tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50611310059269495442024-03-12T23:51:09.548+00:00Zeilmeisje Laura DekkerZeilmeisje Laura Dekker is an ad hoc support group for Laura Dekker's maiden solo sailing circumnavigation. It is totally free and independent from any ties with any organisations.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger199125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5061131005926949544.post-36168925050693668712014-07-13T17:59:00.000+01:002014-07-13T17:59:13.478+01:00<h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":1}">
<span class="messageBody translationEligibleUserMessage" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Laura & Daniel / Coast to Coast and ... pictures!</span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></h6>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br />... to Coast!<br />photo: Laura Dekker</td></tr>
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<span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><br /> July 11-6, 2014<br /> <span class="text_exposed_show"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span class="messageBody translationEligibleUserMessage" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Latest Weblog van Laura and ... pictures!</span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></h6>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">View from Gizmo<br />Photo Laura Dekker</td></tr>
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<span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><br /> May 20-21, 2014<br /> <span class="text_exposed_show"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span class="messageBody translationEligibleUserMessage" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Laur<span style="font-size: large;">a at Ideacity, Toronto June 18-20, 2014!</span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></h6>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br />Zeilmeisje Laura Dekker</td></tr>
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<span class="userContent"> </span><strong>AROUND THE WORLD IN 518 DAYS</strong><br />
<span class="userContent"><br />''</span> [...] looking forward to her stories and lessons learned from her months and years spent on – and off – the water.''<br /><br /><a href="http://www.ideacityonline.com/speaker/laura-dekker/">http://www.ideacityonline.com/speaker/laura-dekker/</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5061131005926949544.post-30726002869642742922014-05-01T16:28:00.000+01:002014-05-01T16:28:09.737+01:00<h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":1}">
<span class="messageBody translationEligibleUserMessage" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Laur<span style="font-size: large;">a & Maidentrip at International Ocean Film Tour!</span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></h6>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br />Maidentrip at Ocean Film Tour</td></tr>
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<span class="userContent">International OCEAN FILM TOUR: Hoofdfilm MAIDENTRIP met LAURA DEKKER<br /> <br /> Data:<br /> 7 mei, Amsterdam, 20uur, Trouw Amsterdam<br /> 8 mei, Rotterdam 20uur, Theater Zuidplein, kleine zaal<span class="text_exposed_show"><br /> 9 mei, Den Haag, 20uur, Theater de Nieuwe Regentes <br /> <br /> Kaarten verkrijgbaar via: <a href="http://www.oceanfilmtour.com/" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">www.oceanfilmtour.com</a><br /> <br /> Bron: <a href="http://www.extremesports.nl/international-ocean-film-tour-hoofdfilm-maiden-trip-met-laura-dekker/" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.extremesports.nl/international-ocean-film-tour-hoofdfilm-maiden-trip-met-laura-dekker/</a></span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5061131005926949544.post-35186324593850554992014-03-19T18:14:00.000+00:002014-03-19T18:14:42.611+00:00<h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":1}">
<span class="messageBody translationEligibleUserMessage" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Laur<span style="font-size: large;">a & Guppy and Daniel / Climbing Banana Plants?</span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></h6>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Different climbing<br />photo: Laura Dekker</td></tr>
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<span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><br /> March 16, 15, 2014<br /> <span class="text_exposed_show"><br /> Go back and forth to Laura's latest Weblog! :-D</span></span></span><br />
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<span class="messageBody translationEligibleUserMessage" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Laur<span style="font-size: large;">a & Guppy and Daniel / Like a Rocket ...</span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></h6>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Like a Rocket<br />photo: WN with PassageWeather</td></tr>
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<span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><br /> February 27, 26, 25, 2014<br /> <span class="text_exposed_show"><br /> Rocket to Laura's latest Weblogs with pictures! :-D</span></span></span><br />
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<span class="messageBody translationEligibleUserMessage" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Laur<span style="font-size: large;">a & Guppy and Daniel / Dancing</span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></h6>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br />Photo: WN + Earth Wind Map<br /></td></tr>
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<span class="translationEligibleUserMessage"><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show">Do not sail backwards to Laura's latest Weblogs! </span></span></span><br />
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<span class="messageBody translationEligibleUserMessage" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Laur<span style="font-size: large;">a & Guppy and Daniel / Sunset ... :-D</span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></h6>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br />Sunset<br />photo: Laura Dekker</td></tr>
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<span class="translationEligibleUserMessage"><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show">Sail into the sunset with Laura's latest Weblog! </span></span></span><br />
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<span class="messageBody translationEligibleUserMessage" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Laur<span style="font-size: large;">a & Guppy & Co. / Hen and Chickens ...</span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></h6>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br />Laura & Guppy / Hen and Chickens<br />photo: Laura Dekker</td></tr>
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<span class="translationEligibleUserMessage"><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show">Sail to Laura's latest Weblog ... </span></span></span><br />
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<span class="messageBody translationEligibleUserMessage" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Laura Dekker at Bürgerkulturzentrum Windeck - Part 4</span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></h6>
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<span class="userContent"><br /><br />On October 6, 2013, Laura gave a presentation
about her circumnavigation at Bürgerkulturzentrum Windeck “Kabelmetal”
in Windeck-Schladern (Germany). <br /><br />Please enjoy </span><span class="userContent">the final part! </span><br />
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What can I say now but that of course I know Laura’s story but
listening to her live and first-hand was something really, really
special. A nice moment happened when Laura called Spot on stage
to show that she wasn’t completely alone when on her sailing trips at
ten years old and without a grown-up for company. <br /> The whole time
of Laura’s presence the auditorium hung on to her lips, spellbound
following her account as she showed many pictures, most of which are
not published on the internet or elsewhere. Another show-stopper was the
inflatable globe, on which Laura’s route was displayed. That globe hung
down over the speaker’s desk attached by a string. Laura only had to
loosen the string to lower the globe by two meters, and show her
entire route to the audience. The week before in Hamburg her boyfriend
Daniel hat to temporarily make-do as somekind of globe-mount. Maybe the
Bürgerkulturzentrum’s team manages to install a little motor to hoist
and to lower the globe at the push of a button before Laura’s next
presentation in Windeck.<br /> <br /> Laura’s presentation was over much too
soon and under loud applause from the audience she again took her seat
next to moderator Jürgen Orthaus on the sofa. After a little chat during
which Mr Orthaus asked some interesting questions to Laura, the Q
& A period for the audience was on. You could tell from some
questions that many of the people in the public must have been sailors
because they asked for technical details like the safety line and so on.
At the very end Mr Orthaus again thanked Laura and me and closed the
event with a nice quote by Johnny Depp: “You can’t buy happiness with
money, but you can buy a yacht with which to sail into happiness.”<br /> <br />
That was it! It all went perfecty well, there were no incidents
technical or of another kind. Now it was all about Laura signing books,
giving autographs and chatting with her fans. Even I was engaged by
attending journalists and interested bystanders heating praising words
from all sides. Christoph and I also had a chat with Laura’s father.
Later Christoph told me that he had later asked Dick Dekker whether West
North’s and my work for Laura would be acknowledged and thanked for
publicly to which Dick answered that it would be unusual (!) and that no
one would do that. Maybe Mr Dekker should occasionally take in hand the
books by other circumnavigators who have thanked their benefactors and
sponsors in speeches and print.<br /> <br /> And then it was time to
wrap-up. According to event manager Peter Schadel the event turned out
to be a “black zero” for Kabelmetal – no win but no loss either. All in
all there were 62 paying guests attending plus the Dekker family and
several journalists. The result from the book sale was also good. Laura
seemed to be satisfied. At least that is what she said each time we
asked.<br /> <br /> Slowly the hall emptied and we packed our things up.
Then we had to bid farewell. In the parking in front of the hall we
talked for a few minutes before we said good bye to each other. Daniel
told me that Laura had another appointment in Salzburg, Austria, the
next day, but did not know what it was about. While Silke, Christoph and
I drove back to my house and Dick Dekker drove back to Holland with
the grandparents, Laura and Daniel went over to Daniel’s relatives who
invited them for supper. We would have loved to have them back at my
home to end the day. Maybe next time, but honestly I don’t believe that,
but well, you never know, after all I was also completely wrong in my
appreciations after HISWA 2012.<br /> <br /> Acknowledgements<br /> <br /> I’d like to thank everyone who contributed and made Laura’s appearance at “Kabelmetal” a reality!<br /> <br /> I especially would like to thank Mr Peter Schadel for the organization and the spontaneous acceptance to host the event,<br /> <br />
To Mr Jürgen Orthaus, who I want to thank for his great moderation
skills during the event and his advocacy in preparation of the event,<br /> <br /> To Miss Tamoschus of the book store ‘der buchladen’ in Waldbröl, <a href="http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fbuchladenwaldbroel.de%2F&h=DAQEdAocw&enc=AZPN2VcvQb6l6ISTHQHonqHS61qpxcAYFqRHkhCiVBBnOcbqMhk6AGaBlxIZTBw6jy7tMZa-VxnVEMgEhl-exNL0G0o-dOcZt7ZrMfXTEIipsxxXGlRzMI08wGp6XoWGaj7HxNRu3CHe3gRLz55bl5q7&s=1" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">http://buchladenwaldbroel.de/</a>, who without hesitation agreed to provide Laura’s books for selling at the event,<br /> <br /> To Mr Andreas John of segelreporter.com who posted the announcement for the event on the Segelreporter page.<br /> <br />
Furthermore, I would like to thank Miss Friederike Krempin from the
Delius Klasing publishing house, who kept informing me and Laura’s
fans with the latest news during Laura’s stay in Germany.<br /> <br /> And
finally, I’d like to thank Laura very, very much, who, despite she
wasn’t feeling her best, made that day a very special one for all us. We
won’t ever forget!<br /> <br /> ***<br /> <br /> Epilogue – a bitter aftertaste<br /> <br />
Several days have passed since the event with Laura and things came
back to normal. On Friday morning, October 11, I received a mail by Dick
Dekker. He wrote that there would be an interview with Laura on the
radio that very same evening on NDR, that “had been recorded a long
time ago.” Then shortly before noon, when I had just come back home, the
unbelievable happened! Unaware of things to come I opened another mail
by Dick Dekker, that had the inoffensive subject ‘Windeck presentatie’
(Presentation in Windeck). In that mail Dick Dekker accused us, the
operator of the hall and me, of having financially cheated Laura at the
event at Bürgerkulturzentrum Windeck. According to his estimation there
had been at least 150 people in the audience, hence Laura had to receive
a four digit remuneration. Laura, as Dick wrote on, had been cheated
many, many times in her life, and he, Dick Dekker, would never forgive
me for that. According to Mr Dekker I had talked nonsense and allowed
people to attend the event for free, including giving access to
third-class (!) reporters. The moderator had been too expensive and had
only said three sentences. Never before Laura had earned so little money
like in Windeck and she feels very much cheated by us.<br /> <br /> All the
effort was in vain - acknowledgement or even thanks? Forget about it! I
somewhat expected something like that from Dick Dekker. In fact we,
West North and I, have experienced similar attitude and some in the
past from Mr Dekker but accusing me of cheating Laura is on a totally
different level. Of course, I immediately wrote to Laura and asked her
about it. Up to now I received no answer, however, this doesn’t
necessarily mean that she shares her father’s opinion. Hence, after the
book presentation in Hamburg we, Laura Daniel and I, had a brief chat
about the film documentary about Laura’s journey, and as it turns out
her opinion is very much different from what her father says in public.
In all his statements he has kept up the impression that in fact he is
expressing Laura’s opinion. No doubt you will make your own opinion
about this.<br /> For my part I told Dick Dekker in very clear words that I
reject his accusations and find them totally inacceptable coming this
late after all I/we did for Laura and him since the summer of 2010. I
also put his statement in doubt about Laura never earning so little from
a presentation. In subsequent mails Mr Dekker got caught up in
contradictions about the conditions for Laura’s speech on the one hand
and Laura’s statements towards me on the other hand.<br /> <br />
Eventually, Laura’s blog of October 24, 2013 turned out to be a big
disappointment. Not a single word about Windeck, no thanks to the people
who got involved with it, not even a photo. But what did I expect?
After 360 translations from Dutch to English of Laura’s blog and the
other work we did, no mention or public thanks. For some reason the
phrase “thanks for your help” doesn’t suit the Dekker family’s
self-image. This, of course, would be a confession that they need others
and that is a complete no-go. <br /> To me it’s especially disappointing
that Laura as it seems, was more interested by her remuneration for her
speech than getting in touch with her fans. What did Laura say once? „In
Holland and Europe they only think of money.“ I had always hoped that
Laura is different from that.<br /> <br /> Let’s hope that Laura will learn
soon that she can’t continuously treat other people with disregard.
These words however - to say it in the words of a famous German
circumnavigator-, were maybe spoken in the wind.<br /> <br /> Thomas Weber <br /> <br /> -End-</span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5061131005926949544.post-19821027228891762282014-01-24T00:32:00.000+00:002014-01-24T00:32:40.295+00:00<h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":1}">
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<span class="userContent"><br /><br />On October 6, 2013, Laura gave a presentation
about her circumnavigation at Bürgerkulturzentrum Windeck “Kabelmetal”
in Windeck-Schladern (Germany). <br /><br />Please enjoy!</span><span class="translationEligibleUserMessage"><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span class="userContent"><br /></span></span></span></span><br />
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After short greetings in the hallway we moved over to the living room
where a big, flat and gift-wrapped box that Silke and Christoph had
brought was opened to reveal its secret : a pira<span class="text_exposed_show">teship
Guppy cake from their local bakery with Guppy written in sugar
icing. Laura was very happy about it. Christoph also gave Laura a
book. Sadly, we can’t remember the title but it was something
about sailing.<br /> <br /> _ "Maybe we’d like to try the cake", Laura suggested. <br /> <br /> _ "We’d love to!"<br /> <br />
The table was soon set and a few minutes later the five of us were
sitting gemuetlich (cozily) in my dining room. If someone had said to me
in late August 2009, when I read about Laura’s story in the
Rhein-Sieg-Anzeiger newspaper during breakfast that she would be sitting
at my table four years later, I’d have called him a weirdo. But that’s
exactly what happened on this October 6. We did not cut into
pirateship-Guppy-cake but choose to go for Silke’s tasty apple cake.
Laura preferred hot chocolate over black tea; I did not have any
peppermint tea that Daniel had asked me to brew for Laura. However, she
obviously enjoyed Silke’s apple cake. We talked about this and that,
about sailing and about how many meters of anchor chain one has to let
out when dropping anchor, about the translations that West North and I
did for Laura (Daniel had no clue about that and I noticed that Laura
didn’t appreciate when I told) and about some other things. Daniel had
never tried a Crème brûlée, even though they had celebrated Laura’s 18th
birthday in France. <br /> <br /> _ "Reminds me of Christmas", Daniel said
as I caramelized the sugar with a gas torch. Laura tried a few spoons.
Obviously she liked it. <br /> <br /> _ "Did you cook it?” she asked. <br /> <br /> _ "Sure did!" <br /> <br />
We would have liked to spend more time with Laura and Daniel and
entertain more important subjects, but Laura and Daniel had to go for a
brief visit with relatives. And the long case clock (Daniel: “That clock
reminds me to Big Ben” due to it's deep tone) in my dining room
indicated that it was less than an hour until our scheduled meeting with
the moderator at the hall. Sounds incredible, but it’s true: Daniel,
whom Laura met on a bus on the other side of the world in New Zealand,
has some relatives living in my neighboring village.<br /> <br /> _ "How long have you lived here?" Laura asked me getting inside the GUPPY-mobile.<br /> <br /> _ "My whole life, my family has lived here for more than one hundred years." I said. Laura looked at me in disbelief. <br /> <br /> _ "See you later!" she said and off they went.<br /> <br />
One hour later, at about 16.45 Silke, Christoph and I arrived at the
Kabelmetal hall. On the left side of the stage the speaker’s desk was
set up. A large screen stood at the center rear of the stage. On a lower
podium in front of the stage a leather sofa was in place for the
interview. Mr Orthaus and Laura had already discussed the course of the
event. “She’s really an easy going person”, he had said to me. Indeed,
she is.<br /> <br /> Except for us there were only a few people in the
auditorium and two little girls that kept asking Laura for autographs.
Could this be the kids of my Facebook friend Sascha? Indeed. They had
done the three hours long journey by car just to see Laura. An other fan
had travelled by train from Holland to Windeck-Schladern.<br /> <br /> On
each chair in the auditory we placed one copy of the postcards that I
had brought back from Hamburg the week before. Next we had to organize
the sale of the book. We quickly set up a table to the lower right side
of the stage and decorated it with a few books and the poster that was
given to me in Hamburg. While I was still busy with fixing the poster
to the table, I noticed from the corner of my eye a dog entering the
hall – it was Spot, Laura’s dog, and the man that he towed behind him
was Laura’s father, Dick Dekker. He was followed by Riek and Dick
Dekker senior, Laura’s grandparents from Holland. They had come all the
way from Woerden near Utrecht to attend Laura’s presentation. I don’t
know if Laura was really surprised by their visit. I had knowned of
their presence a few days earlier, but Dick Dekker had asked me not to
disclose anything to Laura. At least Spot was happy to be with Laura
again andexpressed his joy uproariously. Sadly, Laura’s sister Kim
couldn’t be with us because she had to attend school early the next
morning – and as we know the Dutch officials have no mercy when it’s
about attending school. While I was still busy with preparing the table
for the book sale, Laura’s grandmother stepped closer to me and told me
in German that she’s Laura’s grandmother - “I know” was all I replied
and that was obviously confusing to her, and that she had not seen the
German version of Laura’s book before. A few minutes later I saw Laura
in a conversation with her grandmother who obviously was asking Laura
about me as she pointed in my direction, and uttered an “Oh!”. I can’t
tell if this “Oh!” was meant as a positive or a negative. While Laura
was sipping her peppermint tea, Dick Dekker asked me in German whether I
did advertising for the event. A weird question, really since…I have
to say that I answered him coolly as we haven’t had only friendly
correspondence in the past.<br /> <br /> When trying to connect Laura’s
computer with the video projector it turned out that despite the five
millions of Euros that were invested in rebuilding the hall, that money
hadn’t been enough to buy an adaptor to plug-in an Apple laptop.
Happily, Daniel’s relatives in the neighboring village had an
adaptor that fitted. Just before the start of the event the question
arose if there should be a break after the first half of Laura’s
presentation.That eventually was found to be unnecessary. Laura handed a
poster to me that I fixed to the entrance door to the hall. I later
learned that it was the very same poster that Laura had photographed for
her September 22 weblog. Daniel and I agreed that I would sell the
books I had from the book store in Waldbröl and that he would sell the
books Laura had purchased from the Delius Klasing publishing house. To
be done after Laura’s presentation.<br /> The clock showed a few minutes
past 18.00 and to my surprise and to my pleasure almost all of the 90
seats in the auditorium were taken. Laura’s family were seated on the
left side in front of the stage and Laura was waiting to be called as
she sat on her father’s lap. Then the show was on!<br /> <br /> Moderator
Jürgen Orthaus began with a brief introduction about his work at
Bürgerkulturzentrum Windeck. Then he introduced Laura and they both took
their seats on the sofa. When the applause from the audience faded, he
asked Laura the first question : „Why is Laura Dekker giving her only
public presentation in Europe in Windeck?“ - you will remember that
question from the beginning of this account. I have to admit that I felt
pretty touched by Laura’s answer, however I was brought back to
reality when Mr Orthaus suddenly held the microphone in front of my
nose asking me how the connection to Laura had come to be. Well,
summing up four years in one or two sentences is rather difficult if not
impossible, so I kept to some platitudes and simply asserted that Laura
is worth being supported.<br /> <br /> _ "Some time ago it was said that a
circumnavigation is not that difficult: Sail southbound until the butter
starts melting and then simply turn left. But that’s not how it is, is
it?” said Mr Orthaus to lead back into Laura’s circumnavigation.<br /> <br /> _ "You can try doing it like that too, however that’s not how I did it."<br /> <br /> _"Then please tell us how you did." And then it was Laura’s turn to tell us.<br /> <br /> -To be continued-</span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5061131005926949544.post-62930253651395494232014-01-21T21:02:00.002+00:002014-01-21T21:02:08.682+00:00<h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":1}">
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<span class="userContent"><br /><br />On October 6, 2013, Laura gave a presentation
about her circumnavigation at Bürgerkulturzentrum Windeck “Kabelmetal”
in Windeck-Schladern (Germany). <br /><br />Please enjoy!</span><span class="translationEligibleUserMessage"><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span class="userContent"><br /></span></span></span></span><br />
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LAURA AT BÜRGERKULTURZENTRUM WINDECK – PART 2<br />
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Early – too early – on Monday September 23, 2013, I called
Mr Schadel, the event manager. We made an appointment for half past 11
for coffee/tea at his flat. With the BILD am Sonntag newspaper interview
with Laura in my pocket I walked over to Mr Schadel’s flat. At first I
had to tell about my relation to Lau<span class="text_exposed_show">ra.
We talked about possible dates, the entrance fee, Laura’s honorarium
and advertising the conference. We finally agreed on October 6 at 18.00
(Mr Schadel: “Not later than that. There’s ‘Tatort’ on TV at a quarter
to eight and many want to watch it”) and 14 Euro entrance fee. For
advertising because time was very short, I promised to strongly engage
myself on the internet and in the production and distribution of the
event bill. But first Mr Schadel had to ask the owners of the hall for
permission which was but a mere formality. On September 24 the owners
granted permission and we finally had the green light for the event.<br /> <br /> Preparations 1<br /> <br />
First there had to be a bill created for the event. Happily,
the Delius Klasing publishing house agreed on the use of one of the
photos from Laura’s book. I quickly created a simple and nice bill.
Because of our small budget and lack of time big prints of the bills was
out, and so they were to be done in A4 size and printed on Mr Schadel’s
home laser printer. <br /> <br /> On the morning of Sepember 26, I picked
up the first prints that I immediately sent to my acquaintance in Siegen
so he could distribute them. Also spokesman Mr Orthaus asked me to
deliver a press release as soon as possible. So I quickly wrote a text
about Laura and her presentation and created a PDF file that contained
the bill, the press release, a journey description and a few links as
well. I also sent that file to Laura’s father and asked him to make it
available for downloading on Laura’s website.<br /> As if that wasn't
enough I had to travel to Hamburg to attend the official presentation of
Laura’s book that same evening, which I really had not enough time for
because of the preparation of our event.<br /> <br /> Another problem was
the sale of Laura’s book after her presentation at Bürgerkulturzentrum.
Sadly, the publishing house could not provide books for sale on
commission and I was snobbed when I asked at a bookstore in the
neighboring village if they could organize the book sale. Eventually, I
was lucky when I received a call from a small book store in the nearby
district town of Waldbröl, whose owner spontaneously agreed to provide
25 books for our event. Her phone call came in only minutes before I
went rushing to Hamburg for the book presentation at the Hamburger
Segelclub.<br /> <br /> Hamburg<br /> <br /> In a nutshell: I was already late
going and got stuck in a traffic jam not far from Hamburg and was an
hour late for the book presentation. Luckily I had enough time for a
chat with Laura’s boyfriend Daniel (he was born in the city of Bonn,
about 40 kilometers from where I grew up) and with Laura who I had not
met since March 2012 in Amsterdam. She was very happy with the
preparations for our event the next week, and she also liked our bill.
The Delius Klasing publishing house gave me a big box with several
hundreds postcards promoting Laura’s book and a poster of “Ein Mädchen,
ein Traum”. I still had to drive back home that very same night and at
about 4 o’clock in the morning I was back in Windeck.<br /> <br /> Preparations 2<br /> <br />
In the morning of September 27, I picked up the second edition of bills
for Laura’s event from Mr Schadel. Then it was all about “being on the
knocker” (going door-to-door) to post the bills in as many stores and
strategically favorable places in my village and the neighboring
villages. Of course, many people had heard of Laura and probably had
seen her on TV in the past weeks or had read the interview on BILD am
Sonntag newspaper, so mostly I had positive reactions like “What?! SHE
is coming here?!?! That‘s a doozie!!!“ at local hardware store. All in
all I was sent away only two times. And I wrote plenty of mails to yacht
clubs in Nordrhein-Westfalen, Hessen and Rheinland Pfalz, and to other
places not too far from the venue. Of course, ‘Zeilmeisje’ on Facebook
was also involved in the advertising.<br /> <br /> That is how I filled my
days until the event. I must say honestly, I was pretty upset with
Laura’s father stubborn refusal to post the event’s bill and the PDF
file on the homepage of Laura’s website. Instead just a rather small and
easy to overlook link was placed there and it lead to Laura’s blog
pages where the text rewritten by Laura’s father used extracts of my
text and changed them without having consulted me. To my many remarks
indicating that my text couldn’t be posted like that with so many
mistakes, Laura’s father replied in a stroppy (curtly) way. For an
unknown reason he seemed unable to understand the relation between
advertising for the event with attendance at the event and income for
Laura - well, I confess that I am powerless with people who are closed
to all suggestions.<br /> <br /> On October 1st I picked up the ordered
books from the book store in Waldbröl. A few days prior to the event I
saw that my press release had been printed in the Windeck municipality
bulletin.<br /> <br /> October 6, 2013<br /> <br /> On Sunday morning October 6,
everything was set. I had spent all Saturday in my kitchen preparing
dinner for this day. My visitors arrived at half past 11 and we spent
time chatting while waiting for Laura and Daniel to join us. Around noon
the phone rang. The small screen on the phone displayed a number from
Bonn - I knew Laura and Daniel had stayed there before during Laura’s
stay in Germany - I had a bad feeling. I remembered that later in the
afternoon at around 16.30 we had planned to meet with spokesman Jürgen
Orthaus, who would also act as the moderator for the event at Kabelmetal
hall of Bürgerkulturzentrum Windeck. I picked up the phone:<br /> <br /> _Thomas?<br /> <br /> _Yes.<br /> <br /> _This is Daniel, Laura’s boyfriend. How are you?<br /> <br /> _ I’m fine... (No, please do NOT tell me that something went wrong and the event is not going to happen!).<br /> <br />
_I wanted to tell you that we’ll be about one hour late and won’t have
lunch, Laura is not feeling well, probably she has an upset stomach.<br /> <br /> _OK, but you’ll come anyway, won’t you?<br /> <br /> _Yes. See you later!<br /> <br />
Well then OK, no venison and Crème brûlée for Laura and Daniel. Pity.
So the remaining three of us had dinner without them. We three, that
included Christoph, the sailor from Siegen who I had met for the first
time at HISWA in Amsterdam in March 2012 after which we had stayed in
touch for a year or so via mail, and his girlfriend Silke, and I of
course.<br /> <br /> 14h00, 14h15, 14h30… I looked out the window in the
street. At the very same moment an old white van with a Dutch (yellow)
number plate and a well-known drawn fish on each side stopped in front
of my house, the Guppy-mobile! A minute later I was greeting Laura and
Daniel, Laura with a slightly pale face but definitely Laura
nonetheless. <br /> <br /> _I was asking myself if we were at the right
place, but (pointing at Christoph’s car decorated with bills for the
event and parked in front of my house) I was sure we were!, Laura said.<br /> <br /> -To be continued-</span></div>
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<span class="userContent"><br /><br />On October 6, 2013, Laura gave a presentation
about her circumnavigation at Bürgerkulturzentrum Windeck “Kabelmetal”
in Windeck-Schladern (Germany). <br /><br />Please enjoy!</span><span class="translationEligibleUserMessage"><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"></span></span></span><span class="translationEligibleUserMessage"><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span class="userContent"><br /></span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="translationEligibleUserMessage"><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span class="userContent"><span class="translationEligibleUserMessage"><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />NB<br />For the full text undivided in parts, maybe you will need to login to Blogger using your Google+ account:</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="translationEligibleUserMessage"><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span class="userContent"><span class="translationEligibleUserMessage"><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"><a href="http://zeilmeisjelauradekkerarchives2.blogspot.ca/p/blog-page.html">http://zeilmeisjelauradekkerarchives2.blogspot.ca/p/blog-page.html</a><br />------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span></span></span><br /> LAURA DEKKER AT BÜRGERKULTURZENTRUM WINDECK -<br /> THE UNUSUAL STORY OF AN UNUSUAL EVENT!<br /> <span class="text_exposed_show"><br /> Many thanks to West North for reviewing my text.<br /> Photo credit: Chr. Lagemann, S. Spillmann, Th. Weber <br /> <br /> ***</span></span></span></span></span><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show">„Why is Laura
Dekker giving her only public presentation in Europe in Windeck?“ – With
that question to Laura Dekker host Jürgen Orthaus opened the event in
the “Kabelmetal” hall of Bürgerkulturzentrum (Civic Culture Center)
Windeck in Windeck-Schladern on October 6, 2013 shortly after 6 pm. The
story of a journey was to be the program for that night, actually an
account of an unusual journey - the world circumnavigation of Laura
Dekker. Beg your pardon? Laura Dekker? The world famous youngest ever
solo circumnavigator makes a presentation in Windeck? Indeed you got
that right! Laura Dekker herself is honoring us with her presence.<br /> <br />
Let’s recapitulate. In late summer 2009 New Zealand born and Dutch
citizen Laura Dekker but also holds German nationality, announced her
plans to sail around the world. What’s so special about that one might
ask … Well, back then Laura was just shy of her 14th
birthday. “No way!” the authorities said, „She can’t do that“ was
the public opinion not only in the Netherlands but also in the rest
of the world. Finally, after eleven exhausting months of hearings
in court, psychological investigations, investigations by experts,
first-aid classes, security trainings and a solo sailing tour to
Britain, Laura was allowed to put her plans into action. In early August
Laura set off from Den Osse in the province of Zeeland, the
Netherlands, and sailed to Portugal with her father [the author of this
account was present when Laura threw loose the mooring lines]. By
mid-August, a month before her 15th birthday, Laura set off from
Gibraltar aboard her 12-meters sailing boat “Guppy” and started on
her solo-circumnavigation - 518 days later after completing her trip
around the globe, Laura reached the Caribbean island of Sint Maarten
and as a 16 years and 123 days teen she became the youngest
solo-circumnavigator. Since then Laura has settled in New Zealand, her
country of birth.<br /> <br /> But why is Laura giving a presentation here
in this region that can’t seriously be labeled a sailor’s paradise?
Laura’s answer is: “Well, Thomas Weber lives her and he followed me
during my trip, and he came up with the idea to hold another
presentation here, too. That’s how it happened."<br /> <br /> Yes, that’s
how it came to be, approximately. During Laura’s circumnavigation I,
with another fan in Canada, were doing the English translations of
Laura’s blog on her personal website, <a href="http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lauradekker.nl%2F&h=7AQGTEke3&enc=AZNqZ0fYavUJ-gsYJR9jPZSscCDBdTdZ8-QbXs5Fz0DOsh2eRNe3PPBBGiY_qhu2xUHCkSzPkC2bnJlzkT2HejPTkwy7hPm6byQlZF61T-DILsjcZ_k3NRc8a39Tvx2XyY8yCY_LCUE1AiY-qZQTW_5U&s=1" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">www.lauradekker.nl</a>.
We also started a fanpage on Facebook “Zeilmeisje [Sailor girl] Laura
Dekker” that is still very well-liked by Laura’s fans. We also took care
of a few other things during Laura’s trip. After Laura’s
circumnavigation was completed, we kept in touch with Laura and her
family.<br /> <br /> For late summer 2013 the German Delius Klasing
publishing house had planned to bring Laura to Germany for the promotion
of the German version of her book. This included appearances in various
media, newspapers as well as television. In September I contacted the
publishing house and asked about Laura’s appearances in the media so
that we could keep the fans updated. By chance I had written to the
spokesman who would join Laura while during her time in Germany. My
proposal was received favorably and we were able to keep Laura’s fans
updated with the latest news via Zeilmeisje on Facebook. Besides
official appearances like on the ‘3nach9’ talk show of NDR (North
German Broadcasting) or interviews with important daily newspapers
Laura, as her father told me, intended to give several presentations
about her trip in German.<br /> <br /> Mid-September – an email from Holland<br /> <br />
On September 12, I received an email from Laura’s father Dick Dekker
who told me that Laura would like to give one or more presentations in
Germany, preferably in the region of Cologne and Bonn. Those
presentations however, would have to take place before October 10 since
Laura would be leaving Europe to go back to New Zealand. Dick asked me
whether I knew an association or a conference hall in the region for a
presentation. Honestly, I was very much surprised by that request! Such
an event would normally require planning for months and it would have to
be done within weeks. And there was one more small thing: I did not
know any club or association or conference hall that would host an event
like that. <br /> <br /> Very much clueless I called an acquaintance of
mine, a sailor who also has contacts with local sailing clubs. He
promised to ask around in the region of Siegen. On the next day we had
to face the truth: Even though there was interest in Laura’s
presentation, there was no one who wanted to take on the risk of a flop.
But then I had an idea, the right one as it turned out later.<br /> <br /> Bürgerkulturzentrum Windeck<br /> <br />
In the past weeks our local press had announced that the opening of an
event hall in our village was imminent. Over time the hall, a former
factory building built at the turn of the century, was modified into
“Bürgerkulturzentrum Windeck (Kabelmetal hall)”. A non-profit
organization owns the hall in which the Windeck municipality has a
participation.<br /> <br /> The calendar of events showed empty dates for
September and October, so an event involving Laura could be a
possibility. To the mail I sent in which I proposed Laura’s presentation
I sadly did not receive an answer. A phone call wasn’t possible since
they had no phone line yet. No luck either with Windeck’s municipality
where I was told that, of course, the person in charge was out of the
office that day. Finally, I wrote to Mr. Orthaus, the spokesman of
Bürgerkulturzentrum Windeck. My mail was answered in just a few minutes
and it was obvious that there was a strong interest on their part to my
offer. In follow-up mails Mr. Orthaus asked about the details for the
event such as honorarium for Laura, some costs to be paid by the owner
of the hall, advertising. Eventually he promised to take care of it.<br /> <br />
The days went by and on September 18 I was told by the Windeck
municipality to contact Mr Schadel who is the event manager of the hall
about this matter. Pretty much excited I called him and briefly shared
my concerns. Yes, Mr. Orthaus had already had discussions about the
event. No, there was to be no objections to this event because the
financial risk and the effort (I: “A microphone and a projector is all
Laura needs”) were minimal. However, at this moment Mr. Schadel said
that he was very busy with the opening of the hall planning and that
yes, I could already forward to the Dekkers that the event was going to
happen. I could barely trust my ears and I needed approximately half an
hour to get used to the idea: Laura would be on stage of the
Bürgerkulturzentrum Windeck in about two weeks. <br /> <br /> On the opening
day, which coincidentally was also Laura’s 18th birthday, I visited
the new Bürgerkulturzentrum. I immediately knew for sure that this hall,
that had been renovated at great effort, was the perfect local for
Laura’s presentation. Maybe I should mention that up to the late 1980s
my father worked as a mechanical engineer for the very same company that
had owned this hall originally. <br /> <br /> Shortly before the official
opening ceremony, I ran into Mr. Orthaus, who told me he was looking
forward to the event with Laura. I learned that Mr Orthaus is a sailor,
too! Could anyone be that incredibly lucky – I had found a brand new
hall equipped with the latest state of the art technology and with a
sailor for a spokesman? Obviously I had! Now all I could to do was to
wait for Monday.<br /> <br /> -To be continued-</span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5061131005926949544.post-20244895095465797312014-01-13T20:37:00.000+00:002014-01-13T20:37:45.342+00:00<h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":1}">
<span class="messageBody translationEligibleUserMessage" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Laur<span style="font-size: large;">a & Guppy & Joy and Kim, and Daniel, and Robert</span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></h6>
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<span class="translationEligibleUserMessage"><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show">Dutch<br /> <a href="http://bit.ly/qymxpG" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/qymxpG</a><br /> English<br /> <a href="http://bit.ly/ddLVWC" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/ddLVWC</a><br /> Spanish<br /> <a href="http://bit.ly/nml30G" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/nml30</a></span></span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5061131005926949544.post-34010838637270259522013-12-01T20:48:00.000+00:002013-12-01T20:48:57.991+00:00<h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":1}">
<span class="messageBody translationEligibleUserMessage" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Laur<span style="font-size: large;">a sans Winddancer, Ellen or George & sans Guppy .......... But with Daniel & Bro. ... and photos</span></span></span></span><span class="userContent translationEligibleUserMessage"></span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></h6>
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<span class="translationEligibleUserMessage"><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"> Dutch<br /> <a href="http://bit.ly/qymxpG" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/qymxpG</a><br /> English<br /> <a href="http://bit.ly/ddLVWC" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/ddLVWC</a><br /> Spanish<br /> <a href="http://bit.ly/nml30G" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/nml30</a></span></span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5061131005926949544.post-59163132870070860562013-10-31T01:44:00.001+00:002013-10-31T01:44:34.956+00:00<h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":1}">
<span style="font-size: large;">'Kabelmetal' hall <br />Bürgerkulturzentrum in Windeck-Schladern (Germany)<br />October 6, 2013</span></h6>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Against the current with Laura <br />/ Gegen den Strom mit Laura</span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></h6>
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BELLE magazine. We would like to thank the people of BELLE magazine for
their permission to translate and to post this article here. <br />Please take
some time to visit their website <a href="http://www.huisvanbelle.nl/" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">www.huisvanbelle.nl</a></span></span><br />
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<span class="messageBody translationEligibleUserMessage" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Laur<span style="font-size: large;">a sans Guppy / New Zealand, Australia & a new destination!</span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></h6>
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<span class="messageBody translationEligibleUserMessage" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Laur<span style="font-size: large;">a <span style="font-size: large;">& Guppy / </span></span></span></span></span><span class="messageBody translationEligibleUserMessage" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="userContent"><span style="font-size: large;">Reunited !</span></span></span> :-D</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></h6>
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know, a musician from the Netherlands, Mr. Cees Swaen from Driebergen,
wrote a waltz for piano – “Les voiles au vent 1 - 3, Valse chopinoise
pour Laura D.” - “The sails in the wind [variations] 1 – 3, Waltz in Ch<span class="text_exposed_show">opin
style for Laura D.” - in early 2010 and dedicated that piece to Laura.
“Cool, music composed just for me. I can hear the waves when grandma
plays it on the piano. […] It sounds so beautiful,” Laura wrote in her
first book (‘Mijn verhaal’, page 89/90). <br /> Thanks to Laura’s
grandmother Riek Dekker and Mr. Swaen I was able to get a copy of the
music sheets in April 2011. Instead of refunding the postage, Mr. Swaen
asked me for a recording of that piece. Well, recording a piano with
simple recording equipment is not an easy task to do. However, after
trying with various microphones in various positions, I finally sent Mr.
Swaen my interpretation of “Les voiles au vent” in early 2012. Here is
what he wrote to me:<br /> <br /> <i>"Dear Mr. Weber, <br /> <br /> Thank you for the music. </i></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="translationEligibleUserMessage"><span class="userContent"><span class="userContent"><span class="userContent translationEligibleUserMessage"><span class="text_exposed_show"><i><br /> Just the way I mean it!!!! <br /> <br /> Cees Swaen"</i><br /> <br /> I recently learned that Mr. Swaen passed away in May 2013. <br /> <br /> And so here is "Les voiles au vent 1 - 3, Valse chopinoise pour Laura'' D. <br />(please click the link below the picture)<br /><br />Thomas Weber</span></span></span><span class="text_exposed_show"> </span></span></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5061131005926949544.post-23361056472898578972013-05-21T17:10:00.000+01:002013-05-21T17:10:50.968+01:00<h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":1}">
<span class="messageBody translationEligibleUserMessage" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Laur<span style="font-size: large;">a <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">sans</span> Guppy / </span></span></span></span></span><span class="messageBody translationEligibleUserMessage" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="userContent"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">But ... a book</span> !</span></span></span> :-D</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></h6>
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<span class="translationEligibleUserMessage"><span class="userContent"><span class="userContent"><span class="userContent">... Read on ... with Laura's latest Weblog! </span>:-D</span><br /><span class="text_exposed_show"> <br /> Deutsch<br /> <a href="http://bit.ly/nNWr2o" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/nNWr2o</a><br /> Dutch<br /> <a href="http://bit.ly/qymxpG" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/qymxpG</a><br /> English<br /> <a href="http://bit.ly/ddLVWC" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/ddLVWC</a><br /> Spanish<br /> <a href="http://bit.ly/nml30G" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/nml30G</a></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="messageBody translationEligibleUserMessage" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Laur<span style="font-size: large;">a <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">&</span> Guppy / </span></span></span></span></span><span class="messageBody translationEligibleUserMessage" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="userContent"><span style="font-size: large;">Guppy' smiling tantrum !</span></span></span> :-D</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></h6>
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<span class="translationEligibleUserMessage"><span class="userContent"><span class="userContent"><span class="userContent">Get into a Guppy tantrum ... and a smile with Laura's latest Weblog! </span>:-D</span><br /><span class="text_exposed_show"> <br /> Deutsch<br /> <a href="http://bit.ly/nNWr2o" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/nNWr2o</a><br /> Dutch<br /> <a href="http://bit.ly/qymxpG" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/qymxpG</a><br /> English<br /> <a href="http://bit.ly/ddLVWC" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/ddLVWC</a><br /> Spanish<br /> <a href="http://bit.ly/nml30G" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/nml30G</a></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="messageBody translationEligibleUserMessage" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Laur<span style="font-size: large;">a <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">sans</span> Guppy / </span></span></span></span></span><span class="messageBody translationEligibleUserMessage" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="userContent"> but with two friends and ... 'Joy<span style="font-size: large;">' !</span></span></span> :-D</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></h6>
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<span class="translationEligibleUserMessage"><span class="userContent"><span class="userContent">Laura minus Guppy plus two friends plus 'Joy'!<br />Get in the shade with Laura's latest Weblog! ...... And new pictures! :-D</span><br /><span class="text_exposed_show"> <br /> Deutsch<br /> <a href="http://bit.ly/nNWr2o" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/nNWr2o</a><br /> Dutch<br /> <a href="http://bit.ly/qymxpG" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/qymxpG</a><br /> English<br /> <a href="http://bit.ly/ddLVWC" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/ddLVWC</a><br /> Spanish<br /> <a href="http://bit.ly/nml30G" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/nml30G</a></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="messageBody translationEligibleUserMessage" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Laur<span style="font-size: large;">a <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">sans</span> Guppy / <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">High up!</span> :-D</span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></h6>
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