Travelog for: HolgiHH

Today we went to Deanna Rose Farmstead! There were so many fun things to see and do. The gardens are lovely and the petting zoo animals were very curious. We had fun playing and exploring!

After visiting Deanna Rose Park, we went to China Star for dinner. Some people think that dessert is the very best part!

There are always interesting things to see and do in Lula's garden! We had fun exploring!

The ToyVoyagers loved the tooth fairy bench at Legends Drive Dental!

Host mom was really excited that she finished her daughter's Prinplup costume today! Only about a month until Tokyo in Tulsa and she can show it off!

One of the host family boys was in a play this morning, at the community theater. It was all very exciting!

Today I went fossil hunting with the host family! It was so pretty and we skipped rocks and saw lots and lots of interesting things

HolgiHH is back on the road!

I have arrived safely in wet Wales, I hope the weather improves!

Hi Mum,
It had stopped raining so we went out...

This is Llyn Padarn.

Across the lake is an old hospital. I think I have seen some travelogs of toys visiting there.

We've come out to Manchester in England to visit a museum.

This is an old steam engine called Planet.

An engine

Another engine.

This is a model of an engine a set up at ICI

Part of the museum is based in a train shed, and there are train engines and carriages.

In another building of the museum, equipment from a laboratory at Daresbury, used in various experiments. People from the lab won a Nobel Prize.

There was a hands on science section. We can investigate Magnetic Fields.

Do you see the difference?

This is Bernard Lovell, a pioner of modern astronomy.

This is Jodrell Bank, a radio telescope able to track Sputnik.

Manchester was home to the textile industry. These are some fabric printing blocks.

We caught a cotton demonstration. Here, the fibres are separated and drawn together to make a "thingy".


Then they are smoothed out again and combined with other strands to make it stronger.

The strands are smoothed out again and combined with other strands to make it stronger still, and then wound onto a bobbin.

The man is holding a picture of these machines, back to back, in a mill.

The thread is drawn out, and then twisted before rolled onto another bobbin.

Small children would clear out the debris as the machine moves back... A dangerous job...

Now it is time for weaving to make the cloth.

This is the Pegasus computer, built by Ferranti.


Air samplers to measure radiation.

Here we are measuring radiation.

Next, we went to another building housing the aviation section.

Odd-looking aircraft.

Rotors.

Boldly going where no one has gone before.

Today, we popped to the allotment

These blackcurrants are almost ready.

These broad beans are almost ready too.

My host is growing a small patch of wheat.

And these onions are looking good.

The potatoes look OK too.

Yummy raspberries, red and yellow

Do you see the goldfish in the pond?

A pretty flower

After the allotment, as it was a nice day, we went to Portmeirion.

This is the type of chair Number Two sat in.

That's the Bristol Colonnade.

Nice and cool in the shade, looking across the gardens.

Coins in a tree stump

Pretty flowers.

The tide is out.

The Lighthouse.

Admiral Nelson.

The Observatory Tower.

Looking up to the village.

Ahoy there!

That's the Bell Tower.

The Bristol Colonnade.

The Piazza.

The Bristol Colonnade again.

Some of the buildings in Portmeirion can be rented out for holiday accomodation.


The Round House is where Number Six "lived"

Today, was another nice day so we went out to Colwyn Bay's Mountain Zoo

These meerkats are fascinating to watch.


There's a bear.

A Gibbon.

And one on a mission.

A snoozing tiger...

Wallabies...

Pengiuns...

Flamingoes...

We've come to stay at my host's mum's for the weekend and have come out to the local Maize in Maze field.

The weather has been rather wet so the corn hasn't grown as high as the farmers would have liked.

Hidden around the maze are boards with information about the Olympics. There is a letter on each board and when arranged, they form a word. My host has obscured the letter.

Olympic Motto.

Mascots...

Is it this way?

Dara Torres was an Olympic swimmer.

Daley Thompson won his first Olympic decathlon in 1980 at the Moscow games...

The corn looks small down there...

Yes, rain clouds, with lightning and thunder and heavy rain... We just made it under the tent.

It is also windy..