Travelog for: Dolivia

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Talking of funny places...when we left Amerika we drove straight to Nikolausdorf, which would mean St. Claus Village when u translate it. We were sooooooo excited, I was already counting up all the things that I want for Christmas and we mad a plan to look for Santa all around to be able to give him the wishlist in person. Unfortunately he must have been out...no deer...no sleigh ....no nothing we could find, but now we know where to find him else than at North pole. Christmas time he opens his office we´ve been told and the people there are very busy to answer all his mail. I am curious what we will see next. Bye bye Nikolausdorf and greetings to Santa. Maybe we explore Cloppenburg itself...we didn´t do so far. My host said that u maybe won´t here from me before monday, just so u don´t worry. (o;

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Like I promised some news from Germany. My host went out for breakfast on Sunday so we had a little check on downtown Cloppenburg. Sunday 10.00am not much going on there, but now we know a little bit about shopping and where to go. They also have this little river Soeste here. You can see it in the first pictures. We enjoyed breakfast together and had lots of fun. We took more pics, but will show you those ones tomorrow. Huggles

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Today I want to show some more pics of the exploration in Cloppenburg. We checked out City Hall. On Sundays also a very quiet place. We saw a stone monument infront of the building that was made for "Kinderschutzbund". Maybe you can see one or the other name on the Foto which was written there by different kids from town. They have also a nice little lake with water lilies and other beautiful flowers around. I took a little rest on one of the leaves. More from me tomorrow

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I wanted to show you some more pics today from the city. We went to Stadtpark where we found this funny black/white game. We got all dizzy when it started turning around. Another thing that made our heads turn was the court. Geez we had to think about the things we did over the last weeks and if we did anything criminal. As you can see on the pic, we were very careful first, but then we had a litte chat infront of the side building and finally made it to the doorsteps of the court, cause we very 100% positive that we have been good TVs so far ((o;

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Today went to a place of pilgrimage called "Bethen". Its a little village. I hope that you like the pics. Check out the beautiful flowers...nice huh? This area here is a catholic region I learned. The weather is still cold not really summer and rain on top.
As you can see in the pics there is a big church and a little church. We found a pilgrim bible in the big church which we studied for a while. In one picture you can see us with three candles in the back. One was lighten for you. It was a nice little trip and I liked the architecture. I still have fun here with my buddy NoMi who is experiencing all this with me.
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Today was the first day when we had more sun than clouds, so we took the chance to go and check out the garden and taking a sunbath. We met some kittens and their mom...watched them eating cat food, played with them, checked the beautiful flowers (I met a bumblebee) out there and played hide and seek. I also showed Showed Nomi some artistic elements hanging from a tree. Nomi mentioned I looked fantastic ((o; Before we went in for Dinner we peeked through the neighbors window, but he was not there (o;
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Today we stopped at a place called Staatsforsten. We found that big stone that showed the kilometers to other places. Hahaha can you see how close Amerika is? Remember that is the Amerika I have been already. I took a pic sitting on the big stone there. There was a
colorful old train covert by high grass we visit today. Our host showed us around and we took some pics. Its very sunny today and 30°C. Puuuuhhh we did not stay too long, cause we wanted to drink water, before we left we saw an apple tree, but unfortunately no ripe apples yet.
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Today we were invited to my hosts friend for coffee. NoMi and I were very excited. It´s always good to meet knew people. When we arrived there was this very beautiful frog princess, she was sooo extremely nice to us and offered to show us around. We met this long hair cat name Tobi, also very nice pal I can say. The frog princess showed us a little lake where we sat down for fishing. We did climb a very high tree. Check out the tomatoes and the wine...to bad none of that was ripe at this time. We loved the Harley´s yeahhhh check me out on a bike, I felt so cool. Before we left a little later we met this wooden man in the neighbor´s garden.....he was not really talking much...he mumbled something like "too warm"..."don´t feel like talking" or so. All together we had a very nice afternoon and enjoyed ourselves. Greetings

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We did visit the Museumsdorf today. We shot a lot of pics so that we will send them in 3 parts the next days so that you can see how it looks there. We were hoping to see the pigs, but they did not want to come out unfortunately. here is what Wikipedia is telling about the Museumsdorf in short:

The Cloppenburg Museum Village and Lower Saxon Open-Air Museum (German: Museumsdorf Cloppenburg – Niedersächsisches Freilichtmuseum) in the Lower Saxon county town of Cloppenburg is the oldest museum village in Germany. The museum is a research and educational establishment in the field of cultural and countryside history.

The Lower Saxon Open-Air Museum is a non-profit organisation. Although the museum does not set out to compete for visitors, in 2009 the Cloppenburg Museum Village had more visitors than any other museum in Lower Saxony (250,000). In 2004 the visitors included about 60,000 children and young people, who took in what the museum had to offer as part of their school curricula.

Hope u enjoy the pics ...(o;

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As promised yesterday I will follow up with more pics of Museumsdorf visit on sunday...enjoy (o;

...more tomorrow

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Here you go with some more pics of the Museumsdorf. We really took a lot pics wow.
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Here are some last impressions from the Museumsdorf, hope u enjoyed the walk 

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Yesterday our host was driving us up to the coast. She had some personal business to do there and she she tried to do her best to get some good....FAST....shots from the three places we saw there. We traveled only for one day...but check it out. First we visited a little harbor called Fedderwardersiel. It´s location is at the Jadebusen and the river Weser enters the North Sea at that point which you can see in the background in some of the pictures. We had fun even if the time was short.
We show some more pics of the next village tomorrow

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Here are some pics of what they call the "Lagune" in Burhave. Its a place directly at the water where families can have fun. It was build a couple of years ago and its artificial. Here on the beaches the water is coming and going with the time of the day. It is called "Ebbe and Flut".

"Tides are the rise and fall of sea levels caused by the combined effects of the gravitational forces exerted by the Moon and the Sun and the rotation of the Earth.

Some shorelines experience two almost equal high tides and two low tides each day, called a semi-diurnal tide. Some locations experience only one high and one low tide each day, called a diurnal tide. Some locations experience two uneven tides a day, or sometimes one high and one low each day; this is called a mixed tide. The times and amplitude of the tides at a locale are influenced by the alignment of the Sun and Moon, by the pattern of tides in the deep ocean, by the amphidromic systems of the oceans, and by the shape of the coastline and near-shore bathymetry

Now you know what "Ebbe and Flut" is (o;

I will follow up with some pics of Burhave beach in a minute

...here we are again with some beach pics. In the background you can see the open North Sea and on some pics you see the town Bremerhaven on the other side. Bremerhaven was called the last town before you reach NYC in earlier years, cause that´s where you went on board to make it to the USA by ship. We will have some closer pics of Bremerhaven tomorrow (o; Like I mentioned already yesterday we had only a very small time frame for the pics so we did not have that much time to play around, but got a great overview (o;