Travelog for: Voi Nam

This weekend we went to Frankfurt/Main for the German Choir Festival.

But first we got ready for our trip and packed our bag.
Or rather we were packed into the bag





It was a 3 hours coach ride but time went fast and we also had
enough to eat because we brought a 'SingerSurvivalPackedLunch'.







Finally there is our hotel in Frankfurt and I see the skyline with the high rises.





Other than that we did not see much of Frankfurt except the
'Jahrhunderthalle'  where my host and the choir had rehearsals and
where the big  concert on Saturday evening took place.





The concert hall was built in 1963 and is pretty large with space for up to 4800 people.





We spent almost all our time there except for one concert. Then we went to the Heiliggeist Church.

It is time to move on!
Today I crawled into my travel box to reach my next stop on the ETVT. I am going to Miapearl in Wales!
Claire Tamias waved Goodbye!

Hi Mum,
I've arrived safely but have been put to work!

Shelling peas.

And filled a bag with empty pea pods.

It has been raining but it has stopped.

So we came out to Llyn Padarn in Llanberis.

That boat is sinking.

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

This is an old steam engine called Planet.

Various engines are in this museum.

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 Ernest Rutherford, who devised experiments to explore the internal structure of atoms.

Work using alpha particles.

Scales.

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 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.

This is an old turbine

from a power station.

Air samplers to measure radiation.

Here we are measuring radiation.

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

A plane.

Boldly going where no elephant has gone before.

Today, we popped to the allotment

These blackcurrants are almost ready.

Broad beans.

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Potatoes.

Yummy raspberries, red and yellow

Do you see the goldfish in the pond?

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

This is the type of chair Number Two sat in.

The Bristol Colonnade is at the bottom.

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

Coins in a tree stump.

The sea is out.

The Lighthouse.

Admiral Nelson.

The Observatory Tower.

Looking up to the village.

Ahoy there!

The Bell Tower.

The Bristol Colonnade.

The Piazza.

The Bristol Colonnade again.

The Toll House

Another view of the Bell Tower.


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 fun to watch.

There's a bear.

An agile gibbon.



A snoozing tiger...

a rhea, an odd looking bird.

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. The ground is still quite wet.

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 Rings...

Mascots!

First recored Games were held in the Valley of Olympia in 776BC.

Carl Lewis was a sprinter.

Nadia Comaneci was a gymnast.

That black cloud is getting close...

Look how small the corn looks....

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

It is also windy...

On the way back to Wales, we stopped off at Snibston Discovery Centre in Leicestershire.

An old computer.

Plasma Ball, this is fun.

My host's one had broken so we played with this one for a while.

Train set!

Cluedo!

It is an old bus.

An old tractor.

A cogs game

This area had coal mines.

An old fire engine

Today, we visited Stone Science on the Isle of Anglesey.

They have some fossils

And more fossils

And even more fossils.

Fossilised shark teeth.

Gold!

Haematite - kidney ore

Gemstones, including opals, ruby, sapphire, amethyst with citrine...

More fossils..

Metal ores, galena (for lead), sphalerite (for zinc)...

Sea urchins and other things..

Amethyst, rock crystals, quartz, fluorites...

Today, we came to Chester, just across the border into England to wander around the shops.

This is the Eastgate clock.

Chester is a historic city, with many Jacobean half-timbered style buildings, many have listed building status.

There is a walkway above the ground floor shops.

And Chester is quite close to Liverpool...

We are now up in Yorkshire so my host's husband can take her son caving for the first time.

This system is called Alum Pot, and this part is the Long Churn




There they go...

They have hard hats on.

I could have gone, but the caving shop in Ingleton didn't have any helmets for hire to fit me.

Look who has arrived, and just in time because I leave today to go to a new host.

Hi Mom!

Here I am, in Vienna! My host mom took me to the Vienna movie festival. We did not watch a movie, but we enjoyed the food court!

Now I am tired!

Servus