Lough Neagh, Northern Ireland - 31st May 2007
By: Deborah
Travel Ted’s first excursion of the day was to Lough Neagh, which is the biggest freshwater lake in the British Isles. It was so enormous that he thought it looked just like the sea. He had a lovely walk through the woodlands that lay along the shore and saw some boats moored in the Six Mile Water River that flows into the Lough.
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Posted Jun 3, 2007, 8:33 pm
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Antrim, Northern Ireland - 31st May 2007
By: Deborah
Close to Lough Neagh lies a small town called Antrim where Travel Ted stopped in a tea shop for some cake. He heard there was a castle but was disappointed to find that only one tower was still standing as the rest had been burned to the ground by the IRA in 1922. The castle grounds were beautiful though, and had an Anglo-Dutch water garden with seventeenth century canals as well as lots of pretty flowers.
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Posted Jun 6, 2007, 9:59 pm
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Killead, Northern Ireland - 31st May 2007
By: Deborah
Travel Ted loved exploring Deborah’s Granddad’s field, where he climbed up a tree so he could have a better chat with the birds and the butterflies. Back at the Bed-and-Breakfast he brushed his fur and checked for stray nostril hairs before heading out to dinner. The restaurant meal wasn’t very tasty but the extensive grounds were fun to explore. He was especially taken by the small river which looked quite charming with its little bridge and the swathes of cow’s parsley which grew along its banks.
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Posted Jun 10, 2007, 9:32 am
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Portrush, Northern Ireland - 1st June 2007
By: Deborah
At the seafront hotel in Portrush Travel Ted was wowed by the view from the bedroom window. He could hardly wait to get out and explore.
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Posted Jun 13, 2007, 7:23 am
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Portrush, Northern Ireland - 1st June 2007
By: Deborah
Travel Ted skipped happily along the coastal path. At first the landscape was majestically rocky and barren but as he reached the craggy cliffs he found lots of pretty wild flowers taking shelter there. After rounding the headland he was surprised to see a little harbour and a wide sandy beach. Across the water in the far distance he could see another landmass that people told him was Scotland and he wondered whether Frank was there looking back at him.
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Posted Jun 13, 2007, 7:28 am
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Giants Causeway, Northern Ireland - 2nd June 2007
By: Deborah
On Travel Ted’s last day of holiday he visited the magnificent Giant’s Causeway. Legend has it that an Irish giant called Finn MacCool wanted to fight a Scottish giant called Benandonner and so he built a pathway of stepping stones from Ireland to Scotland to avoid getting his feet wet on the way. Other people said that the 38,000 hexagonal columns were formed by cooling lava from a volcanic eruption sixty million years ago, but Travel Ted preferred to believe that they were stepping stones as he didn’t like getting his feet wet either.
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Posted Jun 17, 2007, 8:28 pm Last edited Jun 18, 2007, 7:35 am by Deborah
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London, England - 17th June 2007
By: Deborah
Travel Ted loved the Toy Voyagers site so much that he wanted to spread the work and decided to set up his very own My Space page to tell other small furry adventurers about it. He started to make new friends in no time at all, and hopes that all the Toy Voyagers community will be his friends too.
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Posted Jun 28, 2007, 10:34 pm
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Brussels, Belgium - 21st June 2007
By: Deborah
Travel Ted was growing concerned about his carbon paw print so instead of making his next overseas trip by air he decided to travel to Brussels by Eurostar. He made his way from the station to the hotel via the Grand Place, whose ancient guildhouses he thought very grand indeed. He followed tradition by touching the bronze relief of Everard 't Serclaes in the hope that it would bring him luck, and frowned at the Manneken Pis, which he thought was in terribly poor taste.
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Posted Jun 30, 2007, 7:22 pm
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Brussels, Belgium - 22nd June 2007
By: Deborah
Before leaving Brussels, Travel Ted stopped to admire some of the city’s famous street murals. He also made a point of taking in the museum of cocoa and chocolate, where he learned all about its production, watched a nice lady demonstrate how to make pralines, and tried a few delicious samples of Belgium’s most famous export.
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Posted Jul 3, 2007, 7:39 am Last edited Jul 3, 2007, 7:44 am by Deborah
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Bruges, Belgium - 22nd June 2007
By: Deborah
Later that day, Travel Ted reached Bruges, whose beautiful Markt square impressed him greatly. Even more exciting were all the canals, as there were few things Travel Ted enjoyed more than a nice boat trip. As he padded through the cobbled streets, he couldn’t help noticing all the tempting Belgian waffles for sale, but managed to resist through fear of spoiling his enviable physique.
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Posted Jul 6, 2007, 8:20 am
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Bruges, Belgium - 23rd June 2007
By: Deborah
Travel Ted didn’t let the rainy weather upset him as he skipped through the streets to the embarkation point for his boat trip. He saw lots of curious things on the way, including a row of windmills and a stretch of road that lifted right up into the air to let the barges through the canal lock beneath.
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Posted Jul 7, 2007, 7:55 pm
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Bruges-Sluis Canal, Belgium - 23rd June 2007
By: Deborah
Travel Ted loved the half-hour boat trip to the little village of Damme. From the top deck he enjoyed the sensation of the wind in his fur as he watched the cyclists making their journeys along the tree-lined canal path and wondered whether any of them were going all the way to its end in The Netherlands. From the bottom deck he had a great view of water lilies and little fluffy ducklings while he drank his glass of fizzy pop from the bar.
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Posted Jul 10, 2007, 8:00 pm
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Damme, Belgium - 23rd June 2007
By: Deborah
Once an important seaport, Damme had become a sleepy little village beloved of day trippers.
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Posted Jul 10, 2007, 8:03 pm Last edited Jul 10, 2007, 8:07 pm by Deborah
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Bruges, Belgium - 23rd June 2007
By: Deborah
Back at the hotel Travel Ted felt quite worn out after his big day and drifted happily off to sleep as he listened to a soothing lullaby from a friendly spider.
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Posted Jul 10, 2007, 8:08 pm Last edited Jul 10, 2007, 8:09 pm by Deborah
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Ghent, Belgium - 24th June 2007
By: Deborah
It was another grey and rainy day when Travel Ted made his way to Ghent. A chance discovery of a brass band playing in the flower market cheered him up though. In the town’s historic centre he admired the view of the three towers of the Belfort, St-Niklaaskerk and St-Baafskathedraal from the St-Michielsbrug. Best of all, though, was the Gravensteen, which looked just like castles ought to, and whose battlements offered a great view of the city skyline.
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Posted Jul 13, 2007, 7:16 pm
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