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tini58de   
It's only with the heart that one can see rightly ... (A. de St. Exupéry)


Real Name: Christine
Lives In: Karlsruhe, DE
Birth Date: May 21, 1958
Member Since: Jan 23, 2002
Last Login: Jul 03, 2009   20:08 UTC
Member's Time: Jul 04, 2009   12:26 CEST
VT Rank: 145
Deals Rank: 111
External Page:sites.google.com/site/tiniswelt/
Travel Interests: Budget Travel, Cruise, Historical Travel, Desert, Trains

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Welcome to tini58de's Colorful World

by tini58de - last update: Apr 18, 2009

Back from South Africa!



Actually it was just a very vague idea, but when a dear online friend of mine asked me, when we were coming to Cape Town, one thing led to the other - and 6 hours later we had a confirmed flight from Munich to Cape Town. That was on December 31, 2008. And we have just arrived from a fabulous holiday - with more than just one suitcase full of memories!

You can read about our trip in the travelogues of my South Africa page. Enjoy!

I will try to post more pictures and tips soon - but please give me a little time to let all the impressions sink first....!

*****

Well, the Euromeet 2008 is over and I must say
that meeting so many new people and seeing old friends again was fabulous!
I hope everybody had a great time!
For pictures of the meeting, have a look at this link list


*****

I can't keep up with building new pages, because it seems like I am traveling too much! These are usually short trips over weekends or so, but the destinations and experiences are so wonderful that it takes awhile for me to let things settle....!

Pages that I will have to build, complete or update include (to take just June and July destinations): Katowice/Poland, Munich/Germany, Berwang/Austria and Bad Wimpfen/Germany, Cordoba/Spain, Granada/Spain, London updates and many more !!!

So please do stop by again and check them out!





Future plans???

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A little bit about myself

I am from Germany, now living near Karlsruhe. I have been fortunate to visit many countries around the world and get to know people in all different parts of the world!

And since I made friends here and there, I am much more aware of the different places and I am more concerned about what's going on there.

Especially my sponsored children in Bolivia, Mali, Brazil and China make my world a smaller one, because I have the feeling, that they are my family and I feel very close to them.

If you are interested in this aspect of sponsoring children or projects around the world, please feel free to browse through the most interesting website of Plan International or feel free to ask about the orphanage MDC = Meu Direito a Crescer (My Right to Grow) near Sao Paulo! - you might want to reach out and give a hand to a child in need yourself! Read about the recent situation here!

Other than that I had the once in a lifetime chance to be a bone marrow donor to a young Polish girl in 2003 - and in November 2005 I finally was able to contact her: she is now a lovely young lady of 19, a student of English and best of all is that her body has accepted the bone marrow and she is alive and well!!! Isn't that wonderful in the true sense of the word??? In March 2006 we finally met in person - read about it on my Krakow page!

My latest project is my personal website with ebay to support the children of the MCD orphanage! With every bid you can also support those children there! Thanks so much in advance!
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Rocio from Peru
Cape Town, South Africa

My travels

As all of us here on VT I love to travel! I used to do these real adventure travels, but now I am slowly but surely getting a little calmer...!!!

My latest trips and travels are:

* 2009 South Africa
* 2008 London and Canterbury
* 2008 Andalucia (Sevilla, Cordoba, Granada)
* 2008 London
* 2008 Rome
* 2008 Valencia

All pictures on my pages are my own pictures or taken with my camera, unless stated otherwise!
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My drawings

I have not only posted my own pictures, but also some drawings and sketches, that I started doing about 5 years ago (but only when travelling).

You can find some of them on the following pages:

* Alsace
* Amsterdam
* Antarctica
* Basel
* China
* Dresden
* Einbeck
* Ettlingen
* Irkutsk
* Lake Garda
* Luxemburg
* Malta
* Pays de la Loire
* Rome
* Ruegen
* Seefeld

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Stone age tomb in Ruegen/Germany
Garden of the Gods, USA

My calendars

One project, that I started back in 1992 was my theme calendars, that I have done ever since. And I just decided to share these calendars with you in various travellogues. So if you like to have a look for my calendar travellogues, please feel free to do so and enjoy::

1992 women of the world
1993 markets of the world
1994 animals of the world
1995 towers of the world
1996 sunsets of the world
1997 doors of the world
1998 signs of the world
1999 men of the world
2000 vehicles of the world
2001 roofs of the world
2002 trees of the world
2003 street lamps of the world
2004 shades of the world
2005 bridges of the world
2006 windows of the world
2007 children of the world
2008 shadows of the world
2009 mountains of the world
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UNESCO World Heritage Sites

Thinking about it, I have seen quite a few wonderful places, that have been awarded the UNESCO World Heritage Site status.

If you are curious to find out more about them, please have a look at the following pages:

* Africa
* Asia
* Australia/Oceania
* Europe
* Germany
* Middle East
* North America
* South America
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Canterbury Cathedral
souvenirs of Isla Chiloe

Unusual destinations

I have been to a couple of places and built a couple of pages that not many other VTers have ever been to or have not come around to build a page about them!
So they are no Top 5 pages yet!
For some unusual locations, do visit one of the following pages!
(The number in ( ) shows the number of rated pages so far!)
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* Einbeck/Germany (1)
* Worpswede/Germany (1)
* Jan Mayen (1)
* Walterboro/USA (1)
* Yangzi/China (2)
* Drammont/France (2)
* Barentsburg/Svalbard (4)
* Wissembourg/France (4)
* Fair Isle/United Kingdom (4)
* Greeley/USA (5)
* Trentino-Alto Adige/Italy (5)
* Isla Chiloe/Chile (5)
* Harlingen/Netherlands (5)

VT friends I have met personally

Heinz Madschick, Helga habert62, Petra petpaho, Christian Leipzig, Holger chancay, Ulrike nepalgoods, Bernd Bernd_L, Teresa tessy, Ingrid Trekki, Norbaert Norbaert, Charlie Ujamaflip, Don Nemorino*, Gaby Trillian2005, Helga hespra, Elisabeth rebibi, Sonja yumyum, Dave shdw100, Danny Danny40, Sally shrimp56, Bes-Elisabeth eden_teuling, Camilo camilo74, Jorge IIGUANA, Michael Maillekeul, Carlos nuevasmovidas, Elena mariamartinez, Luz luzmaria, Roberto tanguito, Javier golfointer, Gianluca janchan, Catherine drolkar, Cathy and Gianluca white_tara, Jan knerten, Victoria Vixique, Philip AlPhilip, Isabel porteda, Acilina acilina, Catarina mcr, Daniel wilda08, Attila MedioLatino, Markus hools, Judy tsarina, Mary beatchick, Steve pixfield, Marie mariev, Johannes mittnic, Maciek 68maciek, Jasen Jasen71, Simone sim1, Andrea jadefrau, Gabi blumia, Christine christine.j, Jessica JessH, Claudia Gammy1968, Jim outforlunch, Holger HORSCHECK, Galatea sinequanon, Ingrid Igraine, Natalie nhcram, Nancy bellasorisa, Maurizio Maurizioago, Rita ritaz, Angela himalia11, Emily Princess_Emily, Chris cjg1, Liz LKM1018, Mark ATXtraveler, Sarah saraheg77, Chris chrishc and the whole gang of the Euromeet 2008!!! Solvej Solvej



Enough for now!
Have fun and enjoy my pages!

Greetings from Germany

Christine
Tini and Solvej at W&A Waterfront

tini58de's Albums
Title [Click to view]Travel YearPictures
My sponsored children around the world- 8
My hometowns around the world- 6
My special trees around the world- 5
My birthdays around the world- 8
THANK YOU!- 7

Comments for tini58de
kovani Sun Jun 28, 2009 19:28 UTC
 Thanks Christine. Just back from a fantastic holiday in Schotland. As from tomorrow it's business as usual again. Now already counting the days till the Karlsruhe meeting....
AndyRG Sat Jun 27, 2009 09:46 UTC
 Your world is really colourful... Thanks a lot for the wishes, have a great summer!
ahoerner Thu Jun 25, 2009 02:58 UTC
 Hallo Christine! Ueberhaupt keine zeit mehr fuer VT gehabt... leider... aber ich muss es aendern... bald ziehen wir noch mal nach China um!
JessH Tue Jun 16, 2009 06:13 UTC
 Danke fuer die Info... ja, ich habe mich bei Bernd auch schon bedankt! In 3 Tagen heiraten wir kurz & schmerzlos in der Kirche, und in 18 Tagen fliegen wir wieder nach Schottland! Kann's kaum noch abwarten! Geht's Euch gut, Dir und Heinz? :-)
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