Travelog for: Bubele

Hello mum,

another Tv arrived here and we all welcomed her in the garden,

her name is Aura and she is a cute ladybug,

 

and then it was time for my first

LIFE MISSION

I meet 5 teddybears

Dr.Kröbner, his twins Harald and Heinz, Fritz and the little piratbear Mur 



Love
your happy

Bubele

Hello mum,

last weekend I made a trip through East-Westphalia-Lippe and I

follow the touristic path to visit the most interesting tourist features

of that area  I started in an old half-Timber-town called Bad

Salzuflen

with an accommondation.

Bad Salzuflen is a spa town and is known for its saltwater springs

and thermal baths. In former times the town profited from the salt

trade. Many houses of well-off citizens from the 16th and 17th

century are preserved.










My suite was situated in the

upperst level of the Hotel so that I could enjoy the sundown with

a marvellous view over the rooftops of the city.



next morning



Next day I went south-west-ward to climbed on a mountain, there

is a big statue, 

so big that you can ascend it. The statue call Hermann, it´s the

Hermansdenkmal near Detmold. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermannsdenkmal  click for more

informations

From up there I enjoy an panoramic view across the landscape.













Back on solid floor I continued my way to one of the oldest

sugarloaf lump of  rock in the middle of Germany, the Externsteine.

The Externsteine are a natural outcropping of five sandstone pillars,

the tallest of which is 37.5 m (123 ft) high and form a wall of several

hundred metres in length, in a region that is otherwise largely

devoid of rocks.

The geological formation consists of a hard, erosion-resistant sandstone, laid down during the early Cretaceous era about 120 million years ago, near the edge of a large shallow sea that covered large parts of Northern Europe at the time. About 70 million years ago, these originally horizontal layers were folded to an almost vertical position; this was followed by various forms of weathering



An old mystic place. During all eras the peoles adore different lords.

When we approach the spiritual place it feels like entering a magic

circle







nice trip 

kisses
yours

Bubele

Hello mum,

I made a trip to Hamelin a little town in Lower Saxony , click for more

informations  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamelin









Kisses

Bubele

Hello mum,

I visited the biggest Lake in

Lower-Saxony, Germany the Steinhuder Meer. Striktly speaking, it

isn´t a lake, it´s a sea, because it have no water intake.

The Steinhuder Meer is so huge;  the lake is located 30 kilometres 

northwest of Hanover. It is named after the nearby village of

Steinhude. It has an area of about 30 square kilometres , making it

the largest lake of northwestern Germany, but it is very shallow,

an average depth of only 1.35 metres  and a maximum depth of

less than 3 metres . It lies within a region known as the Hanoverian

Moor Geest.   enough facts





it have an iland, the Wilhemstein (willystone), it´s located in the

middle of the water. By nice weather we sailed with open boats to

enter the Wilhelmstein, which housed an old fort, build in the

1760th by the earl of Schaumburg-Lippe (Foamcastle-

Lippe)…hihihi….





I also visit the fort and it was a little bit spooky

inside by the casemate, where the soldiers lived.





look mummy , the first german submarine called Steinhuder Hecht built 1772

The design of the engineer, military officer and professor Jacob Praetorius Chrysostom saw an oak wood construction in the form of a fish with sails and movable tail. The plan should have been put forward in 1762 to Count Wilhelm of Schaumburg-Lippe and was realized after initial rejection in 1772 on the island fortress of William Stone in a stripped-down version. It should be dipped in 1772 in twelve minutes Steinhude. But this may be questionable because of the maximum 2.9 m water depth.



yours

Bubele

Hello mum,

Two new visitors arrived in Delligsen first Squab, he'd traveled by

train.



Mr.Stanley used the opportunity and took the train home.



We all have waved a handkerchief.



Rocky has arrived today, he is a little raccoon and has traveled all

the way from Spain, but he is a Swiss raccoon.



By the way, Mom, we travel soon and guess where we are going.



I tell nothing.

yours little teddy

Bubele

Hi Mum ,

Yesterday evening we started our holydaytrip northwards…  we

started at 23h and Hostmum/dad drove throught the night so that

we awake in Denmark, just before we crossed a gigantic building:

The Store Baelt Bridge. 18km long . The Roadlevel ist 65m height

above sea level and the Pylons for the suspension bridge are with

254m the highest points of Denmark.







After we had solid ground under our wheels we continued our way

toward Malmö/Sweden  In Koge we left the motorway to follow the

seaside Highway to Kopenhagen.

And  we learned something about a special kind of  junction:

Rotary Trafic. And one more Rotary traffic. … and an other one…..



yummy



we left this horrible road and enterd the motorway again.

Suddenly it went dark: The motorway disapeared into a tunnel. 





When we see the sun again there was no land behind us, we

drove the next bridge, the Oeresund Bridge: not so big as the last

but a length of 12 km, a roadlevel of 54m and Pylons of 206m are

also very impressive!!!. The next solid ground was Sweden.





We passed Malmö where the Eurovision Song Contest  will be start

this Evening and continued our trip toward Kullaberg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kullaberg







Later we continued our journey northward via Gothenburg and

Tollhättan to Vänern Lake.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A4nern

We went on a rock at the coast and enjoyed the sundown when

we heard a quite scraping and little “tröööööt”s….



We looked prying round and took notice of a little blue elefant!!  A

BLUE ELEFANT????? We are not boozed or on an trip, …..pinched me

if  I am awake



The little blue elefant came closer and and introduced himself as

Napoleon. He has lost his wind from hurry up the last time to met

us, but we were so fast riders, that it was nearly impossible for him

to close up till tonight







Love

Bubele

Hello  mum,

Next day we visit a masterpiece of engineering: A part of the

Dalslandcanal in  Haverud/Sweden. Over 100 years ago they build a

couple of  canal lock and a brigde for the canal over some water

rapids. And at the same place they build a railway bridge and a

highway bridge…. great….





After gazeing  these constructions we

continued our way northward, crossed the norwegian border and

looked out to a campside for the night.









After a great breakfast we left the campground on norwegian roads

northward. Kilometers for kilometers we followed  rivervalleys uphill,

crossed bridges with water rapids and suddenly we saw snow!!! In

the middle of May! Crazy. We drove up and down, more up as down,

stoped at nice lookout points at Rondane National Park, passed wide

fjell-areas and closely canyons.





















At a break between a huge Waterfall and a Water rapid, Rocky

Racoon had the idea to take out the Gummischnulli to went

riverrafting. We were fascinated from this adventure but hostmum ( Andrea)

stopped us because we had no life jackets in case of  disaster. 









Deeply disapointed we enter the car again and continued our way northward.


















Next stop was Kristiansund. There we looked out for a place for the

night and enjoyed the midnightsun on the atlantic ocean(sorry not

realy, because she

dipped unter the horizon for a few hours, but the night was

constantly bright)















Love

Bubele

Hello again,

now we continued our Holiday-tour  by drove the new build Atlantic-

Highway who followed the atlanticcoast from Kristiansund westward

from island to island. Great views and crazy bridges..J. Today the

weather wasn´t so fine but we sat dry and  have good windscreen

wipers.











 


After passing Molde and sailed with ferrys we passed Andernes

toward the Trollstiegen and Geiranger. Suddenly a boom with the

sign: “ STENGT”. What a pity!! 

The best we could do, was making pictures in front of a very special

traffic sign and returned til Andernes.







At touristinformation we get the information, the Trollstiegen will

open tomorrow morning. To waste the time, we went to the habour

to look nice boats and made a trip into the viewy Romsdal.





We gaze at some  waterfalls and rapids (Andrea still

forbid the riverrafting) and the Trollveggen (Troll wall) the highest

vertical cliff in Europe. At evening we campt on the way toward

Trollstiegen.













Next morning we scaled the road with lots of switchback to a level of

over 1000m above sea level. We followed the smal road covered by

clouds and suddenly we came to a canyon and looked down on an

other Fjord: Geiranger we stoped to take pictures (the lookouts from

the car is much more comfortable, warm and dry) and followed the

road with countless switchbacks  to the bottom of the fjord.



















After short stop at touristinfo by reason fo closed roads we

continued our way to Sognefjord. But at first we had to cross the

sognefjell, the highest montain pass in Norway. At 1000m above

sealevel the temperature fell unter 0° and it start snowing.  We

made a break and took pictuers with 10cm fresh-fallen snow… crazy











We continued our way by mass of snow and a few

kilometre later we are back on sealevel.







We passed an other ferry,

drove into a tunnel, into a rotary traffic into an other tunnel…… but

this tunnel would not end!!!! Suddenly, in the tunnel, the light turns

blue!!  We entered a big hall with a parkingplace, here in the

underground. Than it went dark and we are back in the tube again. 

Lots of kilometer later the same situation: Light turns blue, big hall,

tube again…. And the same will followed a third time. After near

20min. driving underground we saw a light at the end of this

spectaculary building and it realy was daylight. We are back on the

surface again. This was the longest highwaytunnel of the world:

24509 m long. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A6rdal_Tunnel

by the way..Andrea has claustrophobia.....she could not took a nice

picture in the tunnel , only this blurry one



After this adventure we climbed up the next smal road to stay for

the night at an other lookout point far over Aurland.






thats all for today

yours

Bubele

Hello mummy,

we woke up in the early morning and the sun let passing her first

beams through the clouds. We looked outside and had marvellous

glimpse to the Aurlandfjord: The peaks where covered with snow

and on the water a cruise liner passing by. Suitable for postcards.





After breakfast we started to the next stop, Flam, from where the

worldenmost steeply standard gauge railway starts their destination

to Myrdal (The Oslo-Bergen railwy). But the train was crowded with

passengers of the cruise liner, we saw this morning.





So we changed

our plan and drove straight toward our summer cottage at

Hardangerfjord. In the afternoon we reached this lovely place and

appreciated it with a collective Boaaaah for the great view.









hugs for you

Bubele

Hello mummy,

today we made a trip by ferry and bus to Bergen, the second biggest

town of Norway. By wonderfull sunshineweather we went sloppy

throught the city and visited the World Cultural Heritage Brygge,







the habour



Edward Grieg



and the nice old township aside of the touristcrowds







Aura has met a relative, a really big beetle 



more soon

Bubele

Hello mum,

Today: lazzing at a sunny afternoon..





your deep relaxed 

Bubele

Hello mum,

today we made a trip to the 3th largest glacier of the country. The

Folgefonna.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folgefonna_National_Park

Normally glaciers are surrounded by cold mass of air, so he

took his head in the clouds, what a pity... 







So we took pictures at the

fjell area below the top







On the way back we saw this amazing waterfall.



kisses

Bubele

Hello my mummy,

Today: Lazzing at a sunny afternoon again.



Bubele

Hello mummy,

Time to explore the surrounding area of the summer cottage.

Hostdad found an (old) topografic map with a hiking trail. With gusto

we followed the sign of the maps, but as longer the walk so obscure

was the trail and it splitted into lots of dirttrack, and they all ends in

the moor with wet and swampy underground...Andrea was not amused 



typical norwegian companion animals 



nice little cottages



Relatives of Squab 





After a short discussion with yummy cokkies, we decidet to turn back.





This was a great luck because by break at a creek with wonderfull

clear water we took a refreshment und suddenly there stood an

other blue elefant……. he looked like Napoleon and introduced

himself as James...Napoleon invited him for a beer at our summer house







kisses from

Bubele

Hello mum,

Last night at our summer cottage...

we have enjoyed the last time the wonderful view and talked about

our time in Norway














yours

Bubele