Travelog for: Mandarin

Today we didn't do much, but we played with Valentino, host-mom's bunny. He's so cute! Don't you think ^_^ ?

He turned 6 this year, but host-mom hopes he'll stay for some long time.

~Mandarin

We have never made a picture near her work. Host-mom works in Hoogersmilde, a small place near her home Bovensmilde. It takes around 15 minutes by bus.
On this picture you see me waiting for the bus.
The canal you see, is the Drentsche Hoofdvaart, which is 41,8 km long! It was very important back in the days. They used to use boats to carry peat from the one place to the other. Later it became to carry other materials too and now also for fun boat trips.

In the picture you cannot see her work, but if you walk 5 min you'll see it, hahaha!

~Mandarin

As host-mom was very busy with her work and everything, she didn't had much time to take us to other places. Though we went to every place where we haven't been yet, when she could take us.

On 30th April it is Queensday here in the Netherlands. We celebrate our Queens birthday, though it's not really her birthday day. But they choose to celebrate it on the 30th April. We planned to go out for a day sailing. Host-mom and her boyfriend hired a boat and went sailing for like nearly 3 hours!
It was beautiful!



The place where we went is called Giethoorn. A different name for this place is "little Venice". You know the Venice in Italy. No idea why, but they call it like this. Hahaha!

Anyways, after the sailing we went out for a delicious dinner. And then while we were going home, we heard on the car radio that the Dutch Royal Family got attacked! We were shocked to hear this news. There was this guy who drove into people just to hit the bus where the Royal Family was getting transported in, to wave at the people who were celebrating Queensday. The man didn't hit the bus, but instead he hit a stone needle and that was it!

(8 people died so far, along those is also the attacker)

Even with the sad news, we did had a wonderful day as the day after it was all rainy and cold.

~Mandarin

This will be the last entry before I am going to Ireland!

I think we had a lucky day again, because on this day we went to the Dutch Truck Grand Prix ADAC Masters Weekend at the TT-Circuit in Assen (and the weather was just fabulous). Assen is a bit famous for the TT-Circuit where a lot of championships are held. Soon also the MOTOGP races. For host-mom it was also the first time she ever went to such event. It was really cool, we made a few pictures, and watched the races. We went around 11 am and got home in the afternoon. Around 4 pm. Hahaha

Anyways, I really had a wonderful time here in the Netherlands, I learned a lot and I hope my next trip will be as good as this one!

Love, Mandarin

Hello everybody, I'm back, ive been away for some time living in Ireland, ive been having the most fantastic time, since ive arrived my host has had a new baby and moved house, there was lots of excitment... and the most exciting thing is i have had the the honour of traveling ireland, my host is part of a street theatre group and i along with some other toyvoygers were mascots for their show. I'm now ready to return to my mother to await my next adventure    photos to follow :-)