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preparation

Wednesday, September 5th, 2007

Noun
1. The activity of preparing.
2. The cognitive process of thinking about what you will do

Verb: prepare; get ready, make ready; make preparations, settle preliminaries, put in order; arrange; forecast; plan; lay the groundwork, fix the basis.

The preparations for our trip are not only included in The Blog Proper, but also in the sidebar pages. These are not linked to the search categories, so I’m manually linking them now.

get ready, get set
why on earth would you do this?
where on earth do you start?
how on earth can you afford to do it?
what on earth will you pack?
other things nosey people ask us that we never thought they’d be interested in

hans christianspiration andersen

Tuesday, September 4th, 2007

We’ve been reading aloud some Hans Christian Andersen classics this week, and today picked up a simple biography to learn a little more about The Man.

“At the age of fourteen, Hans climbed aboard a coach clutching a bundle of clothes. Soon he was rattling out of Odense. He was on his way to Copenhagen, Denmark’s capital city. He was bursting with hope and excitement.”

“By the summer of 1829, Hans had earned enough money to take a holiday. He made a tour of Denmark.”

Now here’s a sponsorship deal:
“Over the next three years, Hans became a well-known writer. His poems, plays and stories sold all over Denmark. Now he wanted to see more of the world. The Danish king granted him enough money for a long trip abroad.
“So Hans set out on his next great adventure. First he went to Germany, then to France. Paris, the capital of France, seemed to be a wonderland, with its grand buildings and milling crowds. Here, Hans met other famous writers and composers.
“He travelled on to Italy. This was even more wonderful! Hans loved Rome so much that he stayed there for four months, looking at the churches and ancient ruins. He told a friend that the city “has opened my eyes to beauty””
He didn’t stop there though. He made it to Greece and modern-day Turkey, before taking the then-dangerous trip up the River Danube.
At a later date he even recahed the shores of England and Scotland, where he met Charles Dickens (and in preparation for his trip, he learnt English!)

What inspiration. The book may not have been well-written, but the ideas it contained sparked imaginations round here. Where’s Odense? Is the statue of Andersen still around? Is there an Andersen museum anywhere?
It just so happens that Odense is right on the train line that we are planning on taking from Copenhagen to Esbjerg. We might have to stop. There’s a museum to visit and a walk to take.

round the world in 80 clicks

Monday, September 3rd, 2007
I was never going to use cliche titles! It seems I caved on only my thirteenth post. Anyway, this one is just to say: Someone was asking if there was an easy way to get back to my original page after they had ... [Continue reading this entry]

B.S.C.

Monday, September 3rd, 2007
Just doing a little blog spring clean (virtual spring cleaning is so much more interesting than the bucket-of-water-and-old-rag-real-life sort!) I've discovered I cannot put categories on the pages listed in my sidebar. Well, actually you CAN put them on, but they ... [Continue reading this entry]

a Pre-Big-Trip Mini-Trial-Run Possibility

Monday, September 3rd, 2007
Cheap airfares to anywhere around the country have prompted us to consider flying down to Wellington for a Capital Getaway. We'd visit Te Papa (because we *like* museums) and the Beehive (where bickering bullies aka politicians pass laws the majority ... [Continue reading this entry]

Important Trip Preparations

Thursday, August 30th, 2007
KL Cafe I can't imagine trying to take children who won't eat broccoli or chicken feet or whatever-they're-given round the world....ours eat anything and everything - and even *request* salad and veges (to the eternal dismay ... [Continue reading this entry]

traveller or tourist?

Friday, August 24th, 2007
I'd not really thought about it before. But it keeps cropping up in various things I've been reading. Apparently there's this divide and each side supposedly thinks it has THE answer on THE way to travel. Being a very black-n-white kind ... [Continue reading this entry]

Boots-n-all Plug

Thursday, August 23rd, 2007
Time to rave about Boots-n-all. They're a friendly bunch over on the fora....full of good ideas and just as opinionated as I am;-) Said fora are well-organised, easy to negotiate and there's something for everyone -and I mean EVERY-SINGLE-BODY. You post a question ... [Continue reading this entry]

this time it’s just a trip

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007
Remember this? Rob came home last night saying “I was in a meeting today and we were working out who to send up to China to deliver a programme next year” He had put his hand up. Of course noone thought he was ... [Continue reading this entry]

travel journals

Tuesday, August 21st, 2007
When we're away we are all going to keep a journal. The kids don't know it yet, but I've managed to pick up some nice not-too-little-but-not-too-big ones to tuck in their packs and be discovered on Christmas morning. Rob hasn't ... [Continue reading this entry]