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Passau, Germany - 27th June 2010
By: RikeH
Hello from Passau,
Captain Caramel and I had a long sleep the last days. But suddenly RikeH opened the luggage.
She found us – and made a funny face...
All the others were so happy to see us – and we talked a lot.
I will tell you more later.
Greetings
Topple
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Posted Jul 16, 2010, 10:25 pm
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Novi Sad, Serbia - 2nd July 2010
By: RikeH
Hi Mum,
our Ship is in Novi Sad in Serbia today. It was too hot to leave the ship.
Here you see me in front of the Castle.
One of my Mission is it to eat cake - today I had a delicious cake on the ship.
Later I had a nice Glass of Redwine with Captain Caramel – he is a good friend of me, Mum.
Mum, I would love to go on a Cruise with you, too.
Yours Topple
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Posted Jul 24, 2010, 8:02 pm Last edited Jul 25, 2010, 5:04 pm by RikeH
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Hamburg, Germany - 16th July 2010
By: RikeH
Hi Mum,
We went to work with RikeH today – because her colleague has a big motorbike and we were allowed to play on it.
So here you see me in front of it.
I really would love to drive with it, but I am too small.
So I decided to relax and take a rest.
Bye
Topple
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Posted Jul 26, 2010, 5:00 pm
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Porvoo, Finland - 2nd August 2010
By: Delenna
I have arrived in Finland! My new host will show me around soon
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Posted Aug 2, 2010, 3:55 pm
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Porvoo, Finland - 5th August 2010
By: Delenna
I went to the local sightseeing tower with my host. We walked from the other side of the hill where you can see to the old town (pay attention to the hill in the second photo, on the left - that's Castle Hill and I'll visit it later) . In the tower I got a relly good view over the city of Porvoo! Porvoo is the 2nd oldest city in Finland. It has almost 50 000 inhabitants of which 33% is native Swedish speakers (finnswedes). Porvoo is only 50km east from Helsinki, the capitol of Finland. It takes less than an hour to drive there.
The story tells that the sightseeing tower was made by a giant: he heard that they were building a church in Porvoo and got angry (apparently giants don't like churches) and threw a stone all the way from Sipoo (where he lived, a place not too far from Porvoo). He didn't either aim it too well or his arm wasn't in good enough condition as he missed the church.
The stone has been a place to gather for festives a hundred years ago. Kids were told that babies were picked up from under the stone. Around 1880 they made the stairs and it became a sightseeing tower. Nowadays kids are told that a stork brings the babies - which is weird because you very rarely see storks in Finland...
After the views in the tower we walked back to our car. I got a closer look on the red shorehouses. They are also part of the old town - and the most wellknown attraction in Porvoo. The brochure tells this about them: The shore houses are now red, but they got their colour only in the late 18th century. Red ochre paint was used to paint the shore houses in honour of King Gustav III's arrival from Sweden. All of the houses along his route were painted, in order to make them more beautiful. The red ochre also helped protect the logs from wind and sun damage. Exotic fruits, wines and spices were brought to Porvoo, and the shore houses also served as intermediate storehouses for coffee an tobacco. Today the shore houses are used as private living quarters and storage space.
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Posted Aug 7, 2010, 6:24 pm
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