Travelog for: Sanji

Hello!
I'm Sanji. a small bird from south. I met Kyoko's husband on bike touring in Uwajima. I decided to go his home in Takamatsu. Because he told me about ToyVoyagers. If I love to travel the world, Kyoko will make it for me.

Shikoku Karst is the largest karst tableland in Japan at 1400m above sea level.

The day before I leave for Germany!
It's raining due to a typhoon that is coming.
The wind is getting really strong tonight. We shuttered up the house and are just waiting for it to pass.
I hope that typhoon is going away soon, because I'm starting my first journey tomorrow!

Hi Mum,

I'm happy to tell you, that I arrived at Bruchsal already. I thought, I would meet umechan, but she is on a secret mission since yesterday. So I just arrived a few hours too late. She will be back next week and I'm really looking forward to it. I will take a nap now and maybe get up at 3pm

Bye, Sanji

Hi Mum,

something exciting happened yesterday. We sat there and waited for our host to come home from school. When she arrived, she took us and --- everything got dark. Then we felt, that she carried us outside the house into the car. For a long time it was only dark. In the early early morning - it might have been short after midnight - we were carried away again. Still we didn't know, what had happened.
We were so tired from all this waggling in the car, that we fell asleep - we even didn't know, where we were.
But this morning we awoke in this bed - fresh and fit for the day. Our host told us, that we were on the way to Denmark and that we slept at a motel in Hannover. The bed was a bit hard, but nevertheless much better than a night on a resting place along the autobahn.

Here you see us all still sleeping and then playing after we woke up. We already had a lot of fun.






Our room was right above the entrance - a place, where everyone had been able to look on the bed from the outside and a place, where you could smell the smoke of all cigaretts the other guests smoked in front of the entrance




Bye, Sanji

Schnuffi, Sanji and I decided to hang out in the car, while the others stayed in the bag. We had some fun climbing behind the seats.










We had  some traffic jam, when we came to the Elbe Tunnel.



















We drove over the Kiel Canal.




After hours on German autobahn we finally reached the Danish autobahn.

After about 10 hours and 30 minutes driving without rests - you know, we had some rests of course - everyone is happy to be here in: Nørre Vorupør. We were so hungry, that the first wish was to have dinner. The second wish was to see the North Sea, of course.






After we finished dinner our hosts had some time to eat. In the meantime we enjoyed the light of the candles on the table.






The most important part of today was to go to the beach, of course. We went to the landing site with small fishing dinghies and larger coastal boats. The last occupationally operated coastal boat stopped by 2010, but boats being operated for fishing tourists remain.




The waves were rather flat today.




In the far you see the pier of Nørre Vorupør. It was built in 1908 to protect the landing site. The end of the pier is the most remote point from Copenhagen within Denmark, if you don't count the Faroe Islands and Greenland.

Good morning Mum,

today is a special day, because we celebrate our host's son Martin's 18th birthday.
At first we took a look out of the window of our living / dining room.



Then we sat down on one of our two patios for a group photo.




In the meantime our hosts bought some Danish bread rolls for breakfast. When they were at home, we sat down at the table.












Petra baked two cakes and in the afternoon we met our hosts' friends for the first time to have caffee and cakes on their patio.




Later some of us went to the beach again.
















Do you see the small lighthouse? I like it.

Did I tell you, that I found some really good friends? They are Mandy Sheep from Germany and Jack the Cat from the USA. We three like to get up early, so Petra asked us, whether we wanted to join her for a one hour walk through the dunes. Of course we didn't say no. While all the others still slept, we went away. You see, that the landscape is rather rough, but it is a paradise for several animals. Petra told us to keep carefully watching the path, because it would be possible to meet some crossed viper - Thank God, we didn't meet one.

Today we had rainy weather, so we only went outside to sit in the car and drive to go shopping at Aldi in Hanstholm.





We bought some pepper sauce there for dinner. Ralf cooked some red cabbage, meatballs and (not selfmade) spaetzle.

Hi Mum,

after a rainy day inside, it seems to be fine today. We sat in the car for about one hour to drive to Thyborøn. There is a nice house decorated with millions of shells and snail shells. It is called sneglehuset in Danish - I love this word.






At next we drove to the coast centre exploratorium called Kystcentret. We had a lot of fun there and learnt many new things about the element water.

I also saw many furniture and other ship related things, which they found after a ship sunk many many years ago.

Here some more information: Since 1868 the Alexander Nevsky has been lying at the bottom of the sea. A couple of Russian diving vessels arrived and removed the cannons, a contractor bought the sea bed side and salvaged metals - first a lot of dynamite and the copper bolts, copper pipes and gunpowder boxes appeared in the wreck. This continued far into the 20th century. The metal was valuable.
The majority of the 724 men on board were brought safely to landin the frigate's own longboat, which could hold 25 - 30 men at a time.It's what you can read on the signs next to the ring.




Here I show you a view to the activity part - of course you can't see it good enough to imagine, how it looked like.




Then we drove to the aquarium of Thyborøn. I tried to tough a Starfish, crab or stroke a Plaice or shark, but I had no luck. So here you just can see me in front of one of the many bassins. At least I stayed safe.




By the way: I got a photo taken at 3.15pm and the one above just a few minutes before - does this already count?




For a part of our way home we took the ferry from Thyborøn.

On our way home we stopped at Vestervig Abbey, also known as Vestervig Church, which was established in about 1059 making it one of Denmark's most ancient religious houses. The abbey is located at Vestervig, Thisted, in extreme northern Jutland.

After dinner at our house in Nørre Vorupør we drove to Klitmøller to see another sort of sunset there. Our hosts had been at this place three years ago and they really liked it. It was a bit windy today and the waves were a bit higher.

Today we drove to Jesperhus Blomsterpark - a flower theme park, which is three km south of Nykøbing Mors. It is Scandinavias largest themepark of this kind. They opened this park in 1966. It is divided in three parts: the flower park, a jungle park and an amusement park, which is rather small, but with some really good attractions for kids - and adults - and us toyvoyagers, of course.

In the jungle park I came really close to these turtles.





Then I met a really big tortoise.




Wow - a large crocodile. You see, that I kept a safe distance to it.




I prefer such lovely orchids instead.




Everywhere in Denmark - at least at the places I've seen - you can see the Dannebrog - the Danish flag. I love to see it in front of the blue sky and white clouds.







Here we are in the Japanese Garden - a good place for some group photos.












Then we walked down to Hans Christian Andersen's house - ok, it's a bit small, so I guess it wasn't really his house, but they say, it looked like this. And I'm sure, that he never had so many flowers on the wall and roof of his house.
He lived from April 2, 1805 to August 4, 1875 and was a Danish author, fairy tale writer and poet noted for his children's stories. Maybe you know one of these: "The Steadfast Tin Soldier", "The Snow Queen", "The Little Mermaid", "Thumbelina", "The Little Match Girl", and "The Ugly Duckling". My host told me, that we will find some places in this park, that show some of his fairy tales. So I will take a look.




Even here I saw the Dannebrog.




Here is a flower bed for \"The Princess and the Pea\"

In the late evening we went to the beach again. There nearly was no cloud at the sky, so we hoped to see a nice sunset. Enough words - I need to dream.