tini58de's VirtualTourist Home Page

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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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:

* 2007 Hamburg
* 2007 Riga
* 2007 Welschnofen/Nova Levante and Bolzano
* 2007 Bad Wimpfen/Germany
* 2007 Munich and Berwang/Austria
* 2007 Katowice/Poland
* 2007 Nancy
* 2007 Marseille - Cassis - Aix-en-Provence
* 2007 Cagliari/Sardegna
* 2006 Marseille
* 2006 Bad Herrenalb/Black Forest
* 2006 Cinque Terre
* 2006 Ireland
* 2006 Stockholm/Sweden
* 2006 Krakow and Auschwitz/Poland
* 2006 Paris/France
* 2006 Marrakesh/Morocco

All pictures on my pages are my own pictures or taken with my camera, unless stated otherwise!
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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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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
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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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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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* Yangzi/China (1)
* Einbeck/Germany (1)
* Worpswede/Germany (1)
* Jan Mayen (1)
* Walterboro/USA (1)
* Drammont/France (2)
* Isla Chiloe/Chile (4)
* Harlingen/Netherlands (4)
* Barentsburg/Svalbard (4)
* Schwetzingen/Germany (4)
* Wissembourg/France (4)
* Fair Isle/United Kingdom (4)
* Greeley/USA (4)
* Trentino-Alto Adige/Italy (5)

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Enough for now!
Have fun and enjoy my pages!

Greetings from Germany

Christine