Ede, The Netherlands - 28th April 2008
By: magicwoman
Hi mum
Today we say goodbye to Ede.We are going to Fam.United.We had such a great time here.And we made a lot of friends.And i am gonna miss them all.Just Married they became such great friends of mine ,and so is Palmeke!
Marije was so sweet to us.We really loved it here
Giving Just Married a big and warm goodbye hug.I am gonna miss you so much
giving palmeke a big hug
I'm gonna have so much at Fam United's place
Bye Bye Bokkie
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Posted Apr 28, 2008, 6:38 pm
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Bruchsal, Germany - 7th May 2008
By: fam-united
Hi mum,
I'm happy to tell you, that I arrived safely in Bruchsal. I'm really really tired and dizzy now, but nevertheless Petra told me, that she would have to take a photo first before I can rest somewhere.
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Posted May 30, 2008, 10:27 pm
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on the way to Denmark, still in Germany - 9th May 2008
By: fam-united
I really hoped, that someone would take me outside as soon as possible. You know, that I don't like to stay in houses so much. But everyone only was in a hurry and I saw them running around and packing bags and boxes.
Do they want to travel somewhere? Will I go with them? I think, I have to ask.
Petra packed some other toyvoyager guests and me in a backpack and put it in the car. It seems, that we all will go on a big trip, I heard them talking about Denmark. I'm sure, we will go there.
Here we had a rest from the long drive. It was more a stop and go than driving, because there had been several accidents and construction zones. Now I know, that they wanted to stay at a youth hostel for the night, but Petra called them and they told us, that we had to be there until 10pm or we have to search for something else. Petra always said: How can we find something for 6 humans and so many toyvoyagers. So the family and we decided to drive the whole night until we arrive at our destination place.
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Posted May 30, 2008, 10:35 pm
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Isle Fur, Denmark - 11th May 2008
By: fam-united
Our first trip goes to Fur, which is a small Danish island in the Limfjord at the northern tip of the Salling peninsula. Fur has under 900 inhabitants and covers an area of 22 km².
We have to go there by a ferry, although the crossing takes only 3 to 4 minutes.
Fur is renowned for its deposits of diatomite, konwn in Danish as 'moler'. We want to go fossil hunting, but unhappily we have ho luck, because the woman at the museum shows us the wrong place. Anyway it is a nice small island.
First of all we visited a nice small museum. I had been very interested to see this fossil.
Then we walked in a small park close to the museum. It was warm and nice to sit on this big stone for a short time, but you know, I don't really like to sit really long, so I jumped down.
Petra caught me and do you believe where she sat me down again? On a wire fence just in front of a dino!!! I'm sure, you can see me trembling on this photo.
This is the place, where the woman told us, that we maybe could find fossils, but she was wrong.
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Posted May 31, 2008, 10:32 am
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Rubjerg Knude, Denmark - 12th May 2008
By: fam-united
On our way home we decided to stop by at Rubjerg Knude, which is a shifting sand dune, that is about 90 metres high.
Due to erosion several metres of sand get ablated each year, so the sand beach is changing its wideness and it steep coast arises from this.
The lighthouse is already covered partly and you only can see a very little part of the houses around the lighthouse, when you walk close to it.
Maybe you see the sand flying on this photo.
You see the sand dune growing in the inner land.
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Posted Jun 1, 2008, 8:50 pm
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Grenen, Denmark - 14th May 2008
By: fam-united
Today we got up really early. Petra told us, that we would go somewhere really special. The weather was nice, so we would have everything we need for this trip.
We got the lunch packed and then jumped in our bag again. We got used to this now, so it wasn't such a problem sitting there during the drive.
There are also some bunkers from the second world war.
Finally we arrived at our destination and we saw: sand and water.
Grenen is the northmost tip of Jutland, north of the town of Skagen, thereby the northmost point of Denmark. Grenen was given its name for its shape like a tree-branch (Danish: gren). It's the point, where Skaggerak and Kattegat flow together.
You see me here at this place with waves from left and right, but the wind was so low, that there nearly were no waves.
Nevertheless we weren't allowed to go swimming.
Kari showed us a really fascinating effect - a rainbow ring around the sun. Petra read about it: This ring is called 22°-halo and is a ring of light with a radius of 22° around the sun.
Sorry, but it was too difficult to take a photo with a toyvoyager and still show the effect, so there is only this one with Kari, but you can be sure, I have seen this too.
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Posted Jun 2, 2008, 2:56 pm
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Skagen, Denmark - 14th May 2008
By: fam-united
Driving through Skagen we decided to take a look at the church, that is covered with sand and lieing in the dunes. This church is called Den tilsandede Kirke, the sand-engulfed Buried Church
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Posted Jun 2, 2008, 5:29 pm
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Norre Vorupor, Denmark - 15th May 2008
By: fam-united
Petra asked, whether we can drive to Norre Vorupor. It is another fisher town close to Klitmoller.
We only walked there a few minutes and then everybody realized, that we were so tired, that we only wanted to go home.
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Posted Jun 3, 2008, 1:49 pm
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Nykobing, Denmark - 16th May 2008
By: fam-united
We were in Nykobing today, where it a wonderful flower park with many animals too. There is also a playground for older children, which are really great.
The park is called Jesperhus Blomsterpark.
There was a very special rainwood indoor playground with Aztec monuments.
No, Petra!!! This isn't really a good idea to put me there!!! Please, please take me away
No, please not all together in this terrible mouth!!! Who knows, what happens!!!! Please, let me out!!!
Oh, God!!! Where is Kari now!!! Is there nobody to help us getting out here again???
Phewww!!!! Sometimes it is very dangerous to stay with Petra and her family. Why don't they think of our feelings in this situations???
Yes, this is much better. I had been so happy to have some time for myself to relax in the Chinese Garden, that belongs to the park.
It was really fascinating to see the beautiful Danish flag everywhere - not only in the park, but also next to many houses in Klitmoeller and other towns.
Do you know Hans Christian Andersen? He wrote many fairy tales and some of them also Petra told to her children, but some of them she only knew by name. In the Blomsterpark there were statues of these fairy tales coloured with flowers, although the flowers didn't bloom so much right now.
Here you see a photo with me and "The Princess and the pea".
The Princess on the Pea
A translation of Hans Christian Andersen's "Prindsessen paa Ærten" by Jean Hersholt.
Once there was a Prince who wanted to marry a Princess. Only a real one would do. So he traveled through all the world to find her, and everywhere things went wrong. There were Princesses aplenty, but how was he to know whether they were real Princesses? There was something not quite right about them all. So he came home again and was unhappy, because he did so want to have a real Princess.
One evening a terrible storm blew up. It lightened and thundered and rained. It was really frightful! In the midst of it all came a knocking at the town gate. The old King went to open it.
Who should be standing outside but a Princess, and what a sight she was in all that rain and wind. Water streamed from her hair down her clothes into her shoes, and ran out at the heels. Yet she claimed to be a real Princess.
"We'll soon find that out," the old Queen thought to herself. Without saying a word about it she went to the bedchamber, stripped back the bedclothes, and put just one pea in the bottom of the bed. Then she took twenty mattresses and piled them on the pea. Then she took twenty eiderdown feather beds and piled them on the mattresses. Up on top of all these the Princess was to spend the night.
In the morning they asked her, "Did you sleep well?"
" Oh!" said the Princess. "No. I scarcely slept at all. Heaven knows what's in that bed. I lay on something so hard that I'm black and blue all over. It was simply terrible."
They could see she was a real Princess and no question about it, now that she had felt one pea all the way through twenty mattresses and twenty more feather beds. Nobody but a Princess could be so delicate. So the Prince made haste to marry her, because he knew he had found a real Princess.
As for the pea, they put it in the museum. There it's still to be seen, unless somebody has taken it.
There, that's a true story.
And here we are sitting in front of a small version of Andersen's house.
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Posted Jun 5, 2008, 3:48 pm
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