Travelog for: Hipsu

Only just arrived to find myself out somewhere.

I am at a station waiting for the train.

The train came and we are on the train, just leaving the station.

The engine pulls us out of the station, but then has to switch ends to pull us in another direction.

Porthmadog has an estuary, with a tidal island.

And inland, are some hills and mountains of Snowdonia in the distance.

We are going across the Cob, built to cross the estuary.

This is the River Glaslyn.

A hill, Moel Hebog, from Beddgelert station

We are moving again.

And on we go.

We have stopped off in Rhyd Ddu. We can take a look at the engine.

Can you see the top of Mount Snowdon? Snowdon is the highest mountain in Wales.

And on we go.

We are approaching another station.

That engine is called Caernarfon Castle. 

We have arrived back in Caernarfon

The train will go back to Porthmadog.

There's Caernarfon Castle.

We've been busy

Shelling peas.

And filled a bag with empty pea pods.

Hi Mum,
It had stopped raining so we went out...

This is Llyn Padarn.

These swans came to say hello

We've come out to Manchester in England to visit a museum.

This is an old steam engine called Planet.

This is a Ferranti Inverted Engine

This is a model of an engine a set up at ICI

Part of the museum is based in a train shed, and there are train engines and carriages.

In another building of the museum, equipment from a laboratory at Daresbury, used in various experiments. People from the lab won a Nobel Prize.

There was a hands on science section. We can investigate Magnetic Fields.

Do you see the difference?

This is John Dalton, a father of modern chemistry.

The Periodic Table.

Manchester was home to the textile industry.

Printing patterns.

We caught a cotton demonstration. Here, the fibres are separated and drawn together to make a "thingy".

Then they are smoothed out again and combined with other strands to make it stronger.


The strands are smoothed out again and combined with other strands to make it stronger still, and then wound onto a bobbin.

The thread is drawn out, and then twisted before rolled onto another bobbin.
Small children would clear out the debris as the machine moves back... A dangerous job...

Now it is time for weaving to make the cloth.

This is the Pegasus computer, built by Ferranti.

Air samplers to measure radiation.

Here we are measuring radiation.

Next, we went to another building housing the aviation and other vehicles section.

Something by GEC avionics.

A limousine.

Boldly going where no one has gone before.

Today, we popped to the allotment

These blackcurrants are almost ready.

I'll have a munch on this cabbage.

Yum, potatoes.

My host is growing a small patch of wheat

and broad beans.

Yummy raspberries, red and yellow

Do you see the goldfish in the pond?

After the allotment, as it was a nice day, we went to Portmeirion.

This is the type of chair Number Two sat in.

That is the Pantheon, or "Green Dome" up there.

Nice and cool in the shade, looking across the gardens.

Pretty flowers on the woodland walk.

The sea is out.

The Lighthouse

Admiral Nelson.

The Observatory Tower.

Looking up to the village.

Ahoy there!

The Bell Tower.

Most of the buildings have Grade II listed status.

Coins thrown in the fountain are given to charity.

The Piazza.

The Bristol Colonnade again.

The Toll House.


The Round House is where Number Six "lived" here.

Today, was another nice day so we went out to Colwyn Bay's Mountain Zoo

The meerkats are fascinating to watch. That one is on guard duty

Cute!

There's a bear.

A spider monkey..

A gibbon..

A snoozing tiger...

a strange bird, a rhea I think.

Penguins

Flamingoes

I am on my way to a new host... Goodbye UK.

Hi mom!!

I arrived at Cyn's work!







Will update soon!!

Love, Hipsu

Hi mommie!!

Like i said before i arrived at Cyn's work and after work she took me home to Alkmaar.

There was another cute tv waiting for me >> Hamie



I gave Hamie a kiss and jumped into my bed, because i was very tired of my trip!





Hamie decided to go sleep aswell, so we slept together!



Goodnight mom!

Hi mom!!

How are you?

I'm fine but a bit dissapointed.. The weather in here is terrible.. So we stay at home most of the time!



This is the view from the livingroom from Cyn's house.. Do you see the rain mom? 

Mom, i miss you.. So i bought these for you..



Hope you will like them!

Bye mom!!

Hi mom!!

I'm at Cyn's office again! Tobbi, Hamie and Me had some fun over there!





Have you ever been to Egypt mom?

We also relaxed a bit.. But too bad there was no sun again!



Bye mom!!

Hi mom!

Today we did something really cool!! We went to Amsterdam Airport to see the biggest airplane in the world! Everyday the Airbus A380 arrives at Amsterdam around 1 pm so we decided to go there!



Tobbi also came with me! 



We saw the Airbus A380 but Cyn was to excited that she wasn´t able to take a picture with me in it... But i would love to show you the plane!!





It´s pretty big don´t you think mom!! This one is from Emirates they fly from Dubai to Amsterdam every day!

Bye!!

Hi mommy!!!

I'm so sorry for not updating! Cyn had a lot of troubles the past weeks, so she wasnt able to update me!

Sunday she will go to Turkey and i can come with her!!

Sorry again mom, will update very soon!!

Love!