It is the last time that I will greet you
because our journey is over. This trip was amazing. I have seen things I never
thought I would see.I am happy that
Julie, Delphine and Anouk came with me, I could not have wish for better
company. We came along very well.
The flight to our first country took very long so
I was happy when we arrived. Our adventure could begin. We arrived at Nigeria.
I will always remember the sweet little children in Abuja. In Niger I will
never forget the poverty there but also the beautiful mosque they have there,
despite the poverty. In the next country, Algeria, I really liked the
picturesque city. In Tunisia I was impressed by the large desert. I have never
seen that before. It was also really sad to see the misery in Tunis, the
capital of Tunisia.
After these countries in Africa, we moved
forward to Italy. But first we visited Sicily. The port was nice to visit. It
was impressing to see all the boats and the fish that they had with them. When
we finally arrived at Italy itself we went to visit Rome. I visited Rome once
on a trip when I was still in high school. That trip was so much fun and I
really had to think about it the whole time. I have seen the Colosseum, Forum
Romanum and Panteon before but it was still as beautiful as before. Milan was
also nice to visit. Then we went forward to France. I will remember the
vineyards in Dijon but of course Paris was the highlight. In my opinion, it is
the most beautiful city in the world. We went back to Belgium after France for
a while to visit Brussels. I was really excited to see my parents again. We
enjoyed the culture in our own land. In Germany we went to Keulen and Berlin. I
wanted to see Knut in the zoo in Berlin but unfortunately the little polar bear
died two months before our visit. After Germany we went to Denmark. The most
beautiful thing I have seen there was the royal theatre. The architecture of
these building was very impressive. Last but not least we went to Norway. The
amusement park and baseball game were so much fun.
I really enjoyed the trip but I am also happy
to be back home again. I really missed everybody and everything here. I was delighted
to see my parents, my friends, family, cat, dog and especially my own cosy bed
again! I cant wait to show them all my pictures. They better have a lot of
time because I really made a lot of pictures. I wanted to capture every
memorable moment. I cant help it that there were a lot of those moments. It
will be weird not seeing Julie, Anouk and Delphine every day. I will miss them.
Yesterday we arrived at our final country,
Norway. We went to Kristiansand, the county capital of Vest-Adger County in
Southern Norway. It is really cold here compared to the other countries we have
visited. I have read that Norway is an unitary parliamentary democracy and
constitutional monarch. King Harald V is head of state with Jens Stoltenberg as
its prime minister. I really dont understand what people are saying here, they
have a weird language. Fortunately, they understand a little bit English.
After all the culture we have seen on our trip,
we decided to do something different here in Kristiansand. There is a famous
zoo and amusement park in this city. So far, we have not done much things as
these, so it was really nice to do. We want to make as much fun as possible on
the last days of our journey. After a really great day we went to the centre to
eat at a nice local restaurant. As Norway is the country of fish, we had a
whole fish buffet to eat from. It tasted really good. We felt a little bit sad
knowing that this would be one of our last meals together.
After the restaurant we went to a little pub. The
drinks were really expensive so we did not drink a lot. Some young people there
told us that its too bad we did not came in July to Kristiansand. Apparently
the biggest festival of Norway takes place then, named Quart. They were really looking forward to the
festival. Actually, I have never heard of it before, so I will not miss it that
much.
Today we are planning to go to a baseball game
of the Kristiansand Suns. Baseball is really popular and I have never seen a
game in real life. I hope it will be nice and that we will have fun. I cant
believe this trip is almost over.
This morning we arrived in a place where everything was still quit and peaceful. It was very early and you could see that the city was still sleeping. We finally arrived in Denmark, our second last country.
We decided to learn something about the history of Denmark, so we went to the historical place Jelling. There you can find the runic stones that are considered as the birth of the Danish kingdom. The stones are in memory of King Gorm's and his wife Thyra. It is selected by UNESCO as a world heritage site. It was very interesting to see how the stones are standing for the beginning of the country. The churches here in Denmark are very important for the Danish people. 85% of all Danes are member of the 'National Evangelical Lutheran church', the national church of Denmark.
Around noon we had enough of the history and wanted to visit someting modern. Before we arrived, I ask a friend who has already been here what we needed to see. He told us that Denmark is known for its architecture, fashion and graphic design, and that we really needed to visit some museum or theatre. We followed his advice and went to the capital of Denmark to see some architecture.
We all agreed to visit the royal theatre, located on the harbour front of Copenhagen. It was designed by Boje Lundgaard and Lene Trandberg, two Danish architects. We couldn't believe our eyes when we saw the building. It has a sidewalk floating on thin columns over the water and the whole building is made in glass. After taking many picture we decided to go in .
After hours of walking through the theatre, we went to a local restaurant to have dinner. We were still talking about the architecture and the greatness of the building. So we couldn't hold ourselves and went to the play 'Shakespeare'.
It's a pity that we have to leave tomorrow, because I really enjoyed it here. Hopefully, we will come back next year!
