Travelog for: MiaoMiao

Hey mum,

today we went to the city centre of Essen and looked at the carillon there.

Sadly it wasn't playing as we were too late for that.

But it was nice none the less.

Love
MiaoMiao

Hey mum,

today we got really hungry so we decided to bake a cake. We don't know the English name for this cake, but if you would translate the German name it would be: Cheese Cream Cake.

Love
MiaoMiao

Hey,

today I left BlackCat's house and I said Goodbye to everyone here.

Hope they all will have a great travel!

Love
MiaoMiao

Hello mum,

after a short trip I found myself in a garden in Lower saxony, in a little town called Delligsen. many other plushies and the easterbunny (you see him in the background  ) welcomed me very warmly







and here my new friends

Dr.Kröbner, hostmums first TV ( a good surgeon and Harleyfan)



Hase, hostmums nice bunnylady 



Günther, hostmums pirat ( he loves rum)



Big foot, hostmums plushrat ( to say the truth , no plush but terry cloth  )



Mr.Lemony from Japan ( he found a good place to stay )



Scruffy, another rat  ( a cool boy from the USA)



Troot , an elephant from Filand(I did not know that elephants live in Finland mum)



Phog, a friendly dog from Berlin



thats all for today

kisses from MiaoMiao

Hello mum,

Yesterday  was a warm day. We started at the balcony with a great view onto the plants at the balustrade.





The clear blue sky lured us into the garden to enjoy the weather and brilliant light.





We want  to stay outside for longer and started a trip through Delligsen.Delligsen is a municipality in Holzminden district, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It consists of 6 localities which were independent until 1974: Delligsen itself, Grünenplan, Ammensen, Hohenbüchen, Kaierde and Varrigsen . The area is dominated by the massiv of the Hils hills
Delligsen itself has been an industrial settlement dominated by the Friedrich-Carls-Hütte ironworks which closed down in 1984.
Grünenplan further up in the Hils is an officially designated climate health resort. It has history of 3 centuries of glass industry and still a factory for special glasses belonging to Schott AG. The factory was founded in 1744 by the prince of Brunswick's government in order to produce large mirrors



First we visit the Townhall with fresh green ivory entwining rocks near the waterspout well,









we visit the Eastereggcrown ... very special…. created by the Ü50 (older than 50) women of  the lokal nativ countryclub . You`ll like it or not.









and continued our tour at the Pestalozzieweg for a great lookout above the city.







It´s funny, but between the houses are areas for agriculture use, also with calfs and chicken.







We passed the play school





basic primary school



and the grammar school,



the festival hall ,



a architecturally valuable fountain



. We wander alongside the cemetery chapel,



the protestant church







and the catholic church.



At last we passed hostmums shop window with a spring decoration  full with birds.





thats all for today

kisses from your little cat

MiaoMiao

Hello mum,

finally the time has come, that we start our holiday trip northward



After 3 hours driving we pass Schleswig-Holstein with a golden Sundown.



Additional 3 hours later we pass Denmarks highes Point ( the Store Bealt Bridge Pylones with 254m above sealevel) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Belt_Fixed_Link




…and one hour later we pass Kopenhavn , the tunnel and Öresund bridge between Denmark and Sweden http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%98resund_Bridge



bad weather



From here we drove directly northward, following the E20 (European Highway no. 20)





First overnight stop on a motorway service area near Helsingborg (in the far we can see the Baltic Sea and the coast from Denmark)




After a catlik and a promise and  3 hours we reached Göteborg and  changed from the E20…..








…. to the E45 until Karesuando at the border between Sweden and Finland.




We ride and ride and ride, landscapes are passing by and what a pity, it started to rain….. not realy, but isolated raindrops on the windscreen beclouded our  excellent view ….  At last we  pass Mora and found a place for the night in Orsa.
















Next morning starts with rain, more rain,  and much more rain…… so we escape northward … and we pass Stornuman  with a giant moose. …







..the rain slow down and when he stopped finally, we stopped too, on an campsite north of Wilhelmina





(the owner must be a fan for Salmonfishing, as you can see in the background)





more soon from your little cat

kisses

yours
MiaoMiao

Hello mum

believe it or not

my travelog from last year continues.. .


…..we continued our expedition northwards. During a short stop in Arvidsjaur it started snowing a little bit ….




…we drove across the taiga landscape and a few kilometers south of Jokkmokk we crossed the arctic cirkel….











…and when we reached Gällivare the dense blanket of clouds breaks and we saw the Nordic sun at first time…… 

and  reindeer, mum 






Suddenly Trööt gets very flutteringly…. and then we saw the sign: FINNLAND, his nativ land.







We reached the third Scandinavian Country.



  First he was sooo happy , thinking he would be close his hometown. At the next bus stop he went out to look for a connection homeward…..





but than he realiezed, that he was in Lapland ca. 800km away from Home…..  so he decided to join us northward…..


….we cross the high plains of Lapland and snow began to seeming the roadside and at evening we reached Karasjok, one of the municipal cities of the Samish Peoples.







Next morning we enjoy the sunny weather and went hiking along a river. On the way we found some funny little brown pellets ……







  so we put one back to our car and asked Dr. Kröbner ….. he explained that this are animal excrements , most likely from an elk!!!...Crazy, such a big animal and so little pellets….:-)..

thats all for now

kisses from your little cat
MiaoMiao

After a kingsize breakfirst we continue our route northward, following the river Tana at the border from Finland to Norway. For a short refueling stop we cross the river and enter Finland....and Troot get nostalgia feelings again...







Later we passing Tana bru, Rustefjelbma and Ifjord we turn right on the Nordkinnhalvøja, and there she was:  the Arctic Sea.













We following the coastline for a while and suddenly the road run steep uphill and the landscape turn to white. When we reach the plateau we following the road wiggling through a snow dessert without any indication of vegetation.





























Then we reach Mehamn, one of the northermost cities of the world .









We left Mehamn northward (yes it's no typing error) to Gamvik and reaching our destination of the journey, Slettnes Fyr, worldern northernmost lighthouse. We take a walk through the tundra, see reindeers and the Norwegain Postboats, the Hurtigruten, and we have a look to the Nordkinn, the northernmost point of the European Mainland





.at midnight we made a fotoshooting with Dr. Kröbner







and at morning we saw the Lighthousekeeper, Harald and Heinz, relaxing in the Sun.





Kisses for you mum

Hello mum

now we ´re at the reversal point of our journey.  Further northward we had to swim till Svalbard or the North Pole, but hostmum  forbid it in case of the water temperature .
So we turn southward……. Passing snowfields, fjellareas, fjords, bridges, blue skies, splendid views,  midnight sun, fjords, porpoises, fresh green buds at the trees, more splendid views, fjellareas,…………






























. and 2 days later we reached the archipelago of the Lofoten. We stop in the regional metropolis town Svolvær.



We enjoy the fantastic colours for the light, water and landscape,



















watching natural spectacles of flowing clouds














an Caribbean beach,



crazy rocks and an unique distant view at the south end of the Lofoten, where the rocks sinking in the Atlantic ocean…… wow…..















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Hello my mummy,

we´re leaving  the Lofoten southward  and passing Saltstraumen, a small  strait with the strongest tidal current in the world, located near Bodø,





















riding the touristic value “Kystriksveien No. 17 till Steinkjer and reaching Trondheim . We visiting the huge cathedral Nidarosdom (only from outside)















and the old Hanse-trade-city  Bryggen at Nidelva.



We continue our trip to Trollstiegen, where we get a special tour guide; Frida (the cohabitee of Sören), who told us lots of mystic and crazy stories and explain the landscape (Günther means: all cock-and-bull-stories) .


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we journey on via Geiranger , where we try to enter a cruise ship with Gummischnulli ( it doesn´t matched we were too slowly)
















Songefjell,  Ovre Ardalfjell (with a big snow-canvas), Songefjord and Lærdalstunnelen. From Aurland we following the Route 50 til Geilo with a tunnel  labyrinth and a few days later we reach the south coast of Norway, Kragerø.
































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We riding along the archipelago of the Norwegian Coast toward the ferry port Kristiansand.









On a privat island close to the harbour we are relaxing in the warm Norwegian early summer sun and taking reminding pictures of this terrific holiday.









Arrived in Kristiansand, hostmum show us the boat for the passage till Denmark. (fortunately Günther  rumble this again as a cock-and-bull-story, at least we take the speedboat…..)





Next morning we awake in the fairytail  kingdom Denmark with plain land, lots of sanddune, nice wooden cottages with flagpoles and old cities





and I fullfilled a Life Mission yeah, I visited Denmark, a little town called Ribe 









and this is the end of the Norway story 
a big hug from your little MiaoMiao

Hello my mum,

with the first beams of the autumnsun we made a short Weekendtrip.





First stop was near Gersfeld in the low mountain rage Rhön, on a realy nice flowery meadow.





  On our  tour we cross the Thuringian Forest  with little sleepy villages and for the night we reach our destination for the night: the Boxberg ...













we enjoyed a fine Sundown view over the mountains of the Thuringian Forest.



Next morning we drove til Gotha, an old Residencetown  of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha with old historical Buildings and parks…













... and Bears..:-)…



Next stop was Mühlhausen, a town with 33.000 inhabitants and  a Cultural heyday In the Middle Ages. There are eleven Gothic churchest, several patricians’ houses and a nearly completely preserved fortification s . The biggest church is the  Gothic church St.Mary`s. The church, the second largest in Thuringia after the Erfurt Cathedral, is considered a masterpiece of the Gothic style and was principally constructed in the 14th century. The church's central tower, at 86.7m high, is the highest in the state and is a significant feature of the city's skyline.



Very impressive for such a small town….
That’s all for now… kisses for you mum
MiaoMiao