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Saturday, August 1st - Baltic Sea via Hamburg
Hamburg: the Rickmer Rickmers and Landungsbrücken neighbourhood
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Rickmer Rickmers - the street where Lola's Papai's restaurant is in the books - the Michel
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a busy Elbe dike and a supper guest
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Sunday, August 2 - amusement park
at Lindaunis, this one-lane bridge serves both rail and cars (and opens for ships!)
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I'm brave enough to take the jump, watched (from a safe distance) by my family
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the Lindaunis bridge, with trains this time
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Monday, August 3
a repurposed phonebox aka free little library in Schleswig
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Tuesday, August 4
The Arche Warder is a park for farm animals in danger of extinction - we got a private tour
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swimming pigs, correctly Turopolje pigs from Croatia
they live in areas often flooded and learned to swim and even dive to find food
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a mule and Poitou donkeys - the little ones are Felix (A-book, will go to France) and Fridolin (B-book, will stay)
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Hungarian steppe cows - very popular now as tourist attractions in the Pussta
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Angler cows - highly endangered (but very nice!)
we made a family photo session with them
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a mixed group: some Hungarians, some German "Schwarzbunte" and a lone remaining Zebu
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the calf on the far right is called Napoleon - he lost his mom at birth
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these are English park cows (held in English parks for trophy hunting), a breed far older than its name
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the lovely black yaks and the adorable Scottish Highlands are not endangered but part of the diversity of cows
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a lone Norwegian Telemark cow and Swedish Fjäll cows
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these are German Hinterwäldler cows
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the black ones are as close to auerochs as you get these days - to the right: a stone-age style ox cart
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water buffaloes and "Jakobsziegen" (goats with four horns - may have up to six!)
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some very friendly sheep whose names I forgot (but they are endangered too)
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Girgentana goats - look at those twisted horns!
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and those Bentheim piglets are all of three days old!
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Wednesday, August 5
Eckernförde
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Thursday, August 6
we finally made it to the beach, Fridolin-the-croc in tow
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in Kappeln, we discovered the cars of the old steam train (running Sundays only)
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a bike covered in knitting and crocheting - a beer academy
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Friday, August 7
Flensburg - northernmost urban municipality of Germany
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My girl is so big! - the exact centre of Flensburg
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