Travelog for: Mandarin

Wow - today I arrived safely in Germany and I met my next host Tine... Tine was really happy to see me and she gave me a big hug.

Because it was the "The dogs want to go on a walk"-time we went outside and visited the lake and the old castle ruin of Alt-Kaster. I also had the chance to see the special owl-tree and the owl-tower of Alt-Kaster.

Now I will rest a bit,

bye,
Mandarin

Today the sun was shining when I woke up. I asked my host to go out on a walk again. She told me that it was really cold outside, but for me that didn't matter.

We went again to the little lake and it was great there looking at the ducks and swans.

On our way back home I saw an old an old well pump. At first I thought that having a shower would be nice. But my host told me that is was too cold for that. Therefore we only took two photos...

I wish you a nice Sunday,
Mandarin

Wow - it's still cold here in Germany. On our walk today my host took some more photos of me.
Again we went to the lake and to the ruin of the castle close to Alt-Kaster, when my host live.

I am really curious today, because I was told that another toyvoyager will visit us soon.

Mandarin

Today we got a nice parcel - and another toyvoyager was inside. Let me introduce Ninny the violet rabbit to you and look at the photos how we meet .

At first Ninny tried to come out of the parcel which wasn't so easy. But she made it. Then I got a nice hug. Ninni had a great postcard of her former host for Tine and me. We both had a look at the nice pictures on it.

It's great to have another toyvoyager here - I am happy about that!

Mandarin

Today Tine, Ninny and I visited the former fortress with the citadelle in Jülich. It was really cold but sunny. We enjoyed walking around the large walls of the citadelle.

Bye,
Mandarin

Today Tine had to do her housework first and then we all went to visit the castle of Paffendorf (a small village that belongs to Bergheim) and the castle park.
The weather was cold but sunny again. We enjoyed our walk through the park very much.
At first we had a look at the castle. Then Ninny and I climbed on a huge rock (okay, it was only huge for me not for you and other humans). Even Ninny arrived much earlier on top of the rock...
Later I found a special tree in the park - look, there was a heart "written" in the tree - a heart with the letters M + J - of course I know M is for Mandarin, but who is J??? I don't know that I love J before and I hope I will meet her soon  !
Then we did something which was a bit dangerous - we sat on the water  !
At the end of our walk I found a great tree-house for the summer, but Tine told me that this house is not for bears but for birds...

Mandarin

It's still cold outside in Germany. Today Ninny, Tine and I went to the Peringmaar, a lake in the South of Bedburg.
The Peringmaar is very new, some years ago it hadn't been there. I couldn't believe that this is true, but Tine told us that there had been an open cast mining between the Sixties and the Eighties of the last century and now after the end of this industrial period they rebuild the area again.

Hav a good Sunday,
Mandarin

Wow - what a great morning - today new toyvoyagers arrived  !

The postwoman rang the bell, Tine opened the door and then she gave Ninni and me an envelope. We opened it - and saw only big, big feet at first... - these feet were so big, much bigger than my own feet!

One second later Hurley, the Bigfoot went out of the envelope and we had a nice "Welcome". Then we heard another voice from the inside of the envelope - and another second later, HitchRideMarky came out.

Wow - now we are the "Fabulous Four" and I am sure we will have a great time together 

Mandarin

Good news - what a great day!!!

At first two new toyvoyagers arrived in the morning. Then Tine told us that we are all going on a holiday to Africa - we will visit Nairobi in Kenia - and we will start in two days.

I am a bit nervous but I am happy too. I will meet a lot of children, because we will help Tine with her charity work in two slum schools.

Now I have to look at the Kenyan map again and I also want to read of book about Kenya...

Mandarin

Today our host was busy the whole day, because she has to organize everything for the trip tomorrow. Therefore we decided to make a cup of coffee for her. Tine was more than pleased about that.

Have a look at our photos - then you can see how we made it.
Ninni is the biggest, she put the pad in the maschine. Hurley has the biggest feet, he pressed the button.
HichRideMarky and I watched that the whole coffee went into the cup. And at the end Ninni carried the cup to the table where we all sat down.

Bye-bye,
Mandarin

Here we go...

At first we started from Düsseldorf Airport in the early morning to London Heathrow. Everything we on fine for our host and us and Tine took some photos of us, the "Funtastic Four".

Mandarin

Valentines Day is a very important day in Kenya.

In the early morning our toyvoyager group was in our hotel room in Nairobi and we had a discussion what we could do for Tine on that day.

Then we had an idea - we counted our Kenyan money and bought a special Valentines card for her.

She was very happy about that card and gave us many hugs!

Mandarin

Sunday in Kenya - and we went to a trip to Mamba Village, a nice park close to the city. We really enjoyed the day!

Mandarin

Today we visited Kwa Watoto School in Soweto - a school for about 800 children in a slum in the east of Nairobi. At first we had been a bit afraid but then we recognized that the children liked us.

Mandarin

As usual we had breakfast together with our host in the hotel in the morning. We had pancakes, bananas, passion fruits and many other things.

After the breakfast we went to Kwa Watoto school again, where our host did some charity work. Today we helped her when she did some colouring together with the sponsored kids of class 2.

Mandarin