kimpels-auf-tour

Once again we have to get up early, this time we are driven by a school bus, as our trusty driver Richard takes the public bus back to Tunduru in the morning. We fly back to Dar...

On the way to the north, we take a guided tour of a spice farm, then continue almost all the way to the north, our hotel is glamping. You can go directly into the sea here, the...

children's choir

Today, there are some visits planned in Tunduru. First, we are heading to the 'Kindergarten Hannover' - not hard to guess where the community is that was the first main...

The next morning we set off first thing in the morning to attend the staff prayer service at the hospital. Afterwards we visit the elementary school and kindergarten. The...

Time for relationship and appreciation: Each visit begins with the leader, possibly other individuals, introducing themselves to us and each of us introducing ourselves,...

Early in the morning, the four of us set off on a tour: Magonga, Tim, Gert and I wanted to take the bus to Tunduru. To take the load off the car a bit and try out the bus ride...

(More pictures will follow when the internet is good) The next morning (Monday) we visit the “Call and Vision Secondary School” (CVSS), but first we have to go into town to...

We get up relatively early again because we are attending the church service at school, so at 8:15 a.m. Students take our bags at the entrance and carry them to our seats. A...

Our earliest wake-up time so far: we are supposed to be picked up for the airport at 4:15, so we might have a late-night drink beforehand. The rickety 20-person bus is a little...

The next morning, we set off early for the safari: we are heading to Mikumi National Park via Morogoro, but there is plenty to see along the way. Traffic, roadside stalls - not...

tuktuk”) and on foot, selling and on the road... Finally, we arrived at a beautifully painted gate adorned with motifs of African animals. Driving in, we found ourselves in a kind...

Tuesday evening it started: Six of us met at Frankfurt Airport to embark towards Tanzania. 4 people from Rüsselsheim (partly residing in Bischofsheim), one from Haiger, and one...

At the crowning conclusion, we drove through the fjord landscape again to Bergen , the old Hanseatic city and the starting point of the classic Hurtigruten mail ships. We had...

After Tromsø the next morning we should dock again in the Lofoten, in Reine, and visit a small fishing village there. But then the sea was rougher than expected and the captain...

We're driving through the winter. There are sometimes whales, sometimes whales to “see”: because we are told where, we can guess, a dorsal fin, the small fountain, sometimes so...

We've been driving through the winter since Lofoten! Mostly between the islands and the mainland. At some point there are also whales to be seen... well, they can be seen as...

After Ålesund we skipped many of the classic mail boat stops, had a whole day at sea and went straight to the Lofoten. Of course, direct only refers to the stops, the route goes...

We've seen a lot in the meantime... On Sunday we stayed in Stavanger . A walk through the old town with many, many white houses, then strolled through the city, which is...

After a perfectly punctual train ride on Friday and then a bus through Wilhelmsburg, we arrived at the ship, the Hurtigruten Otto Sverdrup. Nice exit from the port of Hamburg,...

It's been a long time since I've written anything here... During the last few holidays I couldn't bring myself to write travel reports, but this year there are some again. Today...

Well dried and in good spirits, we continued from Vargön towards Trollhättan. On the way to the city, we passed the former Saab factory, which used to offer trips from...

From Gustavsfors, we took road 172 to Bengtfors, which is also very idyllic by the lake. Dalsland is one of the very typical canoe areas in Sweden and is crossed by the Dalsland...

Glaskogen, before the rain

After arriving well in Kil by train, we cycled about 7 km to a campsite. The weather turned rainy in the evening, and in the morning, we could only pack up the tent while it was...

Wednesday: Return trip with the Inland Line. 13 hours train ride with lots of forests and mountains, lakes and swamps, initially occasional reindeer. The bear in the wild did...

Am Samstag waren wir also in Vilhelmina, einer von 3 Städten/Orten, die zu Ehren einer badischen Prinzessin / Gattin eines Königs umbenannt wurden (Vilhelmina, Dorotea und...

07/16/21: In the last few days we have traveled a bit south by train and bike and first spent a day in Sundsvall. Swim in the Baltic Sea again, see the city - Sundsvall is...

Finland versus Gert&Hanna - 2-0 for Finland Woke up early in the morning, rode to the test site and spent some time there until we got the travel certificates. Then...

After much consideration, including the onward journey and the plan to continue in Finland, we have decided to take the train from Örnsköldvik to Umeå (approx. 140 km). If we...