscent of EXPO 86.
Where all the cranes are will be the Olympic Village in less than two years.
The water you see behind me is called False Creek. It's called that because it's not a creek at all, but more of an inlet.
This is one of many mini ferries that carries passengers for a small fee to different places along False Creek.
Behind me you can see BC Place (left) which is the football stadium, home to the BC Lions, and it is where the opening ceremonies of the Olympics will be held, and GM Place (Right) which is the the hockey stadium, home to the Canucks.
From here you can see some of the mountains to the North of the city.
Posted May 19, 2008, 8:48 pm
Posted May 19, 2008, 8:54 pm
This is an example of some of the older architecture in Vancouver.
This hotel is in a bit of a triangular shape.
Vancouver is a crossroads for many immigrants. Often when they arrive they build churches and other buildings in the same style as they are used to. This church is built in the Gothis style.
This is Victory Square, a little park with Vancouver's war memorial. The wreaths were placed there a few weeks ago to commemorate the people in BC who have lost their lives on the job in the past year.
This is the Sun Building. It was originally owned by the Vancouver Sun, the local newspaper. When it was built it was the tallest building in Vancouver. The offices were up top and the printing presses were down below. There are nine statues of women around the building, symbolizing the nine Muses of Greek mythology, and the roof is made of copper. It has been climbed by Harry the Human Fly and Houdini escaped from a straightjacket suspended from the roof.
Posted May 19, 2008, 10:44 pm
This bell, called the West Han Dynasty Bell, is in Chinatown to commemorate Chinese history in Vancouver and marks the first Chinese settlement in the area. It was a gift from Vancouver's sister city, Guangzhou in China, and it was modelled after a bell found in Guangzhou.
This building holds the world record for the narrowest building in the world. It was built by a man known to Vancouverites as Sam Kee. At one point he owned more land in the area, but the city demolished his building to widen the road, leaving him with a strip of land just under five feet in width. Rather than sell what remained of his property for practically nothing, Sam had another building built, one that fit into the strip of land. For years the building belonged to a silk merchant, but now it's leased by an insurance company.
This building is the oldest in Chinatown. It's being renovated to become condos, but they are going to keep the overall look the same. All the floors were built at different times, and were all built in teh style at the time, so each one it a little different. It was built by a man for his family. He had lots of children and they all lived and went to school here. This is also the first place in Canada where Mandarin was taught at a high school level.
In Chinatown there are many benevolant societies. These were created to help Chinese who were descriminated against or had no where to stay find houses and jobs, and provide general support. They were organized according to last name. This is the Wong Benevolant Society, and it is the biggest because the last name Wong was the most common Chinese name at the time.
This is also a benevolant society, but it is home to three last names. The Chins, the Wings and the Chungs decided to build one building housing all three because there were not enough for one building each. Each name received one floor, which is why the building is so tall.
The is the Sun Yat-Sen Building and it was the Western headquarters of the Kuomintang, the opposing party to the Chinese Communist Party. Sun Yat-Sen was the party leader.
Posted May 19, 2008, 10:46 pm
I noticed a funny sign. Turns out the 'C' is just hidden.
Can you see me hidden in the bamboo?
If you look closely, you can see a heron in the willow tree behind me.
I decided to look for other animals.
A Canada goose
A turtle
And what would a koi pond be without koi?
Posted May 19, 2008, 10:48 pm
Posted May 22, 2008, 5:52 pm
Abby held tightly onto me when she took these pictures. Wouldn't want to be swept downstream!
We decided to check out one of the trails, and Abby siggested hiking up to the peak of the mountain. I had some initial misgivings, but when I realized that Abby would carry me and I wouldn't have to do any walking, I agreed.
The path started off innocently enough...
But soon became really steep and rocky.
We stopped for a snack of rhubarb dipped in sugar part of the way up.
This is called a haystack boulder. It's really big, and was carried here by a glacier.
This is a tiny version of an inuksuk. Inuksuk are a part of Inuit culture; large ones are used as waypoints. You can build one by stacking rocks on top of one another.
Look at the size of this tree! Abby's sister is holding me in her hand.
We ate a lunch of grapes, strawberries, bread, cheese and hard boiled eggs.
Posted May 22, 2008, 5:56 pm
And more!
This is where we turned around. (Note from Abby: my sister and I apologize for not making it to the top, but we were not equipped to be walking on snow)
Posted May 22, 2008, 6:13 pm
They won their game which means that the worst they can do is top eight in the province! There are three more days of this, so I'll try to take a few more pictures in that time.
Posted May 23, 2008, 6:18 am
The team arrived really early so they could watch some of the other teams before playing.
The coaches provided snacks of muffins, granola bars and juice.
It was windy and a little cold out, so the girls were huddled together. We decided to do our part and join in. They seemed pleased to have the extra warmth.
Abby wasn't able to take pictures of her game to show everyone, but I had a fun time watching. They won their game, so the worst they can do is fourth in the province! Go Blues!
The other day each girl got one of these t-shirts. I don't know about the first three items on the checklist, but the fourth one, 'better looking', I think, definitely applies to me
Posted May 26, 2008, 6:53 pm
Abby took us to Rocky Point Park so she could pick up a special guest from her sister. She was in a hurry to get back to school, but she snapped these pictures of the area sans me as she was leaving the park.
The park is at the end of Burrard Inlet; Vancouver is at the other end.
Back at school, I had a chance to meet the special guest. It's name is SquishyCow and it travels around with Abby and her family when they go on vacations. It's sort of their original toyvoyager. It went to provincials with Abby last year and came to the game by popular request.
Meanwhile, the entire school was outside celebrating Spring Fling. There was music, entertainment and carnival food.
Abby's team lost their game, but everyone said it was the best game they had ever played. Tomorrow they compete for third place.
Posted May 26, 2008, 6:56 pm
While waiting for everyone to arrive, Dolly and I (and SquishyCow for a while until it wandered off to mingle with the team) checked out some of the decor. There was a large Persian influence in the house, which was of a particular interest to me.
The coaches made everyone spaghetti for dinner.
Posted May 27, 2008, 4:07 pm
Then, it was off to get chenged. Why, you might ask? Because it was time for Abby to go to her grad dinner dance! I wish she would have taken me along to see all the pretty dresses and everything, but there was no way I would have fit into her purse. I can assure you that Abby and her friends looked lovely.
However, I did get to go to aftergrad, which is an event put on by a group of teachers and students to promote fun after the grad dinner dance without having to drink alcohol. It happened from midnight to five in the morning.
The theme was Mardi Gras...
So of course I had to wear some beads.
Sorry most of the following pictures aren't that good. The lighting was terrible.
There were many people and activities.
These decorations and masks were taped all over the two gyms that the event was held in.
Time for a drink. We shared a cream soda slurpee.
This is a sticker picture machine. It is a very Asian thing, where you select a background, take a picture of yourself and friends, and then it prints off a set of stickers for you. Better sticker picture machines will let you take multiple pictures and decorate them, but this one was free, so who cares?
Dolly and I took a photo in the sticker picture booth. Abby doesn't have a working scanner so I can't show you the finished product, but I'll stick one of the pictures in my notebook.
After about three in the morning everyone was really tired, so I just relaxed and ate some food.
Posted May 27, 2008, 4:13 pm
That's Abby's boyfriend up top with us to make sure we didn't fall off the slide until Abby took the picture.
Before we went inside, we watched the sun rise.
Then, it was time for bed, at six in the morning. Normally staying up through the night wouldn't be a problem for a night owl like me, but I've gotten so used to being awake in the daylight since I came here.
Posted May 27, 2008, 4:20 pm
After the movie we waited to be picked up by Abby's parents. We were all really tired and did not have much in the way for entertainment, so Dolly and I ate jellybeans and tried on Abby's grad jewellery.
Don't I look so handsome?
Posted May 27, 2008, 4:25 pm
That was a very loooooong two days.
Posted May 30, 2008, 1:55 am
My arms were a little too small to play Guitar Hero.
Then I tried all the sports games.
Bowling,
Tennis (behind me you can see Dolly all tired out from playing),
Golf,
Boxing,
And finally, baseball.
After that, it was time for a snack.
Posted May 31, 2008, 5:35 am
We were baking rhubarb cake.
The two layers baked
There is sweetened strawberry cream cheese in between the layers
The finished cake
And of course, I had to try a piece.
Posted Jun 1, 2008, 7:07 am
On the left is the Vancouver Shipyards. The dark land straight ahead is Stanley Park, the largest park in Vancouver. If you look really closely at the end of the park, there is a bridge called the Lion's Gate bridge that goes from the park to across the inlet.
Posted Jun 2, 2008, 7:13 am
We became friends quite quickly.
Posted Jun 6, 2008, 7:57 am
Posted Jun 11, 2008, 8:48 pm
I arrived in Germany today. When my envelope was opened I saw two ToyVoyagers sitting there, Bertie the duck and a little owl named Percy. Now we are already three birds!
But I saw another envelope – today two ToyVoyagers arrived here at my new home! My new host Katja opened the other envelope and eagle Aquila crawled out. Now we are even four travelling birds.
Katja wanted to take a walk with a friend. So she took us with her. In front of the house we waited for her friend to arrive. We were sitting on a wall, you can see the front door in the background. The house I am now living in is an art-nouveau-house, built in 1904 A.D.
We walked along the "route of tools", a lane for pedestrians and biker, built on a closed railroad bed. It was sponsored by the local industry. Along the lane you can find many signs of those companies.
The first sign that we saw is showing the crest of Remscheid.
Later we rested on a bench that was made of a huge screw clamp.
We went into a wooded area. Although Remscheid seems to be an industrial town you can see many trees, valleys and wooded areas.
We walked through the muncipal park on our way back home. Beautiful flowers are blooming here.
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We also saw a playground. We went on the swings.
We four birds want to play a little bit now.
Bye
Desmond
Posted Jun 13, 2008, 8:43 pm
the weather is really bad now. It’s raining often and it became really cold. We had 7°C (44°F) in the morning yesterday and today. Nobody wanted to get up in the morning.
In the afternoon the weather became better and in the early evening we took a little walk along the route of tools. Katja wanted to convince us that Remscheid is not only consisting nice flowers in the muncipal park, forrests and calm side roads but it is also an idustrial town.
The route of tools is made on a closed railway track, I already told you. Along this route you can find many industrial companies and also abandoned factory buildings.
On this old railway car an advertise is painted for a company that peeled potatoes and sold them to restaurants and canteens.
This is one of the abandoned buildings.
This old rusty bridge does not look trustworthily, but that doesn't matter - I can fly!
This complex of buildungs formerly contained the local slaughterhouse. Now there are offices and other companies in the buildings wich are now under monumental protecion.
Here we are sitting on a bench that is made of really old parts. One of them is the axis of a historic water wheel.
Close to the regular railway track you find more factories, mostly metalworking industry.
This building is taking away the daylight. It made us frightening a little bit.
We went back home then, into the district with trees, flowers and nice old houses. We had to hurry because it started raining again. But we reached our home save and dry. Later we will watch TV.
Bye
Desmond
Posted Jun 15, 2008, 8:05 pm
today we took a walk with Katja’s brother-in-law and his dog Bertie. Bertie the duck was delighted to meet another animal named Bertie.
First we had a look at the building site of the new central railway station they are building here.
We walked for about an hour through the forrest.
The weather was not too good, so there was not enough sunlight for really nice photos. Here is the creek that’s running through the valley.
Here we are sitting on a fence in front of a house in the valley.
In the valley you can only find some houses, this part of the town is really in the middle of nowhere (in German you say “Am A***h der Welt).
Where we had parked the car we saw this graffiti, it’s funny that someone painted an owl of all things onto this tank.
Bye
Desmond
Posted Jun 15, 2008, 8:15 pm
today the weather became better and we took a walk from Wuppertal-Ronsdorf back to Remscheid. We went with Katja’s fried. We walked through the forrest along the dam of Wuppertal-Ronsdorf back home. The dam is a really small one.
Here you can see us having a little rest on a pile of trunks.
Along the path you can find some charts with information about the forrest. This one is about different trees and their leafes.
We are standing on the concrete dam, you can see here that the dam is really a small one.
Here you can see a popular country inn. It’s existing here for about 100 years.
In the forrest we found these beautiful foxgloves. They are under under wildlife protection in Germany.
We are now at “Steffenshammer”, a historical location with a museum. On the right side you can see a water wheel, that was driving hones in ancient times.
This is another building that belongs to this complex. It is typically “Bergisch”. We are here in the region that is called “Bergisches Land”, butn ot because of the many hills and valleys, but it is named after the earl vom Berg who reigned over this region in the early medieval times.
We are all sitting in a big wheel in the front garden of one the houses here.
I will show you some more photos of typical houses, either with schist or truss walls, in any case with green shutters.
But the weather became bad again. We reached the house of Katja’s friend and it started raining again.
Bye
Desmond
Posted Jun 16, 2008, 8:54 pm
we are watching the UEFA European (Football) Championship on TV just now. Germany is playing against Austria. For Germany it's neck or nothing.
Bye
Desmond
Posted Jun 17, 2008, 6:31 pm
today Katja showed us the town hall. The scaffold at the tower is still not dismanteled completely.
This is the view from the market place in front of the town hall onto the tower and the pillar with a lion. The lion is the heraldic animal of Remscheid.
This is the side of the town hall.
Here you can see the water tower. From here the whole city centre is supplied with drinking water. The water is beeing pumped from Remscheid's dam to the highest point of the town centre.
Katja promised us to visit the dam soon. This dam in Remscheid was the first dam for drinking water at all that was built in Germany, in 1891 A.D. it was opened.
When we arrived back home we took a look at today's newpapers. Yesterday Germany has won 1 : 0 and will play in the quarter-final.
While Bertie and Percy were reading the sports news I took a look at Katja's book shelf. It is crammed with paperbacks. But ... oh .... blood and thunder almost everywhere. I can see almost only thrillers. And cookery books with green stuff.
That's right, here in this household a good dinner will not be cooked or roasted but cuddled and petted!!!
Hey Mummy, Percy and I are trying to catch the smallest rat but Katja is having an eye on them. That's not fair.
Bye
Desmond
Posted Jun 21, 2008, 9:00 pm
today we made a wonderful trip. First we went to Wuppertal by bus. We did not stay in Wuppertal but we had to change from bus to train there to get further to Essen, our real destination.
Here you can see me in front of the concert hall.
The penguin is one of about 200 penguins that were designed in 2006 A.D. for a campain because of the125-year existance of the Wuppertal zoo.They could be bought by companies for benefit of the zoo. They were designed and painted. You can find many of them in the town now. This is one of them.
From here we went to Essen by train. Essen is a town in Ruhr District.
Posted Jun 21, 2008, 9:03 pm
First we went by streetcar to Zeche Zollverein, one of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Germany.
The Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex is a large former industrial site in the city of Essen. It was inscribed into the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites in December 2001 and is one of the anchor points of the European Route of Industrial Heritage.
Outside there is a 3D-model of the whole complex. Here you can see the four of us and BlackCat’s TVs Burrimul Memu, Chocolate Moose and Hueso. She also had three of her own toys with her.
We went into the visitor centre. You could get there by escalator or by walking up relly long and steep stairs. The banister illuminated with orange light. We rested a little bit there.
These are the stairs in the main building. It looks a bit spooky.
Outside we saw many information charts. This is one of them.
Then we went to Gruga Park.
Posted Jun 21, 2008, 9:09 pm
This is the entrance area.
This is the Hundertwasser house. It was built for parents of critically ill childred who are getting medical care here.
I saw many exitic plants from all over the world.
Sort of prickly palm tree ...
this one is also prickly and needs a lot of heat and almost no water ...
This plant has giant leafs ...
Of course we also had lunch.
We had a lot of fun today but we are very tired now. We better go to bed early because tomorrow we have to get up at 5:30 am! We will fly to Stuttgart in Baden-Württemberg, South Germany tomorrow. Katja has to join a meeting of the rat keeper’s association. I am really excited to fly in a plane without being stucked into an envelope.
Bye
Desmond
Posted Jun 23, 2008, 1:08 pm
today we had to travel to Stuttgart in South Germany. We went to Düsseldorf airport by train. After the check in we had time to go to the observation deck for visitors.
Here you can see me in the terminal and on the observation deck.
I am now on the obersever deck.
Posted Jun 23, 2008, 1:13 pm
Katja had to join a meeting in Stuttgart. We did not have much time to explore the town. What we saw from driving through the town looked very nice. We only had an hour to have a little walk before we had to go to the central station to get home by train.
This is the central station.
We made the following photos while we walked around a little bit. The pedestrian area is looking like every pedestrian area, but we also found some old and more interesting buildings.
This is a castle built by Wilhelm I, king and emperor of Germany who lived from 1797 until 1888.
Now I will show you some nice old houses in Stuttgart.
We went home by train. We returned at about 09:00 pm.
Bye
Desmond
Posted Jun 25, 2008, 7:31 pm
we are prepared to watch the first semi final of the UEFA European (Football) Championship between Germany and Turkey.
It will begin in a few minutes.
Bye
Desmond
Posted Jun 28, 2008, 1:52 pm
today we took a last walk with four TVs. The sun was shining again though in the morning it was raining.
We walked to Hasten, one of the oldest districts of Remscheid.
This district is surrounded by wooded areas.
On our way back home we walked along the route of tools. Here are many blackberry bushes, they are full with blackberry flowers. They will have many blackberries here in late summer.
Katja told us that she made a delicious liqueur with blackberries last summer. Therefore you need vodka or another "white" hard liqueur. Into one bottle of this stuff you put about 200 g blackberries and 200 g white rock candy. Then you keep it in a cool and dark place for at least two months. The rock candy has to be dissolved completely. Then you strain it into a new bottle and then enjoy it chilled.
Maybe we should come back in winter to taste it.
Tomorrow Percy and BertieTheDuck will leave. Bertie is going to Switzerland and Percy is going to Australia.
Bye
Desmond
Posted Jun 29, 2008, 6:24 pm
today Katja took me and Aquila with her to walk through the forrest to Solingen-Unterburg. Solingen is the neighbour town of Remscheid. Unterburg is a very old district that was built along the river Wupper.
In the forrest we found woodland strawberries. We wanted to taste them, but Katja warned us to do so because all the dogs that walk this way are peeing over the green. Besides they could be contaminated by tapeworm. What a pity, they looked really good ...
On one side of the path large areas are abundantly covered with fern.
The next photo is showing a small part of Unterburg. You can find many restaurants here. It's very romantic with the river Wupper and the creek Eschbach running through.
Here you can see the creek Eschbach. Last year in summer they had a horrible rainfall in this region. The creek and the river overflowed their banks and all what you can see here was flooded.
On our way back to the car we walked underneath Germany's highest railway bridge, Müngstener Brücke. This bride is built of steel and it is 107 m high. When we went to the airport last week we crossed the bridge by train. From top of the bridge you have a really stunning view over this beautiful valley.
Of course we will watch the final of the UEFA European (Football) Championship today. It's Germany : Spain.
Bye
Desmond
Posted Jun 29, 2008, 9:10 pm
we are watching the final of the UEFA European (Football) Championship. Of course we keep our thumbs pressed for Germany, but to show that we also appreciate Spain we have a really delicious Spanish drink: Medcladas Túnel de Mallorca. It is a green liqueur with different herbs. It tastes really good.
Bye
Desmond
Posted Jul 1, 2008, 8:42 pm
today we made curd cheese with strawberries. Therefore you need curd cheese, strawberries, yoghurt, a little bit of sugar and vanilla sugar.
First you have to clean the strawberries and to cut off the leafes. Then you cut them into pieces and puree them. We put some strawberries aside for decorating the curd.
Then you mix the curd chesse with sugar, yoghurt and vanilla sugar, put the strawberry mash to the curd and mix it. At last
you fill it into a bowl and put some pieces of strawberry on top.
Really delicious!
Later in the evening Katja had to clean one of the rat cages. She had to put the rat kiddies out of the cage and put them into a plastic box. We had an eye on them because they tried to get out of the box. I was again thinking of .... but no, I'm not hungry.
These are Nicole, the black hooded one, and Karla, the grey husky coloured. They are 8 and 9 weeks old now. Exactly the right size for me... I'm trying hard to avoid thinking of having one for dinner.
Bye
Desmond
Posted Jul 1, 2008, 8:47 pm
today two new ToyVoyagers arrived. You won't believe who arrived today: PIP, yes, our Pip. Sylphide also arrived. Sylphide is an elf.
I'm so happy to see Pip!
Bye
Desmond
Posted Jul 3, 2008, 6:29 pm
today we went to Müngsten Bridge, one of the touristic highlights in this region.
The Müngsten Bridge is the highest steel railroad bridge in Germany. The bridge is 107 metres high and spans over the valley of the river Wupper, connecting the cities Remscheid and Solingen. Originally the bridge was named Kaiser-Wilhelm-Brücke (emperor Wilhelm bridge), to honour emperor Wilhelm I. After the end of the monarchy the bridge was named after the district between Remscheid and Solingen.
Here we are on our way to the bridge. In the background you can see a little look-out pavilion. From there you have a stunning view over the valley.
Now you can see us under the bridge.
We walked along the promenade and had to walk uphill. Here you can see the valley with the bridge.
Later we rested in the sun. We were sitting at the bank of the river Wupper.
Here you can see to the other side.
Close to the parking space we saw this map. I made a yellow marking at the place where we are living at the moment, the red one shows Müngsten Bridge.
It is really hot today. The weather forecast is expecting a thunderstorm in the evening. We'll stay at home in the evening.
Bye
Desmond
Posted Jul 3, 2008, 6:34 pm
Katja had a present for me because I love football.
She saw it in the book store where she bought a tourist guide today. In the store she saw books about the UEFA European (Football) Championship and also badges, stickers and so on.
Love
Desmond
Posted Jul 5, 2008, 8:01 pm
today we visited Düsseldorf, the capital city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The city is situated on the River Rhine. We went there by train.
Here you can see us in the town centre. You can see the most famous shopping street of Düsseldorf: Königsallee.
We went through the old town looking for postcards. We planned to take a walk along the river Rhine.
Here you can see the old town hall in the middle of the old town.
This historic tower is built on a large space above the banks of the river Rhine.
The view across the river:
Here we are walking along the "Rheinterrassen", a large area with lawns and trees above the river banks. Many people were relaxing in the sun.
We went over a bridge to cross the river and walked back on the other side of the river. The next photo is taken on the bridge back to the old town.
Katja and her friend rested in the beer garden of a nice restaurant. They had a drink and dinner there. We are back home now and we are all tired.
Bye
Desmond
Posted Jul 7, 2008, 4:05 pm
today I packed my things and left Katja's home. I'm looking foreward to new adventures.
I was glad to meet Pip for a few days.
I hope I will arrive soon.
Bye
Desmond
Posted Jul 14, 2008, 11:10 pm
Here I am at Lago Luna, which is behind my host's house. Although the lake is not haunted, an airplane did crash land in it a few years ago!
Since I am starting the Haunted Trail, I thought I would read some ghost stories of Florida:
Posted Jul 23, 2008, 3:15 pm
Here I am at the station in Hialeah:
Here is the Tri-Rail train after we got off in West Palm Beach:
Our host's friends drove us around West Palm Beach so we could see some of the sites and then we had lunch and then we stopped at this ice cream shop and bakery. It had a small train just like the one we rode on!
And they had lots of good things to eat!
After that we went to see our host's friend's condo; then we took the train and monorail back to Miami.
Posted Aug 22, 2008, 4:03 pm
I did stop by the library a couple weeks ago, so I've had plenty books to read:
Repa Räpylä flew in while I've been here and we watched some of the Olympics together:
Tropical Storm Fay passed through the west coast of Florida Monday and Tuesday, August 18 & 19, and Miami was drenched with lots more rain, high winds, and tornadoes!
Two of the banana trees in my host's yard were blown over!
Posted Sep 23, 2008, 6:07 pm
I'm home! I wanna thanks everyone who has hosted me. Thanks for offer me this great change!
Big hugs Desmond