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The story begins at the North Pole, where two snowflakes, friends Oie and Rolfi, were sitting on a high cloud and were not at all happy with their life in this desolate solitude. They wanted to fly down into the human world, where there was so much to see and experience. Of course, their parents were not at all happy about this adventure trip, but they had to let them go. They set off on their cloud over Greenland and Iceland, where a volcano had just erupted, over the island world of the North Sea, with the history of the Vikings, to Ireland and southern England, both full of myths and legends.
They were captivated by the cosmopolitan city of London before crossing the English Channel to Amsterdam. Arriving in Brussels in Belgium, they marveled at the Atomium, among other things. Passing Waterloo, they came to Paris, where there was so much to see and experience. In Champagne they tasted a sip of champagne, in Verdun they saw the scars of the First World War, celebrated Christmas at Malbrouck Castle before passing through the beautiful Palatinate Forest with its many castles. Before that, they visited a Christmas market at Cochem Castle on the Moselle and sipped a glass of mulled wine. Here in the Palatinate, there were many anecdotes to tell about Palatinate wine. They flew over the world's largest chemical company, BASF. The cities of Speyer, Worms, Mannheim, Heidelberg and Stuttgart fascinated them with their rich history.
But the highlight was undoubtedly a space trip, which Uncle Oskar had probably organized. Then they were guests of Scottish snowflakes on a neighboring cloud, flew higher than their cloud with balloons and were allowed to fly on the wings of a glider. Rolfi made friends with little Lilly, also a snowflake, who wanted to join her family in "Swabia". They were in for a pleasant surprise when their little dog Fiffi suddenly emerged from one of the large travel bags where he had been hiding since their departure. Many big and small incidents accompanied them, such as when a zeppelin suddenly appeared over Lake Constance and threatened to tear their cloud apart. After this encounter had gone well once again, they landed happily on the summit cross of the Zugspitze, the highest mountain in Germany. However, they could not stay here because of the melting snow, so they decided to move to a summit with more snow, the Grossglockner in Austria. Here they stayed and had a good time until they were frozen to ice, drifted over the glacier and down the streams to the Danube and finally landed in the Black Sea. Here a cloud of mist carried them back up to a cloud of snow, where they froze into snowflakes again. On their onward flight, they landed on the highest mountain in Europe, the Elbrus in the Caucasus, which is over 5000 meters high. But they didn't like it here either, because it was terribly lonely. So they decided to fly halfway around the globe on one of the super-fast "express clouds" to finally land back at their home, the North Pole. But that was no longer their home, so much had changed, the many oil and gas production towers were completely alien to them, so their next destination was once again the beautiful Palatinate.
During all their adventures, they always remembered Uncle Oskar, who had urged them on their departure: "Always stay together, never separate from each other, because a snowflake alone is lost in this big, wide world."
