Posted Jan 15, 2011, 8:17 pm
Here's a picture of me when I meow. I don't want to scare anyone with my red cheeks and deep roar.
I don't know why Mommy has a bowl of rocks, but it's a good place for me to hide ... well, until I meow and turn red!!
See you soon, future hosts and other TVs!
~Jack
P.S. I'm so happy to meet Bally.
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Posted Jan 18, 2011, 5:46 am
i had such a good time in lodi today with zoe, fiona yenien and bally.
junior bear is going to be a stay-with-mom toyvoyager, so he needed a lot of help choosing pictures for his travelog. i think he is a very adventuresome polar bear. and he's a lot older,too, i think.
this week we all bought a present for zoe. her birthday is in february, but she won't be home then, so we're putting her present in the travelope with her. she's a little afraid of kitties. not me. i'm small. but other kitties, yes, so i chose something with a feline theme to make her braver and to remind her of her grey and white feline american pal. i hope she likes it.
i also said bye to fiona because i'll be on my way to germany when she gets back from skiing. i wonder what snow is like? hmm ... cold paws
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well, gotta go pack!
love,
jack
Posted Jan 20, 2011, 6:00 am
~Jack
Posted Feb 5, 2011, 10:28 am
I arrived at my host's home safely. Now I'm looking forward to meeting all these other toyvoyagers here, but my host told me, that it will take some time until the half year reports are written
I hope, that we will go somewhere on Sunday. She said, that there will be a meeting of their family club of their church.
Bye, Jack
Posted Feb 26, 2011, 6:15 pm
After being almost completely destroyed in the final days of World War II, the main tract was painstakingly reconstructed according to the original design and work was completed in 1975, including the magnificent dome, Marble Hall and Prince's Hall.
With the rebuilding of the palace, the Town Museum (Prehistory, Ancient History, Mineralogy and Numismatics) was established with new exhibits in the southern upper storey of the palace. As well as displays chronicling the ancient and early history of the town, the exhibition features the mineral collection, coins and medals from Bruchsal and archaeological finds from the Neolithic to the medieval periods. (see bruchsal-erleben.de)
Here you see photos of the exhibition of Stone Age.
This is a lower jaw of a mammoth.
This is a photo of a painting of my host's cousin. He painted the burning synagoge of Bruchsal. It makes me feel really sad, thinking of all the people, who lost their lifes.
Here you see a small version of the jailhouse. I think, it is an interesting building.
Here's the prince hall with the big crystal chandeliers.
Here we are in the dome hall.
Now we are in the marble hall. Everywhere you see something golden.
The staircase designed by Balthasar Neumann is considered to be an architectural tour-de-force and has been described as the "finest staircase in the world.
To tell the truth: I already knew, that I would be allowed to join them, because I'm new here
Posted Feb 27, 2011, 1:47 pm
We even saw a little piece of the moon.
Posted Feb 27, 2011, 2:22 pm
At first we decided to try one of these two cream-vanilla-confection.
After we only were allowed to watch, we told our host, that the next one we would try alone. We wanted to make confections with cornflakes and orange flavor and white chocolate.
Our host's daughter finished the cream-vanilla-confection and we were watching again.
At next we tried something like wrong Raffaelo. We never will try it again - the right Raffaelo taste much better.
Here we made coconut confection with Amarettini. They tasted much better.
This were the nougat confection. They tasted fine, but maybe we will try another recipe next time.
We helped to fill them into the patisserie forms.
And that's the result after we decorated the confections.
Then we tried another recipe with strawberries, but we didn't like the result too.
We loved to eat the philadelphia cheese confections, though.
My host said, that she would try some chili-butter-confections and I can tell you, they really were hot.
Here you see us with coconut-Amarettini-confections, nougat confections, cream-vanilla-confections and philadelphia-confections. We loved them all.
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View to houses, which belong to Bruchsal.
View to houses of Untergrombach and the Rhine valley.
View in direction of Karlsruhe. The hills belong to the Kraichgau hill country. Bruchsal is right between the Rhine valley and Kraichgau hill country.
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It was rather cold and already gettin dark outside, so the photos aren't that brilliant, but try to enjoy the photos.
Posted Mar 7, 2011, 10:39 am
Then we have to prepare the table for the guests. We want to eat the selfmade muffins, but our host didn't allow us to bite into a single one
Posted Mar 13, 2011, 5:24 pm
We decided to take a "Krusti" and Cilly cut it in two halves.
Now we had to decide, which marmelade - jam- we wanted to have on the bread roll halves or if we would like honey from Australia or hazelnut cream. The most jam is selfmade by our host's husband.
We chose Australian honey.
Posted Mar 14, 2011, 1:41 pm
Here you see one of the oldest streets in Bruchsal.
Posted Mar 14, 2011, 1:43 pm
We drove through Unteröwisheim.
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Maybe you know the "Nibelungenlied", if not here's a copy of an wikipedia article:
In the Middle High German Nibelungenlied, Sîfrit (Siegfried) is a prince of Xanten who is later revealed to have a heroic background including killing a dragon and winning lands and an immense fortune from a pair of brothers. From bathing in the dragon's blood, he is invulnerable except for a spot on his back where a leaf adhered to his skin. Determined to marry Kriemhild, the sister of King Gunther of the Burgundians, he assists Gunther in wooing Brünhild, queen of Iceland, using his cloak of invisibility to enable Gunther to beat the phenomenally strong queen at javelin throwing, boulder tossing, and the long jump. He also single-handedly conquers Nibelungenland to provide troops in case Brünhild tries to kill Gunther and his kin. Finally married to Kriemhild, he then wrestles Brünhild into submission, again invisible, so that Gunther can consummate his marriage. He gives Kriemhilt Brünhild's ring and belt. After some years, the two queens quarrel over precedence and Kriemhild shows Brünhild the ring and belt and calls her Siegfried's concubine. Siegfried and Gunther make peace but Gunther's courtier Hagen von Tronje plots to kill Siegfried and Gunther and his brothers go along with the plan. Hagen has Kriemhild place a cross on the spot on Siegfried's back where he is vulnerable, and spears him when he is drinking from a stream on a hunting trip, thus fulfilling a prophecy that whomever Kriemhild marries will die violently. He throws Siegfried's treasure into the Rhine so that Kriemhild cannot raise an army. The second half of the epic concerns her revenge.
Read more at wikipedia
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This is a toy train, which was on its way to its new owner - by train. It had an accident then and so it never reached his destination but now is a part of the museum.
Posted Apr 1, 2011, 8:40 pm
But at first we had a look at some beautiful halftimbered houses of Plochingen.
Here you see Friedensreich Hundertwasser, who was an Austrian artist.
In 1985 two architects of Plochingen planned to build a residential and business house as circular building with inner yard.
There are 62 flats, 16 commercial units. The area is about 1,5 hectare. 1992 the city got in contact with Friedensreich Hundertwasser and he actually liked to create the facade of the inner yard. He liked that the viewer of the inner yard would only have Hundertwasser around him and the sky above - an own Hundertwasser-world. (I found this on this website: http://www.plochingen.de/servlet/PB/menu/1211981_l1/index.html )
My host's husband took a photo of us and Petra
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(I'm sorry, that I'm not on this photo, but it was a bit difficult to take a photo of this building with us while driving by, but I wanted to show you this interesting building)
Because my hosts already had been at the Märklin museum several times, they decided to go to the Porsche Museum, an automotive museum in the Zuffenhausen district of Stuttgart. You surely know Porsche, don't you? To read more about the museum, please go to wikipedia or to the Porsche museum website. Petra said, that she just doesn't know enough about cars to tell you each name of the cars we took photos of, nevertheless we all like these cars
Okay, there are some really really old Porsche cars.
This Porsche was created for an Arabian prince with his emblem instead of the Porsche emblem on the wheel and even with golden exhaust pipe.
And here's a special Australian Porsche for the 50th anniversary of Porsche. I'm not sure, if you can read more on this photo, but I hope, you can.
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There is a sundial at one building.
The chestnut alley is getting green again.
Posted Apr 25, 2011, 8:22 am
today I learn how to bake a sponge cake. At first my host took five eggs. Bubo thought, that these are his eggs for breading and at first he was really confused, nearly shocked, but then she told him, that these are eggs of chicken. He thought, that's okay somehow.
I tried to chase him away.
Then the two dogs - Travelling Tuffy and Henry the Adventure Hound - came to help Bubo and barked at me.
They were really successful
After that Petra told us to sit at our place and not play with meal.
After stirring the eggs Chuckle weighed the sugar: 350g - for each egg 50g. We also added a bit Vanilla sugar. And then stirred it again until it was very fluffy.
At last had to add 250g flour and baking powder. Cilly helped to gently fold it under the dough.
Then the doorbell rang and a new toyvoyager arrived just in time, when the cake was in the oven: Miffy for the Netherlands.
Posted Apr 25, 2011, 10:20 am
We also walked through nice loess hollow-ways.
Posted Apr 25, 2011, 10:32 am
Then we had to cut the cake in two layers and fill it with the rhubarb cream.
We only decorated it with a bit powder sugar on the top layer.
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At first we need 1kg white flour, dried yeast, 600g water, 25gr margarine (if you don't have a cooked potato - and we had no) and 25gr salt. We had to leave the yeast dough alone for a longer while until it looked like this.
Then we rubbed the dish with margarine and powdered it with flour.
Posted Apr 27, 2011, 8:47 am
At first we had to read the recipe. It is the one in the middle, although they used gooseberries there.
Then we started to prepare the dough.
We had to cook the rhubarb.
The pot seems to be a bit small
Another pot for custard.
Then we had to fill the baking dish with the short pastry.
In the afternoon at our host's parents home we were allowed to eat a piece of our cake. It didn't look that well this time, because the whipped egg whites was just too flat.
They also had another cake, but it wasn't selfmade.
In the evening we ate some coloured Easter eggs.
Posted May 1, 2011, 2:15 pm
On our way home we saw this cross.
Next to the new apostolic church we looked down on Bruchsal.
After only a few footsteps more we saw the backside of the building called Sancta Maria.
Posted May 1, 2011, 3:25 pm
We saw so many people on the road, who tried to see the lucky couple.
We saw many people in interesting uniforms.
This couple was interesting too. The boy-tvs took a look at David Beckham and the girl-tvs on his wife with her funny hat.
Oh, who is coming here? We're excited.
It's William and his brother Harry. They really look good - that's what the girl-tvs say
The queen and her husband and prince Charles and his wife are coming too.
Oh, exciting, exciting. Here's the bride. Who sees her dress first?
How cute! These little girls and boys and the bride's sister on the way to the church.
The bride arrived at the church finally. We want to see the dress!
Oh, how beautiful!
William and Harry
The church is really big and the way very long. They even put trees in the church.
It is 12pm plus some minutes and finally Williama and Kate are together in front of the priest.
Here they say their marriage promise.
He gives her the ring. We learnt, that in Great Britain it isn't unusual, that only the bride wears a ring as sign of her marriage.
They sind "Jerusalem".
Then they played a fanfare especially composed for the wedding.
Here they all sing "God safe the queen".
Then they all walk out of the church. Take a look at the train.
What a joy, when they walk out of the church door.
The weather is fine, that's why the climb in an open carriage.
That's the queen and her husband in a closed carriage. It was scary, when they climbed in it.
Finally William and Kate arrive at the palace,
while others are still on the way.
It was fascinating to see how disciplined those thousands of people walking behind the police until they finally arrived at the palace too.
Finally the royal family shows up on the balcony.
We are waiting for the kiss and then there were two kissed, but we missed the second.
At last the royal air force flew over the Buckingham palace.
Posted May 1, 2011, 5:22 pm
We took this photo next to the house. What a nice view!
These cows belong to the farm.
Here's the Black Forest House. The typical Black Forest farmhouse - also referred to as a Black Forest house – has been built in this form for hundreds of years. You will find it mainly in the central and southern Black Forest. Here you can read more about those houses.
The left and middle house you can see belong to the farm were we were today.
All buildings except the one on the top belong to the farm. Maybe you see, that there are some clouds - a little thunder came, but it avoided the house so we were able to sit outside and drink coffee and eat cakes.
Before we drove home, we played a while at the water. But then some more clouds came and we had to hurry, because this time the thunderstorm reached our place too. We were lucky to sit in the car, before it started.
Posted May 2, 2011, 1:43 pm
There is a medieval tower, the Katzenturm, next to their house. You can read more about Heidelsheim here.
Posted May 10, 2011, 5:13 pm
I found this nice flower and thought to pick it up for you for Mother's Day. My host told me, that this wasn't a good idea, but she asked me, if I would like her to take a photo with me and the flower and send some Mother's Day greetings and so here we are: Happy Mother's Day
Here you can see a piece of the Berlin Wall.
Posted May 13, 2011, 6:30 pm
today we drove to Bad Neuenahr to celebrate a 60th birthday. For us it was more interesting, that we celebrated at an ostrich farm. I've seen so many ostrichs there - big, old, small, young.
We didn't walk through the farm, but drove with a little sort of train. The engine didn't work well at first, so we had to climb out of the waggons and go a few steps, but then everything was fine again. It took us about 2 1/2 hours for a way you normally need 1 1/2 hour. We were really tired, when we climbed into our car to drive home again - another 2 1/2 hours drive. Nevertheless it was a great day.
Bye, Jack
We zoomed, so you can see the ostrichs better.
Face to face - okay, you don't see me, but we looked in each others eyes.
Posted May 14, 2011, 4:24 pm
I want to send you these flowers via internet.
We are at my host's parents home to have lunch together. We will eat asparagus, Schnitzel in breadcrumbs, potatoes, mayonnaise and sauce hollandaise. Yummy, yummy!
Did I tell you, that Bruchsal and surroundings are famous for asparagus?
We've seen some blackbird babies, but it was just impossible to take photos of us with them, so here is just a photo of them.
At home again Petra's husband bought some icecream - yummy again.
Posted May 14, 2011, 6:01 pm
there's such a beautiful weather today, that we toyvoyagers asked our host to take us with her and her daughter, while her daughter delivered a magazine called Konradsblatt.
At first we walked into the palace garden and I had a first look at the palace from far. I hope to come a bit closer next time.
Here you see one of the chestnut alleys.
From the same place you have a good view to this street with old houses.
Can you understand, that I want to get close? It looks really beautiful.
In the palace garden you find some statues. Four of them show the four seasons (winter, spring, summer, autumn) and four of them show the four elements (water, fire, earth and wind). Here you see the element water.
There is a nice pond in the palace garden, where you find ducks.
These houses also belong to the palace area. Behind this house you see the tower of the church St. Damian and Hugo.
The left part of this photo shows the church building. You see, that you have to walk a bit to come to the church tower.
We also stopped at this parking site. You can see me twice
From this place I had been able to see the middle part of the jailhouse. It's a really interesting building. Maybe I can take another photo of it later.
This was the last stop, before we drove home again.
Posted May 21, 2011, 6:19 pm
today I watched the Eurovision Song Contest. Here's Lena from Germany singing "Taken by a stranger". All my hosts like this song and we too.
IHere is the group from Iceland,
these men are from Ireland
and the one from Sweden - cute, isn't he?
Countdown for voting
Estonia
Greece
Russia
France
Italy - we liked them too
Switzerland - much too less points for her
United Kingdom
Moldavia - crazy hats
Germany
Romania
Austria
Azerbaijan - it belongs to the European radio community or something - not sure about the right word for it. They won the Contest this year.
Estonia
Iceland
Serbia - it reminded our host of the seventies
Georgia
The tv hosts Judith Rakers and Stefan Raab
Between the songs they showed little movies of people of the song contest countries, who live in Germany. On this photo they are all together.
The motto of the show was "Feel your heart beat"
Anke Engelke also was host of the show.
She did a good job - the other two also did really well.
Stefan Raab at his best - making music
12 points goes
to Malta - we had such a fun hearing, that most people say goes to, even if there are more than one point - and you can't give one point.
It is so late now and we are so tired, that we will fall in our bed now - we only have one bed for the toyvoyagers here, although there are so many at this home.
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today many other tvs arrived at Petra's home. They came from another town in Germany and we all were very happy to welcome them at our place. Their first wish was to take a bath, so we all ran to the bathroom.
Here you see our new guests from left to right:
Louis the rat, Nippy, Percy, Bree and Polki
You maybe see, that I turned my back - that was the last thing, Petra saw of me today. Taking a bath - no, never, no no no!!!!
Posted May 29, 2011, 11:36 am
today nothing really interesting happened, but this evening Petra's son called me to take a look out of the window and get some photos taken there. I'm sorry, but we had to zoom some views, so you can see more of the sky. We thought, we would get some rain, but nothing happened. It is still much too dry.
Posted May 29, 2011, 1:16 pm
Petra and her husband will get spoiled by her children - it's mother and father day present. And of course we will get spoiled too
For breakfast we had bread rolls, jam, honey, chocolate plates and a special treat called Einäpfchen. It was made of ham cubes and egg. I also ate a croissant and drank some green tea and orange juice.
Let's see, what I will eat for lunch
Bye, Jack
Posted Jun 7, 2011, 8:53 pm
You see, that the dessert was my favourite
Posted Jun 30, 2011, 7:01 pm
something exciting happened yesterday. We sat there and waited for our host to come home from school. When she arrived, she took us and --- everything got dark. Then we felt, that she carried us outside the house into the car. For a long time it was only dark. In the early early morning - it might have been short after midnight - we were carried away again. Still we didn't know, what had happened.
We were so tired from all this waggling in the car, that we fell asleep - we even didn't know, where we were.
But this morning we awoke in this bed - fresh and fit for the day. Our host told us, that we were on the way to Denmark and that we slept at a motel in Hannover. The bed was a bit hard, but nevertheless much better than a night on a resting place along the autobahn.
Here you see us all still sleeping and then playing after we woke up. We already had a lot of fun.
Our room was right above the entrance - a place, where everyone had been able to look on the bed from the outside
and a place, where you could smell the smoke of all cigaretts the other guests smoked in front of the entrance
Bye, Jack
Posted Jun 30, 2011, 8:55 pm
After hours on German autobahn we finally reached the Danish autobahn.
Posted Jul 2, 2011, 8:59 am
After we finished dinner our hosts had some time to eat. In the meantime we enjoyed the light of the candles on the table.
The most important part of today was to go to the beach, of course. We went to the landing site with small fishing dinghies and larger coastal boats. The last occupationally operated coastal boat stopped by 2010, but boats being operated for fishing tourists remain.
The waves were rather flat today.
In the far you see the pier of Nørre Vorupør. It was built in 1908 to protect the landing site. The end of the pier is the most remote point from Copenhagen within Denmark, if you don't count the Faroe Islands and Greenland.
Posted Jul 2, 2011, 6:24 pm
today is a special day, because we celebrate our host's son Martin's 18th birthday.
At first we took a look out of the window of our living / dining room.
Then we sat down on one of our two patios for a group photo.
In the meantime our hosts bought some Danish bread rolls for breakfast. When they were at home, we sat down at the table.
Petra baked two cakes and in the afternoon we met our hosts' friends for the first time to have caffee and cakes on their patio.
Later some of us went to the beach again.
Do you see the small lighthouse? I like it.
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We bought some pepper sauce there for dinner. Ralf cooked some red cabbage, meatballs and (not selfmade) spaetzle.
Posted Jul 3, 2011, 6:59 pm
after a rainy day inside, it seems to be fine today. We sat in the car for about one hour to drive to Thyborøn. There is a nice house decorated with millions of shells and snail shells. It is called sneglehuset in Danish - I love this word.
At next we drove to the coast centre exploratorium called Kystcentret. We had a lot of fun there and learnt many new things about the element water.
I also saw many furniture and other ship related things, which they found after a ship sunk many many years ago.
Here some more information: Since 1868 the Alexander Nevsky has been lying at the bottom of the sea. A couple of Russian diving vessels arrived and removed the cannons, a contractor bought the sea bed side and salvaged metals - first a lot of dynamite and the copper bolts, copper pipes and gunpowder boxes appeared in the wreck. This continued far into the 20th century. The metal was valuable.
The majority of the 724 men on board were brought safely to landin the frigate's own longboat, which could hold 25 - 30 men at a time.It's what you can read on the signs next to the ring.
Here I show you a view to the activity part - of course you can't see it good enough to imagine, how it looked like.
Then we drove to the aquarium of Thyborøn. I tried to tough a Starfish, crab or stroke a Plaice or shark, but I had no luck. So here you just can see me in front of one of the many bassins. At least I stayed safe.
For a part of our way home we took the ferry from Thyborøn.
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today we drove to Jesperhus Blomsterpark - a flower theme park, which is three km south of Nykøbing Mors. It is Scandinavias largest themepark of this kind. They opened this park in 1966. It is divided in three parts: the flower park, a jungle park and an amusement park, which is rather small, but with some really good attractions for kids - and adults - and us toyvoyagers, of course.
In the jungle park I came really close to these turtles.
Wow - a large crocodile. You see, that I kept a safe distance to it.
I prefer such lovely orchids instead.
Everywhere in Denmark - at least at the places I've seen - you can see the Dannebrog - the Danish flag. I love to see it in front of the blue sky and white clouds.
Here we are in the Japanese Garden - a good place for some group photos.
Then we walked down to Hans Christian Andersen's house - ok, it's a bit small, so I guess it wasn't really his house, but they say, it looked like this. And I'm sure, that he never had so many flowers on the wall and roof of his house.
He lived from April 2, 1805 to August 4, 1875 and was a Danish author, fairy tale writer and poet noted for his children's stories. Maybe you know one of these: "The Steadfast Tin Soldier", "The Snow Queen", "The Little Mermaid", "Thumbelina", "The Little Match Girl", and "The Ugly Duckling". My host told me, that we will find some places in this park, that show some of his fairy tales. So I will take a look.
Even here I saw the Dannebrog.
Here is a flower bed for \"The Princess and the Pea\"
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For dinner we had some scambled eggs with sweet corn and onions.
Posted Jul 6, 2011, 2:23 pm
While we worked at the puzzle, Petra went outside to play football (English or German) with her family. She came back limping and sat down on the balcony.
Later I read a bit more in the "Eclipse" book - it's English, so I understood everything. Petra helped to hold the book open.
Although she was limping, she didn't want to miss the sunset at the beach. This time we watched it at the beginning of the pier.
Posted Jul 6, 2011, 2:38 pm
So here is only a photo of our dinner - a slice of bread, cooked ham and cheese.
Posted Jul 6, 2011, 6:08 pm
finally a day to go on a trip again. This time we drove to Silkeborg to Labyrinthia. Petra comes with us: on crutches. It's funny to see her with her backpack - and us- and her photo and then the crutches. She puts them everywhere to take photos. I'm not sure, if that's the best for her knee, though. Oh yes, in the car she sits in the third row with a little stool in front of her for her leg - really comfortable.
At first we climbed out of the backpack and started to run through this wooden labyrinth. We had a lot of fun and Petra had to hurry to take the photos with each of us. Everyone wanted to be the first with all six stamps on the paper for this labyrinth.
She asked me to have a short rest for this photos, so you can see more of the different labyrinths of this park.
Behind our first labyrinth you can see the water labyrinth, where wanted to go at next.
Which way should I choose?
After several wrong ways we reached the middle of the maze. Did I tell you, that the flowers smelled so fine?
After all that walking Petra could hardly walk any longer. So her daughter took us to go to the next maze: The Trojaborg Labyrinth
We wanted to walk the way too, but we chose the stones
Posted Jul 7, 2011, 3:01 pm
I had 26 Fiskefilet............................................................75,-
2 stk. med pommes frites, remoulade og citron
2 Fischfilets mit Pommes Frites, Remoulade und Zitrone
It was yummy
Posted Jul 9, 2011, 2:55 pm
today we drove to Fjerritslev and visited the best preserved brewery of North Europe. During the years 1897 to 1968 they made thousands of litres of malt beer. It seems, that there will come one of the men to start brewing again the next moment.
I sat down on a scale.
Look at all these beer bottles.
Then we sat down ON the table - not to Petra's joy
Later we played the organ.
Then we went into the private rooms.
I found an old dollhouse and of course we had to play there
Posted Jul 10, 2011, 6:41 pm
It's a really very depressing place. We stayed outside, because dogs weren't allowed to go inside, so I'm sorry, that there are no photos of the inner part of the museum.
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For me it just is one of the most beautiful points on earth.
Before we walked to the promontory (I'm not sure, if it fits well to the place I mean), I had a cup of cappuccino.
I'm not sure, if you can see the top point on the right side of the horizon. That's the point to which I walked then.
Petra walked with her crutches, but still enjoyed taking a photo with me at the beach.
Finally we were here. It was just fascinating to see the Kattegat and Skagerrak flow together - for everyone except myself, because I hid myself in the backpack -. So here is a photo of my friend Mandy Sheep, who told me, that I really missed something and I didn't want, that you can't see this place, too.
Then we walked all the way back again and took another two photos at the same place, where we took the first one. Here you see ships waiting in the Kattegat to be allowed to enter the waterway and of course you see the lighthouse of Grenen.
Posted Jul 16, 2011, 5:14 pm
(photo by one of my host's sons)
On the first photo you can see the dune wandering and the sand flying, too. It hurt in my face.
Although this wikipedia theme is written in German, the photos are interesting for you and me, so you should take a look here.
Rubjerg Knude is a wandering sand dune, the highest point of the steep coast of Lønstrup with a length of about 1900 metresand width of about 400 metres. We stood nearly at the same place like in 2008 and you see, that the shape of the sand dune changed a lot. The entrance of the lighthouse was nearly full of sand. Some people crawled into it, because they could have a rest from the strong wind outside, but it was somehow creepy. It had been so windy there, that Petra and I had to hide behind her son's back to take this photo. Even if you can't see the sand flying - we had sand everywhere, even in my ears and in my eyes - and in Petra's camera, too.
Posted Aug 1, 2011, 8:35 am
The crossing of the Fursund with the ferry takes only 3/4 minutes.
Then we drove on by car. The weather wasn't that great, but we found a nice place near the beach and we decided to walk a little.
I hope, you can see the little path, which we followed down to the beach. The erosion gorges, Langstedhuller, were formed after the Ice Age. The area is one of the most beautiful nature areas on Fur. In early spring, the slopes are covered by cowslips and nodding pasqueflowers.
This flower is really lovely. I would have liked to pick it for you, but Petra said, that it wouldn't make it well until it reaches you. You I just want to send this photo.
The whole beach was covered with shells. Do you see me?
Then we drove to Stendal Høje, which is the hightest point of the island (75 m above sea level). From here you have a view of most of the island and the northern part of Salling and Livø, the coast Himmerlandskysten and Mors. Stendal Høje are also called “Bette Jenses Hyw” stemming from a mound situated further to the north. The island’s largest active moler pit is located towards the north beneath “Stendal Høje”.
At last we visited the church. For us it seems like a part of Greece in Denmark. Here comes some information about the church: The church Fuur Kirke is called Sankt Mortens Kirke, and it was erected in 1126 by three nobles Gutchi, Atti, and Agli together with the vicar Bo. It is extemely rare that written sources are so precise about the origin. The present appearance of the church is of a later date. On the western side of the tower you will find a carved face at 13 metres’ height in memory of a builder who fell down.
In Denmark there are flags on the graveyards and also on many houses. They run it through daytime and hoist the flag to half-mast, if there is a funeral.
Posted Aug 1, 2011, 1:39 pm
On our way back we stopped at Sjørring Volde. I think, the best idea is to upload a photo of a part of a big sign next to the place. It would be too much to write
When we looked up to the sky, we saw a strange sun. There was a large circle around the sun. It is called Halo 22°. My hosts already had seen another Halo 22° back in 2008, when they were at Grenen at the meeting point of North and East Sea. They and of course I were happy to see the optical phenomenon (again). It was a bit difficult to take a nice pic with me. When we arrived at Nørre Vorupør, we still saw this Halo 22° above our house.
Posted Aug 1, 2011, 2:05 pm
Emmh, Petra. Please don't take photos here! We want to relax a bit now.
Seems, she doesn't hear us. Maybe we should look at her and not at the water, but it is just too exciting to be allowed to jump into the water today. We can't turn around to face her. So, Petra, even if we don't look at you and seem to talk to the water - we mean you, who should put down the camera now.
Okay, okay! One last photo, but then this is it!
Ahh, was that fun! Sorry, Mum, that we all didn't want photos of us in the water. But afterwards Petra was really thankful, because we splashed around a lot and maybe her camera would be broken now. Because she stayed calm, we allowed her to take two photos of us relaxing in the sun, after we all had been under the shower.
Posted Aug 3, 2011, 8:38 am
Of course rainforest means a lot of forest
But we also saw many beautiful fishes.
I also met a really big crocodile. I had been safe - there was glass between me and the crocodile.
Here we are in the South American part.
From here we drove to Graceland. Yes, you've read it right. But I mean Graceland Randers, which of course isn't the real Graceland, where Elvis lived. Nevertheless I enjoyed to be here. Petra told me, that it maybe is the only chance for many people in Europe to see something similiar like the real Graceland. So I tried my best to understand it and I really liked the exhibition there.
This is an original phone, which was down in the jungle room.
There's also a cinema, where the show Elvis movies. This one maybe was "Elvis by the Presley's".
After the movie we've left the building.
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We sat down in a ship and hoped, that someone would come and take us fishing, but Petra told us, that we'd chosen the wrong ship.
We had some fun, when we took the group photo in the steering wheel.
This is the last photo of Nørre Vorupør: the really nice church.
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Posted Aug 4, 2011, 12:59 pm
Now we are in the car again and guess what? It is raining.
Here we are on our way to Bad Pyrmont. I guess it was Bingen, where we took this photo.
I can't remember, where this photo was taken.
Posted Aug 4, 2011, 2:01 pm
Fountain Place with Hylligen Born
Here we passed Frankfurt a.M. and we tried to catch a photo with us and the skyline - it was too far away and really small. So it is hard to understand, why they call the skyline of Frankfurt a.M. "Mainhatten".
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Today it was warm and now there are heavy clouds at the sky. We wait for more rain.
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Posted Aug 6, 2011, 5:35 pm
Do storks eat toyvoyagers like me? I seem to be small enough. And I'm a frog!!! - edit - I just heard, that it's a mistake. I'm not a frog, although I just thought it. I'm still a cat. Puhh, seems, that storks don't eat cats, even if they are that small like me
There is a television tower in the park too, but we've only seen it from far.
Posted Aug 6, 2011, 6:23 pm
This is the first station: Simeon's prophecy.
Before we reached the fifth station we passed this cross.
The chapel called "Feldkirchle" is the fifth station.
We also passed this vineyard.
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Posted Aug 26, 2011, 8:55 am
Elvis Presley lived in Bad Nauheim during his time with the United States Army in Friedberg.
In the old town center of Bad Nauheim is the barn at the gate to the castle: The gate, the 'Burgpforte', was used by Elvis Presley as the motif of a record cover for his 1959 #1 hitrecord 'A Big Hunk o' Love'. Here is a photo of him at the gate. The photo is part of the exhibition ( the link is in German, sorry) about Elvis' time in Bad Nauheim and a bit about Elvis in general.
Elvis sang "Muss i denn zum Städele hinaus". Here is a sheet with the text and he wrote in phonetic spelling under the lines, how he had to sing it.
Elvis liked karate. Here is one of his suits.
Of course there was much more to see and read, but Petra said, that she can't take a photo of each photo or item with me. After seeing the exhibition we went to an Irish Pub for lunch.
Terrassenstraße - a street - was near to the Irish Pub, so we decided to walk there and go to see Hotel Grunewald. Elvis lived there after he arrived in Germany in October 1958. One week after him also his father, grandmother and two friends and bodyguards came too. At first they stayed at another hotel, but then they rent a whole floor. Room 10 - Elvis room - still looks the same, but it is closed for public.
Right in front of the hotel is the Elvis-Presley-Place and the stele.
Near to the "Burgpforte" - where nobody took a single photo with us toyvoyagers, but only the humans
- ok, near to the "Burgpforte" we saw these lovely half timbered houses.
In the garden we had a rest near a "Gradierbau" - refine building (not sure, how to call it in English). I like this beach chair.
While walking in the garden, we saw this church.
On our way back to the car we walked through Goethestraße. In the house Goethestraße 14 Elvis lived for one year during his stay in Germany.
It was a strange feeling to walk in the footsteps of Elvis and really interesting for everyone - even those, who don't like Elvis too much. Of course this last part of the sentence doesn't count for my female host.
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Posted Sep 19, 2011, 9:30 pm
I arrived at my new host-house! However, she took me to her job, together with other TV's. Who they are? No idea, but I guess I soon found that out!
The TV's are Umechan from Japan, Dikkie Dik and Billie, TV's from my new host and Veronica from Finland. They saw the envelope and said: An envelope? A new TV!!!
First a card came out.
Then me!
Dikkie Dik saw I am a pussycat.
We are now big friends!
I think I'll like it here!
Talk to you soon!
Love, Jack
Posted Sep 27, 2011, 10:08 pm
Bye Sweet Mimi
Bye Lester
Bye everybody!
Safe travels!
Love ya!
Posted Sep 27, 2011, 10:11 pm
You see me?
Miauw! Here I am!!!
Till next time!
Posted Oct 30, 2011, 8:29 pm
I sat there for a while and decided to go for a walk, in search of more cats.
Look what I found!
Another key chain! I was lucky enough to be traveling around the world, but this kitty told me she just had visited Germany... wow, a TV and she doesn't know it!
SCARY!!!
But my host told me this is not a real one. She works with mentally challenged adults in a textile workshop. All the products they make, they sell it in the store, in the workshop. It's a very big store!
This scary cat is a coathanger.
Another one! This one looks very friendly. I don't know about you, but "disney" comes to mind...
Yikes! I don't know to hide or to go after this big mouse! It's a "piggy-bank" so she won't hurt me.
Hey, I know this one! Some cliënts are very fan of Hello Kitty. So am I... miauw, she looks fine!
Another key chain, another Hello Kitty.... I'm in love.... sigh...
Dikkie Dik talked some sense into me (no messing around with kitties from cliënts!
Posted Feb 22, 2012, 8:48 pm
Sit tight, visual sign of me soon to come!
Love you!
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Posted Apr 30, 2012, 9:02 pm
(And, no, I'm not going to Antarctica ... yet
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Posted May 1, 2012, 7:41 pm
Yes, my BIG trip was to the BIG apple.
First, I went to Times Square.
Then we went to Wall Street. Look at the line to take a photo with the bull.
I hope you'll like especially the view from the top of the Empire State building.
I really enjoyed the Staten Island Ferry. The Statue of Liberty was pretty.
In the evening, we got all dressed up to enjoy a performance of the New York Philharmonic at the Lincoln Center.
Thanks, everyone, for looking at my photos. I miss you, Mom! I wish you were here, too!
Jack the Cat
Posted Jun 14, 2012, 7:03 am
Loving you, Monika and Shaheen!
Jack the Cat (and Miss Kate)
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