Posted Oct 26, 2011, 2:43 pm
Right now I'm in Germany and staying with my guardian.
I hope that someone will invite me to stay somewhere
Posted Oct 30, 2011, 2:43 pm
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Posted Jan 2, 2012, 6:15 pm
I have arrived safely in South Africa
Spent a nice Christmas, here are some pics of my arrival and Christmas...
Will keep you updated
Love
Nana
Posted Feb 23, 2013, 10:13 am
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Posted Mar 11, 2013, 10:08 am
Nana came from Germany too.
We sincerely welcome Nana.
Nana ate bit chocolate.
"sweet and tasty".
My host Yoko bought newspaper.
This article, "Two years...the Tohoku Earthquake " at newspaper.
Yokosuka is more than 300km away to Fukushima.
Two years after the earthquake, people are beginning to regain the smile reconstruction.
Japan have facing a variety of problems still.
However,Japan is resolved surely.
Because Japanese childrens smile more than anything.
Over the world Toys and Toy Voyagers make a their smile.
Posted Mar 13, 2013, 8:27 am
Wednesday is a day off work of My host Yoko.
We went to Shioiri of Yokosuka.
There are called "Dobuita street " in Shioiri.
Also, " Sukajan" of Gotouchi card born in the Dobuita street.
After that, we went to the Verny park.
Verny park is derived from the name of French engineer.
We went to Memorial Verny,We saw a huge model of the steam hammer, also books of Yokosuka history.
We also went to JR(Japan Railway) Yokosuka station.
I found there is a "Sucurry of Seagull" of the Yokosuka's characters."
We found Yoko's favorite Japan old type postbox.
This postbox is valuable the end of production in 1970.
It has been used yet.
We saw the Koban（Japanese Police box).
Yoko have to go shopping on the way with us.
She bought a lot of food .
You can see some of them.
We drinking soy milk. Yummy!
a lot of love
Nana
Posted Mar 14, 2013, 8:59 am
I saw a program of learning "German" in Japanese television.
It is very interesting.
Nana
Posted Mar 20, 2013, 5:50 am
It is shrimp with Chili Sauce flavor.
We listened to favorite CD of My host Yoko's son.
This is pank rock! It is "THE CRO-MAGNONS".
We are singing and shouting and dancing.
Hey,Katja! When I look up to the sky, I wish you look the sky too.
Posted Mar 20, 2013, 6:43 am
We went to the Sankeien garden in Yokohama on Saturday afternoon with the son of My host Yoko.
Sankei garden is very popular with foreign tourists.
We looked many turtle, and some flowers were blooming.
Spiraea,Narcissus...
Also we gave bait for carp and tufted duck.
Old wooden Japanese house was very interesting.
Bamboo forest is my favorite!
Three-storied pagoda(important cultural property ) was built in 1457.Amazing!
We enjoyed Japanese garden.
Isidore
Nana
Posted Mar 20, 2013, 9:23 am
Yesterday +22 degrees , today +20 degrees.
Very warm the past few days, the cherry blossoms were blooming.
Everyone pleased cherry blossom blooming in Japan.
Also cherry blossom blooming 10 days earlier than usual.
We went to see Japanese elementary school, middle school, high school, college, and graduate school.
Flowers were blooming in the park a lot.
I also saw shrines and temples.
It was a solemn atmosphere.
Nana
Posted Mar 21, 2013, 8:53 am
It is day for praising nature and showing respect to living things.
Many people eat "Bota-mochi" (a rice cake coverd with bean jam or soy flour ) in Japan to this day.
We eat Bota-mochi. yammy!
Posted Mar 21, 2013, 8:55 am
My host Yoko back after work We went to see the cherry blossoms in hurry before the sun goes down.
We feel so happy.
Weekend it will be in full bloom.
My host Yoko showed me the money in Japan.
10,000 yen, 5,000 yen, 2,000 yen, 1,000 yen, 500 yen, 100 yen, 50yen, 10yen, 5yen, 1yen.
Yukichi Fukuzawa to 10,000 yen bill is printed.
Yukichi is a samurai(warrior), thinker.
To 5000 yen bill Ichiyo Higuchi is printed.
Ichiyo is a woman writer.
1000 yen bill is Hideyo Noguchi of the scholars.
5 yen and 50 yen coins have holes.
This is very rare in the world.
I ask Why is coin have holes?
Maybe make be easier to determine other coins.
and saving material?
Posted Mar 24, 2013, 1:48 am
Cherry blossoms are in full bloom !
It so beautiful.
We went to see the shrines and temples.
The shrine was built 350 years ago.
Fujiwara Michizane riding a cow has been worshiped.
He is called the god of learning.
There was a bill of the tree.
It is 絵馬（called Ema）.
Each wish is written to this.
Puppies and great mother dog is a symbol of 安産祈願（Wishing You Love & Happiness)!
We went to the temple last dragon has been enshrined.
It is so cool!
Once back home, we ate sushi for lunch.
Eating sushi in Japan is the best of all.
Posted Mar 24, 2013, 2:21 am
The park was located in a high place.
There is also a Yokosuka City Museum.
Naumann elephant model, kimono, spun yarn, huge crab, shellfish, and Crystal violet.
We will go back home in hurry because it's seems to rain.
Posted Mar 27, 2013, 9:32 am
We will show you some games in Japan.
Hyakunin Isshu" is one of the Japanese traditional games.
It is also the name of the game in which they are used.
The game is played mostly on Japanese New Year's holidays.
On each card, a poem (waka) is written, and there are a total of 100 poems.
The standard collection of the poems used is called Hyakunin Isshu,
which is often also the name of the game.
The collection was chosen by a poet Fujiwara no Teika in Heian period.
There are national conventions for the game.
Two sets of 100 poem cards in Box.
Karuta is one of the Japanese traditional games.
First,a person read the card. Like this way.
And the others look for a card which is the picture and word drawn about it.
How many cards can you find?
The winner is having the cards most.
Next, We will show you "Pokemon Card Game".
This is what son of my host was using.
And, The next show is "Duel Masters Card Game".
This is what son of my host was using, too.
He was the winner of the competition of this card game.
I learned to play shogi.
Shogi is Japanese chess.
My host's sons have spring vacation began.
They taught a lot of games for us.
Posted Mar 31, 2013, 3:03 am
We (Nana, Lotta, FerdiFuchs) went to the Umikaze(meaning sea wind) park.
Willy W. and Isidore already came here.
Unfortunately, weather was not good.
But today is warm.
Flowers were blooming a lot.
We enjoyed the "Umikaze park".
Sakura(Cherry) blossoms are falling.
Road looks like cherry carpet.
Posted Mar 31, 2013, 7:57 am
Kamakura is a small city and a very popular tourist destination.
We went to see the "Great Buddha" in Kotoku-in.
I was surprised that there are windows in the back of the Buddha.
Why is there a window?
I think It was ventilation, tourist can be go to the Buddha's in body.
We went get on Enoden(Gotochi-card).
Enoshima Electric Railway, familiarly known as Enoden, has 100 years of history.
However, it was very very cold, weather is very bad.
If weather is good, We were able to see Mount Fuji the tallest mountain in Japan.
Posted Mar 31, 2013, 9:11 am
Hasedera is a temple of the Jodo sect, that is most famous for its statue of Kannon, the goddess of mercy. The statue shows Kannon with eleven heads, each representing a characteristic of the goddess. The 9.18 meter tall, gilded wooden statue is regarded as one of the largest wooden sculpture in Japan, and can be viewed in the temple's main building, the Kannon-do Hall.
It was not allowed to take photo.
I found a smile Jizo.
Posted Mar 31, 2013, 10:12 am
Tsurugaoka Hachimangu is Kamakura's most important shrine.
Today is really cold.
We can show you "Gosyuin-cho".
"Gosyuin-cho" is collect stamp book where written by Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines.
Posted Apr 3, 2013, 4:45 am
We were try folding "origami".
It is"Japanese Samurai helmet" .
This is a Japanese traditional origami model which has been folded for hundreds of years.
Made for little boys in Japan on Boys Day or Childrens Day (5th May), it is a fun accessory for an action man - or, made with newspaper or wrapping paper or folding paper for children.
Also, we made pig, frog, crane (black, red, yellow), balloons, boxes, bird, shuriken (Ninja's throwing knifes) , flowers and more.
We had a lot of fun to make!
Posted Apr 6, 2013, 1:41 am
The Japanese government give textbooks for elementary school student and junior high student in Japan. It is all free.
However, high school students must buy a textbooks of myself.
My host's son will be a sophomore in high school.
He showed me to us he bought a textbooks to learn from the new semester.
It was very difficult content.
We enjoying read the manga before textbooks give us a headache.
I like especially"Chihayahuru".
Posted Apr 6, 2013, 7:23 am
Time was past the 5 o'clock in the evening, but it was still bright.
Why did you come to this time?
Because spring storm will passes through Japan tomorrow .
We enjoyed the Mikasa park today.
The sound of water was able to relax.
We went to the Yokosuka port market on the way home.
However, there was nothing to what my host want.
Posted Apr 12, 2013, 11:31 am
we took a picture in front of Oriental literature.
After that, we were playing in the park.
4 TVs slid down the green slide.
I found a beautiful pink flower.
This is a flower called "Satsuki".
"May" is called also "Satsuki".
It seems so named because this flowers bloom on May.
My host bought 2 books at bookstore before heading back home.
It is a "The man called pirate" and "Marunouchi Tanita cafeteria".
Posted Apr 19, 2013, 9:06 am
There were a lot of flowers, and stone Japan map and statues.
I think this statue is mermaid and soldiers.
Sea was also very beautiful.
I looked for a mermaid with my host.
But mermaid is not here.
Posted Apr 28, 2013, 7:42 am
Its been a long time.
My host was very busy two weeks so far.
But I am very well.
We came to Tokyo today!
Tokyo is the capital of Japan.
And we visited the Tokyo Metropolitan Government.
There was a wonderful thing around the Tokyo Metropolitan Government.
Flat stone falling from the sky, Circle of stone(maybe tiger used in the circus) , two best friends ladybug and two dove of good friend.
There are observation room free to Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building.
45 floors above ground and there is a 202m height.
Fortunately so, I was able to see tallest tower "Tokyo Skytree" and the tallest mountain the "Mount Fuji" in Japan .
At last, I saw "Kumade"called lucky ones.
Kumade is wide rake that can gather up a large pile of fallen leaves and other garden litter in a single sweep.
Kazari Kumade, a gorgeous ornamental version often handmade by traditional craftsmen, is believed to "rake in"wealth, fortune, business success, and even family safety.
You can obtain Kazari Kumade at Torinoichi (Rooster Fairs), held in various places in Tokyo including the Asakusa area in November.
Generally, Torinoichi are bustling with people from all over the nation and the world.
Torinoichi are regarded as seasonal festivals announcing the arrival of winter.
Posted Apr 28, 2013, 9:26 am
We came to the Senso-ji Temple.
I saw a big red lantern in Kaminarimon gate.
There is "Fujin"(god of thunder) and "Raijin(god of the wind), next to the lantern.
Then there is Nakamise Street.
There is a Hozomon gate.
There was Ema(votive picture) in the shape of a tear, there was also a five-storied pagoda.
There was a "Koinobori" in the Senso-ji Temple.
Koinobori are cloth streamers in the shape of a carp which are flown on a tall pole on Children's day(May 5th, public holiday).
Posted Apr 29, 2013, 9:52 am
The Tokyo Skytree is a new television broadcasting tower and landmark of Tokyo.
With a height of 634 meters (634 can be read as "Musashi", a historic name of the Tokyo Region), it is the tallest building in Japan and the second tallest structure in the world at the time of its completion.
A large shopping complex "Tokyo Solamachi" with aquarium is located at its base.
I saw shop Hello Kitty, Manekineko, food sample in "Tokyo Solamachi".
Posted Apr 30, 2013, 9:49 am
Daimon means big gate in Japanese.
We walked to see the historic building.
We like Jizo with pinwheel.
It is very lovely red hat and bib.
Posted Apr 30, 2013, 10:34 am
Typical to celebrate Children's Day is carp streamers .
We came to see 333 carp streamers to Tokyo Tower.
Why 333 carp streamers?
Maybe Because height of Tokyo Tower 333m.
I found a shop of German cuisine in front of the Tokyo Tower.
Looks like delicious!
Posted May 1, 2013, 1:14 am
You can see ticket We bought "Tokyo 1 day subway pass".
We came to the Imperial Palace of Japan.
Imperial Palace is very very wide.
It is a bronze statue of Kusunoki Masashige.
He is famous Japanese samurai.
Many tourists had come to the Imperial Palace.
We could not get inside the Imperial Palace unfortunately.
There was office building a lot around the Imperial Palace.
What I loved the stone wall of Edo Castle.
This is sign of financial power of Edo Castle at that time.
It was great stone wall with no gap.
Posted May 2, 2013, 9:20 am
Tokyo Station is building of red brick.
There is a hotel in the Tokyo station.
At last,Introduce commercial facility that KITTE near the Tokyo station. KITTE means stamp.
We were happy to can see a lot of tourist destinations in Tokyo.
Posted May 2, 2013, 10:18 am
"Kurihama Hana-no-kuni" has with a lot of flowers.
Hana means flower in Japanese.
I was able to see again the carp streamers.
Nemophila flower, poppy, hydrangea, lavender has bloomed.
We met great monster Godzilla here.
He smiling for us.
Japanese black pine was prickly.
Posted May 3, 2013, 10:21 am
This is a strange rocky bit dangerous.
I was greeted in the cute ladybug.
I said "Konnichiwa""Hallo""Hello".
But ladybug was asleep.
zzz...
Posted May 6, 2013, 1:08 pm
We feel Blue sky, bright light of the sun, refreshing breeze.
I found beautiful white and purple wisteria.
It is wonderful and elegant smell.
Pink Rhododendron was also in bloom.
Great flowers and love
Nana
Posted May 15, 2013, 2:58 am
Yokohama is Japan's second largest city with a population of over three million.
Yokohama is the capital of Kanagawa Prefecture.
And I went to "Gumyoji" temple of Yokohama.
"Gumyoji" is the oldest temple in Yokohama.
The name of the temple has become a place name and the name of the station.
Hondo(Main hall) was built is 1044.
Temple big bell is 200 years ago.
Posted May 15, 2013, 3:53 am
And we went to the Landmark Tower in Yokohama.
Landmark Tower is a commercial facility of 296.33m height 70 floor.
I saw many shop, Pokemon Center, cartoon of "One piece" and , Totoro(Studio Ghibli), the Hard Rock Cafe, Hello Kitty, Disney Store, Snoopy.
There was nice statue at Landmark Tower outside.
I also saw that the sailing ship Nippon Maru.
Posted May 15, 2013, 4:25 am
I was look wonderful views of Yokohama.
Wind of the sea it was very comfortable.
You can see the Yokohama Bay Bridge in the distance.
Yokohama Bay Bridge is a bridge that connects Tokyo and Yokohama.
The length is 860m.
I'm sure, the night views would be great.
I am glad I saw many landscape and enjoyed Yokohama.
Posted May 19, 2013, 10:53 am
I am in the "Landmark plaza" in Yokohama with my host and her son today again. Here, it is many wonderful stores in "Landmark Plaza". We ate delicious lunch here.
And We went to Broadcast Library.
We can watch the program of the television station in old Japan there. Also, we went Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Culture History. Though it was regrettable, it was the ban on photography.
Today's our big pleasure is "watching Japanese professional baseball games"! My host Yoko got the tickets of this baseball game because Toy voyagers Lil Chopper wanted to see Japanese professional baseball. However, Lil Chopper did not come to Japan...
Football is popular in Japan and baseball is also a very popular sport. Yokohama has the professional baseball team "Yokohama BayStars" and Yokohama Stadium. There were enthusiastic Yokohama BayStars fans in Yokohama. However, it was defeated successively five times till today.
We watch a game of the Yokohama BayStars and the Nippon-Ham Fighters today. The Nippon-Ham Fighters is the team to which Darvish belonged from 2005 to 2011. He is playing baseball from 2012 in the Texas Rangers(U.S.A.) .
The Stadiums were in full swing, isn't it ? My host's son and me shouted the player's name. It was a very amazing Japanese professional baseball game.Yokohama BayStars pulled off an upset to win against Nippon-Ham Fighters from 0-2 to 8-4. Everyone was a pleasure.
Kannai Station which has Yokohama Stadium can be seen.
You can see Broadcast Library's Japanese very popular drama's postcard and Baseball game ticket and Museum Ticket.
It was wonderful day!
Cheers,
Nana
Posted May 21, 2013, 10:12 am
I can see cute little flowers bloomed in the seaside.
We have to play with model of black cannon.
I was able to see the big ship with binoculars in the park.
There was a little Spooky tunnel.
Actually ... Kannonzaki Park is a great tourist destination during the day, but the night is very famous as ghost park.
I'm afraid, I am not Ghostbusters.
You can see the first Western style historical lighthouse in Japan.
It has been lit in 1869.
Then, broken in the earthquake.
And, It was rebuilt in 1923.
It was destroyed by earthquake also after six months.
This is the lighthouse of the third generation.
We greeted the cats living in Kannonzaki park.
Meao! Meao!
Posted May 25, 2013, 5:38 am
The shrine Hashirimizu called "power spots".
So-called "power spots" are places believed to give visitors some special energy, healing or refreshing, spiritual feeling. they are usually religious, historic or natural.
Posted Jun 1, 2013, 4:12 am
Wednesday is my host day off.
The potato and the bread containing bacon in which she made bread to me were very delicious.
Posted Jun 2, 2013, 6:07 am
TV Ferdi Fuchs go back home in Germany.
I will go to England.
Raku(Squirrel it gets into peanuts) said, "We will not forget about you!".
We spent together really good time.
I have the my box from Germany.
I will go to the United Kingdom in this my box.
I am looking forward to seeing new host in United Kingdom.
Good bye
Nana
Posted Jun 4, 2013, 7:48 pm
Posted Jul 16, 2013, 9:59 am
Look at these pretty alliums
Bodnant Gardens is famous for its Laburnum arch.
The flowers are late out this year.
Pretty flowers
Pretty!
A little waterfall
More nice yellow flowers
A little stream running through the gardens.
This is another iconic view of Bodnant, the lily pond.
Too early for the flowers.
I think this is a hankerchief tree
Wisteria
Another lily pond.
Poppies
Garden is closing so we sneaked another look at the arch
Posted Aug 1, 2013, 11:00 am
on the Uwchgwyrfai Common (Gwyrfai is a river, uwch means upper).
We are going to the red line, a road, by the map legend.
Rhos = moor/heath. Pawl = pole/stake. A farm hand fell in love with the daughter of a nearby landowner but the landowner refused permission. He challenged the young man to spend a night naked on the slopes of Mynydd Mawr (lit. big hill). The young man did, but to keep warm, laboured putting a wooden pole in the ground with a hammer. He survived and he married the landowner's daughter.
We set forth to find some geocaches on route. Found one near this tree.
We found another one and inside, was The Traveler, a trackable on the Geocaching website.
That's Mynydd Mawr.
There's another geocache nearby.
Posted Aug 9, 2013, 12:10 am
Today we went to the North Wales Agricultural Show just outside Caernarfon
Various sorts of chicken
A silkie one with a rosette on the enclosure..
More chickens..
Guinea Pigs...
Inquisitive rabbits..
Sheep being judged..
Poll Dorset sheep
More sheep...
Even more sheep...
Wiltshire Horn Sheep...
Yet more sheep...
Different sheep..
Yet even more sheep..
Black sheep..
Owl crafts...
More exhibits in the tent..
Pretty pink things...
Vegetables..
Fruit..
Plants and potatoes and ...
A woodcutting demonstration..
What's he making?... It was a chair.
Vintage tractors..
More vintage tractors..
Yet more vintage tractors..
And even more tractors..
And even more...
Posted Aug 9, 2013, 12:13 am
Today, we went to Stone Science.
There were fossils..
And rocks...
And things made from stone...
Cave pearls...
Pretty..
More rocks and gems..
Desert Rose..
Calcite..
Posted Aug 9, 2013, 12:35 am
A greengage
Quinoa..
Blackcurrants..
Runner beans...
My host's son looking for grasshoppers...
Posted Aug 29, 2013, 1:29 pm
And it has only been a few minutes since entering the ma(i)ze.
Which way first? This way?
An EXTERMINATE sign!
Cybermen
The Fourth Doctor.
The First Doctor.
The maze has been cut out in a Doctor Who theme, and those signs we saw have answers to questions on a sheet.
Posted Aug 29, 2013, 1:41 pm
Model of how the castle may have looked.
View on the way up to the castle keep
We've come inside the inner wall.
There's the keep.
We are quite high up. There's a path down there.
Inside the keep.
The stones look funny
The Keep
Posted Aug 29, 2013, 1:42 pm
This time in a hedge maze
Statue in the maze
Posted Aug 29, 2013, 1:43 pm
From the outside.
Inside the castle
This would have been grand in the days.
We are on the way up to the walls.
This is as far as we can go.
Posted Oct 20, 2013, 7:31 pm
This is Micklegate Bar, one of the entrances into the city.
Walking along the city walls, we came across York Minster in the background.
This is Lendal Tower by Lendal Bridge
My host saw a big wheel and decided to take us on it.
There's York Minster.
More York Minster photos.
It was a nice day to see for miles York and its surroundings... Sadly, we can't spend all day on this wheel!
The wheel looks big.
This is one of the many churches inside the city walls.
A cat statue...
Clifford's Tower.
River Ouse..
Another cat statue.
York Minster.
Statue of Constantine the Great. Near this place, Constantine was proclaimed Roman Emperor in 306.
It stands outside the Minster.
This is the Toll Tower on Skeldergate Bridge.
We stopped off to do a geocache before walking up onto the walls.
Posted Oct 20, 2013, 8:17 pm
We visited the Fishergate Postern Tower.
We'll walk along the walls again.
Having a rest at a geocache.
The tower in the background is part of the York Castle Museum (near Clifford's Tower)
Next stop was Dick Turpin's grave.
Surprise surprise, this is the Red Tower.
Then, we came to the National Railway Museum, this is Gladstone
My host said she wanted to be a train driver.
Inside the mail carriage.
Mail would be sorted into these cubby holes.
Outside this Post Office carriage.
Sitting on a train (not going anywhere).
A nice little engine.
Trains
Another engine.
More engines.
Inside another train.
Where to place rubbish in the Bullet train.
The Bullet train
More trains, and railway signals.
Posted Dec 2, 2013, 11:09 am
What's going on here? Why are we in a bag?
Posted Dec 2, 2013, 11:10 am
Stena - isn't that a ferry company? Are we at a ferry terminal?
Posted Dec 2, 2013, 11:18 am
That isn't our ferry
A nice cosy chair for the journey.
Goodbye Holyhead
Posted Dec 2, 2013, 11:45 am
is to attend the Postcrossing meeting in Dublin! Here we are at the postcard session.
We also wandered around the exhibition at the main post office, about communications...
Some exhibits
Stamps!
On a writing bureau with touchscreen display.... reading about St. Patrick
and the middle page is extracts of letters, translated.
A letter from Jonathan Swift.
A blunderbuss
A uniform
This is the building we are in.
And this is the post office itself.
Posted Dec 2, 2013, 12:25 pm
Crossing the River Liffey
Dublin Castle
Nice looking building
And we wandered around the gardens by the castle.
Statue of Molly Malone, wheeling a cart of cockles and mussels, perhaps.
Monument of O'Connell, at the head of the street named after him.
A bridge we'll walk across
There are padlocks on the bridge, as a symbol for love.
The sun is setting...
Padlocks again.
Statue of Molly Malone, was too busy earlier to get a group shot
Time to relax on the tram..
I wonder where we'll go...
The tram stops outside the Guinness brewery.
We didn't get a chance to taste some before we had to head home.
Posted Dec 19, 2013, 5:00 pm
In a posh hotel....
Posted Dec 19, 2013, 5:07 pm
Scotland
Posted Dec 19, 2013, 5:14 pm
Lindisfarne. That is a castle.
Lindisfarne is a tidal island, and those poles mark a pilgrim's way across from the mainland.
Posted Dec 19, 2013, 5:22 pm
Because yesterday there wasn't enough time.
It is quite cosy inside..
It isn't dinner time (yet).
A nice cosy bed..
Writing bureau
Model of the castle.
Room for music..
Posted Dec 19, 2013, 5:39 pm
There is a geocache near this information board about the artist Lowry.
A nice clock
Posted Dec 19, 2013, 6:35 pm
This is a pictoral map of the area.
The museum is on a honey farm, and there are lots of bee-themed exhibits.
About honeybees.
Inside a hive...
more on beekeeping
Nice baskets..
There is also a vintage section to the museum. An old typewriter..
and vacuum cleaners and....
It is a corner shop.
Some interesting items here.
Old kettles and pans.
A lot of matchboxes.
A lot of bottles.
Posted Dec 19, 2013, 6:39 pm
The bridge crosses the River Tweed
We'll walk across it....
And be welcomed into Scotland!
Posted Dec 19, 2013, 6:54 pm
A boat trip....
That is a lighthouse over there on one of the Farne Islands.
There could be seals over there.
We are on Inner Farne.
There's another boat.
Posted Dec 19, 2013, 7:04 pm
That is Dunstanburgh Castle.
Posted Dec 19, 2013, 7:09 pm
Posted Dec 20, 2013, 12:14 am
We've come inside the equipment shed.
That's a battery.
A telephone thing.
This is a Lilly controller
A transformer.
Look at the teeth on that cutter thing.
Now we've come to look round the museum.
Some stuff.
Posted Dec 20, 2013, 12:20 am
How about a quiet day in the caravan?
Posted Dec 20, 2013, 12:37 am
Warkworth Castle.
Posted Dec 20, 2013, 12:41 am
Sadly, we have to go home to Wales....
Posted Dec 20, 2013, 12:50 am
So came to have a closer look, even in the rain...
Posted Dec 20, 2013, 12:54 am
At the High Force waterfall
Posted Jan 20, 2014, 10:48 pm
We are helping with the Christmas decorations. These lights work.
Posted Jan 20, 2014, 11:02 pm
We've had a very quiet festive time....
taking us ages to complete two 1000 jigsaw puzzles.
Posted Jan 20, 2014, 11:17 pm
And stopped off at Wells-next-the-Sea.
Would have gone for a walk if the weather had been nicer.
Posted Jan 20, 2014, 11:27 pm
Lots of pebbles have washed up almost destroying the footpath.
Some areas though fared worse.
Posted Feb 18, 2014, 10:51 pm
It is a bit too fresh..
And murky.
Posted Feb 18, 2014, 11:17 pm
There is plenty of choice.
These are first earlies.
And look at the range of pretty coloured potatoes.
Posted Feb 18, 2014, 11:28 pm
The film is about iron.
This museum is a Victorian museum. This We have come to a shop.
Some scales...
And some of the things are available to buy.
This is the chemists.
The dressmakers.
A letter box.
I think my host likes this piece of furniture!
Some items for sale in the Post office.
Upstairs, there is a small postal museum. There are premium bonds and postal orders.....
Part of a timeline of the postal service...
Can you imagine a postie riding this on his rounds?
5 wheels so pentacycle.
Nice old postbox.
Some more modern postboxes..
Information on the Pillar box.
Some photos on display.
An old motorbike.
Back outside the post office.
Look at those..... yummmmy...
Lead works, plumbing...
At the printers.... a phrase has been coined.
Quite a bit of printing has been done here...
In the pub!
It was closing time so we drank up!
Posted Apr 15, 2014, 1:44 pm
I wonder what she's bought.
Hello, don't be shy, come on out
Hello there, welcome
Then, we had an idea.... we could play a game...
Power Grid.
Who won?
Posted Apr 17, 2014, 1:16 pm
and a wander around Springfields
where there are various little gardens
Calming water feature...
But this is a bit bright.
There is also a garden centre... These wellies are a bit too big for me.
And they have gift ideas..
And some decorative planters.
Posted Mar 4, 2015, 6:42 pm
Long spikes on that urchin
Posted Mar 4, 2015, 6:56 pm
What time is it?
Look at all those books.
Nice picture
How about that stove?
Some information about the people who lived here.
Posted Mar 4, 2015, 7:16 pm
Perhaps a few days too early for the laburnum arch to be in full glory
A fountain
Impressive house at Bodnant Gardens
Too early for the lilies to be in flower
Pretty flower
Nice little stream
