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I as a pirate allow to work rather, this still becomes a hard nut this here to put through.
In dear your Störte
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My second escape attempt in the box with the lanterns has also missed. I thought so maybe of escaping here, finally. A pirate allows to work and does not work!
Posted Dec 15, 2011, 7:51 pm
Dad I loves you very much
In dear your Störte
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I am me sometimes what look around gone what I thus everything here with can take. Here some nice things are they determines also valuably are with it I for the long trip, things to exchange has.
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See you soon your Störte
Posted Jan 12, 2012, 6:59 pm
I met Johannes Paul II and asked him, however, from him I got no answer what I have noted he does not live at all any more, any joker has put here a wax figure.
After joke with Johannes Paul II, I am other and hit sharu khan and what I had to ascertain this is also a wax figure. However, slowly I become sour, one does not lead a pirate in the nose.
Now I hope Picasso can help me, however, once again it is a wax figure. then the Federal Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, Angela Merkel said me, the building is called Notre lady de Paris and is a cathedral. It was built from 1163-1345.
Posted Jan 12, 2012, 7:29 pm
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
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see you soon your Störte
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Because of this I decided to go as a pirate...
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Tiffy showed Claas and me her little presents and we were astonished especially at her identity card.
Then we recognized that Tiffy got tired after all these excitements and so we two gentlemen let sleep her on our knees.
I am very happy that I got to know such a nice young lady!
Posted Mar 1, 2012, 8:49 pm
After a fantastic dinner I entered two indian shoes for a romantic boat trip.
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I showed Tiffy, the nice seagull-girl my souvenir, which I had bought for us.
I think, it will be a wonderful night...
Posted Mar 18, 2012, 7:45 pm
the chance for a trip in the nature, two magnific sunbathes and a romantic look in the heaven. On our way we discovered something that was called mausoleum. I explained Tiffy that this is not a home for a mouse
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Störte
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Tiffy, my dear, this flower is only for you...
Störte
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) and most important: Giolitti, the best ice-cream parlour!
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So I had to buy one...buying clothes in Rome...very expensive
To cool off we immediately went to Giolitti
Posted Apr 2, 2012, 7:40 pm
And al last: a good dinner!
Posted Apr 2, 2012, 8:00 pm
And Tiffy my dear, I didn't have any time to visit you, the Baltic Sea is calling!
Posted Apr 19, 2012, 7:46 pm
It would be a good idea to do this together with Djedi, I think.
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We talked about our experiences and later Mefito retired...
Posted Apr 19, 2012, 9:08 pm
It is sad to say goodbye especially to Tiffy, my girl, but also exciting and we all are looking forward to new friends.
Today evening we will celebrate our farewell party!
Posted Apr 19, 2012, 9:14 pm
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Mefito, my old best friend, we will see us again and will drink a cup of rum together!
Tiffy,my dear, you have a big place in my heart and I hope we will see us sometime anywhere!
Zischie, I am coming!
Posted Apr 30, 2012, 10:45 am
Today I arrived in Göttingen. Göttingen is a university town in Lower Saxony. It is the capital of the district of Göttingen. The Leine river runs through the town. In 2006 the population was 129,686. So it is a little and nice town.
I met Rommel, a little monkey which is no ToyVoyager. He lives in the little flat of my host-mum.
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Posted Apr 30, 2012, 11:00 am
Uetze is a little village in Germany. It is near to Hanover, the capital of the federal state Lower Saxony. It is in the North of Germany.
I met Walt Duck and Emma Squirrel, the two other TVs of my host-mum. Unfortunately, they will leave us today. Walt will travel to you, daddy.
And Emma will travel to Finland. But I'm not alone. There are two more TVs, Owen H.M-Fips and Bernie R.G.Bear from Trinidad and Tobago.
Posted Apr 30, 2012, 11:10 am
Posted May 28, 2012, 5:16 pm
a HSV fan called Hermann!
My dad is HSV fan, too, but I am a fan of St Pauli, the footballclub which has a pirate flag.
HSV and ST. Pauli came both from Hamburg and so they were rivals.
Because of that Hermann and Me were a little bit quiet at the beginning, but then we drank a cup of rum together and I recognized that he was a nice guy.
After that we made us a comfort night together with Walt Duck[tv] and threw dice the whole night.
Posted Jun 7, 2012, 5:42 pm
I think we'll have a nice time together!
Posted Jun 8, 2012, 8:54 pm
First we made a farewell walk by bike because the old dog lady Sally could not walk long distances.
After that we made a farewell football game:Konsta and Walt Duck againstHermann and me: Imagine, a HSV fan and a St. Pauli fan in one team!
Posted Jun 9, 2012, 2:30 pm
In the afternoon I showed the landlubbers Konsta and Walt Duck how to enter and navigate a ship!
After that we relaxed by swinging, driving a tractor and visiting an outdoor stage play, performed by a seven-year-old boy.
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Hipp Hipp, Hurray!!!
Posted Jun 18, 2012, 8:18 pm
a great evening with my friends Konsta and Walt Duck,
an fantastic dessert and....
Germany - Netherlands 2:1!
a wonderful evening for the heart of an old pirate!
Posted Jul 15, 2012, 6:15 pm
Driving a big pick up truck,carrying cases, buliding a wardrobe,sorting clothes-no problem for us...
As a real pirate I discovered together with Konsta and Walt Duck a treasure chest.
When the work was done, Dad(and me)were welcomed in our new home....
Posted Aug 25, 2012, 5:03 pm
Störte
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Störte
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Posted Aug 26, 2012, 11:04 am
At our last day in Friedrichshafen we helped Dad`s brother making an entrance for his new home. We were allowed to drive the excavator. A wonderful event for an old pirate!
Posted Aug 26, 2012, 11:20 am
today a mystical aprcel arrived. We heard whispering in it!I took heart and a knife and opened the parcel and Joesy and 3*Euro came to light. We welcomed them warmely and they showed us their treasures that tey had collected on their journeys. We talked the whole night about our experiences.
Posted Aug 26, 2012, 11:33 am
I got the order for a very very secret mission.
So I had to say good bye to my old friendWalt Duck and the other TV`s Konsta,Joesy,3*Euro,Knirrie
Good bye Dad
See you in a few weeks!
Posted Dec 16, 2012, 12:20 pm
Back to Kiel we first relaxed at home. After a while I felt that I needed some salty air again. So I went up to the Baltic Sea Coast. Well, the Baltic Sea is not much of a challenge for a pirate. It's a bit confined and not very deep. Some local fisherman told me it can be bumpy at times, but no challenge for a real privateer's captain.
However, when I got to the Kiel Bay, I saw a lot of grey ships. Hell and damnation! The German Navy! They are doing anti-piracy missions (as I've learned on my secret mission). I jumped into a hollow pole and looked out very carefully.
Fortunately they didn't spot me. That would have been a real disaster: "German Navy catches pirate without even leaving harbour." All my mates would have laughed at me. When it got dark, I climbed out of the pole and ran inland. I need to find a safer part of the coast next time.
Posted Dec 18, 2012, 6:00 pm
And today we welcomed another TV: Yuma who brought a lot of chocolate with him. Very good!
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Today we drove from Bad Lippspringe to Frankfurt airport where we got to know Leo. Nice guy!
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We must leave now, goodbye Morocco!
Posted May 4, 2013, 11:11 pm
Posted Jul 15, 2013, 8:29 pm
Today dad and me drove to Waddewarden near Wilhelmshaven together with Twixx and Haribaer.
Unfortunately we didn't sea the North Sea today, but the barbecue was okay (Of course I only helped to cook cause I was very hungry).
Posted Jul 15, 2013, 8:39 pm
We drove to Langeoog by ship. And look: somebody named a street following me
Posted Jul 15, 2013, 8:46 pm
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After a long and hard travel, I have finally arrived in Vienna. Aye, I have lost me ship getting here, but as long as I could find me a raft, I was ready to continue my journey.
I guess, I must have looked like me good old mate, Captain Jack Sparrow- if you've landlubbers have ever heard of him- he's quite a pirate indeed- but has a tendency to loose his ship
Well, however when I arrived I was really in for some Grog- and as I saw some landlubbers sitting near the coast, I was thinking a nice little rob would do- but when I came closer I quickly realized that they were simply too many for me to rob them- that's why I became friends with them instead
Then we found a real pirate ship- Arrrrr!
It was so cool, that I trained me new mates to be more "piraty"- it was huge fun
Posted Aug 8, 2013, 9:07 pm
Being among landlubbers, I feel that I have to accustom to their lifestyle, and join them doing stuff, even if I don't feel too comfortable with some of it. Today for example I move further from water than ever before!
I did so by hiking one of the highest mountains near Vienna. Aye, you heard right, I hiked a mountain. I am very proud of myself. I definitely widened my horizons
Being up there wasn't too bad. We were able to escape great heat, and enjoyed a view at the horizon, which is similar of the one you can enjoy while sailing a boat.
Aye, Austria's mountains are truly beautiful, even though I say so myself
Posted Sep 8, 2013, 3:07 pm
Me friends and I were busy, sailin' the seven seas- but I'm sorry anyway that it took me so long updatin' my travel log.
Aye, me mateys and I were now part of the most great, grand farewell party e'er! Yo-ho-ho
We were all dressin' up, and after givin' it a lot of thought and a grog, I settled for a mat hatter costume. Havin' sailed the seven seas, the creation of such a pirate worthy costume turned out to be a piece of cake really
(by the way, a flower photobombed me )
The other costumes turned out fabulous great as well - thar - the lass Susy was dressed up as a ladybug, me matey Cilly as Mickey Mouse, me hearty Mr. Moose as Harry Potter, the landlubber Drescher as a flower, and Mr. Curious was even dressed up as batman
I then found us a bottle of rum and some whiskey- which really got the party started (hope host mum won't find out about the booty I made from my quest to her bar
) We celebrated like there was no tomorrow and even fell asleep while celebrating (ok, I admit- i fell asleep while drinking rum (that's sleepin' pirate style)
Yet falling asleep turned out to be a mistake, because Cilly was not asleep, and started decorating us, and then took pictures-Cheshire cat is definetly not pirate worthy
(even though it looks funny
Posted Sep 29, 2013, 1:54 pm
T' Tschauner Bühne be a small theatre, where lads and maties perform mostly comedy (not loads about pirates though...), as it be open air, and t' landlubbers in Austria be not used t' sit in cold weather, it be normally open only from june t' August.
But today, it was open again t' celebrate t' Austria Sturm season. Arrrgh! This be no meterological phenomena in Austria, but a drink - not rum, but also quite tasty
It is made from grapes, and like dear ol' wine it exists as white and red Sturm - both are really yummy.
There was also a Blues Band performin', which I liked
I had a really nice evenin'
Posted Sep 29, 2013, 2:00 pm
We climbed loads o' t' trees, and ladders, and even huge stones and hangin' stuff- I still don't really know how we managed t' get up thar
I really enjoyed meself that day!
Posted Oct 15, 2013, 8:26 pm
Me mateys and I sailed the Stammersdorfer Kellergasse, which celebrated stormy days- again I'm talkin' bout the drink
It really is a beautiful little street where all the landlubbers store their almost as good as rum and grog drinks in so many cellars I couldn't count them.
Thar, they didn't only have wine and Sturm, but also much food- which was really yummy- and a tatoo artist- I actually went to get one!
Yo-ho-ho- just kiddin'
It really was a beautiful day, and I look forward to explore more of the great, grand Vienna!
Posted Oct 17, 2013, 2:18 pm
Today me mateys and me went to vienna's city hall- to find me some booty. The building looked most promisin'- there was definitely loads of booty involved buildin' it. There were statues all over it- even one especially big one called the "city hall man" which is on top of the main roof
We also went inside to find us some booty. But even inside there was nothing to find
But they had some nice, good tastin' grog
Posted Oct 21, 2013, 1:08 pm
Today we went for a walk on the Bisamberg. This is a little mountain in Vienna. It really looks beautiful at this time of year as fall changes the beautiful green of summer, in an even more colorful spectacle.
There is especially lots of wine growing on it, which does look beautiful, but there are also some oaks. There is a story about them:
A farmer who lived on top of the Bisamberg was really scrooge-like. He didn't even want his daughter to marry for love, but would only marry her to a very rich man. So he told a servant, who asked to marry his daughter, to go to the devil.
His daughter was shocked by this, and started to pray for their souls.
The servant in turn was desperate, he really loved this girl, and did'nt know what to do. Then the devil came by, and told him that he would make him rich, if in turn he could have his soul. The young man thought about this, and told him that he would agree to this pact, but only if the devil waited to collect his soul until the oak tree lost all its leaves. The devil agreed.
Thus the young man became rich, and was allowed to marry the daughter of the greedy farmer. She quickly learned about the way her husband had aquired his money, but wasn't shocked. She had prayed for so long, and trusted god to help her in this. And indeed the oak tree never lost its leaves. The devil was so angry at this, that he punched the tree, and since then all oak tree leaves are sinuate and lobate
Posted Nov 11, 2013, 6:09 pm
Even though I am currently sailing towards the great cold north
, I want to share my last day in Austria with you.
Unfortunately I did not meet any other pirates, but I spend my last day uite well nevertheless.
First I got myself a bottle of rum, then I went to the most beautiful cemetery I ever saw. It is so beautiful that there are even songs written about it. I liked it so much because it is basically left to itself, and that way, nature took over. It is so similar to being on a boat in the sea in that respect.
I loved it!
See you soon in Germany!
Störte
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Nov 16, 2013, 7:21 pm
here´s Your Störte and I have to tell You my real true story without any seamans yarn, i promise, but You´ll will hardly know what happend to me in the last.. how much days?? I don´t know, but I´ll tell step by step
At first I had to leave the hospitable Vienna very fast, because their merchants didn´t like my special way of shopping...
So on the River "Danube" I entered a fast brig, baptized her "Blue Pearl", not forgetting my provisions in form of rum and sailed against the stream to the cold, cold north...
There You see the truth of my words, I swear I´m on the Danube here...
Very strange and dangerous passages I had to pass, before I changed into the River Main
Looks very similar to the Danube but I swear by the three beardhairs of devils grandmum that I´m on the River Main now
Some days later I reached the River "Rhine", the weather changed and it became very very frosty...
I followed the Rhine until I reached Leverkusen
Well, my "Blue Pearl" sailed in a very brave manner into the river "Wupper"
Yeah, with the support of my round magic compass I navigated to Unterburg and found the river "Eschbach"
Almost near to my target, I lost my consciousness because of the coldness and the leak of rum...
And woke up in... a pond... some bad-tempered water-sirens must have deported me here...
Then I saw.. HER... must be a siren, too, I told myself... such grace, such beauteousness... such elegancy... no.. can´t be a real hare bunny..
SMS (save my soul) I shouted...
and she did, calling to her subjects that they should give me support to land on this sunny shore similar to heaven
Then the brave ones pulled
and pulled
My first steps on the ground again... But where I am?
"You landed at Strunkis Bay", the huge brown an friendly bear told me...
"Hmmm... I know Your face", I told him
"Yes, I am *Nick* from mcdaniels, Your related by marriage brother from Your dad meckdaniels from Paderborn
"Oh what a happiness to meet relatives in the far"
The second welcomer was a nice little mouse
"Hiho Störte, I am UrselHH and I waited for You a looooong time, because I wanted to ask You if i could become a member of Your next crew"
"Hello UrselHH", I laughed, what would You like to be? The smutje oder the shipmouse?
The next precious little diamond was Hase
"Hi, I´m Hase", she sighed to me
"And this is Your famous piercing?", I asked her.
Nevertheless, Hase and me had a warm welcome together
HelmutBluepant, the most honest pig I´ve ever heard about
"Hello and folksy welcome", he welcomed me warmly
Nice guy, I hope he will be teachable...
But then.... SHE....
First I was a little afraid of this supernatural glamorous appereance of a hare bunny, because always when I come back to land, I´ll be hit by the ladies... don´t know why...
To cover me against her eventually spells, I offer her "THE ROSE" (I´ll tell You the secret how to protect against a sirens spell
I hope she will like it
Must be a siren, she offers me a fur... against my coldness...
"Hello, You handsome and fearless gentleman of the seven seas", she told me. "My name is Charlotte, Charlotte of the Longears, but very good friends are allowed to call me Lotte", she twinkled to me...
O.K, the fur helps to hold me warm... very smoothy...
And then... she MUST be a siren or something similar.. she offered me a kind of honeydew... Bärenfang...
Hmmm... yummy
I swear, I´m not between any landlubbers, but in seamans heaven, I think
Well, my dear landlubberaudience, I think of staying here in this friendly harbour for a while
Yours
Störte
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Nov 18, 2013, 8:18 pm
today it was almost sunny in the morning so we decided to drive to Wuppertal and visited the "Northern Park" Nordpark there
I wanted to know if there were some interesting places to plunder, but nothing to plunder there, what a pity....
The foothpaths are very comfortable there
Before we went into the forest, we enjoyed the view on Barmen
And found a nice monument, used as a spring in the summer
Look at the carved stone, a frog perhaps? Or a secret treasure map??
We also passed a popular restaurant destination, but the renovations take some years, strunki told us
(I prayed for a tavern where I could get some rum, but....)
O.K., instead of having a stop there, we discovered the forest
and found nice autum colours
(similar to gold, the colours, I like gold, You can buy a lot of rum with...)
Along our way we saw lots of beeches and yews
And found some nice treestumps where we played a little bit
See me with Hase, *Nick* and Helmut
and little UrselHH comes on top
At last, who else? Lotte...
I like playing in the trees
(It´s similar to climbing inbetween the masts and rigging)
so we continued our walk and wanted to visit the fallow deer in the game enclosure
We had to go deeper into the forest
And found first?
some last blooming daisy... (I would prefer a beer...)
Will we watch the deer from here?
Yes, here they are
What a bloody nice sunday noon walk
That was is for today
Beer and Grog for You, my beloved landlubber-dad
Yours
Störte
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Nov 19, 2013, 6:09 am
Had a very good sleep until these landlubbers Helmut and my brother *Nick* woke me up...
They promised me a surprise...
and sung me, the greatest pirate of the seven seas, a birthday song... OH NO
But then they lead me to a place... THE PLACE....
It was a dangerous trip through this rotten cubicle they call house here....
But then: THE ROOM
THAT is a birthday I like...
But where are the ladies?
No girls tonight, but *Nick* explained why
Look at Helmut foot: A map???
Wooooow... a treasure map, I know these things...
CREW!!! I need my crew!!
Does anybody know wich island this map shows?
We´ll find it out and sail to this place, I swear....
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Nov 24, 2013, 7:47 pm
today we made a short trip to the Wuppervorsperre
Again at last big waters, they promised me, perhaps to sail away?
But before we came to the water, we had to walk trough a forest
...Walking.... always hiking... for nothing... damned, I´m a great pirate.. usually pirates don´t walk.. they sail, for heavens sake!
Some last fruits we saw, perhaps red elderberry [Sambucus racemosa]?
... Perhaps a ingredient for Killepitsch...???
Look at the wonderful autum colours
...If every leaf would be a gold-dubloon, I would like the forest, but so...???
A woodshelter formed as a fungus, that´s nice
...but nicer for me would be a bottle of rum...
An alley of larch [Larix]
Even the ground is yellow because the larch is the only coniferous species that looses its needle-leafs in autum
... And I will loose my contenance if I don´t see the water soon!!!
See us having a rest
and playing between the nice coloured leafs
Finally, we reached the river banks
...Well, it´s a pond in comparison to the oceans I know...
...Foggy...
...rainy... and lousy cold...
...no way to reach the other bank without a good boat..
But finally it was a very nice trip with our friends
That´s it for today,
dear landlubbers
Yours
Störte
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Nov 24, 2013, 10:20 pm
My pool was very lousy so I offered mymself, that the girls are allowed to do with me what they want to in case of loosing the game
And the game ran even more lousy for me...
For the girls astonishing calmy I reacted, when the dices didn´t bring me luck...
O.K. ladies, I´m Your price...
But first I have to take a last slug of the good killepitsch
perhaps the girls guess that I planned to loose the game??
When I looked in the mirrow, I saw: Their revenge was terrible...
I feel like a cheap copy of Captain Jack Sparrow...
...but I must admit, the sabre has an excellent steal quality
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Nov 29, 2013, 7:43 pm
today we went into the city and enjoyed the Festival of Lights in the Hindenburgstreet
(O.K., normally I´m not interested in these girlish things, but they promised me laarge bowls of spiked hot punch to drink, so I got rope into this event)
We saw a lot of lightchains and flames in the street, all looked very comfortable und welcoming
(But where are the promised pubs or tents with the gastonomical parts???)
Look at the wonderful star of the Hutterites
(Remembers me on the star of the south, will you navigate me into the next situated pub??)
And the shops in this street are a refreshing alternative to the overloaded malls and shopping centers
Here is a hatterer-shop with handcrafted hats (Of course I don´t need a hat anymore, I have my hand made leather tricorne)
An antique shop (A lot of worthy to plunder inside, but I wasn´t allowed to plunder by strunki.... old landlubberspoilsport.....)
And an organic grocery store
(bio-dynamic wine... gosh... but now better than nothing...)
Then we found a nice place where the kids enjoyed deep fried almond pastry and I had a spiked hot orange punch for me
That´s all for today,
see and love You, Mum and Dad,
until soon
Yours
Störte
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Nov 30, 2013, 6:33 pm
today we did something for our feathered friends, the birds staying outside in wintertime
See *Nick* with the raisins, HelmutBluepant and Charlotte with the vegetable fat, UrselHH with the oat flakes, Hase and me with the grain feed
These are old plantingpots with a stick in the middle and we want to melt the fat and mix all our ingriediences together to fill them.
So let´s start with Helmut and Lotte melting the fat in a huge panpot
That takes some time to heat the fat, but see how disciplined I am, I don´t nibble my seed
or even destillate it for brandy
After a while the fat began to melt
See Helmut stiring in the pot
When the fat is melted, Hase and me add the seeds
Hard work to stir it, so I helped Hase
Ursel is a tough mouse girl and doesn´t need any support she ensures to us
After mixing the seed, the oat flakes and the raisins, and stiring the mixture by *Nick*, the feeding is ready for the old little pots
See me filling the pot
Ready
When the fat cools out and becomes hard, You can turn around the pots and hang them into the trees so the birds can pick out the seeds, the oat flakes and the raisins in wintertime
That´s it for today
Yours
Störte
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Dec 3, 2013, 6:09 pm
today we went to the Botanical Garden Solingen
(O.K., they boys decoyed me with the promise to see a huge water and perhaps some palms that remind me on the carribean)
Altough the autum is almost all over and only a few plants are still blooming, we had some nice views on the scenery there
(Shame on me, I had to run around with this kindergartenkiddies...)
Here we are in the Alpinum
(Yeah, see me in an Alpinum instead of the middle of the ocean...)
Have You ever seen such a huge butterfly?
(Hey, I could tell You about my figthing against the large seasnakes in the Chinese Sea, they would be big enough to eat that butterfly!)
Some last blooming rosebushes
(YoHo, roses, the door-opener to the ladies hearts
)
And a lot of impressive trees are here, too
(In this bloody garden must be enough wood to rebuild my 7 ships I lost already.... ooops
)
Here we are at the lake that is situated in the lower part of the botanical Garden
(...what a mingy pond this is...)
This is a bookcrossing board situated in the middle of the garden: Some people bring their old books there and let them free and some other interested take them for reading
(interesting idea: imagine rum instead of the books in the board... Some people bring the mugs full of pirates-nectar and I would be honoured to drink them
)
From here You have a wonderful view onto the lower part of the garden
(Yes, the view is not bad, I must admit...)
Then we left the park for a while and followed the Korkenziehertrasse that´s a combined foot- and cyclepath that connects the parts of the city besides the streets mainly used by cars
(Good idea for landlubbers, but where is the channel-lane for ships and boats??)
"Uuuhh, this tunnel was a little bit spooky", the girls and the boys moaned...
(Of course I was the only one fearless enough to pass through without any shivering bones
)
Then it was time to turn around and walk back trough the garden. When we left, we saw the huge sign with lots of donators helping that the botanical garden in Solingen can be still open
(...donators signs... could be a good idea for my next buccaneering: "This raid was possible with friendly support of the Royal Navy
)
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Dec 3, 2013, 6:32 pm
(Reminds me on the last old town somewhere I plundered...)
Have a nice first Advent
(...even when I didn´t get the grog they promised me...)
Yours
Störte
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Dec 7, 2013, 11:53 am
"*Snow * Snow * Snow*", the kiddies shouted...
(Uuuhrg, too cold for me but not cold enough for an ice cube in my rum)
But first we congratulated *Nick* to his birthday today
Suddenly St. Nicholas came to us and all of us got a present because we behaved well this year
(Pooohhh, he didn´t mention anything about my gallantry-misbehaviours....)
(...Chocolate... I must improve my experiments of destilling this sweet stuff into alkohol, otherwise I won´t survive my existence as a toyvoyager here any longer...)
Then we gave *Nick* his present
and sung our happy-birthday-song for him
A golden bear exclusive for him
(...Not to steal this golden thing was MY true present to him, but o.k., he´s my brother... no plunders between familiy members... lucky guy he´s... grmbl...)
See the kiddies having fun in the snow
(And please don´t think, I had the same fun sticking with my head in that bloody cold snow...)
What a nice cold day
See You soon, landlubbermum and landlubberdad
Yours
Störte
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Dec 8, 2013, 5:35 pm
Happy second sunday in Advent
wish You Störte and friends
We have a lot of fun swinging in the Advent wreath
Yours
Störte
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Dec 12, 2013, 6:50 am
today were a lot of surprises waiting for us:-)
At first an envelope from Dr. Kröbner arrived
Hase was totally upset
and crawled into the envelope....
After a looong while we only saw a red cap...
Tadaaahhh
Oh, her Mum sent her pullover and the nice winter-cap she got from jasper in Switzerland, what a nice idea
We all admired the nice postcard Dr. Kröbner wrote
and love the angel that was sent by
(what?? no rum or any other alkoholic sweets for old störte??)
The next happy surprise was the nice postcard OleOrangescarf sent us
Look at the iluminated windmill standing in the open-air-museum in Detmold, thanks a lot, dear Ole
At last a huge parcel from RikeH
What would be in there??
See Lotte and me creating a new sports: Parceldiving...
But what about the envelope??
Lotte isn´t able to wait any longer, she MUSt open something NOW....
What a suprise... it´s Soeren
Lotte passes out
UrselHH gives Soeren a warm welcome
Hase is very happy to welcome him as well
Soeren and me: family members reunited
Helmut is also happy to meet Soeren again
What an eventful evening
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Dec 15, 2013, 5:05 pm
today is the day we will meet Mum in Dortmund again, my landlubber-brother Soeren is sooo happy spending the last days here and had a great time together with *Nick*, UrselHH, HelmutBluepant, Hase, Charlotte and me
And now I´m totally upset and we are ready to start having a nice time togther at the christmas fair in Dortmund
(I hope for them they have enough grog there for me)
Here we are in Dortmund now in front of the supposedly biggest christmas tree of the world: built from about 1.500 single conifers
(reminds me not to forget drinking the famous hot wine punch here)
See my little brother little Mefito and me
(seems that he could have the right tendency becoming a famous pirate as well, he´s got "the right colours")
After this first Hello we went into a café and welcomed the other plushies each other
From the left: GustavHH, Charlotte, Hase, HelmutBluepant, Kirin, OleOrangescarf, DottyCroc, Dutchy the Lion, Mefito, Soeren, Josie, UrselHH, SunnyHH, me,Sargent Froggo and*Nick*
(and I prayed for something to drink there...)
And here we are together with our best friends, talking about our latest adventures
Who else with who else??
After this heartwarming conversation, I became very thirsty...
Cheeeerio, Miss Sophie
Eventually not thirsty any longer...
Then, when it became darker, (and I became clearer again) we started our trip around the christmas market
Nice and wonderful iluminations everywhere
This shop with the paper stars and buildings we loved most
(Reminds me to the romantic lighthouse at the Northern Atlantic with the most romantic lighthousekeepers daughter.... Similar softly like the hands of the cute girl in the shop that gives my four letters more balance... sorry ma´m, my glogg-level is still high
)
What a wonderful day in Dortmund with You Mum and our friends
(Even myself feels happy without any plundering of the market, astonishing feeling...)
Bye Mum, hope You came home safely and enjoyed our afternoon in Dortmund as well
Love
Yours
störte
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Dec 19, 2013, 2:33 pm
this afternoon we went on the little christmas market in Barmen
(For meee it wouldn´t be necessary, but the kids wanted to go...)
UrselHH and me liked this train a lot, but we didn´t find nice gifts there
(... not even worth to plunder and steal some of the x-mas-rubbish there...)
Strunki told us not to worry about, there a a few days left and so we played in the colourful little christmas tree in her office
(Yeah, the tree is soo ugly that it doesn´t even becomes nicer the more You drink, I can tell You...)
In the evening we went to a christmas party of the aquarist society gatw Wuppertal
(That could be a nice trophy for me: The globe)
Lots of yummy eating we had there
..and drinks, of course
(Beer, eventually... my prayers were heard)
Here we check the winnings donated by the members for the tombola
(O.K., the most is wrapped in fancy paper and I don´t know, what to plunder exactly, but let´s see...)
Next to us the members have already bought their lottery tickets
The rules are easy and very fair: There are two identical sheet calendars, one sheet for each day. From the one calendar You buy day-sheets, each one costs one EUR. From the second calender the same days You bought were sampled in the lottery wheel. That means that there aren´t any blanks and each lottery ticket has the chance to win. the first winner is allowed to chose one of the winnings on the table what he wants to have and so on until all prizes are raffled
(Uuuhh... this is a x-mas party, no good idea to steal some of the sheets from the people here... )
And guess what? We won something! Look , the 8th of June was taken out of the lottery wheel and we have this sheet
The next winnings came a few moments later
Hmmm, blackberry liqueur
The next winnings came a few moments later
(First time I win something instead of plundering it.. strange feeling, but nice...)
THIS will be mine, of course, YoHo
And we won a third time: home made elderberry jelly
(This will be for the kids, come on, folks, we have x-mas time, I think I can be generous, even as a pirate..)
What a nice and lucky evening, we have a lot of fun there
(Yes, I must admit, even me, Your good old störte, had fun there)
That´s all for today,
See and love You all You landlubbers
Yours störte
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Dec 20, 2013, 1:45 pm
today we celebrate Charlotte´s birthday and had a lot of fun
See me congratulating her
All of us have a lot of fun with Lotte
...but now she misses her presents...
You stand on them, look under the red cloth and under the bowl You sit on... Hihi, we hided them...
Mylady, my newest trading package, full with the sweetest culinarias, only for You
Then it was time to drink some sparkling elderberry secco
and eat some yummy homemade birthday cakes togehter
But before we started drinking and eating, UrselHH reminded Lotte on the birthday card sent by RikeH
And now lets start having fun with eating and drinking
Yeah...
What a party
That´s all for today
Yours
störte
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Dec 22, 2013, 5:46 pm
today we made a short trip around the Müngsten Bridge again, because the weather ist quite open and the temperatures are still o.k.
We start at the confluence of the stream Morsbach and the river Wupper
from the right You see the Morsbach and behind me the bigger one is the Wupper
(I know this location still very well, can remember that the sirens let me fall into unconciousness after I passed here when I changed from my last to my actual landlubberhostmum)
From the bridge over the Wupper You have a first view to the so called Diederichstemple
This place we want to visit first
(For me it looks like a Fort Batavia to control who´s sailing across the rivers, but unfortenatuly I can´t see any canons there...)
But first we wanted to ask the puddle-oracle
O.K., the oracle says that it isn´t frosty, not dry, but not too wet for a little hiking trip
(I will tell You what the oracle especially told me: I will come to a waterfall in hawaiian style, with a basin full of rum and handsome hula-girls around me...)
So we started hiking. It was a little bit tedious uphill, but we did it
See me starting now, can´t hardly expect this waterfall the oracle promised me
After a while we came to this lousy Siepen and rested there a few minutes
(Should be that be the promised waterfall?? And where´s the rum?? And the hula-girls?? What a cheat!!)
Then we arrived our first target: Diederichstemple
Look at this huge Müngsten Brigde from there
(What has a pirate to do with a ironbridge, I ask You?? Well, imagine, how much canonballs I could melt with this tons of steal...)
After a while hiking downhill, we came to this strange sculptures...
And we asked us, what this could be? Some of us voted for some birdhouses and some think, it could be a special ToyVoyager playground...
Finally, we decided, that it must be a playground
Then we passed a little river-island in the Wupper
(Nice place, perhaps to hide a treasure....)
And learned some interesting details about the fauna and flora in and around the Wupper here
(The river kingfisher I like most, could be an acceptable alternative to a pirates parrot)
Finally we reached our last target: The Müngsten Brigde
See me with my brother *Nick*
And here our tour ended
Love You, Landlubberdad and Mum,
Yours
störte
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Dec 25, 2013, 7:13 pm
today is Christmas Eve and we wait for Father Christmas. But before, we have to decorate the christmastree. Strunki gave us a huge box
Let´s have a look inside
It´s full of christmastreedecoration
Look, Mum and Dad, what nice figurines I found
A snowman with an umbrella
I´ll hang it into the tree
Here´s the next one
A little angel riding on a yellow duck
Shall I tell You what? ...I love it...
And I found another one for the tree
A bear sitting in an umbrella
A golden sickle moon
Finally a purple bow of ribbon for the top of the tree
Now our christmastree is fully decorated and we have to be patient and wait for Father Christmas bringing the presents for us this night
What will we get?
A few hours later, when we woke up, the sensation happened:
I got a present for christmas!!! What can it be??
Look Mum and Dad
a golden pirate-earring
Well, I like it
There is one last present still to be opened, it is from RikeH for strunki and she allowed us alltogether to open it for her
Look at the wonderful christmas card
UrselHH reads it to us
All of us, especially strunki, are very moved by the warm and friendly christmas greetings of RikeH
Then we open the box alltogether
and the first we see is Kleine Fee with Charlotte
Wooow, it is a mug with two pictures on
the other picture shows Dicker Kumpel with HelmutBluepant
What a wonderful idea, the nicest christmas present at all strunki said
What a nice handing out of presents
We all are sooo happy with the wonderful gifts this eve
Now let us have our christmas dinner
Yummy homemade cookies (for the kiddies I estimate)
And even for me a bottle full of jubilee-akvavit
Cherio, Miss Sophy
To all of You
Merry Christmas
Love You
Yours
störte
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Dec 30, 2013, 8:34 pm
the last days we were very verly lazy, enjoyed the christmas mood, hanged around, ate and drunk too much and so on
But this sunday afternoon the weather was already good enough meeting olgamaus and her crew to show them some nice views on Wuppertal
Here we stand on the south side and have a view over Barmen to the North
And here I am again in the Nordpark, wich we have visited a few weeks ago
Very happy, even me, that the sun already shines for a moment
And here we have the view over Barmen from the other side to the south hills
It is not as clear as it seems to be
At least we had a rest on this fresh logged beech, perhaps it felt down by the last storm here a fortnight ago?
A very huge tree this was before it fell down...
That was it for today, I am looking forward of the last day of the year when we want to celebrate a sylvester-party
Love
Yours
störte
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Jan 1, 2014, 11:57 am
today we made a little trip to the part of the Eschbachtal, where the
Lobach
confluences into the Eschbach
The area is called Hammertal , because a lot of old hammer mills were placed at this streams
Here You see the Lobach
(Yes, I remember this place when I changed from my last landlubberhost to the actual landlubberhost, I passed here
)
After crossing the street we are now at the entrace to this part of the Eschbachtal, situated between Lobach and Ehringhauser Bach
In the last days a lot of water floated into the streams and rivers, look
Here the Eschbach is placed about 10 to 15 metres below our path
Look at this old bridge over the stream, unfortunately is´s not allowed to cross it, because its in danger of collapsing
Here we see an old hammermillbuilding, it is the Johanneskotten
And there You can see a hibernation shelter for bats
After passing it, we reach the official [url=Barbecue area Altenhammer]
http://www.remscheid.de/leben/umwelt-und-natur/wald/Grillplatz_Altenhammer.php[/url] . But before You light a fire, You have to get the permission first
There we played a while and had some fun at the stream
If it would be summer, we could hang our feet into it...
...or my bottle of rum perhaps?
Behind and over this place the is an old small lake
... "lake" the kiddies call it... I call it pond... not a quarter of Lake Michigan...
On our way back to the point we started, we admired this colourful tree fungus
That´s our tour of today, tomorrow we want to celebrate Sylvester, the lst day of the Year 2013
Love You
störte
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Jan 1, 2014, 5:09 pm
today it is Sylvester, the very last day of the year. A reason to have a plushie-party the world never ever seen
So let´s watch the clock: only one hour left for the year 2013
Time enough for our special-sylvester-plushie-meal: chocolate hearts
Look, I´m very disciplined in the difficult balloon-balance-dance
Then we have our next game: fishing for fortune cookies
What for a paper slip-sentence will I fish?
Can You read it?
"You could meet your dream"
O.K., lets watch the clock again
Uiii, almost time for a sparkling plushie wine
*HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU ALL* LOVE AND PEACE FOR EVERYONE
So let´s go on the roof and watch the fireworks
See You soon and love You
Yours
störte
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Jan 4, 2014, 11:22 pm
today we visited Benrath Palace in Düsseldorf
(Woow, a palace the kiddies wanted to see today...)
Here is a scheme, how the buildings are situated
(Can they please show me a scheme, where the treasures in the palace are situated???)
First we had a view above the big lake in front of the palace
And like to watch the waterbirds there
Some swans, a lot of ducks and crowds of seagulls
Let´s have a view to the front of the main building
It looks as it would be made only for the girls, I think...
In front of the main palace two impressive lions are placed
They were gentle enough to allow us playing on them
(And I was gentle enough not to eat them, hungry as I am....)
We walked upstairs to have a look inside...
Woow, very nice inside
(looks like this noble box itsself could be a treasure...)
Even a large swimming pool it has
Big enough to repeat my last furious waterbattles here
What a nice place
(I must admit, very proper)
That´s our tour of today,
love and see You soon
Yours
störte
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Jan 9, 2014, 7:56 pm
today we made a very long trip on the Sambatrasse almost 10 Kilometers long.
After a short while walking we reach a point, where a bridge leads over the tiger-area in the zoo
Look at the funny sign there
We had luck with the weather and enjoyed our walk
Here we pass the point where Burgholztunnel starts, the tunnel connects the west of Wuppertal with the south and is almost 1.900 Meters long
Here *Nick* and me learned about the history of the Burgholz
The way further on we passed the point in the near of the Kaisereiche , but we didn´t visit the oak, because later in the afternoon the light became darker and our way was still long
See me and UrselHH studying the sign about the place
And here finally we pass the small old trainstop Burgholz, now there is a little tavern
That was only a part of our tour today, but the later the afternoon was, the darker it became and we were glad to reach the car again
See You soon and love You
Yours
störte
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Jan 13, 2014, 12:53 am
today we visited the Flora and Botanical Garden in Cologne
The weather was very sunny and fine there, with temperatures almost usual in springtime
Look at the nice terrace-spring, but in wintertime there´s no water floating
The German emperess Augusta was patroness of the Flora
First I found a huge solitaire sequoia tree
Next we talked to this nice, friendly lady and her deer
And here a nice example for a small garden and a still smaller garden house
And look at the rare green-yellow striped moundlily yucca (Yucca gloriosa)
There we played for some time enjoying the warm sun
And see me here in front of the pampas grass
in the near of a nice lake
Here another two impressions of the park-landscape of the Botanical Garden
This is very unique in Germany
An allèe only with palms
This was the second suprise for us
See me with a nice christmas rose (helleborus niger)
But this was the main reason for us visiting the Flora in this January
The camellia-show in one warmhouse
Some of the early camellia (Camellia japonica) are blooming yet
This nice statue we like, but it has a sad name: dying amazone
It remembers us, that all beauty has to go sometime...
And more beautiful blossoms, but sorry Mum and Dad, I wasn´t able to remember them all in detail
Inbetween all this camellia-blossoms I found a very interesting other plant that I hope to meet in a few weeks on Tenerife
Can You read the sign? It is the Canary (Island) bellflower
Here we made a first rest and enjoyed the beautiful varieties of the camellia flowers
But we also found other nice flowers
See me with *Nick*
And see the giant groundsel (Senecio grandiflorus)
And here we have the Chilean bellflower (Lapageria rosea)
Another nice station with other camellia-varieties
What a wonderful place
This blossom I like most
And even outside the warmhouse we find some blooming and frostresistant camellias
What a wonderful nice day we had
See and Love You all
Yours
störte
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Jan 18, 2014, 9:17 pm
today the weather was so fine and sunny altough it is mid-january, the kiddies decided to play a little bit in the garden... o.k....
We started in the flower box and they enjoyed the purple primeroses while I was looking for a beer....
See me with Hase .. the little bombshell
After a while I wanted to see what´s going on in the garden and climbed agile as I am on the apple tree
Well, the garden looks very messy... Like Captain Blackbeards "Jolly Roger" I´ve never seen such a lousy place...
So I decided to help strunki a little bit with cleaning up the most with old leafs covered spots that the earth gets more light and is able to respire much better... Yeah, I´m an old school gentlemanpirate, doing everything for the ladies
First I cut down the old faded twigs from the last year with the gardenshears... almost elegantly like I fight with my sword...
Next step was raking the foliage
Really hard work but it must be when You want to have it tidy
And look what grows under all these leafs: first stems of snowbells
and the first little rosettes of the sedum
Finally I had to put the foliage into the barrel for bringing it to the composter
... had to be a peaceful, silent and harmonic afternoon until we heard a yell...
of course... who else?? Lotte fell into the barrel...
graceful she shins up to the edge
What a nice and funny end of the afternoon
That´s all for today
See and love You
Yours
störte
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Jan 19, 2014, 10:01 pm
because last week we felt so nice in Cologne , we wanted to come back to the city again for visiting the huge Dome today.
See the imposant skyline from the other side of the rhine
So we started and went over the Hohenzollernbridge
In the middle of the bridge a huge rhine-freighter passed under us
Woow, folks, I tell You: THAT´S a thing I call a huuuge ship...
On the fence that separates the footpath from the railway I found a lot of padlocks, fixed by couples who carved their names on it, close it and throw the key into the river hoping of everlasting love
Here, from the end of the bridge, we have a first close look on the huge Cologne Cathedral
Such an impressive building
See the two migthy towers
and the huge main portals
the bronce lions are estimated some hundered years old and could tell lots of interesting stories
And they invited us to have a look inside
Just now a liturgy service was celebrated there, so we didn´t want to disturbe the attendants and stayed only a short moment
Before we left the cathredral, we admired the colourful crib, wich is part of the "cologne route of cribs"
Some last impressions of the Cathedral from outside
In the near we found this nice spring, it is the so called Heinzelmännchenbrunnen
Here we are in the oldtown now and see one of the Roman Churches of Cologne
This is Great St. Martin
And here we see St. Kunibert
Here is an old tower inbetween modern buildings
On our way by foot to the Flora we pass the Cologne Sculpture Park
This sculpture I like most
And here we reach the main entrance of the Flora You already know from the last week ago
We know the place but I wanted to visit the tropical greenhouses we weren´t able to visit last week
Here we hve fun between the cacti in the Succulent house
And this is a flower we are very happy to see today, the nice yellow winter aconite [Eranthis hyemalis]
This was our great walk in Cologne
See and love You
Yours
störte
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Jan 25, 2014, 7:27 pm
do You remember the map HelmutBluepant and *Nick* gave me as a birthday present some months ago?
today I need the help of my plushie-crew, I said to them...
"Until now I wasn´t able to find out yet, wich island this map shows", I told them
So would You help me to identify an island that has got the same shape or silhouette?
On the first map we didn´t find any island that comes into question...
The second one was also a failure...
This third one was a similar triangle shape, but it wasn´t my island...
But suddenly, after a mount of maps... THIS was the island we are looking for
Hey, that is tenerife, the island we will travel to in a few days, oh what luck we have
So let´s pack our things we need there to go on holiday and for the treasure hunt
what a lot of stuff...
I will take this special rubber beach ball, in case of need we can us it as a cannonball...
So we pack our bunch and are glad that our great adventure will start
Tenerife, we are coming
...tbc
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Jan 27, 2014, 10:56 pm
today too early in the morning, at three o´clock we started our big tour to Tenerife
Here we are at the departure gate and discover the area while we waiting that the boarding will start
First palm impressions
And we met the camel, Charlotte told the others about a few days ago
This is our jumbo that will bring us to the island. The flight will take about four and a half hour
Boarding completed
After a hour the stewardesses served us a small breakfast
The beginning of the sunrising after one and half our in the air
...Who else needed "the bag"??
Poor Lotte...
Time went fast by watching the latest smurf-movie
We had very nice weather for the flight
And then, suddenly, after four hours, the first impressions from the island of tenerife
...tbc
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Jan 27, 2014, 11:18 pm
And here we reach our hotel
A first meeting with the big sleeping-Orca ad the Manatee, the had to travel as cargo-luggage...
And first views from the balcony
That was our first day here on tenerife and a lot more nice days will follow
Love and see You soon
Yours
störte
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Jan 27, 2014, 11:32 pm
as You should know I am a lover of good drinks
And here on tenerife I have the high aim to test the uncountable local spirits
This stuff is called "RonMiel, it is rum with honey
I belive I can fly
What a great invention of these islands
Don´t worry folks, I am all rght
Yours störte
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Jan 28, 2014, 9:38 pm
today we visited the oldtown of La Orotava
Here we start with a view over the oldtown from the top of the Gardens of Marquesado de la Quinta Roja
Here a view over this nice terraced garden
This building was planned being a tomb, but it never used to be one
When we went the steps down, we found this nice huge vase
Some blooming orange daylilies [hemerocallis]
The view on the garden from the base
A first coffee with milk, in spain we order "una café con leche, por favour"
After this small break we went on and visited the small but fine botanical garden of La Orotava, a dependance of the bigger Botanical Garden of Puerto de la Cruz
The first very huge "tree" we see is a Canarian dragontree, [dracaena draco], it is the typical plant, but not a real tree, it belongs to the botanical familiy of Asparagaceae
This is a Abyssinian or red banana [Ensete ventricosum], it looks nice with its red leafstalk, but it doesn´t have any fruit
And here we have a bird of paradise [Strelitzia reginae]
An anthuria
A final view into the park before we leave this peaceful green place in the middle of this buzzy town
Our next point of interest is the church Nuestra Senora de la Concepcion with its nice orange dome and two imposant towers
Let´s have a short view inside
Our final visit in La Orotava belonged to the houses with typical canarian wooden balconies, the so called "Casas del los balcones"
The balconies there are carved in a very nice manner
The patio of one house we were able to visit
What a nice and full day in La Orotava
This was it for today,
love and see you soon
Yours
störte
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Jan 28, 2014, 10:13 pm
Hello Fans of the spiritual taste
my second evening here at the bar of the hotel comes to a good end with a new experience of a typical spanish drink called "103" by Osborne
Whe You ask me as an expert, I would prefer this kind of drink in combination with a hot coffee, but tonight I wanna taste it pure...
Wooooow
wwwish You a good nighhht.. aand see You tommorrow eve
Yours
brave störte
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Jan 29, 2014, 9:40 pm
today we visited the beautyful smalltown of Garachico in the North-West of Tenerife
Here the views from the top
And here we are in front of the oldtown
Some first impressions of the oldtown
Inbetween a very small park the old gate of the haven is situated now. It´s called "Puerta de las tierras", that means "gate of earth"
Some nice hibiscus there
The next sight is the curch of Santa Ana with its typical tower
And here we are in the centre of the oldtown, even the typial canarian balconies we found there
Let´s have a break with a short very sweet coffee, called "cortado leche leche". A shot of very sweet condensated milk is added in
(My real-mans-drink will follow in the evening, hoho
)
Because of the rough sea, the natural swimming pools are closed, what a pity
Finally we saw Castillo de San Miguel and I inspected the cannon there with a lot of interest
(What a useful fort this could be for a pirate like me... Now it´s only a nice picturesque building for the tourists...)
That was our tour of today and we hope that many nice days will follow
Love You
störte
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Jan 29, 2014, 10:25 pm
my spritual adventure goes on, this eve I will try and taste an alcoholic liquor called "cocolate cream"
And what should I tell You?
Girls stuff!!!
This kindergartenliquid didn´t bring me down
Nice taste, but "all mouth and (no) trousers"
Good night and sleep well
Yours störte
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Jan 30, 2014, 9:25 pm
today we drove to Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Here You see a very imposant building, it is the Auditorio de Tenerife , a Congress-and Concerthall, planned by the famous architect Santiago Calatrava
And the tower there is from the church Nuestra Señora de la Conception
This nice building is called Fábrica „La Lucha", it was a formerly tobaccofactory
And here we are at the "Plaza del Príncipe de Asturias"
Me in front of the fish-statue and a drago tree at the "Plaza del Chicharro"
Over this impressive bridge we walked and came to the famous market "Mercado Nuestra Señora de Africa"
Let´s go inside and see what groceries we will find there
Woow, soo much sorts of potatoes
A variety of a more than fifty different sorts
So we discussed at the central spring what we wanted to buy here
The decision fell on the cookies
Delicious with a good cup of coffee
After this short break we left the market and met these friendly guys with their fishingboat
Our last visitors highlight for today in Santa Cruz was the Parque García Sanabria
Look at the nice pink bougainvilla
On these park benches we watched some scenes on ceramic tiles
A bamboo avenue
So nice views there
This nice lady is the darling of the citizens here
Uiuiuiuiuiui, HelmutBluepant would say, I call her: wooooow
So that was our tour of today
Love and see You soon
Yours
störte
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Jan 30, 2014, 9:50 pm
because I was very impressed of the various fruits at the market today, I want to taste them in a very special manner tonight:
As You know, the national drink of spain is the Sangria, a mixture of red wine, some spiritouses and a lot of local fruit
Yes, You see right: I have my fruit day
E viva España
Let me tell You tomorrow, how this vitamine-bomb improved my fitness
Good night
Yours störte
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Jan 31, 2014, 10:55 pm
today the weather was fine enough to start our Tour to the Teide-Mountain.
But before, we visited Mirador Humboldt to have a beautiful view over the valley of Orotava
Look at this impressive scenery
Teide, we are coming
...tbc
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Feb 1, 2014, 12:02 am
The higher we came, the more the vegetation changes
We drove through laurel forest
and later the trees changed into Canary pine [Pinus canariensis]
On our way to the Canadas, we found this so called \"Rose of stone\"
Here we are on an altitude of about 2.100 m over Sea Level and there were no trees anymore, but only small bushes can survive there
From this point I had the nearest view on the Pico
When we drove high, we mostly have a look to the snowy northern side, but from here You see the south side of the mountain always free from snow
Here we are at the so called Roques del García
And here the views into the giant caldera
Nice are the various colours of the different volcanic stones
A very impressive plant here is the Red Mount Teide bugloss [Echium wildpretii], but it only has full flowers in Summer and all we saw were the faded pedicels
(Please click on the link above to get an impression how beautiful the flower of this plant can be)
We had a great day here and hope to come back for seeing more
That was our trip of today
Love and see You soon
Yours
störte
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Feb 1, 2014, 8:03 pm
So I asked my plushiefriends to substitute me and taste the drink of today and they did
Thanks a lot *Nick*, Hase, UrselHH and dear Charlotte
Good night and sleep well
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Feb 1, 2014, 8:57 pm
today on saturday we visited the nice farmersmarket with local products
So many delicious groceries, what should we buy for our plushie-picknick?
I decided to buy a bottle of good red country-wine
In the afternoon we will hold our plushie-picknick
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Feb 1, 2014, 9:32 pm
our next stop we made at Punta de Hidalgo with an impressive view on the mountains of anaga
Unfortunately the weather was not very nice, it rained and so we decided not to hold our plushie-picknick at the beach of Bajamar
instead of we visited the very nice Café Melita
and had a delicious "Tarta de Manzana" (Applepie) and a coffee with milk
Afterwards we made a little walk and found HelmutBluepants favourite flowers, the Plumerias
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Feb 1, 2014, 10:04 pm
Here is the bottle of red wine I bought
Everything is ready for our plushie-picknick
¡Buen provecho!
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Feb 2, 2014, 9:53 pm
today for the first time the weather was fine enough to spend the day on the beach and so we drove to the West, to Los Silos, where a very wild beach expected us
What´s there in the background?? A whale skeleton?
Lotte told us that this whale stranded here some years ago and the people decided to prepare the bones of this impressive marine mammal
I remember that my treasure card shows something similar
Well, Bingo
And I informed my crew that I found an important advice on my treasure map
What adventures will we find at this wild and lonely beach??
The landscape here is incredible
But the path is so heavy that only 4X4-Cars can drive there, so we had to hike...
...through deep canyons...
and we had to climb up high and rough hills
After a while we came to a strange place
Here is a whole in the stones and when some heavy waves breake here, You hear (and sometimes see) a fountain coming out.
A noise like from hell
Lotte was sooo afraid here that we had to hold her
Later we found nice yellow flowers blooming and Lotte remembered that she saw them last year as well
Here was the place they spent many nice hours and Helmut hided here something useful, Lotte remembers as well...
But first we took out our clothes and opened the naturist-beach-season 2014 here
After this first recreatable chilling, *Nick* found something in a deep cave
Woow, the boats of HelmutBluepant from the last year
Since here the treasure map is all right
...tbc
That was our adventure for today and we hope that many nice experiences will follow
See You soon
Yours
störte
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Feb 2, 2014, 10:08 pm
this evening I will taste another ronmiel for You and now, as I am almost an expert of this heavensent drink, I think I am able to taste out where the bee-hive could have stood and the hillside of the sugarcane could be find, that are the ingrediences of this beverage now
Well, this is from a canarian bee colony from the central island and the sugarcane grows in the north-east, I think so
Cheers and good night to all of You, have as happy dreams as I will have
Yours störte
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Feb 3, 2014, 11:40 pm
today we went to the southside of Tenerife, where we found some mysterious pyramids. Yes, You read right, they even have pyramids herein Güimar .
Not as huge as in Egypt or as well known as the ancient buildings in South-America, but here are some monuments that You can identify as pyramids.
We were welcomed by two impressive figureheads formerly ornated two vessels of the Olsen shipping company, that has sponsored this museum in cooperation with the norwegian anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl who rediscovered the pyramids here in the 80ties
I said to my crew-friends, the people here have so much luck that we found Helmuts boats yesterday, otherwise I had to enter this ship here, a replica in perfect plushie-size of the "Santa Maria", one of the three ships Christopher Columbus discovered the New World...
The next impressive exhibition piece was a huge long drum shaped as a crocodile from Papua-New Guinea
Then we went into the first building
and found at the entrance a rebuilded relief stele of "Kon-Tiki" a god of the Inkas and eponym for T. Heyerdahls first raft in 1947
This nice guy is a rebuilded statue of a south-indian native who is fishing
Look at this fierce Moche-man
Here we have a scene, how the native canarians, the Guanches looked
In this room we learned where in the world reedboats are used
And here we learned where in the world pyramids were built
The ancient canarians built pyramids as well...
Here we met huge, but friendly wooden Komodo dragons
The landscape to the seaside is also very nice
And some more views on pyramids again
And other nice scenes again
We are sooo astonished about this secret place
In another area of the museum we learned something about the canarian flora
Here is the sweet tabaiba (Euphorbia balsamifera)
And here Echium decaisnei
Euphorbia canarensis I found here
This plant also was nice but I forgot the name... sorry
In this bush we played a little bit
And here we see a blooming Aloe vera
Not very often You see the aeonium blooming
This tree we already know from the Canadas del Teide
The opuntia is an emigrant from america but very common here because until last century the conchenille louse was breeded on this plant for cropping the red karmesin pigment
Sugarcane, a very important ingriedience for my fave holiday drink
A violet nymphea
And what do the canaries produce today?
And here we have another last good reason for enjoying the stay in this magnificent museum: To test Thor´s rafts and boats
Kon Tiki
Ra and Tigris-Boats
Woow, what a full and nice day, but now we are tired enough to fall in sleep
Good night and sleep as well
Yours
störte
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Feb 4, 2014, 11:47 pm
today we went to the famous Loro Parque in Puerto de la Cruz.
The entrance is a rebuilt Thai-Village
First we saw a nice waterfall
and went into the Aquarium
meeting a shark
and some little lionfish
A huge tank with a school of fish
We went on and saw Gorillas. The group here is very special: males only from other Zoos, where boys were born in captivity, because without some females the bachellors are peaceful among themselves. And they had to be taken out their gropus when they grow up, because the main male wouldn´t accept them any longer.
A view into the palmgarden
Then we came to "Planet Penguine"
Again we found Helmuts favourite flowers, today in pink. Helmut knows this tree here very well from last year and we know that he loves it
One of the oldest buildings in the park in moorish architecture, where the Loro Show takes place
We wanted to visit the Dolphin Show, but the dolphin pools are under construction at the moment so the show is cancelled for a few months...
Instead of the Dolphins we had fun to see the Otters
And enjoyed the hibiscus
(Yes, You landlubbers, I enjoyed the hibiscus as well!!!)
Next station: Giant turtles
Now we are in the area called "Orchids Paradise"
...Yes, I am a pirate, but it´s not forbidden to love flowers as a pirate
See the flamingoes
And now we are entering the "Katandra TreeTops", a giant voliere where birds are able to fly almos free
At the next station we saw white tigers
At the gambia market we ate a chocolate banana in memory of Helmut
The last highlight was the Orca Ocean
That was a very full day with lots of impressions
Love and see You soon
Yours
störte
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Feb 5, 2014, 10:28 pm
today we spent a lazy day at the coast, enjoying the cloudless blue heaven and the warm sun with a beautiful view on Mount Pico del Teide
See us naturist-style-tanning in the sun on our nice plushie-towels
The day was sunny, but the sea is still very, very heavy, so we decided to postpone our plushie-boat trip
But in addition to that we found some very nice plushie-surf-boards
How cool is that, the kiddies shouted, but I think, I´ll use the real boat...
Instead of going surfing we built a column of friendship
Everybody of us found a stone and we stacked up stone on stone together
That´s for today,
Love and see You
Yours
störte
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Feb 5, 2014, 11:26 pm
As You know, I was a little bit indisposed a few days ago, so my substitutes had to taste the banana liquieur drink instead of mine
Well, no reason for me to taste it on my own again for You, because the kiddies... come on, You know what I mean... dddon´t have theeeee disci... disziliiinne.. disclinnne...
I´m still sitting, but I must say, a true can opener, You know what I mean...
..yyyellow.... sssweeeet... ttttasty...
ddelissssiooouuuss.....
ggoodnightttt
yours sstöööööörteeee
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Feb 7, 2014, 10:07 pm
today we visited our "hometown" for this holiday, Puerto de la Cruz and I want to show You the Promenade, the Old Town with some nice historical buildings and some places here
Let´s start our tour at the small old harbour
Here we met a nice lady, a fishseller
Oh Yes, I like her
... But she was a bit afraid perhaps??
The next building was a formely tradinghouse and now You find the Tourist Office there
The street along I found a banana-shrub with fruits on the one and a blossom on the other plant
Remember, we are in a town
Now we are on Plaza Europa and in the backround You see the old walls of the harbour
From there You have a first view on the complete seaside and the promenades
The white fountain You see in the backround is the Fountain of Lago Martianez
A nice old red building with a typical canarian balcony
And here we are at the promenade San Telmo with a little old hermitage
From there we walk along and come to the next promenade Martianez
Here You see the fountain again
Let´s have a first rest and take some cocktails
Now we are at the beach of Martianez
This was the outest point and now we walk back on the promenade
Now we see some nice buildings of the old town of Puerto de la Cruz
Hotel Monopol, the oldest Hotel here in town in typical canarian style
The church Nuestra Señora de la Peña de Francia on the Plaza de la Iglesia with a nice swan in the middle of the fountain there
And finally we come to Plaza del Charco (Place of the puddle) where we found a playground and a second rest with a huge cup of ice cream
What a nice but long walk for us plushies, now we are happy and the ice-cream was delicious
That´s for the day, love and see You
Yours
störte
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Feb 7, 2014, 11:06 pm
today the weather wasn´t as good as yesterday in the north so we decided to drive to the south again for trying out Helmuts boats in the small harbour of Güimar
But first we wanted to have some lunch and chose typical canarian dish: in saltwater boild potatoes with green and red canarian sauce
"Papas arrugadas con mojo" and "camarones", some boild crabs
After our meal everybody of us held a short rest and strunki used this time to test some different optical system on the cam
So, let´s go to the beach now
And here we are live reporting from the canarian plushie boat regatta 2014
Next discipline was to test our surf board
No, definitly not MY sport!!! I´m the only one who became very very wet... (...Not even Lotte fell into the water...)
Bööörks
But at the end we all had great fun at the beach here
That´s all for today, love and see You soon
Yours
störte
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Feb 8, 2014, 8:28 pm
today in the morning we visited San Cristóbal de La Laguna, a very old town with a long history.
Here we see the "Leal Theatre"
La Laguna has a lot of historic buildings, but the streets in the pedestrian zone are quite narrow and photos with us plushies are not so easy
Here we come to the "Iglesia Cathedral" or "Iglesia Santa María de los Remedios"
And here are some last impressions of the town
But the weather was too fine for wasting the complete day in town and so we decided to drive into the mountains of Anaga
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Feb 8, 2014, 9:22 pm
we left La Laguna and made a short stop at Las Mercedes to have a first impression of the Mountain range of Anaga in the very north-east of the island
Our next stop we had at a point called "La Jardinera" (the garden)
Look, now we are more than 900m high
The view from here at "Cruz del Carmen" is almost similar, but not even less stunningly beautiful
The last stop we made at the "Mirador Pico del Ingles"
Only from this point You have the chance to see left on Santa Cruz in the south
and right the complete northern coast
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Feb 8, 2014, 10:19 pm
After so much mountains we decided to spent the afternoon at the wild coast of Bajamar enjoying the warm sun
Everybody of us has fun at the coast here
That was also a full day
Love and see You soon
Yours
störte
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Feb 9, 2014, 9:57 pm
today we made a big trip to the Northern West Mountains called "Teno"
But first we visited Mirador "El Lance" in Realejos, from wich You have a wonderful view onto the the Valley of Orotava from the North-West.
... And Charlotte highly recommended the Mirador as unmissable especially for the girls, but I didn´t understand exactly why
Then we came to the entrance of the Teno-Mountains
and are estimated about 900m over Sea-Level
Even in this altitude Oranges grow here
But have You ever seen a sunflower blooming in February??
Our next stop we held in Santiago del Teide
From there we made a short trip to the direction to Masca, but on the saddle on est. 1.100 m it was too windy and the narrow street was too full, so we turned around and drove further to the south coast
But again we had free sight on the great looking Mount Teide
On our way to Puerto de Santiago we found a valley where the almond trees were blooming just at this time from end of January until estimated end of February
A wonderful landscape
with nice flowers like the common asphodel [Asphodelus aestivus]
The next attraction of today were the cliffs of Los Gigantes
and the view on the neighbour island La Gomera
The table promised that You sometimes can watch whales there
But what we found in the harbour of Puerto de Santiago let my heart beaten higher
A pirate ship
What a pity that time was too short to sail with this nice ship
Before we went back to our hotel, we had the chance to see the famous dragon tree of Icod de los Vinos
What a full day this was
love and see You soon
Yours
störte
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Feb 9, 2014, 11:00 pm
today I did (only for You landlubbers at home) a new degustation of another famous ron from the canary islands
It´s called "Guajiro" and is destilled at Cran Canaria
Yeah, even very delicious
Ooouuups
I MUST tell strunki that she doesn´t buy this tooooo little bottles anymore
Good night and sweeeeet dreams
Yours
störte
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Feb 10, 2014, 10:02 pm
today we made only a short trip and visited the Taoro Park in Puerto de la Cruz.
A few years ago they renovated this park and now a lot of citizens use it in the afternoon to go jogging
A lot of different palms we found here
And also nice flowers
Some lizards between the vulcanic stones
White strelitzia nicolai with flowers
And violet lavender
A very lovely place to spend some quiet hours
That´s for today,
love and see You soon
Yours störte
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Feb 11, 2014, 8:37 pm
today we spent a wonderful sunny day at the beach of San Marcos. This is a village near by Icod de los Vinos.
But before I was able to lay in the sun, Charlotte had to put on some lotion on me
See us enjoying the wonderful canarian sun the whole day
But at 6 o´clock we left the beach when the sun went down behind the cliffs
And the best: Nobody of us got a sunburn
That´s for today, love and see You soon, Mum and Dad
Yours
störte
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Feb 11, 2014, 9:20 pm
tonight I will show You a verrry elegant way of degustation: Enjoying a RonMiel in a cup of milkcoffee
No, don´t worry folks, I´m not ill, but I´like the idea of drinking a harmless looking coffee with bumb in
tthhe ssecret is the mixing ratio...
nnoorrrmyllll theyy use to mix it 1:10...means 1 part *hicks* ron and 10 pppartsss cccoffeeee...
Yyyou ccan immmaginnne that Iiii prefer the *buuuuurp* ccccconversely way
Good night and sleep well
Yours relentless
störte
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Feb 12, 2014, 10:20 pm
today I want to show You our nice "home-beach" called "Playa Jardin" here in Puerto de la Cruz
Before we come to the black lava beach, we make a small trip through the nice looking garden part
All sorts of tropical green plants we find here
Will we reach the beach soon?
Yeah, must be coming nearer
I hear the sea all the time and finally now I can see the first black sand
Yes! Here we want to stay for this day, playing and sailing and laying in the warm sun
Sailing?? Did I say something about sailing?
Wooow, strunkis husband handcrafted a very handsome sailingboat only for us plushies
See me sailing with little Hase and my petty officer second class UrselHH
See me sailing with my fearless pirate-brother *Nick*
And here I am alone in my boat with glamouros Charlotte
Here we landed at unknown shores...
Perhaps the point, wich is marked on my treasure map??
No treasure hunting without a shovel
Digging
Digging deeper
I´ve never worked so hard in my whole life...
And then... a red cloth
Good ol störte needs Your help to pull
Ooooouuups
The hoard is yielded!!!
What will be in the treasure chest??
YES, STRIKE!!!! Pearls, Diamonds and all the classic treasure stuff
My pirate dream comes true
Who is that??
"Hello, I am Ali Gator and You set me free when You found the treasure I was captivated in"
"HiHo, Ali Gator, I´m störte and I´m sure we´ll be friends from now on?
(A real pirate MUST have a pirate animal on his shoulder, but a parrot has almost everybody of my pirate comrades
)
"Welcome, Ali Gator, we are ToyVoyager-Plushies, would You accompany störte and us from now on?"
Our hottest holiday adventure
Love and see You soon
Yours störte with Ali
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Feb 13, 2014, 11:55 pm
today is our last full day here on Tenerife and because the weather was still fine enough, we drove to Playa las Teresitas , wich is the only white sandbeach on Tenerife. Usually all the beaches here are black because of the lavasand, but here the people carried fine white sand from the Sahara and wanted to have a white beach.
Unfortnatuly strunkis cam didn´t make one single picture today and so we only have this one photo of us plushies made by strunkis husband
We all are very sad about this, because we had a lot of fun here, even with the boats, but now we are not able to show You all the fun we had.
So sorry
störte
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Feb 15, 2014, 7:44 pm
so this is our very last day here on Tenerife and we decided to celebrate a little farewell-party and enjoying the sundown
And we remembered, laughed and had fun when we talked about our adentures on this lovely island
Goodbye Tenerife amabile
And even the moon waved a goodbye to us
Love and see You
Yours
störte
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Feb 16, 2014, 9:18 pm
we are back in Germany and visited the greenhouses of the Botanical Garden Solingen , because today they are open for a few hours
Let´s start at the tropical greenhouse with lots of plants we saw only a few days ago outside on Tenerife
Strelizia
and Bananaplants
(very important for the yummy bananliquior)
Some nice orchids You find there
Here we are in the succulent-hall and see many cacti
And here we have a short look into the hall of bromeliads
Worth to see this small greenhouses and a nice memory to what we enjoyed a few days ago
And even outside we found some very early flowers: small crocuses
That was our sunday-tour
Love and see You soon
Yours
störte
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Feb 17, 2014, 10:25 pm
today UrselHH and Charlotte will leave Remscheid for travelling to RikeH
and Hase will travel home to Dr. Kröbner
Hase, it was great to meet You and I will miss You
Charlotte, what great adventures we had together
Goodbye You ToyVoyagers, see the World and enjoy Your adventures, we will see us again, someday, somtime
Love and see You soon
Yours
störte
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Feb 19, 2014, 10:02 pm
today Sean arrived
Here we gave him a warm welcome
He showed what he brought, a nice postcard of Bad Salzdetfurth and some yummy gumbears, Thanks a lot, HoBi
Sean and *Nick* became friends while I studied the postcard
Then Sean talked with me, we became friends and *Nick* studied the postcard
We all have a nice evening and will have a great time together
That´s it for today,
love and see You soon
Yours
störte
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Feb 23, 2014, 9:54 pm
You never guess where I have been today: we visited a nice little town called Weert (Limburg) in the near of Roermond, in the South of the Netherlands
Everywhere You see the typical brick buildings, almost in red, sometimes overpainted with white paint
Here we are at the market and because it is Saturday, the grocery market with lots of different booths are there
This friendly guy with his bell stands in front of the Church of St. Martin (Martinuskerk), with its huge belfried dominating the skyline of weert
Here is the entrance
And here is a short view into the church, we didn´t want to tisturb anybody here and respected that they don´t like taking pictures inside the church
Weert has a very attractive pedestrian zone and we found a lot of nice and funny things, even for us tv´s
Look at this huge air-giraffe
Another reasons I like being here are the drinks and the food
And the region is famous for its Bitterbollen
But the very best for me it´s the local beer
On our way back we made a short stop at the nice looking Aurorawindmill
That was it for today, love and see You soon
Yours
störte
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Mar 1, 2014, 6:34 pm
today a parcel arrived, we found it in the garden
We opened it to help HelmutBluepant coming out of the box
Here he is, the lost son and we gave him a warm welcome
Helmut, You look great after Your holiday at rikes home
He showed us the gifts from RikeH and Dicker Kumpel: Nice Magnets from Hamburg and a cardplay
See us playing with the cards and having fun
That´s for today,
love and see You
Yours
störte
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Mar 2, 2014, 9:15 pm
today we made a short trip to the municipal park Remscheid with its little lake
Here is something written about the legend of the so called "Stinthengst", a fish, the king of the stints, who promised the people who caught him sometimes ago, that they will have always enough fish if they set him free again. This saga has its origins in the town of Nikolaiken, a twin town of Remscheid and since 1962 every Year in Mai a huge wooden fish with a crown on his head will be released on this pond.
Last Year the wooden fish has been kidnapped, here are some articles to read about his mysterious disappearence
Here I show You the Bismarcktower with its astronomical observatory on the top
And here You see some impressions of the park and its nice tree population, even when they are without leafs now at the end of wintertime
See me playing in the witch hazel
From one point we had a nice view over the district of Hasten
and we decided to walk there
Here we found some nice buildings
and came to the House Cleff, an impressive example of a patrician half timbered house in the so called "Bergisch Baroque"
See me with the lion head doorknocker
...who laughs first, looses... sorry, but I´m soooo thirsty...
Here You see us in front of the backside of the house
We had a nice afternoon walk, but now we like to rest here, enjoy sitting on the bench for a while
That´s the tour of today,
love and see You soon
Yours
störte
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Mar 4, 2014, 10:07 pm
today we visited the deer-park in Grafenberg
(Well, me in a deer-park... O.K., I know what You´re thinking now... the right location for a wild guy like me...)
At first we met some of Helmuts wild relatives there
A friendly wooden boar allowed us to sit on him
Our next station was the huge free-area of the fallow deer
Although it was very sunny and a little bit warm, the deer laid under the trees and snoozed
But the area they have is really nice
Here we met a friendly wooden pixie
... wasn´t easy for *Nick*, Sean and HelmutBluepant solving me from this appealing lady
This was luck: the wildcat was not sleeping, but outside, that´s very seldom
And another wooden guy
But we were also were here for learning a little bit about the forest here in the "Forest-School"
Whaaat?? learning?? Us?? TV´s?? On Sunday??
But strunki promised us it would be fun for us
O.K., lets have a look inside
A book... with nice pictures
This box looks very interesting
What would we find inside?
Soeren knows this box as well, he´s been there a year ago
I feel tree bark
This mouflon, the badger and the raccoon next to are impressive
a boar and a roe deer
this lizard was also interesting ..and very colourful ...and lives
At the end it became sunnier again and we saw a small herd of red deer
This was our sunday-trip
Love and see You soon
Yours
störte
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Mar 9, 2014, 9:51 am
today we had a nice hike around the Sengbachdam, situated inbetween Höhrath, Glüder and the castle Schloss Burg
We started in Höhrath and found some nice green shuttered houses there and nice blooming bushes
And we met a grass frog in his first trip in the warm sunshine
Here the path to the dam started and after about one kilometre we saw the first water through the trees
The forest here looks very nice and interesting, although there are no leafs
A sign reminded us to be mindful with the forest and its habitants
Here we are in the near of the dam again
Some landscapes here look similar as the alps
And here we are on the barrage of the dam itself. It is a reservoire of drinkable water for the town Solingen
The path is part of the so called Bergischer Weg and we found the sign for it here
Here we rested a little while for playing on the huge roots of this old beech
Almost one last hill more upwards
And we had an incredible panorama view on Remscheid and Schloss Burg
At the end we discovered, that we hiked a distance of about 10 Kilometres. Not bad
That was our trip of today, love and see You soon
Yours
störte
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Mar 10, 2014, 11:39 pm
You never guess where I have been today:
The first Photo gives You the impression of a spa park
But we are in the Bayer-Park in Leverkusen, one of the hugest chemical regions in Germany
The weather this weekend was very warm with about 20°C for the beginning of march and very sunny, so the vegetation looks like in spring now.
Look at the almost open magnolia-blossoms
Some modern architecture of the Bayer AG
And a open view into the park
We rested on a bench with interesting lionheads
And saw a nice looking white lady standing in a temple
Of course we wanted to visit her
She gave us the hint to visit a huge red lion
The lion told us to visit the famous Japanese Garden here
Then we followed his hint and visited the Japanese Garden
It was wonderful there, the exotic architecture and the asian style of this garden donated us peaceful feelings of harmony
See me under the helleborus
And the crocuses
Look at the nice red camellia
Enjoy the colours and the springtime with us here
You can call me cherry-blossom
The garden is rather small, but very various with a lot of lovely details
We all had a lot of fun here
and chilled out the rest of the sunday at home in Helmuts poppy-blossom
That was our tour of today, love and see You soon
Yours
störte
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Mar 16, 2014, 9:14 pm
today we visited the German Tool-Museum in Remscheid-Hasten
Our tour started at the very first times of tools, at the stone-age
Look at me working with the stone-axe
Here we are at the bronce-age. The first tools made of metal instead of stone
And here we see antique tools
And finally tools of the middle age
A small smithy in old manner, nothing changed for a very long time
Here are other examples for old craftsmen workshops manufacturing tools and use tools therefore itsself
Here You see the three areas of tool industry in Germany: Remscheid, Schmalkalden and Stuttgart
The work of a filemaker was very hard
The discovery of transmission made many hard works much more easier for the people
Here You see the huge wheel of a steam engine
And here we see some examples of different tools made in Remscheid and the Bergisch Land
Lots of boy-toys there
There we sit on a time stamp clock, so the workers were controlled that they are at work in time
Here You see a part of a metalfoundry and one product: A bell
A lot of fun we had in the section where the metaltubes were made
The next stations were also interesting: World trade of tools. They shipped them all over the world
Nice examples of older tools and a view around the museum from the first floor down to the ground floor
Here we can anticipate, how it was to live in the neighbourhood of the work
And even outside we found some nice examples of courious machines
What´s this? A Plushie-pressing-machine?? I don´t know...
This was our tip of today,
love and see You soon
Yours
störte
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Mar 18, 2014, 9:10 pm
today we visited another technical highlight here in the Bergisch Country: The suspension railway, called Wuppertaler Schwebebahn is a real landmark of the town
At Alter Markt we took one of the trains and drove above the river Wupper
Here we are in the wagon
and looking out of the window
Here we are at the station "District Court" (Landgericht) and we see a station in old renovated manner
Hurry upstairs, the next wagon is coming
And back again on the railway
That was a great fun and we hope to drive perhaps again the next sector futher on
Love and See You
Yours
störte
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Mar 22, 2014, 8:58 am
You remember this terrible 13th in February, when strunki thought, she had extinguished all our nice pictures made at the Beach of Playa las Teresitas?
Now Helmut found exactly this files deep in his camera space and so we are able to show You our fun there today
First we thought of a second visit of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, but the weather was too cloudy and so we decided to drive a few miles more spending the day at the one and only white beach on Tenerife
See my footprints in the sand
So what funny things can we start next?
Shall we sail with our boats again?
See us racing against the other Team
After UrselHH renegaded, stole our paddles and joined the adversarial plushie-crew, we hoisted our sail and gave our best to win the regatta
and the godess of wind donated us the winning
After the boat race we had fun by doing sanddiving
Finally, everybody dived into the sand
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In the evening we celebrated one of the hottest plushie partys Tenerife ever has seen (and survived)
We had a great time here
Yours
störte
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Mar 24, 2014, 6:23 pm
today I helped strunki working in the office
...I found very strange tools to work with, no swords, no sails, no canons, no grapnels, no rum...what a boring job at a boring place
This is our view out of the office-window
...nice, but not to compare with the view on the wide open sea, I think...
Here are some funny postcards on the wall
as well as a map of the Dolomites, nobody knows, why, perhaps they like having maps and looking on them?
a photo of a dog-puppy, it´s not strunkis dog, but her goddog and an asian topee
... not even pin-up-girls... boooring...
I met a pair of nice magnetic snow-people, they are doing funny things* together in the office-palmtree
...Har Har, that´s the way of having a conversation I like...
So let´s start working with an important telephone call
...and it wasn´t only interesting but really funny (for the telephone subscriber on the other side of the phone line...)
My next task was rubber-stamping
....Gosh!! NOOOOO
...
Lunchtime
...only half an our, the coffee and the meal was all right (i would prefer a beer, but alcohol is not permitted during the work... spoilsports)
...grmbl....grmbl...stiffs...
Next topic was counting the paperclips
Yes, all complete in there ...what a stupid job...
Then I had to calculate electronically
...Battle against the armada would be easier for me, I think...
In the afternoon we had "a very important meeting" with other plushie-colleagues working here
...sssst: the squirrel-nerd next to *Nick* is employee of the week... wooow...
After this almost endless meeting it was time for some sports
Office punch-jump
Yipppiiieee
The eagle has landed
(That was the first real funny thing here at the office for me)
Time for another mug of coffee
...not even a thimble of grog for poor old störte....
At last we had to check the Safety of the sensitive copy-machinery
strunki told me, that this is a work only for professional plushies like me (means: not every idiot can do this...)
Yes, the copier works perfect
...That horror-machine and the www. is the main reason why all the dive bars and hop´s* at all the harbours are able to put up wanted-posters of me...
Then finally it was office closing time and I was allowed to call it a day
...Oh, I will moulder at the highest mast before I´m forced to have such a day at such a place again...
Puuhh, this was my 9-5 for today, love and see You soon
Yours
störte
*for more details ask strunki, but in her opinion I wasn´t allow to write it out clear...
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Mar 30, 2014, 11:00 pm
today we walked the Fruitpath in Leichlingen
Although the weather was not the finest (it rained at the beginning), we decided to continue, because we hoped to see the fruittrees blooming
It´s a nice landscape with hills full of gras and a lot of appletrees, peachtrees, cherrytrees and else fruit trees. The region here is famous in the Bergisch Land for the good fruit growing, because even its in a hign altitude, the mild climate of the valley of the river rhine supports the growing here.
But not only fruitflowers we found, look at this nice "forget-me-not" [Myosotis arvensis]
Here are some of the fruitblossoms we came for
There we met a flock of sheep and look at the lamb, isn´t it nice?
Here are some farmhouses
See us playing and having fun in the chaff
Passing Leysiefen
What a nice walk we had
This was my day, love and see You soon
Yours
störte
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Apr 7, 2014, 11:48 pm
You remember our tour with the suspension railway in Wuppertal a few weeks ago?
Today we discovered one district called Barmen
Behind me You can see one station of the railway in old style, called "Werther Brücke"
Here is the main road, a part of the A-road B7, called "Höhne"
Here between the houses we start our tour through the pedestrian zone
A lot of houses were destroyed in WWII, but some survived the bombing
See this funny and colourful statues
This is the formerly "Hall of fame" , built at the end of the 19th. century. Now its "the house of the youth" and sometimes bands playing there.
Here we play with 3 huge bronce turtles. They have their home in the pedestrian zone and are very popular, almost by the kids who want to sit on them.
This is the town-hall of barmen, built in the late 20ths of the 20th century
And bronce-animals again, but much older, here as colums of large lanterns
A bronce spring with lots of typical elements of the textile-industry of Wuppertal some hundred years ago. The valley formerly was called "Manchester of the north"
And we met "Tuffi"
He is very famous here, in the 50ths he jumped out of the suspension railway and fell into the Wupper. Nothing seriously happend to him
This huge place is called "Alter Markt" (Old Market)
A last view into the pedestrian zone, the street is called "Werth"
This sign shows the distances between Wuppertal and its twintowns
A lion, the heraldic animal of the Bergisch Land
There our little tour ended and we had a lot of fun
This was my day, love and see You soon
Yours
störte
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Apr 10, 2014, 11:22 pm
today we went to Old Palais Grevenbroich
for visiting an artisans market there
It is an old building, but in a nice renovated condition
(...remembers me on my last jailvisit...)
Here is an old charter of Grevenbroich
(...looks like the letter of marque I dream of
)
The halls inside are very impressive
and we saw a lot of nice handcrafted artisanal objects
I love the fine works of the knife- and swordmaker, he even has the right sizes of swords for me
Of course here beats my heart higher, nice spruce for my treasure
...but strunki did not allow to plunder...
After so much to look inside we need a rest
And outside the weather became better and better so we decided to discover the rest of the area and the nice park there
An impressive wooden door
The park with a wonderful nice pond
See us having fun in the bears garlic
Enjoy the golden afternoon light in the colourful planting
This was my day, love and see You soon
Yours
störte
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Apr 14, 2014, 1:47 pm
today we´ll leave Remscheid for spending the weekend at Bad Driburg, enjoying the nice hotel and meet You and mum on Sunday
Packing is very difficult after such a long time away from home, have we all our luggage and the souvenirs we want to bring back home safely?
Good bye to the garden
and good bye, Helmuts poppy blossom, I hope to chill here once again, sometimes
We swear we´ll meet again here
Ensuring, that we all have a safe seat
Bad Driburg, Dad and Mum, we´re coooooooming!
Love and see You soon
Yours
störte
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Apr 14, 2014, 3:21 pm
Behind the main entrance
Our house, the so called "Droste-Haus"
This will be our room for the next days
very nice and quiet here
Our view out of the window
But before discovering the area, we have to check the bathroom and eat some fruit
So let´s start our tour through the spa park at the main alley
The drinking hall
...only water.... pffftttt....
See us sitting on a bench in the so called "Hölderin-Hain
daffodils everywhere
The hugest bench we ever saw
We met geese at the park Pond
and sat on the wooden Bridge
See me sitting in front of the enclosure of the fallow deer
The fountain of the Pond
Helmut loves this place, we found bear garlic
Lots of various bulb plants
That was our first day here, see us later again
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Apr 15, 2014, 1:57 pm
Of course I had to help the boys wich drink we want to order
And of course, the best choice, You´ll know, should be... rum
very delicious... hicks
...the rest of the night I can´t remember, sorry...
Posted Apr 16, 2014, 9:52 pm
We showed them the garden and some of the sofas.
Then it was time to say goodbye. Thank you Strunki for all. Good to take HelmutBluepant with us to Paderborn. He's a good companion.
Back home we showed our souvenirs and finally we tasted some of the spirits we had smuggled to Germany...
yours Störte
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Jan 14, 2015, 12:00 am
You never never belive, where I have been:
I made a pilgrims tour to my ancestors roots and sailed away with the rest of some brave men I picked up in??? I don´t know exactly...
See the proud ship I entered and forced the crew to bring me away
At the first haven we came in, I found a very special christmas-tree, for pirates only
Can You find me??
Jepp
After a while I found myself at this place...
...sober....
or drunk again, I can´t remember
...but the lady in the backround was nice
This pure golden bell was not too big for my proud new ship...
...but too heavy for taking ist away
...Dolphins... nice and funny, but full of hedonism...
this guy betrayed me...
he sold my last rum...
Alone again
...dreaming on my own, how chistmas could be at home...
fruity x-mas scene... too healty for a tough guy like me....
New crew...
similar vessel
same old story happened to me: They set me out alone on an island... I didn´t understand exactly, why...
Here I met my escape helper, a tortoise called "Flap"
After some days he understood, that he had to carry me away from this rotten island without any rum-stocks...
ugly boring place, isn´t it??
Another boring, rum-free place...
Uhhhgh... Dolphins again...
Here ends my heroic saga of staying at the origin places, where a pirate is allowed to be what he ever will be: a hard working man who has to overcome a lot of dangerous situations only for reaching one aim: celebrate hard.. and never forget the ladys
See You soon... in another ocean
Yours stoerte
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Jan 14, 2015, 12:38 am
early in the morning we started our journey to Tenerife from Düsseldorf Airport.
Look at our airplane
The airport was very exciting
In the air now, what a feeling
...then the drinks came and I don´t know, what happened during the rest of the flight...
But when I woke up, we arrived in our quartier
Happy, that Ole is with me
Next adventures will follow, sure
Yours stoerte
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Jan 14, 2015, 10:27 pm
...ööhm... in almost...every haven, I admit...
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Jan 16, 2015, 11:28 pm
hihi, my first spanish words, they mean : Good Morning
Here You see the main entrance of our hotel
This is the hall
The pictures of our suite are a little bit dark, but the rooms are very comfortable
Outside the hotel I found a first nice plant: A tree called "Flamboyant"
That´s for today, love and see You soon
Yours störte
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Jan 17, 2015, 6:08 pm
Today we visited a small hill with an eremitage on top.
We started at a place called monastery, where stations of the cross begin
The way up to the hill is like going to a little botanical garden with lots of exotic and endemic plants
I met a friendly chicken
The way is very hard at some parts
But the scenery there is wonderful
A view on Puerto de la Cruz
In the middle of the path we held a rest
I saw the little eremitage on top
Finally, we are on top
Look at the beautyful landscape of the valley of Orotava
On our way back we found some nice flowers growing the whole year
And finally a rainbow, look
That´s it for today, love and see You soon
Yours störte
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Jan 19, 2015, 6:15 pm
today we vistited the old town of La Laguna
The complete name of the town officially is "San Christobal de La Laguna", but everybody here calls the city "Laguna"
Lots of very old houses I saw there, the inner city was built in the 16th and 17th century, when Laguna was the formerly capitol of Tenerife.
One of the oldest churches here, the cathedral of La Laguna
This is an interesting example of a typical canarian house with an inner patio
Here we held a rest before we went to the market halls
At the market halls I looked for something to eat or drink for our planned picknic tomorrow on sunday
See tomorrow, what the other TV´s had found for our picknic
See You soon and love You,
Yours störte
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Jan 19, 2015, 8:34 pm
On Sunday we went to the sunny south and spend some lazy hours at the nice harbour of Güinmar.
In the afternoon we found a nice place and held, like the canary people on sunday often do, a picknic
Yesterday at the market I have chosen a yummy vodka-mix
The round brown slice is Gofio , a typical canary specialty of the native Canarians, the Guanches
We had a very nice sunday picknic
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Jan 21, 2015, 6:29 pm
today we made a small trip down to the old town of
Puerto de la Cruz and to the Promenade.
We started at the old harbour
(Ooooh yeaaah, I remember this place and I LIKE the harbour very much, höhöhöhöh)
Here at the harbour we met an well known friend mine
We went on and came to Plaza del Charco
Here we came to a very old church of Puerto, it is called Nuestra Señora de la Peña de Francia and was built in the 17th century.
The so called Plaza de la Iglesia is similar to a little park
In the middle of the place You find a spring with a swan
A good example for the typical canarian architecture, mainly the wooden balconies
Near the promenade, the sea is very rough today
From here You have a good sight of the swimming pools of Lago Martianez
Look, Bananas, in the middle of a Town
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Here ended our tour while we rested in a red and yellow Aloe
That´s all for today, love and see You soon, Yours störte
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Jan 21, 2015, 9:49 pm
today we visited one of the nicest urban parks on Tenerife:
Parque Garcia Sanabria
Here we are at the famous flower clock
Seven different alleys lead to the centre with the main spring inside.
Here You see one of the alleys with nice statues
Another view from another alley with palmtrees
One of the highlights in the park is the cactus area with lots of different cacti.
But the main attraction finally here is the sculpture of a sitting woman in the middle of the main spring
This was our excursion through the park.
Love and see You soon, Yours störte
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Jan 21, 2015, 10:45 pm
no, we are not in the Black Forest Mountains, even when the backround of the photo looks similar
In more than 1.000 metres about sea level we visited the trout farm of Aguamansa.
The weather was very very cold, not more than 8°C and rainy, so we didn´t stay very long there
So love You and see You soon, Yours
störte
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Jan 24, 2015, 9:23 pm
today we spent our day in the famous Loro Parque
We passed the entrance
and came to a forest of palmtrees
Planet Penguine
The Loro Show
The Aquarium
Deep Blue
The zone with free flying birds
The Dolphin Show
At the Orca Ocean
We had fun by watching the Otters
And finally Helmut was happy to share his chocolate-banana with us and told us about the advantages to be a member of the Loro Parque Fundacion
What a full day we had here
Love and see You soon,
Yours störte
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Jan 27, 2015, 8:54 pm
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strunki1259@web.de
Posted Jan 29, 2015, 9:15 pm
today we vistited the town La Orotava in the near of Puerto de la Cruz.
The old town is famous for its nice wooden balconies
Here we have the view from Orotava to Mount Teide
Unfortunately the Botanical Garden of Orotava was closed...
So we only had a small look from outside
But instead of we spent some nice time in a Terrace-Garden called "La Victoria"
At the end we had the chance to have a look inside a typical canarian patio
and saw some nice handcrafted cloth
Love and see You soon, Yours
störte
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Feb 16, 2015, 7:32 pm
today we drove to the Cliffs of Los Gigantes
At the [url=Mirador Archipenque]https://plus.google.com/102907400597830545153/about?hl=de[/url] we found this table wich told uns about the possibility for watching smaller whales living between Tenerife and Gomera Island
...but today we didn´t see any whale...
That´s for today, love and see You soon
Yours
störte
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Apr 6, 2015, 8:49 pm
Hello Landlubbers at home,
today we saw another highlight of this nice island: We visited Mount Teide, the higest mountain of Spain with 3.718 m.
See the foot of the mountain at an altitude of 2.100 m
The landscape here in the so called "caldera" is awsome
Love and see You Soon
Yours
störte
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Jun 4, 2015, 11:04 am
today we wanted to stay at the northern coast for having a sun bath, but the weather was too bad. Instead of, we visited this place with the huge whale skeleton and drove back to Garachico.
And here You see the nice village of Garachico
Garachico was lost under the ashes of a volcano in the 18th century
This is the castle of Garachico
...a real good place for a pirate like me, looks like the damish rotten places in the carribean sea...
My friends and me sitting on an old canon
A view on the natural swimming pools Garachico is famous for
...something special is with this place, I have a few thin memories, when I remember, I was here last year... but I can´t remember any details....
Here we find Jorge, a nice and friendly youngster pirate.
Similarities with me are for purely accidental... In my opinion... but he says that he wants to adopt me as his pa
...This small guy has had a hard childhood since yet: he had to earn his money as a cliffjumper, when old rich ladies throw coins into the pools, animating him to dive after the dimes...
Jorge, Welcome in my pirate-life
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Jun 4, 2015, 3:54 pm
Today is our last day and since now we didn´t test Helmuts boats he stored here the year before
A good feeling to be on the water again after such a long time .
Hopefully to enter new shores
This was our nice holiday on the island of Tenerife.
Love and see You soon
Yours störte
Posted Oct 6, 2015, 6:38 pm
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Happy new year!!