The travels of Tropical Breeze...

[Lore-Lei]

I suppose this is a good thread to share my little Twily's story.

Roughly two years ago, I had to have some practice work for me to be able to continue the school I was in. Said school also offered a surefire opportunity to work at a famous hotel near the lake Balaton right in Balatonfüred, the most crowded city for tourists wishing to spend the summer burning on a beach. However, unlike others, they actually paid for the work regardless of it being just a two month traineeship.

We were to be working at all kinds of different places to get a little bit of everything, I was looking for the receptionist position the most. Little did I know that I will have no chance to even choose, but get shoved right into being a waiter/-ess despite that was not the thing we were learning about in school.

Roughly a week in that chaotic hellhole, I needed to find something that could relieve my stress otherwise I felt I'd go insane. That's where my first - and still only - pony came into the picture, a Crystal Twilight Sparkle brushable. In a moment of despair, I bought her despite the outrageos price, and did not regret in the next seven weeks. There was something so smoothing in brushing and petting her mane, feeling it against my fingers. I took great care of her, and every midnight before my off-day we went to the shores so I could pour my heart out to her while nobody looked/listened.
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^{The place we used to go to.}

Twily was my only source of relief and calmness during those times.

A bit more than a week ago, me and my family went on a holiday near the Balaton, and we also visited the city I was working in. I brought Twily with myself and I had so much mixed feeling when walking on the lakeside with her in my pocket. Both good and bad memories washed over me, but it felt amazing to think of Twily finally returning to the place where she was 'born', the Balaton.

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[hathorcat]

Your new Tropical Breezes are lovely! I do often wonder about how well travelled ponies must be. Just think about the ponies we buy and sell amongst ourselves all the time. Ponies which we have bought from someone in one country and then sell on to someone else in another country...and who knows where that pony willl have been before and after. So many of them must have impressive passports

[Taffeta]

@Lore-Lei - that was a really beautiful story Especially the photo of Twilight gazing wistfully out at the bay at the end Thanks for sharing it!

I heard back from Tropical Breeze's seller and she confirmed that the pony was bought in Hamleys on a holiday trip in Spring 1987. So she was bought around the same time I got my childhood one, but travelled all the way across the sea instead!

I sometimes think that its a good thing most of my ponies can't speak (and those that can have to be squeezed before they do!). Otherwise, with all the different languages, I think my cupboard might resemble an equine Tower of Babel...

[Brightglowpony]

@Brightglowpony - that's a pretty cool travelling pony to have as ine of your first! What nickname did you give him? I remember calling Himmelstanzer Seagull until we knew who she was.

Thanks!  I called him "Sunfire" and he protected my other 7 original ponies    I adored him, and do have a funny story, if you call it that... When I was about 6 years old, I was playing with him and his forelock kept falling over his eye, and I felt bad that he couldn't "see" and so I "helped" him out by cutting his forelock.   That is the only pony who I had EVER given a hair cut, and out of all the ones I had throughout my childhood, I had to cut his hair   *Slaps self now!*

Aw But at least you didn't get rid of him, or do anything more drastic. Two of my poor childhood Mountain Boys had to have their feet fixed with superglue by my Dad after they got cracked. I never did find out how they managed to get hurt, because I was so careful with my ponies as a kid in that way, but it happened because I took them to school one day, and at some point, they got damaged. Fortunately I didn't have Fireball with me that day and so he escaped But it would be the Mountain Boys. (For whom I also lost the stickers, and threw out the backcards *cries*)

I think Sunfire is actually a better name *lol* Fireball was my favourite of my three childhood Mountain Boys because of the flapdoodle story with the ice slides in the 1988 annual which I read to death.

With ponies like that, it's almost like they travelled across the sea just to be part of your childhood collection...

I remember finding GLory and Moondancer at a carboot sale once and having a total excited fit because I had grown up with Glory and Moondancer in the comic stories but I had NEVER seen them EVER and had begun to think they didn't exist because they weren't sold here. Neither one had their tails, but when I got online, one of the first things I did was trade for replacement tails for them. I really felt like they had come to the UK to live in my pony herd!

I know that they're not rare or exciting ponies to North American collectors, but...totally different here. I still adore the early unicorn and pegasus pony sets as though they were part of our childhood line because of all the stories, even though we were one of the few countries that never got any of them in any form (bar Gusty, later).

Aww your poor Mountain Boys!  Good thing your dad was able to help them out   That is interesting about Glory and Moondancer- I had always thought they made it over to the UK too!

I took a picture of my childhood "Sunfire."  So glad he traveled across the Atlantic to go on so many adventures with me.  And thank you, at least I wasn't too far off with his name!  ^^

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