Patrik Wennberg and the Moonhouse #2.28 expedition to the Mediterranian reached Pompeii in Italy on July 20. A meeting between examples of extraordinary architecture.
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La Spezia
Patrik Wennberg and the Moonhouse #2.28 expedition to the Mediterranian reached La Spezia in Italy on July 20.
Pompeii
Patrik Wennberg and the Moonhouse #2.28 expedition to the Mediterranian reached Pompeii in Italy on July 22.
Dubrovnik
Patrik Wennberg and the Moonhouse #2.28 expedition to the Mediterranian reached Dubrovnik in Croatia on July 27.
House on Mallorca
Palma Cathedral La Seu
Ulla Vinterhav Palma, July 28, 2013.
Om July 31, 2013, Ulla Vinterhav brought Moonhouse #2.22 to the Palma Cathedral La Seu on Mallorca. La Seu is an impressive building in many ways:
It is 121 metres long, 55 metres wide and its nave is 44 metres tall. Designed in the Catalan Gothic style but with Northern European influences, it was begun by King James I of Aragon in 1229 but finished only in 1601.
[Wikipedia]
Congratulations Ulla on your successful expedition and fair winds on your coming adventures.
Venus is going missing – Again!
The Window of Oportunity to visit Venus is rapidly diminishing! Populär Astronomi reports that Observatoriemuseet, The Stockholm Observatory Museum will close down by the end of the year and no longer be accessible to the public. The Observatory is home to the Venus model of the Sweden Solar system and it is yet unclear what will happen to it. In addition to the exhibition that tells the story of observations in the faclilities dating back to the 18th century, the museum has hosted a series of lectures, available to the public on various scientific subjects. Both the exhibition and the lectures will be sorely missed.
Venus in the Stockholm Observatory Museum
[Photo credit: Emil Vinterhav]
In ”The Planets” challenge the Expedition sets out to explore the planets of the solar system. The plan is to explore the Moonhouse on the planets in visual representations, physically in the Sweden Solar System and, finally, in situ on the actual planets. The Sweden Solar System (SSS) is the worlds largest planetarium stretching over the length of Sweden with The Ericsson Globe Area as a scale model of the Sun and the Terminator Shock in Kiruna.
A part of the execution of this plan is to survey the SSS and it was when surveying the planets i Stockholm that the planet Venus was found missing from its named location at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH). An enquirey into the mystery revealed that the model had acutually been stolen. According to Gösta Gahm, retired but active astronomer, it is possible that the model (image below) was assumed to be made from copper and stolen for is metal value. The model was in fact made from clay, which would likely have made the thieves very dissapointed, as the value of clay is significanlty less than that of copper. At that time, the expedition was relieved to find out that there was actually an over population of Venuses in SSS with a second model residing at the Observatory Museum.
With Venus becoming inaccessible at the end of the year, be sure to expect a Moonhouse expedition heading this way shortly.
Venushouse – An idea of what it could look like when the expedition meets Venus in the Sweden Solar System
[Photo Credit: Emil Vinterhav]
Always Positive
Picture yourself on a boat in a river with tangerine yes and marmalade skies.
[from ”Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”, by The Beatles]
Moonhouse #1.5 journeys into the twilight zone exploring ”the other side” of things.
The Travel Bug
Moonhouse #2.24 with the Rock found in cache Fäladsvyn.
Emil Vinterhav, July 16, 2013. Vejbystrand
The Expedition has encountered a cousin movement in the Geocaching community. On July 16, 2013 Moonhouse #2.24 uncovered the geocache Fäladsvyn (GC2P3Z6). The cache contained the trackable ”The Rock” (TB32PQV) on a mission to explore other rocks.
Congratulations Emil on your successful expedition and fair winds on your coming adventures. We look forward to the coming reports from the expedition to Skåne and to following the adventures of Moonhouse #2.24 and The Rock.
House on the Run
Moonhouse #3.1 on a jog. 6.93 km @ 42 min 29 s
Emil Vinterhav, Magnus Steen, Vejbystrand, July 18, 2013.
On an ongoing expedition to Skåne and Vejbystrand, Moonhouse #3.1 explored deeper into the world of sports on a jog with Emil Vinterhav and Magnus Steen in Vejbystrand on July 18, 2013. 6,93 km were completed over 42 minutes and 29 seconds. Congratualtions Magnus and Emil on your successsful expedition and fair winds on your coming expeditions. We look forward to reading more reports from the expedition Skåne.
Kilimanjaro – Full report
Kilimanjaro,
Wilfred Moshi, July 1, 2013.
Wilfred Moshi, Moonhouse Explorer to the summit of Kilimanjaro sends his the story of the expedition. The expedition earned Wilfred a place in the Moonhouse Expedition Hall of fame for meeting the first of the objectives in the Summits Challenge of briging the house to the highest summits of each of the seven contients.
Hello all,
Hope you are well. I am fine.
I felt down when I couldn’t take Moonhouse up Kili sometimes early this year. But my down feelings were relieved when I did receive it 27th Jun 2013 from Christer Abrahamsson.
The expedition didn’t start until 1st Jul 2013. Moonhouse Mt. Kilimanjaro Expedition was set through Machame route (Whiskey route). I was so curious and so was everyone in the expedition due to the fact that Mt. Kilimanjaro is big mountain thus create its own weather condition. It took 6 days to go up and down Mt. Kilimanjaro.
Luck us, we had fabulous days that carry and with minimal technical we managed to unfold and place moonhouse in couple places for sharing experience with other hikers. On the “D Day” weather didn’t cooperate very well. While other expedition members experienced altitude sickness Moonhouse survived well but not through very strong wind that was blowing almost 50Km/h. At the summit we had to come up with improvisation so that it would stay still or not blown off to the crater rim.
Summited and descent safely to the Mweka gate.
Future: Planning to take Moonhouse to road trip around Tanzania, Moonhouse 2.27 may go to some expedition hikes with me….Elbrus, Denali, Aconcagua, go down into Kilimanjaro crater or into ashpit
Congratulations Wilfred on your successful expedition and fair winds for your coming adventures and look forward to reports from future expeditions.
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