störte, Amrum, North Sea, Germany

meckdaniels


Posted Nov 22, 2011, 8:32 pm
Störte exercises entering my bed every Day like a real pirate.  He is planing his first journey
meckdaniels


Posted Nov 26, 2011, 8:13 pm
Störte wants to travel to an international Meeting of pirate bears in Australia
Dolivia


Posted Dec 15, 2011, 6:43 pm
My trip was long and today, finally, I have come in the upper gate chemist's shop in Neuss.
Dolivia


Posted Dec 15, 2011, 6:50 pm
Hardly at the chemist's come and already I must work. I had to add up recipes and the colleague to cash up with give.

I as a pirate allow to work rather, this still becomes a hard nut this here to put through.

In dear your Störte
Dolivia


Posted Dec 15, 2011, 6:55 pm
This was a hard work all recipes together add the first possibility to curses I have been of use directly and have looked me at the chemist's something around.
Dolivia


Posted Dec 15, 2011, 6:59 pm
On my inspection by the chemist's shop I have also found directly Dolvia´s sister Doliva and have talked something with her so.
Dolivia


Posted Dec 15, 2011, 7:44 pm
The joy of my escape did not stop long, I was discovered and had to do directly penal works. I had to wrap up lanterns in wrapping paper.

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!
Dolivia


Posted Dec 15, 2011, 7:51 pm
To ends of the hard working day I could be taken a photo before the drug camp machine. The chemist's shop machine is called here "Murat".


Dad I loves you very much

In dear your Störte
Dolivia


Posted Dec 24, 2011, 3:14 pm
Today is the Christmas celebration of the chemist's shop because I have helped the week so diligently with I may also take part in it. Here there is something to food and to drink. I can be gone well it, I am just a pirate. HAHAHAHA!!!
Dolivia


Posted Dec 24, 2011, 3:23 pm
Food was good, I have also drunk enough, however, what I had to ascertain, only coke and water!!! I am a pirate and want wine!!

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.
Dolivia


Posted Dec 24, 2011, 3:26 pm
Finally, I have found the right vehicle to get away here. Yeahhhhhh Störte the pirate of the Pirtates.... I cooooommmmmmeeeeeeeeeee Hooommmmeeeeeee
Dolivia


Posted Dec 24, 2011, 3:34 pm
2 long exerting days are behind me. I have landed on a party. Here were only women and I have had a good time deliciously. Tomorrow my trip goes on, also pirates have to do food and drink.
Dolivia


Posted Dec 26, 2011, 7:58 pm
Hello, there I am again. This time I was on the move 5 long meets and have landed Aachen. Here there was have breakfast, lunches and dinner. It has tasted very tasty.
Dolivia


Posted Dec 26, 2011, 8:04 pm
I am really full and can eat nothing more. I must make something traces.
Dolivia


Posted Jan 1, 2012, 2:45 pm
I am still in Aachen then here I like it very well. It is just Christmas and pirates they miss also a little bit sews.
Dolivia


Posted Jan 1, 2012, 2:49 pm
And I am still in Aachen, and I search things I with can take, because the petrol everybody goes for my spaceship slowly.
Dolivia


Posted Jan 1, 2012, 2:53 pm
Finally, I have found what, now I simply fly sometimes in the direction of this tower. He calls I believe itself Eiffel Tower. Time see what me there in the wide one expected...


See you soon your Störte
Dolivia


Posted Jan 12, 2012, 6:59 pm
Finally, I have come. I was on the move 5 days and now I stand before a funny building. Now I must find first out like the building is called.

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.



Dolivia


Posted Jan 12, 2012, 7:29 pm
Unfortunately, in France fireworks are forbidden because of the old buildings.


HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
Dolivia


Posted Jan 22, 2012, 7:02 pm
I am limited again in Neuss, I had some problems with the return flight from Paris so I excuse my delay. In the chemist's shop I have come directly a Pilot welcomed. I have of course always one behind thought then I need a Pilot me here takes away. Unfortunately, my old vehicle is broken, hence I need a pilot him my airplane flies.
Dolivia


Posted Jan 26, 2012, 8:08 pm
Unfortunately, I could not persuade the pilot with myself to travel the world, unfortunately, hence, I must take the post on myself. It was very nice here. I had a lot joke. I thank the chemist's shop very much.

see you soon your Störte
meckdaniels


Posted Jan 28, 2012, 6:52 pm
I am back home  and met Dolivia. I told her about my adventures in her chemist shop. I am very thankful about this wonderful time with my hosts there. During the day we 've become closer to each other...
meckdaniels


Posted Feb 4, 2012, 5:24 pm
...missing Dolivia...
meckdaniels


Posted Feb 6, 2012, 9:11 pm
No woman no cry...
meckdaniels


Posted Feb 7, 2012, 9:21 pm
Oh brothers, what a wonderful Reggae-night!  B)
meckdaniels


Posted Feb 19, 2012, 11:18 am
This weekend in Germany we celebrate carnival. Many people disguise themselves. I wanted to go as a knight, but I had some difficulties with my costume...
Because of this I decided to go as a pirate...
meckdaniels


Posted Feb 20, 2012, 7:56 pm
Yesterday evening I was invited to a real captains dinner! My Dad's brother-in-law is a naval captain. During dinner we talked shop about nautical questions, drank the pledge of close friendship, arranged a common journey and said goodbye to each other with a firm handshake.
meckdaniels


Posted Feb 26, 2012, 6:25 pm
Yesterday we drove to Paderborn and welcome Tiffy. Claas and I had created a welcome Tiffy sign. When Tiffy left her envelope, she watched me and shoutetd "Erol!". I had to disappoint her explaining I was Störte. But during the evening she seemed to be taken with me a bit  ;)
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!
meckdaniels


Posted Mar 1, 2012, 8:49 pm
Last Tuesday evening I invited Tiffy to an Indian restaurant. We immediately found our favorite dishes:rum and gigantic shrimps! Hicks...
After a fantastic dinner I entered two indian shoes for a romantic boat trip.
meckdaniels


Posted Mar 4, 2012, 7:12 pm
Tomorrow I will start for a short London trip. So today I had to say goodbye to Tiffy and asked Claas for taking care of her during my absence. I think I'm prepared for London extremely well...  B)
meckdaniels


Posted Mar 12, 2012, 8:55 pm
Yeah, I am back from my great trip to London!(unfortunately I have no photos because my camera was out of order)
I showed Tiffy, the nice seagull-girl my souvenir, which I had bought for us.
I think, it will be a wonderful night...
meckdaniels


Posted Mar 18, 2012, 7:45 pm
Yesterday it was wunderful spring weathér. Tiffy and I took
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  ;)
meckdaniels


Posted Mar 22, 2012, 8:28 pm
Today I put to sea. It´s a journey to Rome, the Baltic sea and the North sea. iIt was sad to say goodbye to my girl Tiffy , but a pirate has to go to sea, that´s a fact!
meckdaniels


Posted Apr 1, 2012, 5:24 pm
Yipiiiieh, today my friend Djedi and I will travel to Rome together with Djedis mom. We told her that we don´t  want to travel in the suitcase(its so boring there and not the right way for a pirate at his journey), so are  allowed to spend the night in the hand lugage
Störte
meckdaniels


Posted Apr 1, 2012, 5:30 pm
Oh, I have some trouble with the photo. I try it again...
meckdaniels


Posted Apr 1, 2012, 5:52 pm
After sleeping the first part of our bus trip, we took a rest on an Italian layby with many yellow flowers.
Tiffy, my dear, this flower is only for you...
Störte
meckdaniels


Posted Apr 1, 2012, 6:19 pm
Welcome, Rome! Our hotel suite was very luxurious! Djedi and I studied the city map, because a pirate has to follow an exact route!
meckdaniels


Posted Apr 1, 2012, 8:03 pm
Today we entered Rome city for the first time: the Spanish Stairs, the Trevi Fountain (unfortunately we are hidden  ;) ) and most important: Giolitti, the best ice-cream parlour!
meckdaniels


Posted Apr 2, 2012, 7:00 pm
Today we drove by bus to Ostia Antica where we visited an old theatre (unfortunately we are hidden again). Then we took a short look to the Colosseum and a long look to Giolitti, mmmmmhhh!
meckdaniels


Posted Apr 2, 2012, 7:27 pm
When we wanted to visit the Vatican, I was impeded to set foot on St.Peter's place because I had no trouser!  :p
So I had to buy one...buying clothes in Rome...very expensive  :o
To cool off we immediately went to Giolitti ;)
meckdaniels


Posted Apr 2, 2012, 7:40 pm
Our last day in Rome. First we got to know old Julius an then Otto, our new friend who will escort us back to Germany.
And al last: a good dinner!
meckdaniels


Posted Apr 2, 2012, 8:00 pm
Oh, I had some trouble with date and place as well. The photo of April the first belongs to the START of our Rome trip... B)
And Tiffy my dear, I didn't have any time to visit you, the Baltic Sea is calling!
meckdaniels


Posted Apr 19, 2012, 7:46 pm
When I saw the Baltic Sea, I thought, it's time to put to sea again...
It would be a good idea to do this together with Djedi, I think.
meckdaniels


Posted Apr 19, 2012, 7:54 pm
Sorry, Bad Lippspringe was wrong, I was in Damp, Baltic Sea.
meckdaniels


Posted Apr 19, 2012, 8:04 pm
So we started our crusade in Hamburg.
meckdaniels


Posted Apr 19, 2012, 8:11 pm
Round Helgoland the Sea was very stormy, the right weather for a real pirate!
meckdaniels


Posted Apr 19, 2012, 8:25 pm
Welcome Edinburgh!
meckdaniels


Posted Apr 19, 2012, 8:36 pm
Welcome Harwich!
meckdaniels


Posted Apr 19, 2012, 8:43 pm
Goodbye, Harwich!
meckdaniels


Posted Apr 19, 2012, 8:51 pm
Welcome Amsterdam!
meckdaniels


Posted Apr 19, 2012, 8:54 pm
Tifffy, I'm coming home!
meckdaniels


Posted Apr 19, 2012, 9:01 pm
And then the great moment came, when I was welcomed by my girl Tiffy and my best friend Mefito!!!
We talked about our experiences and later Mefito retired... :rolleyes:
meckdaniels


Posted Apr 19, 2012, 9:08 pm
Yesterday Tiffy, Mefito and I went on our farewell trip. Unfortunately it was our last common trip, because we all will start to new hosts in a few days.
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!
meckdaniels


Posted Apr 19, 2012, 9:14 pm
Sorry, the Helgoland picture belongs to April 10th... B)
meckdaniels


Posted Apr 20, 2012, 4:56 pm
A farewell party absolutely to my taste...
meckdaniels


Posted Apr 22, 2012, 6:43 pm
Today we had to say good buy to each other. Tiffy, Mefito and I had got invitations from another gentle hosts, where we can experience new exciting adventures.
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!
Zischie


Posted Apr 30, 2012, 10:45 am
Hello dad!

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.

Zischie


Posted Apr 30, 2012, 10:51 am
My host-mum and I travel to Uetze, today. Host-mum studies in Göttingen, but her parents live in Uetze, a little village in Lower Saxony. I'm excitited to meet the two TVs of my host. They are waiting in Uetze. :)
Zischie


Posted Apr 30, 2012, 11:00 am
Arrival in Uetze! :)
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. :)
Zischie


Posted Apr 30, 2012, 11:10 am
Wow, this was a sunny day. First, we helped to thatch the lawn. This was heavy. But afterwards we had a barbecue and played a little bit in the garden. :)
meckdaniels


Posted May 28, 2012, 5:16 pm
When I came home there was no [/tv]Tiffy and no Mefito, but...
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.
meckdaniels


Posted Jun 7, 2012, 5:42 pm
Yesterday we welcomed Konsta. No pirate, but at least a bear  ;)
I think we'll have a nice time together!
meckdaniels


Posted Jun 8, 2012, 8:54 pm
Today we made a farewell day with Hermann who wants to travel home to watch the EM with his brother and his mum. Although Hermann is a HSV-fan(I am St.Pauli-Fan because of the pirate flag, you know) he is a very nice guy and a new good friend.
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!
meckdaniels


Posted Jun 9, 2012, 2:30 pm
Not so long ago it was unimaginable for me to talk with a HSV fan...and today we said goodbye to Hermann and it even was a bit sad, I must admit.
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.
meckdaniels


Posted Jun 9, 2012, 2:31 pm
Ready for.......the first German match!
meckdaniels


Posted Jun 10, 2012, 8:28 pm
Germany:Portugal
            1:0
Hipp Hipp, Hurray!!!
meckdaniels


Posted Jun 18, 2012, 8:18 pm
Germany Hipp Hipp Hurray,

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!
meckdaniels


Posted Jul 15, 2012, 6:15 pm
Yesterday Dad moved to Mum's flat and needed three strong guys...and here we are!
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....
meckdaniels


Posted Aug 25, 2012, 5:03 pm
Today Walt Duck, Dad and me started out journey to the Bodensee. We travelled with Deutsche Bahn. I cared for the provisions. In the evening we arrived at Friefrichshafen and took a  first look ath the lake
Störte
meckdaniels


Posted Aug 25, 2012, 5:16 pm
In Friedrichsahafen Walt Duck and me visited the Seehasenfest, a big fair near the bank of the lake. I met another pirate and we talked about our experiences
Störte
meckdaniels


Posted Aug 25, 2012, 5:31 pm
Today Walt Duckand I visited the isle of Meinau. We crossed the lake with a fine ship and discovered thousands of wonderful flowers and other interesting things.
meckdaniels


Posted Aug 25, 2012, 5:43 pm
Today we took part in climbing tour at the top of the pfänder a mountain in Austria. After hours and hours we reached our destination and were rewarded with a wonderful look ath the Bodensee
meckdaniels


Posted Aug 26, 2012, 11:04 am
Hallo,
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!
meckdaniels


Posted Aug 26, 2012, 11:20 am
Hallo,
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.
meckdaniels


Posted Aug 26, 2012, 11:33 am
Pssst,
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!
meckdaniels


Posted Dec 16, 2012, 12:20 pm
Hello again! Yes, I'm still alive and back from my secret mission. The first part of this mission (together with mum's brother who is captain at the German Navy) was so secret that I'm not allowed to talk about  B)
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.
meckdaniels


Posted Dec 18, 2012, 6:00 pm
Flying visit at home. After several hugs I told my latest experiences to all my friends and my youngest sister Lille.
And today we welcomed another TV: Yuma who brought a lot of chocolate with him. Very good!
meckdaniels


Posted Mar 21, 2013, 11:42 am
Frederik and me will drive to Morocco for the next two weeks. And there's nothing like a nice pirate farewell party...
meckdaniels


Posted May 4, 2013, 10:37 pm
In a few minutes we'll fly to Morocco.
Today we drove from Bad Lippspringe to Frankfurt airport where we got to know Leo. Nice guy!
meckdaniels


Posted May 4, 2013, 10:40 pm
We arrived Morocco without any turbulences. Casblanca is nice I must admit.
meckdaniels


Posted May 4, 2013, 10:49 pm
To Fes by train. The Moroccan specialities are quite good...and the hotel as well.
meckdaniels


Posted May 4, 2013, 10:53 pm
We visited the 'Garden of Oujada', the Atlantic coast (great, an ocean!) and the grave of Mohammed V.
meckdaniels


Posted May 4, 2013, 10:56 pm
The atlantic coast again and of course some fish!
meckdaniels


Posted May 4, 2013, 11:00 pm
Crossing the high Atlas. Ait Ben Haddou: no ocean at all but a desert town...with water in the hotel  :p
meckdaniels


Posted May 4, 2013, 11:02 pm
A pirate in the desert Sahara...
meckdaniels


Posted May 4, 2013, 11:07 pm
Visited a very nice restaurant in Marrakech. Yes, the specialities were quite good.
We must leave now, goodbye Morocco!
meckdaniels


Posted May 4, 2013, 11:11 pm
Back home we showed our pictures to Twixx.
meckdaniels


Posted Jul 15, 2013, 8:29 pm
Time to visit the North Sea again!
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).
meckdaniels


Posted Jul 15, 2013, 8:39 pm
Finally sea air!
We drove to Langeoog by ship. And look: somebody named a street following me  B)
meckdaniels


Posted Jul 15, 2013, 8:46 pm
Today I explained to the landlubbers what it means to live on a submarine or a warship.
meckdaniels


Posted Jul 15, 2013, 8:56 pm
Today we welcomed Laika. Nice girl.
Mausbären


Posted Aug 2, 2013, 1:24 pm
Ahoy!

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! :D  It was so cool, that I trained me new mates to be more "piraty"- it was huge fun
Mausbären


Posted Aug 8, 2013, 9:07 pm
Ahoy!

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 ;)
Mausbären


Posted Sep 8, 2013, 3:07 pm
Ahoy landlubbers!

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  :D

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  :o )

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  :mad:  (even though it looks funny  :)
Mausbären


Posted Sep 29, 2013, 1:54 pm
Ay, today was a very special day, because we spend our evenin' at t' Tschauner Bühne, which be normally closed around this time o' year.

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  :D

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' B)
Mausbären


Posted Sep 29, 2013, 2:00 pm
Today we went t' t' Baumhaus, which be a big indoor playground - which has trees in it, even though it be inside!

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 :o

I really enjoyed meself that day!
Mausbären


Posted Oct 15, 2013, 8:26 pm
Ahoy!

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' :D

It really was a beautiful day, and I look forward to explore more of the great, grand Vienna! ;)
Mausbären


Posted Oct 17, 2013, 2:18 pm
Ahoy!

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  ;)
Mausbären


Posted Oct 21, 2013, 1:08 pm
Ahoy me lads!

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
Mausbären


Posted Nov 11, 2013, 6:09 pm
Ahoy me lads!

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
Strunki
strunki1259@web.de

Posted Nov 16, 2013, 7:21 pm
Ahoi You old landlubbers at home,

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...
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/16-11-13%20Stoerte%20Ankunft/DSCN0954_zps513e790d.jpg
There You see the truth of my words, I swear I´m on the Danube here...
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/16-11-13%20Stoerte%20Ankunft/DSCN0953_zps28c0177e.jpg
Very strange and dangerous passages I had to pass, before I changed into the River Main
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/16-11-13%20Stoerte%20Ankunft/DSCN0952_zps0ca33db7.jpg
Looks very similar to the Danube but I swear by the three beardhairs of devils grandmum that I´m on the River Main now
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/16-11-13%20Stoerte%20Ankunft/DSCN0956_zpsed37c298.jpg
Some days later I reached the River "Rhine", the weather changed and it became very very frosty...
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/16-11-13%20Stoerte%20Ankunft/DSCN0984_zps238aa5d8.jpg
I followed the Rhine until I reached Leverkusen
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/16-11-13%20Stoerte%20Ankunft/DSCN0986_zps19ccc29d.jpg
Well, my "Blue Pearl" sailed in a very brave manner into the river "Wupper"
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/16-11-13%20Stoerte%20Ankunft/DSCN0983_zpsa65e088b.jpg
Yeah, with the support of my round magic compass I navigated to Unterburg and found the river "Eschbach"
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/16-11-13%20Stoerte%20Ankunft/DSCN0985_zps967be43a.jpg
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...
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/16-11-13%20Stoerte%20Ankunft/DSCN0957_zps34d242c7.jpg

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..
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/16-11-13%20Stoerte%20Ankunft/DSCN0958_zpse0e3898f.jpg
SMS (save my soul) I shouted...
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/16-11-13%20Stoerte%20Ankunft/DSCN0959_zpsa60ec082.jpg
and she did, calling to her subjects that they should give me support to land on this sunny shore similar to heaven
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/16-11-13%20Stoerte%20Ankunft/DSCN0960_zpscb131d49.jpg
Then the brave ones pulled
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/16-11-13%20Stoerte%20Ankunft/DSCN0962_zps5c8729cc.jpg
and pulled
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/16-11-13%20Stoerte%20Ankunft/DSCN0961_zps81e3d09c.jpg
My first steps on the ground again... But where I am?
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/16-11-13%20Stoerte%20Ankunft/DSCN0963_zpsca922872.jpg

"You landed at Strunkis Bay", the huge brown an friendly bear told me...
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/16-11-13%20Stoerte%20Ankunft/DSCN0965_zps3a0bbaca.jpg
"Hmmm... I know Your face", I told him
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/16-11-13%20Stoerte%20Ankunft/DSCN0966_zps64d89f0d.jpg
"Yes, I am *Nick* from mcdaniels, Your related by marriage brother from Your dad meckdaniels from Paderborn
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/16-11-13%20Stoerte%20Ankunft/DSCN0964_zps66c3049b.jpg
"Oh what a happiness to meet relatives in the far"

The second welcomer was a nice little mouse
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/16-11-13%20Stoerte%20Ankunft/DSCN0968_zps5f4d1ecd.jpg
"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"
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/16-11-13%20Stoerte%20Ankunft/DSCN0967_zps6c0c998c.jpg
"Hello UrselHH", I laughed, what would You like to be? The smutje oder the shipmouse?
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/16-11-13%20Stoerte%20Ankunft/DSCN0970_zpsb3569e40.jpg

The next precious little diamond was Hase :p
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/16-11-13%20Stoerte%20Ankunft/DSCN0971_zps1742f350.jpg
"Hi, I´m Hase", she sighed to me
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/16-11-13%20Stoerte%20Ankunft/DSCN0972_zpsa82d980a.jpg
"And this is Your famous piercing?", I asked her.
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/16-11-13%20Stoerte%20Ankunft/DSCN0973_zpsa9ad3bc5.jpg
Nevertheless, Hase and me had a warm welcome together :D

HelmutBluepant, the most honest pig I´ve ever heard about
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/16-11-13%20Stoerte%20Ankunft/DSCN0975_zps9ddd654c.jpg
"Hello and folksy welcome", he welcomed me warmly
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/16-11-13%20Stoerte%20Ankunft/DSCN0974_zpse5c53cac.jpg
Nice guy, I hope he will be teachable...

But then.... SHE....
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/16-11-13%20Stoerte%20Ankunft/DSCN0976_zps984c78c2.jpg
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
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/16-11-13%20Stoerte%20Ankunft/DSCN0987_zps57a2657b.jpg
I hope she will like it
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/16-11-13%20Stoerte%20Ankunft/DSCN0988_zps3dff7d35.jpg
Must be a siren, she offers me a fur... against my coldness...
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/16-11-13%20Stoerte%20Ankunft/DSCN0977_zps59e8e105.jpg
"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...
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/16-11-13%20Stoerte%20Ankunft/DSCN0978_zpsd64c63ee.jpg
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...
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/16-11-13%20Stoerte%20Ankunft/DSCN0979_zps446bff0e.jpg
Hmmm... yummy
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/16-11-13%20Stoerte%20Ankunft/DSCN0980_zpsdd714bb1.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/16-11-13%20Stoerte%20Ankunft/DSCN0981_zps48ddf0cf.jpg
I swear, I´m not between any landlubbers, but in seamans heaven, I think :p

Well, my dear landlubberaudience, I think of staying here in this friendly harbour for a while

Yours
Störte




Strunki
strunki1259@web.de

Posted Nov 18, 2013, 8:18 pm
Hello dad and all You old landlubbers in the world,

today it was almost sunny in the morning so we decided to drive to Wuppertal and visited the "Northern Park" Nordpark there
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/17-11-13%20Nordpark/DSCN1095_zpsee078009.jpg
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
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/17-11-13%20Nordpark/DSCN1083_zps8c5ee7ad.jpg http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/17-11-13%20Nordpark/DSCN1089_zps75f01ad7.jpg

Before we went into the forest, we enjoyed the view on Barmen
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/17-11-13%20Nordpark/DSCN1077_zps51c08658.jpg

And found a nice monument, used as a spring in the summer
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/17-11-13%20Nordpark/DSCN0992_zps30ea3a06.jpg

Look at the carved stone, a frog perhaps? Or a secret treasure map??
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/17-11-13%20Nordpark/DSCN0998_zps69e45a05.jpg

We also passed a popular restaurant destination, but the renovations take some years, strunki told us
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/17-11-13%20Nordpark/DSCN1072_zps9ce24288.jpg
(I prayed for a tavern where I could get some rum, but....)

O.K., instead of having a stop there, we discovered the forest
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/17-11-13%20Nordpark/DSCN1055_zps5d97dc3d.jpg

and found nice autum colours
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/17-11-13%20Nordpark/DSCN1004_zpsa0fdc331.jpg
(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
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/17-11-13%20Nordpark/DSCN1038_zpsd790d55b.jpg

And found some nice treestumps where we played a little bit
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/17-11-13%20Nordpark/DSCN1042_zps5df75922.jpg http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/17-11-13%20Nordpark/DSCN1043_zps7fe3e793.jpg
See me with Hase, *Nick* and Helmut
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/17-11-13%20Nordpark/DSCN1046_zps00aeb284.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/17-11-13%20Nordpark/DSCN1047_zps349f2123.jpg
and little UrselHH comes on top

At last, who else? Lotte...
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/17-11-13%20Nordpark/DSCN1048_zpsc1b7c8cd.jpg

I like playing in the trees
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/17-11-13%20Nordpark/DSCN1052_zpsd4e688e6.jpg
(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
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/17-11-13%20Nordpark/DSCN1056_zps08446580.jpg

We had to go deeper into the forest
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/17-11-13%20Nordpark/DSCN1060_zps1c2d63f8.jpg

And found first?
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/17-11-13%20Nordpark/DSCN1068_zpsc7430914.jpg
some last blooming daisy... (I would prefer a beer...)

Will we watch the deer from here?
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/17-11-13%20Nordpark/DSCN1009_zps37087f74.jpg

Yes, here they are
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/17-11-13%20Nordpark/DSCN1021_zps5a234bb0.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/17-11-13%20Nordpark/DSCN1022_zps754964e8.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/17-11-13%20Nordpark/DSCN1023_zps07afd115.jpg

What a bloody nice sunday noon walk

That was is for today
Beer and Grog for You, my beloved landlubber-dad
Yours
Störte



Strunki
strunki1259@web.de

Posted Nov 19, 2013, 6:09 am
Well, today is my birthday... I hate that day... normally...
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/18-11-13%20stoerte%20birthday/DSCN1097_zps78d453e5.jpg
Had a very good sleep until these landlubbers Helmut and my brother *Nick* woke me up...
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/18-11-13%20stoerte%20birthday/DSCN1098_zpsab630c1e.jpg
They promised me a surprise...
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/18-11-13%20stoerte%20birthday/DSCN1099_zps9492ea95.jpg
and sung me, the greatest pirate of the seven seas, a birthday song... OH NO
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/18-11-13%20stoerte%20birthday/DSCN1100_zps07dba6b4.jpg

But then they lead me to a place... THE PLACE....
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/18-11-13%20stoerte%20birthday/DSCN1101_zps039a31f7.jpg

It was a dangerous trip through this rotten cubicle they call house here....
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/18-11-13%20stoerte%20birthday/DSCN1102_zps06f4ed5d.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/18-11-13%20stoerte%20birthday/DSCN1103_zpse012577d.jpg
But then: THE ROOM
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/18-11-13%20stoerte%20birthday/DSCN1104_zpsb429a6eb.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/18-11-13%20stoerte%20birthday/DSCN1105_zpsc00e76fc.jpg
THAT is a birthday I like...
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/18-11-13%20stoerte%20birthday/DSCN1106_zpsc2b27980.jpg
But where are the ladies?
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/18-11-13%20stoerte%20birthday/DSCN1107_zps9458df02.jpg
No girls tonight, but *Nick* explained why
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/18-11-13%20stoerte%20birthday/DSCN1108_zpsb1db27fd.jpg

Look at Helmut foot: A map???
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/18-11-13%20stoerte%20birthday/DSCN1109_zps1b833b53.jpg
Wooooow... a treasure map, I know these things...
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/18-11-13%20stoerte%20birthday/DSCN1110_zpsfdd73548.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/18-11-13%20stoerte%20birthday/DSCN1111_zpsc00997a4.jpg
CREW!!! I need my crew!!
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/18-11-13%20stoerte%20birthday/DSCN1112_zps17c2dc13.jpg
Does anybody know wich island this map shows?
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/18-11-13%20stoerte%20birthday/DSCN1113_zps4d3a5ec4.jpg
We´ll find it out and sail to this place, I swear....


Strunki
strunki1259@web.de

Posted Nov 24, 2013, 7:47 pm
HiHo You old landlubbers at home,

today we made a short trip to the Wuppervorsperre
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/23-11-13%20Wuppersperre/DSCN1172_zps1527eda0.jpg
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
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/23-11-13%20Wuppersperre/DSCN1118_zps32f8ce4d.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/23-11-13%20Wuppersperre/DSCN1124_zps4e4c561c.jpg
...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]?
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/23-11-13%20Wuppersperre/DSCN1130_zpsa1b5c905.jpg
... Perhaps a ingredient for Killepitsch...???

Look at the wonderful autum colours
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/23-11-13%20Wuppersperre/DSCN1136_zps69d16535.jpg
...If every leaf would be a gold-dubloon, I would like the forest, but so...???

A woodshelter formed as a fungus, that´s nice
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/23-11-13%20Wuppersperre/DSCN1142_zps8aa5dfed.jpg
...but nicer for me would be a bottle of rum...

An alley of larch [Larix]
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/23-11-13%20Wuppersperre/DSCN1148_zps397826d4.jpg
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
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/23-11-13%20Wuppersperre/DSCN1150_zpsfa858dde.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/23-11-13%20Wuppersperre/DSCN1151_zpsb7c4b6f9.jpg
and playing between the nice coloured leafs

Finally, we reached the river banks
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/23-11-13%20Wuppersperre/DSCN1155_zpsc73cd20c.jpg
...Well, it´s a pond in comparison to the oceans I know...
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/23-11-13%20Wuppersperre/DSCN1160_zps178e260c.jpg
...Foggy...
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/23-11-13%20Wuppersperre/DSCN1161_zps9b84f89b.jpg
...rainy... and lousy cold...
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/23-11-13%20Wuppersperre/DSCN1165_zps3c33bb0d.jpg
...no way to reach the other bank without a good boat..

But finally it was a very nice trip with our friends
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/23-11-13%20Wuppersperre/DSCN1158_zpsd56966d5.jpg

That´s it for today,
dear landlubbers
Yours
Störte
Strunki
strunki1259@web.de

Posted Nov 24, 2013, 10:20 pm
Sunday: I challenged the ladies Hase, UrselHH and Charlotte for backgammon
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/24-11-13%20Backgammon/DSCN1160_zpsdf4009bc.jpg
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 :cyclops:

And the game ran even more lousy for me...
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/24-11-13%20Backgammon/DSCN1154_zpsd1a123a2.jpg
For the girls astonishing calmy I reacted, when the dices didn´t bring me luck...
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/24-11-13%20Backgammon/DSCN1155_zpsf9169f48.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/24-11-13%20Backgammon/DSCN1157_zps02e88251.jpg

O.K. ladies, I´m Your price...
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/24-11-13%20Backgammon/DSCN1158_zps40a40019.jpg
But first I have to take a last slug of the good killepitsch :cyclops:
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/24-11-13%20Backgammon/DSCN1159_zpsd8179c85.jpg
perhaps the girls guess that I planned to loose the game??

When I looked in the mirrow, I saw: Their revenge was terrible...
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/24-11-13%20Backgammon/DSCN1162_zpse5ced139.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/24-11-13%20Backgammon/DSCN1163_zpsf94d6be5.jpg

I feel like a cheap copy of Captain Jack Sparrow...
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/24-11-13%20Backgammon/DSCN1161_zpsece7e8e8.jpg
...but I must admit, the sabre has an excellent steal quality :D


Strunki
strunki1259@web.de

Posted Nov 29, 2013, 7:43 pm
Hiho You old landlubbers at home,

today we went into the city and enjoyed the Festival of Lights in the Hindenburgstreet
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/26-11-13%20Hindenburgstr/DSCN1185_zps3555af7e.jpg
(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
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/26-11-13%20Hindenburgstr/DSCN1198_zpsd643f710.jpg
(But where are the promised pubs or tents with the gastonomical parts???)

Look at the wonderful star of the Hutterites
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/26-11-13%20Hindenburgstr/DSCN1203_zpse03b014b.jpg
(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)
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/26-11-13%20Hindenburgstr/DSCN1221_zpsd9f2cef8.jpg
An antique shop (A lot of worthy to plunder inside, but I wasn´t allowed to plunder by strunki.... old landlubberspoilsport.....)
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/26-11-13%20Hindenburgstr/DSCN1210_zps433c6a51.jpg
And an organic grocery store
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/26-11-13%20Hindenburgstr/DSCN1216_zpsbc66345a.jpg
(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 mehttp://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/26-11-13%20Hindenburgstr/DSCN1189_zps5d11a1e3.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/26-11-13%20Hindenburgstr/DSCN1188_zps6f755d8d.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/26-11-13%20Hindenburgstr/DSCN1193_zps9d67f198.jpg

That´s all for today,
see and love You, Mum and Dad,
until soon
Yours
Störte
Strunki
strunki1259@web.de

Posted Nov 30, 2013, 6:33 pm
YoHo, all landlubbers at home,

today we did something for our feathered friends, the birds staying  outside in wintertime
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/30-11-13%20Vogelfutter/DSCN1227_zps038267a5.jpg
See *Nick* with the raisins, HelmutBluepant and Charlotte with the vegetable fat, UrselHH with the oat flakes, Hase and me with the grain feed
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/30-11-13%20Vogelfutter/DSCN1228_zps09cb237a.jpg

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.
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/30-11-13%20Vogelfutter/DSCN1233_zps667c6dc6.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/30-11-13%20Vogelfutter/DSCN1236_zps3adbe04d.jpg

So let´s start with Helmut and Lotte melting the fat in a huge panpot
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/30-11-13%20Vogelfutter/DSCN1237_zps920e6a70.jpg
That takes some time to heat the fat, but see how disciplined I am, I don´t nibble my seed
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/30-11-13%20Vogelfutter/DSCN1240_zpsb6e919de.jpg
or even destillate it for brandy :cyclops:
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/30-11-13%20Vogelfutter/DSCN1241_zps48442686.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/30-11-13%20Vogelfutter/DSCN1242_zps78372028.jpg

After a while the fat began to melt
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/30-11-13%20Vogelfutter/DSCN1244_zpsa02cfad2.jpg
See Helmut stiring in the pot

When the fat is melted, Hase and me add the seeds
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/30-11-13%20Vogelfutter/DSCN1245_zps75c733b2.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/30-11-13%20Vogelfutter/DSCN1246_zps8c4c4ef2.jpg
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 :cyclops:
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/30-11-13%20Vogelfutter/DSCN1249_zps62fbf0db.jpg

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
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/30-11-13%20Vogelfutter/DSCN1254_zps1ad681e9.jpg

See me filling the pot
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/30-11-13%20Vogelfutter/DSCN1257_zpsac76718b.jpg

Ready
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/30-11-13%20Vogelfutter/DSCN1261_zps0573b413.jpg
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


Strunki
strunki1259@web.de

Posted Dec 3, 2013, 6:09 pm
Hiho You old landlubbers at home,

today we went to the Botanical Garden Solingen
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/01-12-13%20solingen/DSCN1265_zpsdcc74646.jpg
(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
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/01-12-13%20solingen/DSCN1267_zps0d5c959e.jpg
(Shame on me, I had to run around with this kindergartenkiddies...)

Here we are in the Alpinum
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/01-12-13%20solingen/DSCN1271_zpsb3c1343e.jpg
(Yeah, see me in an Alpinum instead of the middle of the ocean...)

Have You ever seen such a huge butterfly?
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/01-12-13%20solingen/DSCN1278_zps4f7094f1.jpg
(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
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/01-12-13%20solingen/DSCN1284_zpsafb726eb.jpg
(YoHo, roses, the door-opener to the ladies hearts :p)

And a lot of impressive trees are here, too
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/01-12-13%20solingen/DSCN1289_zpsda78b579.jpg
(In this bloody garden must be enough wood to rebuild my 7 ships I lost already.... ooops :o )

Here we are at the lake that is situated in the lower part of the botanical Garden
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/01-12-13%20solingen/DSCN1293_zpsb0863dc5.jpg
(...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
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/01-12-13%20solingen/DSCN1298_zps70a0bae0.jpg
(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 :cyclops:)

From here You have a wonderful view onto the lower part of the garden
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/01-12-13%20solingen/DSCN1304_zps696ff291.jpg
(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
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/01-12-13%20solingen/DSCN1319_zps7762ff2a.jpg
(Good idea for landlubbers, but where is the channel-lane for ships and boats??)
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/01-12-13%20solingen/DSCN1315_zps80f53719.jpg

"Uuuhh, this tunnel was a little bit spooky", the girls and the boys moaned...
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/01-12-13%20solingen/DSCN1324_zps0d6bd10f.jpg
(Of course I was the only one fearless enough to pass through without any shivering bones  B) )

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
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/01-12-13%20solingen/DSCN1331_zps1489142b.jpg
(...donators signs... could be a good idea for my next buccaneering: "This raid was possible with friendly support of the Royal Navy :cyclops: )

Strunki
strunki1259@web.de

Posted Dec 3, 2013, 6:32 pm
Later we passed the nice oldtown of Solingen-Gräfrath and enjoyed the Christmas-lights at the market place
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/01-12-13%20solingen/DSCN1335_zps35b2d002.jpg http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/01-12-13%20solingen/DSCN1340_zps13fc48ff.jpg
(Reminds me on the last old town somewhere I plundered...)

Have a nice first Advent
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/01-12-13%20solingen/DSCN1343_zps221aa341.jpg http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/01-12-13%20solingen/DSCN1345_zpsf2f587ef.jpg
(...even when I didn´t get the grog they promised me...)

Yours
Störte


Strunki
strunki1259@web.de

Posted Dec 7, 2013, 11:53 am
Hello You old landlubbers at home,

"*Snow * Snow * Snow*", the kiddies shouted...
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/06-12-13%20Nick-Nikolaus/DSCN1348_zpsdab7c33f.jpg
(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
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/06-12-13%20Nick-Nikolaus/DSCN1346_zps0f499ce9.jpg

Suddenly St. Nicholas came to us and all of us got a present because we behaved well this year :cyclops:
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/06-12-13%20Nick-Nikolaus/DSCN1353_zps5ca49cea.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/06-12-13%20Nick-Nikolaus/DSCN1354_zpsc1c286a0.jpg
(Pooohhh, he didn´t mention anything about my gallantry-misbehaviours....)
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/06-12-13%20Nick-Nikolaus/DSCN1358_zps95100587.jpg
(...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
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/06-12-13%20Nick-Nikolaus/DSCN1360_zps4f820994.jpg
and sung our happy-birthday-song for him
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/06-12-13%20Nick-Nikolaus/DSCN1361_zpsb3770537.jpg
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
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/06-12-13%20Nick-Nikolaus/DSCN1362_zpsc54d0ee1.jpg
(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




Strunki
strunki1259@web.de

Posted Dec 8, 2013, 5:35 pm
Dear Dad,

Happy second sunday in Advent
wish You Störte and friends :D

We have a lot of fun swinging in the Advent wreath :cyclops:

Yours
Störte
Strunki
strunki1259@web.de

Posted Dec 12, 2013, 6:50 am
Hiho You old landlubbers at home,
today were a lot of surprises waiting for us:-)
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/10-12-13%20Hase%20Pulli%20Soeren/DSCN1366_zps94abbe80.jpg

At first an envelope from Dr. Kröbner arrived
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/10-12-13%20Hase%20Pulli%20Soeren/DSCN1367_zps3f787360.jpg
Hase was totally upset
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/10-12-13%20Hase%20Pulli%20Soeren/DSCN1368_zps1207303e.jpg http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/10-12-13%20Hase%20Pulli%20Soeren/DSCN1369_zps80b6ce1e.jpg
and crawled into the envelope....

After a looong while we only saw a red cap...
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/10-12-13%20Hase%20Pulli%20Soeren/DSCN1370_zpsa935289f.jpg
Tadaaahhh
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/10-12-13%20Hase%20Pulli%20Soeren/DSCN1371_zps9f6068e4.jpg
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
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/10-12-13%20Hase%20Pulli%20Soeren/DSCN1372_zpsd6cb4e59.jpg
and love the angel that was sent by
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/10-12-13%20Hase%20Pulli%20Soeren/DSCN1374_zpsc6891819.jpg
(what?? no rum or any other alkoholic sweets for old störte??)

The next happy surprise was the nice postcard OleOrangescarf sent us
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/10-12-13%20Hase%20Pulli%20Soeren/DSCN1375_zps5e92ca58.jpg
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

http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/10-12-13%20Hase%20Pulli%20Soeren/DSCN1376_zps04af9571.jpg
What would be in there??
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/10-12-13%20Hase%20Pulli%20Soeren/DSCN1377_zps87513d9c.jpg
See Lotte and me creating a new sports: Parceldiving...
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/10-12-13%20Hase%20Pulli%20Soeren/DSCN1378_zps137e0173.jpg

But what about the envelope??
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/10-12-13%20Hase%20Pulli%20Soeren/DSCN1383_zps0c026a5c.jpg
Lotte isn´t able to wait any longer, she MUSt open something NOW....
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/10-12-13%20Hase%20Pulli%20Soeren/DSCN1384_zpsc48fd9e1.jpg

What a suprise... it´s Soeren
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/10-12-13%20Hase%20Pulli%20Soeren/DSCN1385_zpsdf17f528.jpg
Lotte passes out :cyclops:
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/10-12-13%20Hase%20Pulli%20Soeren/DSCN1386_zps55b7107d.jpg

UrselHH gives Soeren a warm welcome
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/10-12-13%20Hase%20Pulli%20Soeren/DSCN1387_zpsfa24a40d.jpg

Hase is very happy to welcome him as well :p
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/10-12-13%20Hase%20Pulli%20Soeren/DSCN1388_zpsf1a5bf10.jpg

Soeren and me: family members reunited :D
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/10-12-13%20Hase%20Pulli%20Soeren/DSCN1389_zps6d0e90e3.jpg

Helmut is also happy to meet Soeren again
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/10-12-13%20Hase%20Pulli%20Soeren/DSCN1391_zps0fad1a9b.jpg

What an eventful evening :D

Strunki
strunki1259@web.de

Posted Dec 15, 2013, 5:05 pm
Hello Landlubber-Mum and Dad,

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
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/14-12-13%20Dortmund/DSCN1393_zps212b5eed.jpg
And now I´m totally upset and we are ready to start having a nice time togther at the christmas fair in Dortmund :D :D
(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
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/14-12-13%20Dortmund/DSCN1400_zps5a1c966c.jpg
(reminds me not to forget drinking the famous hot wine punch here)

See my little brother little Mefito and me
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/14-12-13%20Dortmund/DSCN1408_zpsb456b284.jpg
(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
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/14-12-13%20Dortmund/DSCN1410_zps32800129.jpg
From the left: GustavHH, Charlotte, Hase, HelmutBluepant, Kirin, OleOrangescarf, DottyCroc, Dutchy the Lion, Mefito, Soeren, Josie, UrselHH, SunnyHH, me,Sargent Froggo and*Nick*
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/14-12-13%20Dortmund/DSCN1411_zps15a2b99a.jpg
(and I prayed for something to drink there...)

And here we are together with our best friends, talking about our latest adventures
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/14-12-13%20Dortmund/DSCN1419_zps4571de0a.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/14-12-13%20Dortmund/DSCN1420_zpse1b30783.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/14-12-13%20Dortmund/DSCN1421_zpsf4849a77.jpg

Who else with who else??
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/14-12-13%20Dortmund/DSCN1427_zps006e2ea4.jpg

After this heartwarming conversation, I became very thirsty...
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/14-12-13%20Dortmund/DSCN1418_zps8d99328a.jpg
Cheeeerio, Miss Sophie
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/14-12-13%20Dortmund/DSCN1426_zpsce64b31e.jpg
Eventually not thirsty any longer...

Then, when it became darker, (and I became clearer again) we started our trip around the christmas market
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/14-12-13%20Dortmund/DSCN1439_zps2d94cc2d.jpg

Nice and wonderful iluminations everywhere
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/14-12-13%20Dortmund/DSCN1450_zpsfb498f61.jpg

This shop with the paper stars and buildings we loved most
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/14-12-13%20Dortmund/DSCN1462_zps8e9ece18.jpg
(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  :p )

What a wonderful day in Dortmund with You Mum and our friends
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/14-12-13%20Dortmund/DSCN1431_zps250796b4.jpg
(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
Strunki
strunki1259@web.de

Posted Dec 19, 2013, 2:33 pm
Hiho You old landlubbers at home,

this afternoon we went on the little christmas market in Barmen
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/17-12-13%20Weihnachtsfeier/DSCN1494_zps95ef3374.jpg
(For meee it wouldn´t be necessary, but the kids wanted to go...) :rolleyes:

UrselHH  and me liked this train a lot, but we didn´t find nice gifts there
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/17-12-13%20Weihnachtsfeier/DSCN1490_zps38dda69d.jpg
(... not even worth to plunder and steal some of the x-mas-rubbish there...) :mad:

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
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/17-12-13%20Weihnachtsfeier/DSCN1476_zps28463b66.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/17-12-13%20Weihnachtsfeier/DSCN1477_zpsbad3e3ce.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/17-12-13%20Weihnachtsfeier/DSCN1478_zps232ad344.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/17-12-13%20Weihnachtsfeier/DSCN1486_zpsca2ec7dd.jpg
(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
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/17-12-13%20Weihnachtsfeier/DSCN1500_zpscaf4d037.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/17-12-13%20Weihnachtsfeier/DSCN1502_zpsa1874af8.jpg
(That could be a nice trophy for me: The globe) B)

Lots of yummy eating we had there
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/17-12-13%20Weihnachtsfeier/DSCN1503_zps49abf585.jpg
..and drinks, of course
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/17-12-13%20Weihnachtsfeier/DSCN1504_zpse6c3b4e6.jpg
(Beer, eventually... my prayers were heard) :p

Here we check the winnings donated by the members for the tombola
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/17-12-13%20Weihnachtsfeier/DSCN1515_zps21c17aba.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/17-12-13%20Weihnachtsfeier/DSCN1516_zpsf1e8ef36.jpg
(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
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/17-12-13%20Weihnachtsfeier/DSCN1509_zpsfe693e26.jpg
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
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/17-12-13%20Weihnachtsfeier/DSCN1512_zps1ecc995b.jpg
(Uuuhh... this is a x-mas party, no good idea to steal some of the sheets from the people here... ) :o

And guess what? We won something! Look , the 8th of June was taken out of the lottery wheel and we have this sheet
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/17-12-13%20Weihnachtsfeier/DSCN1523_zpsf8f00217.jpg

The next winnings came a few moments later
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/17-12-13%20Weihnachtsfeier/DSCN1526_zpscd203358.jpg
Hmmm, blackberry liqueur :p

The next winnings came a few moments later
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/17-12-13%20Weihnachtsfeier/DSCN1527_zps72e12e8a.jpg
(First time I win something instead of plundering it.. strange feeling, but nice...) ;)

http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/17-12-13%20Weihnachtsfeier/DSCN1528_zps3ae57102.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/17-12-13%20Weihnachtsfeier/DSCN1529_zps5629c1fb.jpg
THIS will be mine, of course, YoHo :cyclops:

And we won a third time: home made elderberry jelly
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/17-12-13%20Weihnachtsfeier/DSCN1531_zps364093ab.jpg
(This will be for the kids, come on, folks, we have x-mas time, I think I can be generous, even as a pirate..) :rolleyes:

What a nice and lucky evening, we have a lot of fun there
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/17-12-13%20Weihnachtsfeier/DSCN1535_zps0c136bea.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/17-12-13%20Weihnachtsfeier/DSCN1536_zpsdf3ccafc.jpg
(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 :D
Yours störte

Strunki
strunki1259@web.de

Posted Dec 20, 2013, 1:45 pm
Hi Dad,

today we celebrate Charlotte´s birthday and had a lot of fun
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/19-12-13%20Lotte%20Geburtstag/DSCN1537_zpsc9947d04.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/19-12-13%20Lotte%20Geburtstag/DSCN1570_zpsdd5e63d5.jpg http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/19-12-13%20Lotte%20Geburtstag/DSCN1571_zpsa961bc16.jpg

See me congratulating her
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/19-12-13%20Lotte%20Geburtstag/DSCN1540_zps689dae16.jpg
All of us have a lot of fun with Lotte
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/19-12-13%20Lotte%20Geburtstag/DSCN1542_zps0237e566.jpg
...but now she misses her presents...
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/19-12-13%20Lotte%20Geburtstag/DSCN1543_zpsa853b719.jpg
You stand on them, look under the red cloth and under the bowl You sit on... Hihi, we hided them... :cyclops:
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/19-12-13%20Lotte%20Geburtstag/DSCN1544_zpsd9660aaa.jpg http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/19-12-13%20Lotte%20Geburtstag/DSCN1545_zps3962bbc9.jpg

Mylady, my newest trading package, full with the sweetest culinarias, only for You
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/19-12-13%20Lotte%20Geburtstag/DSCN1550_zps78fdda9a.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/19-12-13%20Lotte%20Geburtstag/DSCN1551_zps3c925639.jpg

Then it was time to drink some sparkling elderberry secco
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/19-12-13%20Lotte%20Geburtstag/DSCN1553_zpsa228bfb4.jpg
and eat some yummy homemade birthday cakes togehter
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/19-12-13%20Lotte%20Geburtstag/DSCN1554_zps4c7aacb7.jpg

But before we started drinking and eating, UrselHH reminded Lotte on the birthday card sent by RikeH
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/19-12-13%20Lotte%20Geburtstag/DSCN1555_zps5d9311bd.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/19-12-13%20Lotte%20Geburtstag/DSCN1556_zps13a7d900.jpg http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/19-12-13%20Lotte%20Geburtstag/DSCN1557_zps60ae2ea4.jpg http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/19-12-13%20Lotte%20Geburtstag/DSCN1558_zpsb7b85e72.jpg

And now lets start having fun with eating and drinking
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/19-12-13%20Lotte%20Geburtstag/DSCN1559_zps87533446.jpg http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/19-12-13%20Lotte%20Geburtstag/DSCN1560_zps1ce172ca.jpg

Yeah...
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/19-12-13%20Lotte%20Geburtstag/DSCN1561_zps1e77ffff.jpg

What a party :p
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/19-12-13%20Lotte%20Geburtstag/DSCN1565_zps1f6184b8.jpg

That´s all for today
Yours
störte

Strunki
strunki1259@web.de

Posted Dec 22, 2013, 5:46 pm
Hiho You old landlubbers at home,

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
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/21-12-13%20Muengsten/DSCN1574_zps2a342e4c.jpg
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
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/21-12-13%20Muengsten/DSCN1577_zps55847f18.jpg
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
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/21-12-13%20Muengsten/DSCN1578_zps93152caa.jpg
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
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/21-12-13%20Muengsten/DSCN1579_zps2bd2d86a.jpg
See me starting now, can´t hardly expect this waterfall the oracle promised me
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/21-12-13%20Muengsten/DSCN1582_zps8e3548dc.jpg

After a while we came to this lousy Siepen and rested there a few minutes
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/21-12-13%20Muengsten/DSCN1588_zps1dbe795e.jpg
(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
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/21-12-13%20Muengsten/DSCN1593_zpsa9a79049.jpg

Look at this huge Müngsten Brigde from there
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/21-12-13%20Muengsten/DSCN1597_zps6e60f1b8.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/21-12-13%20Muengsten/DSCN1598_zps39959db9.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/21-12-13%20Muengsten/DSCN1603_zps1076c4d1.jpg
(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...
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/21-12-13%20Muengsten/DSCN1605_zps19696d32.jpg
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...
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/21-12-13%20Muengsten/DSCN1608_zpsa12cdcb1.jpg
Finally, we decided, that it must be a playground

Then we passed a little river-island in the Wupper
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/21-12-13%20Muengsten/DSCN1614_zps7c8dd15f.jpg
(Nice place, perhaps to hide a treasure....)

And learned some interesting details about the fauna and flora in and around the Wupper here
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/21-12-13%20Muengsten/DSCN1619_zpsa233d8af.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/21-12-13%20Muengsten/DSCN1620_zps90afe2aa.jpg
(The river kingfisher I like most, could be an acceptable alternative to a pirates parrot)

Finally we reached our last target: The Müngsten Brigde
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/21-12-13%20Muengsten/DSCN1625_zps39a1c7b2.jpg
See me with my brother *Nick*
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/21-12-13%20Muengsten/DSCN1627_zps020d69f1.jpg
And here our tour ended

Love You, Landlubberdad and Mum,
Yours
störte


Strunki
strunki1259@web.de

Posted Dec 25, 2013, 7:13 pm
Hiho You old landlubbers at home,

today is Christmas Eve and we wait for Father Christmas. But before, we have to decorate the christmastree. Strunki gave us a huge box
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/24-12-13%20Heiligabend/DSCN1629_zpsae37533f.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/24-12-13%20Heiligabend/DSCN1633_zps28677e56.jpg

Let´s have a look inside
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/24-12-13%20Heiligabend/DSCN1635_zps33fa9db2.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/24-12-13%20Heiligabend/DSCN1636_zps092d5ba7.jpg

It´s full of christmastreedecoration
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/24-12-13%20Heiligabend/DSCN1639_zpsd83803ce.jpg

Look, Mum and Dad, what nice figurines I found
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/24-12-13%20Heiligabend/DSCN1644_zpsa85eeff7.jpg
A snowman with an umbrella

I´ll hang it into the tree
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/24-12-13%20Heiligabend/DSCN1645_zpsa037bf3f.jpg

Here´s the next one
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/24-12-13%20Heiligabend/DSCN1655_zpse816ae16.jpg
A little angel riding on a yellow duck
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/24-12-13%20Heiligabend/DSCN1656_zpsd60e0854.jpg
Shall I tell You what? ...I love it...

And I found another one for the tree
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/24-12-13%20Heiligabend/DSCN1664_zps5295ddd4.jpg
A bear sitting in an umbrella

A golden sickle moon
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/24-12-13%20Heiligabend/DSCN1669_zpscf01af31.jpg

Finally a purple bow of ribbon for the top of the tree
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/24-12-13%20Heiligabend/DSCN1674_zps30e5f728.jpg

Now our christmastree is fully decorated and we have to be patient and wait for Father Christmas bringing the presents for us this night
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/24-12-13%20Heiligabend/DSCN1677_zps7e0c5b82.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/24-12-13%20Heiligabend/DSCN1676_zps3e2f2e3d.jpg

What will we get?
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/24-12-13%20Heiligabend/DSCN1680_zpsd35b040e.jpg

A few hours later, when we woke up, the sensation happened:
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/24-12-13%20Heiligabend/DSCN1683_zps8254778b.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/24-12-13%20Heiligabend/DSCN1684_zps199a09e6.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/24-12-13%20Heiligabend/DSCN1685_zps80294b78.jpg

I got a present for christmas!!! What can it be??
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/24-12-13%20Heiligabend/DSCN1688_zps9739a362.jpg

Look Mum and Dad
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/24-12-13%20Heiligabend/DSCN1704_zpsb840b545.jpg
a golden pirate-earring
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/24-12-13%20Heiligabend/DSCN1705_zps8787e0c5.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/24-12-13%20Heiligabend/DSCN1706_zps2d85dbc2.jpg
Well, I like it
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/24-12-13%20Heiligabend/DSCN1707_zpse1a88938.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/24-12-13%20Heiligabend/DSCN1708_zps9706757c.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/24-12-13%20Heiligabend/DSCN1709_zps5938e0c3.jpg

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
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/24-12-13%20Heiligabend/DSCN1710_zps1fb0cda8.jpg

Look at the wonderful christmas card
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/24-12-13%20Heiligabend/DSCN1712_zps2c61928c.jpg
UrselHH reads it to us
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/24-12-13%20Heiligabend/DSCN1714_zpsb510d338.jpg
All of us, especially strunki, are very moved by the warm and friendly christmas greetings of RikeH

Then we open the box alltogether
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/24-12-13%20Heiligabend/DSCN1717_zps061096c7.jpg
and the first we see is Kleine Fee with Charlotte

Wooow, it is a mug with two pictures on
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/24-12-13%20Heiligabend/DSCN1719_zpseb1615ad.jpg
the other picture shows Dicker Kumpel with HelmutBluepant
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/24-12-13%20Heiligabend/DSCN1718_zps1a4180c4.jpg
What a wonderful idea, the nicest christmas present at all strunki said

What a nice handing out of presents
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/24-12-13%20Heiligabend/DSCN1720_zps146b7799.jpg
We all are sooo happy with the wonderful gifts this eve
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/24-12-13%20Heiligabend/DSCN1721_zpsbaca9608.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/24-12-13%20Heiligabend/DSCN1722_zpse7257b0c.jpg

Now let us have our christmas dinner
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/24-12-13%20Heiligabend/DSCN1723_zps81f1b8c7.jpg
Yummy homemade cookies (for the kiddies I estimate)
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/24-12-13%20Heiligabend/DSCN1724_zpse17a185d.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/24-12-13%20Heiligabend/DSCN1725_zps4f04975f.jpg

And even for me a bottle full of jubilee-akvavit :p
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/24-12-13%20Heiligabend/DSCN1726_zpsfd516611.jpg
Cherio, Miss Sophy :cyclops:
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/24-12-13%20Heiligabend/DSCN1727_zps6078ee79.jpg

To all of You
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/24-12-13%20Heiligabend/DSCN1728_zps7a960834.jpg
Merry Christmas

Love You
Yours
störte

Strunki
strunki1259@web.de

Posted Dec 30, 2013, 8:34 pm
Hello Landlubbermum and Landlubberdad,

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
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/29-12-13%20Wuppertal/DSCN1739_zps97754e46.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/29-12-13%20Wuppertal/DSCN1740_zps654e0fe1.jpg
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
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/29-12-13%20Wuppertal/DSCN1746_zps35d7b36e.jpg
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
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/29-12-13%20Wuppertal/DSCN1752_zps67c4d12c.jpg
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?
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/29-12-13%20Wuppertal/DSCN1761_zpsfbd447bc.jpg
A very huge tree this was before it fell down...
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/29-12-13%20Wuppertal/DSCN1762_zpsde8f4dce.jpg

That was it for today, I am looking forward of the last day of the year when we want to celebrate a sylvester-party :cyclops:

Love
Yours
störte


Strunki
strunki1259@web.de

Posted Jan 1, 2014, 11:57 am
Hiho You old landlubbers at home,

today we made a little trip to the part of the Eschbachtal, where the
Lobach
confluences into the Eschbach
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/31-12-13%20Hammertal%20Eschbach/DSCN1769_zpsd9e2ac15.jpg
The area is called Hammertal , because a lot of old hammer mills were placed at this streams

Here You see the Lobach
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/31-12-13%20Hammertal%20Eschbach/DSCN1774_zpsf418ca80.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/31-12-13%20Hammertal%20Eschbach/DSCN1779_zpsbb63ef85.jpg
(Yes, I remember this place when I changed from my last landlubberhost to the actual landlubberhost, I passed here :cyclops:)

After crossing the street we are now at the entrace to this part of the Eschbachtal, situated between Lobach and Ehringhauser Bach
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/31-12-13%20Hammertal%20Eschbach/DSCN1785_zps9c0d7c81.jpg

In the last days a lot of water floated into the streams and rivers, look
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/31-12-13%20Hammertal%20Eschbach/DSCN1792_zps0b4e8f7b.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/31-12-13%20Hammertal%20Eschbach/DSCN1793_zps17bbbe0b.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/31-12-13%20Hammertal%20Eschbach/DSCN1797_zpsce86f4aa.jpg

Here the Eschbach is placed about 10 to 15 metres below our path
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/31-12-13%20Hammertal%20Eschbach/DSCN1803_zps3d921ca2.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/31-12-13%20Hammertal%20Eschbach/DSCN1846_zpsb2a3be42.jpg

Look at this old bridge over the stream, unfortunately is´s not allowed to cross it, because its in danger of collapsing
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/31-12-13%20Hammertal%20Eschbach/DSCN1853_zpsc553ad3b.jpg

Here we see an old hammermillbuilding, it is the Johanneskotten

http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/31-12-13%20Hammertal%20Eschbach/DSCN1808_zps170bbbc7.jpg

And there You can see a hibernation shelter for bats
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/31-12-13%20Hammertal%20Eschbach/DSCN1813_zps45ca68d7.jpg

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 firsthttp://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/31-12-13%20Hammertal%20Eschbach/DSCN1815_zps9a136d29.jpg


There we played a while and had some fun at the stream
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/31-12-13%20Hammertal%20Eschbach/DSCN1833_zps5e3bce4d.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/31-12-13%20Hammertal%20Eschbach/DSCN1834_zps0c3048c6.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/31-12-13%20Hammertal%20Eschbach/DSCN1835_zpsdc971f69.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/31-12-13%20Hammertal%20Eschbach/DSCN1836_zps591c7dd4.jpg

If it would be summer, we could hang our feet into it...
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/31-12-13%20Hammertal%20Eschbach/DSCN1822_zpse66dc2e4.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/31-12-13%20Hammertal%20Eschbach/DSCN1823_zps01f2d28a.jpg
...or my bottle of rum perhaps?

Behind and over this place the is an old small lake
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/31-12-13%20Hammertal%20Eschbach/DSCN1831_zps6a7fe504.jpg
... "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
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/31-12-13%20Hammertal%20Eschbach/DSCN1837_zps69a1baef.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/31-12-13%20Hammertal%20Eschbach/DSCN1840_zps4f723fcc.jpg

That´s our tour of today, tomorrow we want to celebrate Sylvester, the lst day of the Year 2013

Love You
störte






Strunki
strunki1259@web.de

Posted Jan 1, 2014, 5:09 pm
Hi Mum and Dad,

today it is Sylvester, the very last day of the year. A reason to have a plushie-party the world never ever seen :cyclops:
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/31-12-13%20Hammertal%20Eschbach/31-12-13%20Sylvester/DSCN1857_zps16a50421.jpg

So let´s watch the clock: only one hour left for the year 2013
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/31-12-13%20Hammertal%20Eschbach/31-12-13%20Sylvester/DSCN1862_zps33158c30.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/31-12-13%20Hammertal%20Eschbach/31-12-13%20Sylvester/DSCN1863_zps8a60d4bb.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/31-12-13%20Hammertal%20Eschbach/31-12-13%20Sylvester/DSCN1864_zps078a2a3b.jpg

Time enough for our special-sylvester-plushie-meal: chocolate hearts  :p
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/31-12-13%20Hammertal%20Eschbach/31-12-13%20Sylvester/DSCN1865_zpsf6160ef5.jpg

Look, I´m very disciplined in the difficult balloon-balance-dance
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/31-12-13%20Hammertal%20Eschbach/31-12-13%20Sylvester/DSCN1870_zpsf9d50b9e.jpg

Then we have our next game: fishing for fortune cookies
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/31-12-13%20Hammertal%20Eschbach/31-12-13%20Sylvester/DSCN1877_zps4d45f18f.jpg
What for a paper slip-sentence will I fish?
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/31-12-13%20Hammertal%20Eschbach/31-12-13%20Sylvester/DSCN1878_zpsdeb9cc1c.jpg
Can You read it?
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/31-12-13%20Hammertal%20Eschbach/31-12-13%20Sylvester/DSCN1885_zps630d4c35.jpg
"You could meet your dream"
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/31-12-13%20Hammertal%20Eschbach/31-12-13%20Sylvester/DSCN1886_zpsccf5d92c.jpg

O.K., lets watch the clock again
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/31-12-13%20Hammertal%20Eschbach/31-12-13%20Sylvester/DSCN1889_zpsc8857529.jpg

Uiii, almost time for a sparkling plushie wine
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/31-12-13%20Hammertal%20Eschbach/31-12-13%20Sylvester/DSCN1890_zps3a62dc81.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/31-12-13%20Hammertal%20Eschbach/31-12-13%20Sylvester/DSCN1892_zpse46a961a.jpg
*HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU ALL* LOVE AND PEACE FOR EVERYONE
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/31-12-13%20Hammertal%20Eschbach/31-12-13%20Sylvester/DSCN1893_zps9378e42f.jpg

So let´s go on the roof and watch the fireworks
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/31-12-13%20Hammertal%20Eschbach/31-12-13%20Sylvester/DSCN1895_zps02a45783.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/31-12-13%20Hammertal%20Eschbach/31-12-13%20Sylvester/DSCN1902_zpsf245ef02.jpg

See You soon and love You
Yours
störte







Strunki
strunki1259@web.de

Posted Jan 4, 2014, 11:22 pm
Hi Landlubber-Mum and Dad,

today we visited Benrath Palace in Düsseldorf
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/04-01-14%20Benrath/DSCN1975_zpsbb4c73b8.jpg
(Woow, a palace the kiddies wanted to see today...)


Here is a scheme, how the buildings are situated
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/04-01-14%20Benrath/DSCN1971_zpsc56a04de.jpg
(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
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/04-01-14%20Benrath/DSCN1970_zpsc2e06936.jpg

And like to watch the waterbirds there
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/04-01-14%20Benrath/DSCN1958_zps9bcd9e44.jpg
Some swans, a lot of ducks and crowds of seagulls
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/04-01-14%20Benrath/DSCN1965_zpsfab04400.jpg

Let´s have a view to the front of the main building
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/04-01-14%20Benrath/DSCN1955_zps5c3293c5.jpg
It looks as it would be made only for the girls, I think...

In front of the main palace two impressive lions are placed
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/04-01-14%20Benrath/DSCN1948_zps0425bd9e.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/04-01-14%20Benrath/DSCN1949_zpsdf36ff57.jpg
They were gentle enough to allow us playing on them ;)
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/04-01-14%20Benrath/DSCN1946_zps354b9942.jpg
(And I was gentle enough not to eat them, hungry as I am....)

We walked upstairs to have a look inside...
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/04-01-14%20Benrath/DSCN1932_zpsdf9f21a6.jpg
Woow, very nice inside
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/04-01-14%20Benrath/DSCN1936_zps88b435bd.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/04-01-14%20Benrath/DSCN1941_zps5b9589e0.jpg
(looks like this noble box itsself could be a treasure...)

Even a large swimming pool it has
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/04-01-14%20Benrath/DSCN1928_zpsea591b26.jpg
Big enough to repeat my last furious waterbattles here :cyclops:

What a nice place
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/04-01-14%20Benrath/DSCN1925_zpsff390508.jpg
(I must admit, very proper)

That´s our tour of today,
love and see You soon

Yours
störte











Strunki
strunki1259@web.de

Posted Jan 9, 2014, 7:56 pm
Hello You Landlubbers at home,

today we made a very long trip on the Sambatrasse almost 10 Kilometers long.
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/05-01-13%20Sambatrasse/DSCN2002_zps7f06b6a1.jpg

After a short while walking we reach a point, where a bridge leads over the tiger-area in the zoo
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/05-01-13%20Sambatrasse/DSCN2007_zpsda7aa25f.jpg
Look at the funny sign there

We had luck with the weather and enjoyed our walk
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/05-01-13%20Sambatrasse/DSCN2015_zps103d50ee.jpg

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
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/05-01-13%20Sambatrasse/DSCN2020_zps17ef341e.jpg

Here *Nick* and me learned about the history of the Burgholz
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/05-01-13%20Sambatrasse/DSCN2022_zpsdd000edc.jpg

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
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/05-01-13%20Sambatrasse/DSCN2025_zpsfca32d46.jpg
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
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/05-01-13%20Sambatrasse/DSCN2028_zpsa7a9a781.jpg

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



Strunki
strunki1259@web.de

Posted Jan 13, 2014, 12:53 am
Hi Mum and Dad,

today we visited the Flora and Botanical Garden in Cologne
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/12-01-14%20Flora/DSCN2037_zps2506127b.jpg

The weather was very sunny and fine there, with temperatures almost usual in springtime
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/12-01-14%20Flora/DSCN2234_zps14da242c.jpg
Look at the nice terrace-spring, but in wintertime there´s no water floating
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/12-01-14%20Flora/DSCN2240_zps7ac3dcad.jpg

The German emperess Augusta was patroness of the Flora
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/12-01-14%20Flora/DSCN2236_zpsf299b906.jpg

First I found a huge solitaire sequoia tree
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/12-01-14%20Flora/DSCN2245_zps8feec6ff.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/12-01-14%20Flora/DSCN2250_zpscd76ffe9.jpg


Next we talked to this nice, friendly lady and her deer
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/12-01-14%20Flora/DSCN2252_zps39e584fa.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/12-01-14%20Flora/DSCN2256_zps80191b2f.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/12-01-14%20Flora/DSCN2257_zps1dcacc67.jpg

And here a nice example for a small garden and a still smaller garden house
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/12-01-14%20Flora/DSCN2043_zps9978d245.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/12-01-14%20Flora/DSCN2044_zps4a6cb0ec.jpg

And look at the rare green-yellow striped moundlily yucca (Yucca gloriosa)
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/12-01-14%20Flora/DSCN2049_zps584558f4.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/12-01-14%20Flora/DSCN2050_zps1e939c33.jpg
There we played for some time enjoying the warm sun

And see me here in front of the pampas grass
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/12-01-14%20Flora/DSCN2056_zpsb242bb27.jpg
in the near of a nice lake
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/12-01-14%20Flora/DSCN2058_zpse8859b8f.jpg

Here another two impressions of the park-landscape of the Botanical Garden
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/12-01-14%20Flora/DSCN2066_zpsbd34b559.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/12-01-14%20Flora/DSCN2071_zps70a4107a.jpg

This is very unique in Germany
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/12-01-14%20Flora/DSCN2082_zpsbc04f51e.jpg
An allèe only with palms
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/12-01-14%20Flora/DSCN2087_zps90ca5f35.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/12-01-14%20Flora/DSCN2088_zpse8199dbc.jpg
This was the second suprise for us
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/12-01-14%20Flora/DSCN2093_zps23b3d2c8.jpg

See me with a nice christmas rose (helleborus niger)
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/12-01-14%20Flora/DSCN2115_zpsef68cb91.jpg

But this was the main reason for us visiting the Flora in this January
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/12-01-14%20Flora/DSCN2117_zps4937e4f8.jpg
The camellia-show in one warmhouse
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/12-01-14%20Flora/DSCN2121_zps70b2ebab.jpg

Some of the early camellia (Camellia japonica) are blooming yet
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/12-01-14%20Flora/DSCN2128_zps63c70d3c.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/12-01-14%20Flora/DSCN2134_zps9821d38d.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/12-01-14%20Flora/DSCN2139_zps15a1d149.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/12-01-14%20Flora/DSCN2147_zps3822d55a.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/12-01-14%20Flora/DSCN2148_zpsf5ffdbee.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/12-01-14%20Flora/DSCN2154_zps8f512159.jpg

This nice statue we like, but it has a sad name: dying amazone
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/12-01-14%20Flora/DSCN2159_zps5adb1b05.jpg
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
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/12-01-14%20Flora/DSCN2166_zps6d270d0f.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/12-01-14%20Flora/DSCN2171_zpsa48c2953.jpg

Inbetween all this camellia-blossoms I found a very interesting other plant that I hope to meet in a few weeks on Tenerife
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/12-01-14%20Flora/DSCN2177_zps84b9654f.jpg
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
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/12-01-14%20Flora/DSCN2179_zps40a22cee.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/12-01-14%20Flora/DSCN2180_zps62904f66.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/12-01-14%20Flora/DSCN2221_zpsd44bc527.jpg


But we also found other nice flowers
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/12-01-14%20Flora/DSCN2160_zps8732de73.jpg
See me with *Nick*

And see the giant groundsel (Senecio grandiflorus)
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/12-01-14%20Flora/DSCN2200_zpsfe553ec5.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/12-01-14%20Flora/DSCN2208_zps1bdf6ef4.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/12-01-14%20Flora/DSCN2209_zps18994741.jpg

And here we have the Chilean bellflower (Lapageria rosea)
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/12-01-14%20Flora/DSCN2195_zps15d6832b.jpg

Another nice station with other camellia-varieties
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/12-01-14%20Flora/DSCN2191_zps9d2a90ce.jpg

What a wonderful place
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/12-01-14%20Flora/DSCN2187_zps087c6152.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/12-01-14%20Flora/DSCN2188_zpsb7171aae.jpg

This blossom I like most
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/12-01-14%20Flora/DSCN2216_zpsb8c4840b.jpg

And even outside the warmhouse we find some blooming and frostresistant camellias
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/12-01-14%20Flora/DSCN2098_zps3febf34a.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/12-01-14%20Flora/DSCN2105_zpsd6624efe.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/12-01-14%20Flora/DSCN2110_zpsabd2ad2b.jpg

What a wonderful nice day we had
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/12-01-14%20Flora/DSCN2228_zpsba3b2076.jpg
See and Love You all
Yours
störte
Strunki
strunki1259@web.de

Posted Jan 18, 2014, 9:17 pm
Hiho You old landlubbers at home,

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....
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/18-01-14%20Garten/DSCN2277_zps6a8a7bd4.jpg
We started in the flower box and they enjoyed the purple primeroses while I was looking for a beer....
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/18-01-14%20Garten/DSCN2278_zps02f15d56.jpg
See me with Hase .. the little bombshell :cyclops:

After a while I wanted to see what´s going on in the garden and climbed agile as I am on the apple tree :cyclops:
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/18-01-14%20Garten/DSCN2270_zps31af148c.jpg
Well, the garden looks very messy... Like Captain Blackbeards "Jolly Roger" I´ve never seen such a lousy place...
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/18-01-14%20Garten/DSCN2283_zpscdc7ab0a.jpg

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 :cyclops:
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/18-01-14%20Garten/DSCN2308_zps4ca392bf.jpg
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
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/18-01-14%20Garten/DSCN2288_zps742a4658.jpg
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
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/18-01-14%20Garten/DSCN2293_zpsb686e575.jpg
and the first little rosettes of the sedum
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/18-01-14%20Garten/DSCN2275_zps2b65539e.jpg

Finally I had to put the foliage into the barrel for bringing it to the composter
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/18-01-14%20Garten/DSCN2298_zpsb0a91931.jpg

... had to be a peaceful, silent and harmonic afternoon until we heard a yell...
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/18-01-14%20Garten/DSCN2301_zps2819eee8.jpg
of course... who else?? Lotte fell into the barrel...
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/18-01-14%20Garten/DSCN2303_zps482ac6c7.jpg
graceful she shins up to the edge

What a nice and funny end of the afternoon
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/18-01-14%20Garten/DSCN2304_zpsa296ba49.jpg

That´s all for today
See and love You
Yours
störte


Strunki
strunki1259@web.de

Posted Jan 19, 2014, 10:01 pm
Hiho You old landlubbers at home,

because last week we felt so nice in Cologne , we wanted to come back to the city again for visiting the huge Dome today.
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/19-01-14%20Koeln-Dom-Flora/DSCN2320_zps37804485.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/19-01-14%20Koeln-Dom-Flora/DSCN2316_zps2017f667.jpg
See the imposant skyline from the other side of the rhine
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/19-01-14%20Koeln-Dom-Flora/DSCN2317_zpsf9b6db75.jpg

So we started and went over the Hohenzollernbridge
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/19-01-14%20Koeln-Dom-Flora/DSCN2321_zpsdac0cd7e.jpg

In the middle of the bridge a huge rhine-freighter passed under us
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/19-01-14%20Koeln-Dom-Flora/DSCN2325_zpsf7f49380.jpg
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
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/19-01-14%20Koeln-Dom-Flora/DSCN2331_zps9c8ddd7e.jpg

Here, from the end of the bridge, we have a first close look on the huge Cologne Cathedral
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/19-01-14%20Koeln-Dom-Flora/DSCN2336_zps0b2a74d9.jpg

Such an impressive building
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/19-01-14%20Koeln-Dom-Flora/DSCN2341_zps802ad80e.jpg

See the two migthy towers
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/19-01-14%20Koeln-Dom-Flora/DSCN2346_zps6b7fb3b2.jpg
and the huge main portals
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/19-01-14%20Koeln-Dom-Flora/DSCN2351_zpsa382ce0a.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/19-01-14%20Koeln-Dom-Flora/DSCN2356_zps9a7a59b1.jpg
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
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/19-01-14%20Koeln-Dom-Flora/DSCN2361_zpsd0e07f32.jpg
Just now a liturgy service was celebrated there, so we didn´t want to disturbe the attendants and stayed only a short moment
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/19-01-14%20Koeln-Dom-Flora/DSCN2366_zps2fd6674a.jpg

Before we left the cathredral, we admired the colourful crib, wich is part of the "cologne route of cribs"
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/19-01-14%20Koeln-Dom-Flora/DSCN2369_zpsfdf9cb12.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/19-01-14%20Koeln-Dom-Flora/DSCN2370_zps3111355b.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/19-01-14%20Koeln-Dom-Flora/DSCN2371_zps73a9558f.jpg

Some last impressions of the Cathedral from outside
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/19-01-14%20Koeln-Dom-Flora/DSCN2380_zps568687a0.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/19-01-14%20Koeln-Dom-Flora/DSCN2375_zpsd7fd76ba.jpg

In the near we found this nice spring, it is the so called Heinzelmännchenbrunnen
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/19-01-14%20Koeln-Dom-Flora/DSCN2382_zps0a8dccac.jpg
Here we are in the oldtown now and see one of the Roman Churches of Cologne
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/19-01-14%20Koeln-Dom-Flora/DSCN2386_zpsb5ae279e.jpg
This is Great St. Martin

And here we see St. Kunibert
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/19-01-14%20Koeln-Dom-Flora/DSCN2391_zpsf6ead021.jpg

Here is an old tower inbetween modern buildings
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/19-01-14%20Koeln-Dom-Flora/DSCN2397_zpsac02e3b0.jpg

On our way by foot to the Flora we pass the Cologne Sculpture Park
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/19-01-14%20Koeln-Dom-Flora/DSCN2403_zpsf63c35a0.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/19-01-14%20Koeln-Dom-Flora/DSCN2405_zps832f9775.jpg

This sculpture I like most :cyclops:
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/19-01-14%20Koeln-Dom-Flora/DSCN2408_zps8a7617d5.jpg

And here we reach the main entrance of the Flora You already know from the last week ago
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/19-01-14%20Koeln-Dom-Flora/DSCN2414_zpsdde100cf.jpg

We know the place but I wanted to visit the tropical greenhouses we weren´t able to visit last week
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/19-01-14%20Koeln-Dom-Flora/DSCN2419_zps5e5a55c0.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/19-01-14%20Koeln-Dom-Flora/DSCN2424_zps5e5f016e.jpg

Here we hve fun between the cacti in the Succulent house
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/19-01-14%20Koeln-Dom-Flora/DSCN2431_zpse13f1e26.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/19-01-14%20Koeln-Dom-Flora/DSCN2434_zps34cf74a6.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/19-01-14%20Koeln-Dom-Flora/DSCN2435_zps41e9b3f8.jpg

And this is a flower we are very happy to see today, the nice yellow winter aconite [Eranthis hyemalis]
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/19-01-14%20Koeln-Dom-Flora/DSCN2429_zps0e5e57aa.jpg

This was our great walk in Cologne
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/19-01-14%20Koeln-Dom-Flora/DSCN2439_zpsc464076c.jpg

See and love You
Yours
störte
Strunki
strunki1259@web.de

Posted Jan 25, 2014, 7:27 pm
Hiho You old landlubbers at home,

do You remember the map HelmutBluepant and *Nick* gave me as a birthday present some months ago?
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/25-01-14%20Reisevorbereitungen/DSCN1111sw_zps5b444e89.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/25-01-14%20Reisevorbereitungen/DSCN1112sw_zps6214227b.jpg

today I need the help of my plushie-crew, I said to them...
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/25-01-14%20Reisevorbereitungen/DSCN2441_zpsf870b85a.jpg
"Until now I wasn´t able to find out yet, wich island this map shows", I told them
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/25-01-14%20Reisevorbereitungen/DSCN2442_zps2a6b0932.jpg

So would You help me to identify an island that has got the same shape or silhouette?
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/25-01-14%20Reisevorbereitungen/DSCN2443_zps663c55ac.jpg
On the first map we didn´t find any island that comes into question...
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/25-01-14%20Reisevorbereitungen/DSCN2444_zpsdb464471.jpg
The second one was also a failure...
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/25-01-14%20Reisevorbereitungen/DSCN2445_zps16324437.jpg
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 :D
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/25-01-14%20Reisevorbereitungen/DSCN2453_zps2ed1cd91.jpg
Hey, that is tenerife, the island we will travel to in a few days, oh what luck we have :cyclops:

So let´s pack our things we need there to go on holiday and for the treasure hunt
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/25-01-14%20Reisevorbereitungen/DSCN2454_zps3ad83179.jpg
what a lot of stuff...
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/25-01-14%20Reisevorbereitungen/DSCN2455_zps63aac76f.jpg

I will take this special rubber beach ball, in case of need we can us it as a cannonball...
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/25-01-14%20Reisevorbereitungen/DSCN2459_zps857a5b42.jpg

So we pack our bunch and are glad that our great adventure will start
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/25-01-14%20Reisevorbereitungen/DSCN2461_zps0b901f45.jpg

Tenerife, we are coming
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/25-01-14%20Reisevorbereitungen/DSCN2447_zpsbad0117d.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/25-01-14%20Reisevorbereitungen/DSCN2446_zpscee6a6af.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/25-01-14%20Reisevorbereitungen/DSCN2451_zps5106e110.jpg

...tbc

Strunki
strunki1259@web.de

Posted Jan 27, 2014, 10:56 pm
Hi Landlubber-Mum and Dad,

today too early in the morning, at three o´clock we started our big tour to Tenerife

http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/7-01-14%20Airport-Flug-Ankunft/27-01-14%20Airport-Flug-Ankunft/DSCN2462_zpsb095a0a0.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/7-01-14%20Airport-Flug-Ankunft/27-01-14%20Airport-Flug-Ankunft/DSCN2463_zps2c12edd3.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/7-01-14%20Airport-Flug-Ankunft/27-01-14%20Airport-Flug-Ankunft/DSCN2467_zpsce6a01c2.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/7-01-14%20Airport-Flug-Ankunft/27-01-14%20Airport-Flug-Ankunft/DSCN2468_zps19d00a91.jpg

Here we are at the departure gate and discover the area while we waiting that the boarding will start
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/7-01-14%20Airport-Flug-Ankunft/27-01-14%20Airport-Flug-Ankunft/DSCN2472_zpsaddd1195.jpg

First palm impressions
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/7-01-14%20Airport-Flug-Ankunft/27-01-14%20Airport-Flug-Ankunft/DSCN2483_zpscb20c542.jpg

And we met the camel, Charlotte told the others about a few days ago
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/7-01-14%20Airport-Flug-Ankunft/27-01-14%20Airport-Flug-Ankunft/DSCN2485_zpsfee34564.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/7-01-14%20Airport-Flug-Ankunft/27-01-14%20Airport-Flug-Ankunft/DSCN2486_zps902febca.jpg

This is our jumbo that will bring us to the island. The flight will take about four and a half hour
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/7-01-14%20Airport-Flug-Ankunft/27-01-14%20Airport-Flug-Ankunft/DSCN2478_zps38858d35.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/7-01-14%20Airport-Flug-Ankunft/27-01-14%20Airport-Flug-Ankunft/DSCN2474_zps21b93e02.jpg

Boarding completed :D
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/7-01-14%20Airport-Flug-Ankunft/27-01-14%20Airport-Flug-Ankunft/DSCN2525_zpsb59348d1.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/7-01-14%20Airport-Flug-Ankunft/27-01-14%20Airport-Flug-Ankunft/DSCN2526_zpsee06f0ce.jpg

After a hour the stewardesses served us a small breakfast
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/7-01-14%20Airport-Flug-Ankunft/27-01-14%20Airport-Flug-Ankunft/DSCN2488_zps22a18794.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/7-01-14%20Airport-Flug-Ankunft/27-01-14%20Airport-Flug-Ankunft/DSCN2490_zpsd1eb56c4.jpg

The beginning of the sunrising after one and half our in the air
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/7-01-14%20Airport-Flug-Ankunft/27-01-14%20Airport-Flug-Ankunft/DSCN2498_zpsbafe8bdd.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/7-01-14%20Airport-Flug-Ankunft/27-01-14%20Airport-Flug-Ankunft/DSCN2511_zps142065e3.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/7-01-14%20Airport-Flug-Ankunft/27-01-14%20Airport-Flug-Ankunft/DSCN2513_zps314e8bda.jpg

...Who else needed "the bag"??
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/7-01-14%20Airport-Flug-Ankunft/27-01-14%20Airport-Flug-Ankunft/DSCN2500_zps7f693b9e.jpg
Poor Lotte...

Time went fast by watching the latest smurf-movie
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/7-01-14%20Airport-Flug-Ankunft/27-01-14%20Airport-Flug-Ankunft/DSCN2538_zpsb74d7872.jpg

We had very nice weather for the flight
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/7-01-14%20Airport-Flug-Ankunft/27-01-14%20Airport-Flug-Ankunft/DSCN2520_zpsdc6209d3.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/7-01-14%20Airport-Flug-Ankunft/27-01-14%20Airport-Flug-Ankunft/DSCN2532_zpsbb99ad27.jpg

And then, suddenly, after four hours, the first impressions from the island of tenerife
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/7-01-14%20Airport-Flug-Ankunft/27-01-14%20Airport-Flug-Ankunft/DSCN2547_zpsb7f34ddd.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/7-01-14%20Airport-Flug-Ankunft/27-01-14%20Airport-Flug-Ankunft/DSCN2552_zpsf4e639c7.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/7-01-14%20Airport-Flug-Ankunft/27-01-14%20Airport-Flug-Ankunft/DSCN2557_zps64a1d631.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/7-01-14%20Airport-Flug-Ankunft/27-01-14%20Airport-Flug-Ankunft/DSCN2563_zpscf464d63.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/7-01-14%20Airport-Flug-Ankunft/27-01-14%20Airport-Flug-Ankunft/DSCN2568_zps0250488a.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/7-01-14%20Airport-Flug-Ankunft/27-01-14%20Airport-Flug-Ankunft/DSCN2580_zps9678a304.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/7-01-14%20Airport-Flug-Ankunft/27-01-14%20Airport-Flug-Ankunft/DSCN2585_zpsc1e0fb3a.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/7-01-14%20Airport-Flug-Ankunft/27-01-14%20Airport-Flug-Ankunft/DSCN2593_zps57c86955.jpg

...tbc
Strunki
strunki1259@web.de

Posted Jan 27, 2014, 11:18 pm

And here we reach our hotel
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/7-01-14%20Airport-Flug-Ankunft/27-01-14%20Airport-Flug-Ankunft/DSCN2619_zps9215f2a8.jpg

A first meeting with the big sleeping-Orca ad the Manatee, the had to travel as cargo-luggage...
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/7-01-14%20Airport-Flug-Ankunft/27-01-14%20Airport-Flug-Ankunft/DSCN2595_zps168c3e6c.jpg

And first views from the balcony
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/7-01-14%20Airport-Flug-Ankunft/27-01-14%20Airport-Flug-Ankunft/DSCN2608_zpse85f7a7b.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/7-01-14%20Airport-Flug-Ankunft/27-01-14%20Airport-Flug-Ankunft/DSCN2609_zps0fa5ae00.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/7-01-14%20Airport-Flug-Ankunft/27-01-14%20Airport-Flug-Ankunft/DSCN2610_zps40aa5daa.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/7-01-14%20Airport-Flug-Ankunft/27-01-14%20Airport-Flug-Ankunft/DSCN2611_zpsfd745f5c.jpg

That was our first day here on tenerife and a lot more nice days will follow
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/7-01-14%20Airport-Flug-Ankunft/27-01-14%20Airport-Flug-Ankunft/DSCN2615_zpsfc4ef345.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/7-01-14%20Airport-Flug-Ankunft/27-01-14%20Airport-Flug-Ankunft/DSCN2616_zpsaf4f7d8f.jpg

Love and see You soon
Yours
störte

Strunki
strunki1259@web.de

Posted Jan 27, 2014, 11:32 pm
Well, You old landlubbers,

as You should know I am a lover of good drinks :p
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/7-01-14%20Airport-Flug-Ankunft/27-01-14%20Airport-Flug-Ankunft/DSCN2622_zps6b2ff79d.jpg

And here on tenerife I have the high aim to test the uncountable local spirits
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/7-01-14%20Airport-Flug-Ankunft/27-01-14%20Airport-Flug-Ankunft/DSCN2623_zpsd8ab77b9.jpg

This stuff is called "RonMiel, it is rum with honey
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/7-01-14%20Airport-Flug-Ankunft/27-01-14%20Airport-Flug-Ankunft/DSCN2625_zps1c942a50.jpg

I belive I can fly :cyclops:  :cyclops:  :cyclops:
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/7-01-14%20Airport-Flug-Ankunft/27-01-14%20Airport-Flug-Ankunft/DSCN2624_zpsb97d9bf3.jpg

What a great invention of these islands  :p

Don´t worry folks, I am all rght

Yours störte
Strunki
strunki1259@web.de

Posted Jan 28, 2014, 9:38 pm
Hello Mum and Dad,

today we visited the oldtown of La Orotava
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/28-01-14%20Orotava/DSCN2631_zps98ee02cd.jpg
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
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/28-01-14%20Orotava/DSCN2641_zpsc521e352.jpg
This building was planned being a tomb, but it never used to be one
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/28-01-14%20Orotava/DSCN2636_zps9e461aa1.jpg
When we went the steps down, we found this nice huge vase
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/28-01-14%20Orotava/DSCN2644_zpsbfff052f.jpg
Some blooming orange daylilies [hemerocallis]
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/28-01-14%20Orotava/DSCN2648_zps547f3bcc.jpg
The view on the garden from the base
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/28-01-14%20Orotava/DSCN2643_zps58902149.jpg
A first coffee with milk, in spain we order "una café con leche, por favour"
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/28-01-14%20Orotava/DSCN2654_zpsbb2acb36.jpg

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
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/28-01-14%20Orotava/DSCN2659_zps0a70f24d.jpg
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
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/28-01-14%20Orotava/DSCN2664_zpse8c8c05c.jpg
This is a Abyssinian or red banana [Ensete ventricosum], it looks nice with its red leafstalk, but it doesn´t have any fruit
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/28-01-14%20Orotava/DSCN2669_zps743e902d.jpg
And here we have a bird of paradise [Strelitzia reginae]
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/28-01-14%20Orotava/DSCN2674_zpsa06d4154.jpg
An anthuria
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/28-01-14%20Orotava/DSCN2681_zps9a157408.jpg
A final view into the park before we leave this peaceful green place in the middle of this buzzy town
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/28-01-14%20Orotava/DSCN2686_zps2b425821.jpg

Our next point of interest is the church Nuestra Senora de la Concepcion with its nice orange dome and two imposant towers
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/28-01-14%20Orotava/DSCN2696_zpsa38b64e6.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/28-01-14%20Orotava/DSCN2701_zpsacdfbbcc.jpg
Let´s have a short view inside
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/28-01-14%20Orotava/DSCN2691_zpse79f2230.jpg

Our final visit in La Orotava belonged to the houses with typical canarian wooden balconies, the so called "Casas del los balcones"
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/28-01-14%20Orotava/DSCN2706_zps968e68f7.jpg
The balconies there are carved in a very nice manner
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/28-01-14%20Orotava/DSCN2711_zps048194ec.jpg
The patio of one house we were able to visit
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/28-01-14%20Orotava/DSCN2717_zpse97754d2.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/28-01-14%20Orotava/DSCN2722_zps0c304c83.jpg

What a nice and full day in La Orotava
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/28-01-14%20Orotava/DSCN2713_zpsce6c16a8.jpg
This was it for today,
love and see you soon
Yours
störte


Strunki
strunki1259@web.de

Posted Jan 28, 2014, 10:13 pm

Hello Fans of the spiritual taste :p

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
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/28-01-14%20Orotava/DSCN2724_zps21fe961f.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/28-01-14%20Orotava/DSCN2725_zps76b3fa1b.jpg
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...
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/28-01-14%20Orotava/DSCN2726_zpsaaa92985.jpg
Wooooow :cyclops:
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/28-01-14%20Orotava/DSCN2727_zps6974f32d.jpg
wwwish You a good nighhht.. aand see You tommorrow eve B)
Yours  :p brave störte :cyclops:
Strunki
strunki1259@web.de

Posted Jan 29, 2014, 9:40 pm
Hi Mum and Dad,

today we visited the beautyful smalltown of Garachico in the North-West of Tenerife
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/29-01-14%20Garachico/DSCN2731_zps666ea113.jpg
Here the views from the top
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/29-01-14%20Garachico/DSCN2740_zps9e793d0c.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/29-01-14%20Garachico/DSCN2741_zpsb235bfa0.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/29-01-14%20Garachico/DSCN2747_zps4be63e9c.jpg

And here we are in front of the oldtown
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/29-01-14%20Garachico/DSCN2749_zps8943e1c7.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/29-01-14%20Garachico/DSCN2753_zps82e7060c.jpg

Some first impressions of the oldtown
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/29-01-14%20Garachico/DSCN2758_zpsd6cc423d.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/29-01-14%20Garachico/DSCN2760_zps37e26e09.jpg

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"
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/29-01-14%20Garachico/DSCN2765_zps39d60ba3.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/29-01-14%20Garachico/DSCN2770_zps34b8f68c.jpg

Some nice hibiscus there
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/29-01-14%20Garachico/DSCN2775_zps2d82c416.jpg

The next sight is the curch of Santa Ana with its typical tower
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/29-01-14%20Garachico/DSCN2780_zps5c6ebbf7.jpg

And here we are in the centre of the oldtown, even the typial canarian balconies we found there
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/29-01-14%20Garachico/DSCN2788_zps0f3b1f26.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/29-01-14%20Garachico/DSCN2789_zpsfda54907.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/29-01-14%20Garachico/DSCN2800_zps218ecdb5.jpg

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 :p
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/29-01-14%20Garachico/DSCN2795_zpsa9f52ec8.jpg
(My real-mans-drink will follow in the evening, hoho B) )

Because of the rough sea, the natural swimming pools are closed, what a pity :thinking:
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/29-01-14%20Garachico/DSCN2802_zpsd1a78820.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/29-01-14%20Garachico/DSCN2803_zps0d73da80.jpg

Finally we saw Castillo de San Miguel and I inspected the cannon there with a lot of interest :cyclops:
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/29-01-14%20Garachico/DSCN2807_zps69f36a70.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/29-01-14%20Garachico/DSCN2809_zpse2acdab7.jpg
(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

Strunki
strunki1259@web.de

Posted Jan 29, 2014, 10:25 pm
Well Folks,

my spritual adventure goes on, this eve I will try and taste an alcoholic liquor called "cocolate cream"
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/29-01-14%20Garachico/DSCN2810_zps08062178.jpg
And what should I tell You?
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/29-01-14%20Garachico/DSCN2811_zps44646c57.jpg
Girls stuff!!!
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/29-01-14%20Garachico/DSCN2812_zps0224007f.jpg
This kindergartenliquid didn´t bring me down :cyclops:
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/29-01-14%20Garachico/DSCN2813_zps5951bf29.jpg
Nice taste, but "all mouth and (no) trousers"

Good night and sleep well
Yours störte
Strunki
strunki1259@web.de

Posted Jan 30, 2014, 9:25 pm
Hello Mum and Dad,

today we drove to Santa Cruz de Tenerife
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/30-01-14%20Santa%20Cruz/DSCN0303_zpsb829610a.jpg
Here You see a very imposant building, it is the Auditorio de Tenerife , a Congress-and Concerthall, planned by the famous architect Santiago Calatrava
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/30-01-14%20Santa%20Cruz/DSCN0298_zps66226169.jpg
And the tower there is from the church Nuestra Señora de la Conception
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/30-01-14%20Santa%20Cruz/DSCN2926_zpse4a12b78.jpg
This nice building is called Fábrica „La Lucha", it was a formerly tobaccofactory
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/30-01-14%20Santa%20Cruz/DSCN2871_zps097b6d40.jpg
And here we are at the "Plaza del Príncipe de Asturias"
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/30-01-14%20Santa%20Cruz/DSCN2877_zps8b295f4b.jpg
Me in front of the fish-statue and a drago tree at the "Plaza del Chicharro"
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/30-01-14%20Santa%20Cruz/DSCN2883_zpsb89fab31.jpg
Over this impressive bridge we walked and came to the famous market "Mercado Nuestra Señora de Africa"
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/30-01-14%20Santa%20Cruz/DSCN2888_zps05180626.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/30-01-14%20Santa%20Cruz/DSCN2894_zps8448813f.jpg
Let´s go inside and see what groceries we will find there
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/30-01-14%20Santa%20Cruz/DSCN2900_zpsf67ad4f4.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/30-01-14%20Santa%20Cruz/DSCN2906_zps72950b88.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/30-01-14%20Santa%20Cruz/DSCN2911_zpsb4c46669.jpg
Woow, soo much sorts of potatoes :D A variety of a more than fifty different sorts
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/30-01-14%20Santa%20Cruz/DSCN2917_zpsc37a4391.jpg
So we discussed at the central spring what we wanted to buy here
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/30-01-14%20Santa%20Cruz/DSCN2913_zpsf6c63844.jpg
The decision fell on the cookies :p
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/30-01-14%20Santa%20Cruz/DSCN2919_zpsb1f9dcc0.jpg
Delicious with a good cup of coffee :p
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/30-01-14%20Santa%20Cruz/DSCN2922_zps736939b7.jpg

After this short break we left the market and met these friendly guys with their fishingboat
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/30-01-14%20Santa%20Cruz/DSCN2896_zps75b3c355.jpg

Our last visitors highlight for today in Santa Cruz was the Parque García Sanabria
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/30-01-14%20Santa%20Cruz/DSCN2818_zpsf442f937.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/30-01-14%20Santa%20Cruz/DSCN2823_zpsb7b07b98.jpg
Look at the nice pink bougainvilla
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/30-01-14%20Santa%20Cruz/DSCN2825_zpse3da2720.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/30-01-14%20Santa%20Cruz/DSCN2826_zpsf11413f6.jpg
On these park benches we watched some scenes on ceramic tiles
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/30-01-14%20Santa%20Cruz/DSCN2827_zpse330e79d.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/30-01-14%20Santa%20Cruz/DSCN2828_zps3475c1e5.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/30-01-14%20Santa%20Cruz/DSCN2829_zps6e384deb.jpg
A bamboo avenue
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/30-01-14%20Santa%20Cruz/DSCN2838_zps0a8bf68b.jpg
So nice views there
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/30-01-14%20Santa%20Cruz/DSCN2843_zps5815014e.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/30-01-14%20Santa%20Cruz/DSCN2848_zpsc561c02c.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/30-01-14%20Santa%20Cruz/DSCN2853_zps807a9326.jpg
This nice lady is the darling of the citizens here
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/30-01-14%20Santa%20Cruz/DSCN2861_zps98dab394.jpg
Uiuiuiuiuiui, HelmutBluepant would say, I call her: wooooow :p
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/30-01-14%20Santa%20Cruz/DSCN2866_zps16d1c112.jpg

So that was our tour of today
Love and see You soon :D
Yours
störte


Strunki
strunki1259@web.de

Posted Jan 30, 2014, 9:50 pm
Hello You landlubbers at home

because I was very impressed of the various fruits at the market today, I want to taste them in a very special manner tonight:
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/30-01-14%20Santa%20Cruz/DSCN0306_zps0a8c3682.jpg
As You know, the national drink of spain is the Sangria, a mixture of red wine, some spiritouses and a lot of local fruit
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/30-01-14%20Santa%20Cruz/DSCN0307_zps8fcbe16a.jpg
Yes, You see right: I have my fruit day :cyclops:
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/30-01-14%20Santa%20Cruz/DSCN0308_zpsa65a4713.jpg
E viva España :cyclops: :cyclops: :cyclops:
Let me tell You tomorrow, how this vitamine-bomb improved my fitness :p

Good night
Yours störte
Strunki
strunki1259@web.de

Posted Jan 31, 2014, 10:55 pm
Hola Mum and Dad,

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
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/31-01-14%20Teide/DSCN2928_zpsd4bac0a6.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/31-01-14%20Teide/DSCN2932_zps6f8bf5a2.jpg
Look at this impressive scenery
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/31-01-14%20Teide/DSCN2934_zpsf165d08a.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/31-01-14%20Teide/DSCN2935_zps6220e0a9.jpg
Teide, we are coming :D
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/31-01-14%20Teide/DSCN2939_zpsc590493d.jpg
...tbc



Strunki
strunki1259@web.de

Posted Feb 1, 2014, 12:02 am
From there we drove higher and nearer to the Pico del Teide, the highest Mountain of Spain
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/31-01-14%20Teide/DSCN2948_zps4859752c.jpg
The higher we came, the more the vegetation changes
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/31-01-14%20Teide/DSCN2947_zpsb1e71f88.jpg
We drove through laurel forest
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/31-01-14%20Teide/DSCN2954_zps7a9c4be1.jpg
and later the trees changed into Canary pine [Pinus canariensis]
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/31-01-14%20Teide/DSCN2960_zps95dc0573.jpg

On our way to the Canadas, we found this so called \"Rose of stone\"
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/31-01-14%20Teide/DSCN2956_zps154009a5.jpg

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
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/31-01-14%20Teide/DSCN2965_zps3f392b96.jpg

From this point I had the nearest view on the Pico
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/31-01-14%20Teide/DSCN2970_zps1784f2e6.jpg
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
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/31-01-14%20Teide/DSCN2980_zpsf9971003.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/31-01-14%20Teide/DSCN2975_zpsbab8eb6f.jpg

And here the views into the giant caldera
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/31-01-14%20Teide/DSCN2991_zps6c59d1d9.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/31-01-14%20Teide/DSCN2992_zps910d0927.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/31-01-14%20Teide/DSCN2993_zpsa71108e4.jpg
Nice are the various colours of the different volcanic stones
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/31-01-14%20Teide/DSCN2997_zpsfee21a38.jpg

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
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/31-01-14%20Teide/DSCN3001_zps3b0d5024.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/31-01-14%20Teide/DSCN3006_zps9ffad129.jpg
(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
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/31-01-14%20Teide/DSCN3011_zpsdac1d742.jpg

That was our trip of today
Love and see You soon
Yours
störte




Strunki
strunki1259@web.de

Posted Feb 1, 2014, 8:03 pm
Back to the Hotel, I became ill and wasn´t able to celebrate my daily spirituals test... :o
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/31-01-14%20Teide/DSCN3013_zps6364faf6.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/31-01-14%20Teide/DSCN3014_zps6ba1c613.jpg
So I asked my plushiefriends to substitute me and taste the drink of today and they did :D Thanks a lot *Nick*, Hase, UrselHH and dear Charlotte
Good night and sleep well

Strunki
strunki1259@web.de

Posted Feb 1, 2014, 8:57 pm
Hi Mum and Dad,

today on saturday we visited the nice farmersmarket with local products
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/01-02-14%20Markt/DSCN3032_zps81569912.jpg
So many delicious groceries, what should we buy for our plushie-picknick?
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/01-02-14%20Markt/DSCN3039_zps308024d8.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/01-02-14%20Markt/DSCN3037_zpse8a22daf.jpg

I decided to buy a bottle of good red country-wine :p
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/01-02-14%20Markt/DSCN3040_zps35445d65.jpg
In the afternoon we will hold our plushie-picknick


Strunki
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
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/01-02-14%20Markt/DSCN3057_zpsfeee67bd.jpg

Unfortunately the weather was not very nice, it rained and so we decided not to hold our plushie-picknick at the beach of Bajamar
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/01-02-14%20Markt/DSCN3063_zps981ec80e.jpg

instead of we visited the very nice Café Melita
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/01-02-14%20Markt/DSCN3045_zps73cc3f62.jpg
and had a delicious "Tarta de Manzana" (Applepie) and a coffee with milk
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/01-02-14%20Markt/DSCN3046_zps27c57671.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/01-02-14%20Markt/DSCN3047_zps79fb1cde.jpg

Afterwards we made a little walk and found HelmutBluepants favourite flowers, the Plumerias
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/01-02-14%20Markt/DSCN3052_zps233e9c81.jpg



Strunki
strunki1259@web.de

Posted Feb 1, 2014, 10:04 pm
Back to our hotel in the afternoon we packed out our groceries we bought on the market at Tacoronte in the morning
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/01-02-14%20Markt/DSCN3065_zpsbebe755d.jpg

Here is the bottle of red wine I bought
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/01-02-14%20Markt/DSCN3069_zps80a5018e.jpg

Everything is ready for our plushie-picknick
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/01-02-14%20Markt/DSCN3070_zpse364c1d2.jpg

¡Buen provecho!
Strunki
strunki1259@web.de

Posted Feb 2, 2014, 9:53 pm
Hello Mum and Dad,

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
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/02-02-14%20Playa%20Sibora/DSCN3072_zps4a46294e.jpg

What´s there in the background?? A whale skeleton?
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/02-02-14%20Playa%20Sibora/DSCN3076_zps34eeef37.jpg
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
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/02-02-14%20Playa%20Sibora/DSCN3078_zps4c410102.jpg
Well, Bingo :cyclops:
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/02-02-14%20Playa%20Sibora/DSCN3079_zpsee92450d.jpg
And I informed my crew that I found an important advice on my treasure map
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/02-02-14%20Playa%20Sibora/DSCN3084_zps7e335219.jpg
What adventures will we find at this wild and lonely beach??
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/02-02-14%20Playa%20Sibora/DSCN3085_zps3e34b8e8.jpg
The landscape here is incredible
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/02-02-14%20Playa%20Sibora/DSCN3100_zps8f7e4e4c.jpg
But the path is so heavy that only 4X4-Cars can drive there, so we had to hike...
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/02-02-14%20Playa%20Sibora/DSCN3103_zps671df3b7.jpg
...through deep canyons...
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/02-02-14%20Playa%20Sibora/DSCN3102_zps81b50191.jpg
and we had to climb up high and rough hills
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/02-02-14%20Playa%20Sibora/DSCN3104_zps3a9aa448.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/02-02-14%20Playa%20Sibora/DSCN3105_zpsd85c7456.jpg
After a while we came to a strange place
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/02-02-14%20Playa%20Sibora/DSCN3089_zpse8fe0275.jpg
Here is a whole in the stones and when some heavy waves breake here, You hear (and sometimes see) a fountain coming out.
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/02-02-14%20Playa%20Sibora/DSCN3091_zps630e6861.jpg
A noise like from hell
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/02-02-14%20Playa%20Sibora/DSCN3095_zps7d7b47e9.jpg
Lotte was sooo afraid here that we had to hold her
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/02-02-14%20Playa%20Sibora/DSCN3096_zpsfeec5de5.jpg
Later we found nice yellow flowers blooming and Lotte remembered that she saw them last year as well
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/02-02-14%20Playa%20Sibora/DSCN3106_zpsfec4f199.jpg
Here was the place they spent many nice hours and Helmut hided here something useful, Lotte remembers as well...
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/02-02-14%20Playa%20Sibora/DSCN3110_zps94f57343.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/02-02-14%20Playa%20Sibora/DSCN3111_zpscbb9d24a.jpg
But first we took out our clothes and opened the naturist-beach-season 2014 here :cyclops:
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/02-02-14%20Playa%20Sibora/DSCN3118_zps982fc91f.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/02-02-14%20Playa%20Sibora/DSCN3117_zps9f74f6ab.jpg
After this first recreatable chilling, *Nick* found something in a deep cave
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/02-02-14%20Playa%20Sibora/DSCN3119_zpsf8ff5c67.jpg
Woow, the boats of HelmutBluepant from the last year
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/02-02-14%20Playa%20Sibora/DSCN3120_zps2543d78e.jpg
Since here the treasure map is all right :cyclops:
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/02-02-14%20Playa%20Sibora/DSCN3121_zps9e251940.jpg
...tbc

That was our adventure for today and we hope that many nice experiences will follow :D
See You soon
Yours
störte


Strunki
strunki1259@web.de

Posted Feb 2, 2014, 10:08 pm
Hello You fans of my spiritual journey along the bottles of typical canarian beverages,
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/02-02-14%20Playa%20Sibora/DSCN3124_zps2f2ca2b3.jpg
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 :cyclops:
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/02-02-14%20Playa%20Sibora/DSCN3125_zps7ffd5294.jpg
Well, this is from a canarian bee colony from the central island and the sugarcane grows in the north-east, I think so B)
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/02-02-14%20Playa%20Sibora/DSCN3126_zpse8e2f762.jpg
Cheers and good night to all of You, have as happy dreams as I will have :p
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/02-02-14%20Playa%20Sibora/DSCN3127_zps73997019.jpg
Yours störte
Strunki
strunki1259@web.de

Posted Feb 3, 2014, 11:40 pm
Hello Mum and Dad,

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.
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/03-02-14%20Guinmar/DSCN3134_zps78146c19.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/03-02-14%20Guinmar/DSCN3131_zpsed736088.jpg

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
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/03-02-14%20Guinmar/DSCN3138_zps1a022392.jpg

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...
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/03-02-14%20Guinmar/DSCN3140_zps70ff1222.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/03-02-14%20Guinmar/DSCN3141_zps6043a5c3.jpg

The next impressive exhibition piece was a huge long drum shaped as a crocodile from Papua-New Guinea
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/03-02-14%20Guinmar/DSCN3145_zps2055694f.jpg

Then we went into the first building
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/03-02-14%20Guinmar/DSCN3147_zpsa7671f0f.jpg
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

http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/03-02-14%20Guinmar/DSCN3154_zps7512cecd.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/03-02-14%20Guinmar/DSCN3155_zps068eccee.jpg

This nice guy is a rebuilded statue of a south-indian native who is fishing
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/03-02-14%20Guinmar/DSCN3158_zps4166675a.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/03-02-14%20Guinmar/DSCN3161_zps2d824c47.jpg

Look at this fierce Moche-man
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/03-02-14%20Guinmar/DSCN3166_zps4d752548.jpg

Here we have a scene, how the native canarians, the Guanches looked
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/03-02-14%20Guinmar/DSCN3172_zps5da4e1c9.jpg

In this room we learned where in the world reedboats are used
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/03-02-14%20Guinmar/DSCN3184_zpsaee139db.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/03-02-14%20Guinmar/DSCN3174_zps9bdb3fb6.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/03-02-14%20Guinmar/DSCN3175_zps061bb89d.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/03-02-14%20Guinmar/DSCN3179_zps9f0a4d49.jpg

And here we learned where in the world pyramids were built
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/03-02-14%20Guinmar/DSCN3187_zps5610723c.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/03-02-14%20Guinmar/DSCN3188_zps90a766a1.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/03-02-14%20Guinmar/DSCN3189_zps62838b12.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/03-02-14%20Guinmar/DSCN3190_zpsc3a99b00.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/03-02-14%20Guinmar/DSCN3195_zps539c7a97.jpg

The ancient canarians built pyramids as well...
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/03-02-14%20Guinmar/DSCN3200_zps4713bc3f.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/03-02-14%20Guinmar/DSCN3205_zps0ffe0cff.jpg

Here we met huge, but friendly wooden Komodo dragons
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/03-02-14%20Guinmar/DSCN3207_zps68bcb44d.jpg

The landscape to the seaside is also very nice
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/03-02-14%20Guinmar/DSCN3211_zps0e953406.jpg

And some more views on pyramids again
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/03-02-14%20Guinmar/DSCN3223_zpsc8788c81.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/03-02-14%20Guinmar/DSCN3233_zpse9135d5d.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/03-02-14%20Guinmar/DSCN3238_zps7e8b8386.jpg

And other nice scenes again
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/03-02-14%20Guinmar/DSCN3228_zpsab66b87f.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/03-02-14%20Guinmar/DSCN3243_zps1a202dcf.jpg

We are sooo astonished about this secret place
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/03-02-14%20Guinmar/DSCN3276_zpsf9ebf3c5.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/03-02-14%20Guinmar/DSCN3280_zpse0dd4ef5.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/03-02-14%20Guinmar/DSCN3285_zpsc5a6b240.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/03-02-14%20Guinmar/DSCN3290_zps36d40c86.jpg

In another area of the museum we learned something about the canarian flora
Here is the sweet tabaiba (Euphorbia balsamifera)
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/03-02-14%20Guinmar/DSCN3248_zps3918099c.jpg

And here Echium decaisnei
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/03-02-14%20Guinmar/DSCN3253_zpsca376487.jpg

Euphorbia canarensis I found here
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/03-02-14%20Guinmar/DSCN3258_zps3522b2bc.jpg

This plant also was nice but I forgot the name... sorry :(
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/03-02-14%20Guinmar/DSCN3263_zps896b6ffc.jpg

In this bush we played a little bit
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/03-02-14%20Guinmar/DSCN3265_zpsddbcd512.jpg

And here we see a blooming Aloe vera
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/03-02-14%20Guinmar/DSCN3269_zpsd1534730.jpg

Not very often You see the aeonium blooming
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/03-02-14%20Guinmar/DSCN3274_zps3836d37b.jpg

This tree we already know from the Canadas del Teide
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/03-02-14%20Guinmar/DSCN3292_zpsf8611787.jpg

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
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/03-02-14%20Guinmar/DSCN3311_zps37f117bd.jpg

Sugarcane, a very important ingriedience for my fave holiday drink :p
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/03-02-14%20Guinmar/DSCN3316_zps9593c3ca.jpg

A violet nymphea
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/03-02-14%20Guinmar/DSCN3327_zps3bb0e83d.jpg

And what do the canaries produce today?
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/03-02-14%20Guinmar/DSCN3293_zps5a0534d6.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/03-02-14%20Guinmar/DSCN3294_zpsa2d00698.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/03-02-14%20Guinmar/DSCN3295_zps8a7c638b.jpg

And here we have another last good reason for enjoying the stay in this magnificent museum: To test Thor´s rafts and boats :cyclops:
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/03-02-14%20Guinmar/DSCN3216_zps77682bb7.jpg
Kon Tiki
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/03-02-14%20Guinmar/DSCN3319_zpsb30edbbe.jpg
Ra and Tigris-Boats
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/03-02-14%20Guinmar/DSCN3320_zps3f8446bf.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/03-02-14%20Guinmar/DSCN3321_zpsa5d3d0ae.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/03-02-14%20Guinmar/DSCN3322_zpse970f664.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/03-02-14%20Guinmar/DSCN3323_zps027d9348.jpg

Woow, what a full and nice day, but now we are tired enough to fall in sleep :)
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/03-02-14%20Guinmar/DSCN3318_zps1186ee1e.jpg

Good night and sleep as well
Yours
störte


Strunki
strunki1259@web.de

Posted Feb 4, 2014, 11:47 pm
Hi Mum and Dad,

today we went to the famous Loro Parque in Puerto de la Cruz.
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/04-02-14%20LP/DSCN0622_zpsd70fd99d.jpg
The entrance is a rebuilt Thai-Village
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/04-02-14%20LP/DSCN3332_zps259e2bcb.jpg
First we saw a nice waterfall
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/04-02-14%20LP/DSCN0603_zps80b80dc7.jpg
and went into the Aquarium
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/04-02-14%20LP/DSCN0607_zps3e05b570.jpg
meeting a shark
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/04-02-14%20LP/DSCN0612_zpsbb2c247f.jpg
and some little lionfish
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/04-02-14%20LP/DSCN0619_zps71878064.jpg
A huge tank with a school of fish
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/04-02-14%20LP/DSCN3382_zpsc90158f7.jpg

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.
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/04-02-14%20LP/DSCN3337_zps37249617.jpg

A view into the palmgarden
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/04-02-14%20LP/DSCN3342_zps4a43783e.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/04-02-14%20LP/DSCN3540_zps817cb068.jpg

Then we came to "Planet Penguine"
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/04-02-14%20LP/DSCN3347_zps3337e0a6.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/04-02-14%20LP/DSCN3352_zps5cdfa917.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/04-02-14%20LP/DSCN3354_zps92e8f4e6.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/04-02-14%20LP/DSCN3358_zpsd5dd6547.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/04-02-14%20LP/DSCN3365_zpsb72d9739.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/04-02-14%20LP/DSCN3370_zps28a0c45d.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/04-02-14%20LP/DSCN3376_zps28643001.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/04-02-14%20LP/DSCN3377_zps62a440f0.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/04-02-14%20LP/DSCN3378_zps39d82172.jpg

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 :D
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/04-02-14%20LP/DSCN3387_zps5745cd57.jpg

One of the oldest buildings in the park in moorish architecture, where the Loro Show takes place
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/04-02-14%20LP/DSCN3391_zpseb5e36b9.jpg

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...
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/04-02-14%20LP/DSCN3393_zps88727fff.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/04-02-14%20LP/DSCN3394_zps29216010.jpg

Instead of the Dolphins we had fun to see the Otters
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/04-02-14%20LP/DSCN3401_zpsd4d63bcf.jpg

And enjoyed the hibiscus
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/04-02-14%20LP/DSCN3409_zps2f12fa58.jpg
(Yes, You landlubbers, I enjoyed the hibiscus as well!!!)

Next station: Giant turtles
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/04-02-14%20LP/DSCN3414_zps271f460b.jpg

Now we are in the area called "Orchids Paradise"
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/04-02-14%20LP/DSCN3423_zpsa316193c.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/04-02-14%20LP/DSCN3424_zps4be0dbee.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/04-02-14%20LP/DSCN3433_zpsffde4d1e.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/04-02-14%20LP/DSCN3434_zpsdc2eb50e.jpg
...Yes, I am a pirate, but it´s not forbidden to love flowers as a pirate ;)

See the flamingoes
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/04-02-14%20LP/DSCN3439_zpsf63c20c5.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/04-02-14%20LP/DSCN3443_zps3bfd37d8.jpg

And now we are entering the "Katandra TreeTops",  a giant voliere where birds are able to fly almos free
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/04-02-14%20LP/DSCN3519_zps2d5b7a03.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/04-02-14%20LP/DSCN3516_zpsd1d49882.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/04-02-14%20LP/DSCN3474_zps3f7306d2.jpg
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http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/04-02-14%20LP/DSCN3502_zps9a84019d.jpg
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http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/04-02-14%20LP/DSCN3556_zps15cc4726.jpg

At the next station we saw white tigers
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/04-02-14%20LP/DSCN3561_zps7c152945.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/04-02-14%20LP/DSCN3569_zps1444ccec.jpg

At the gambia market we ate a chocolate banana in memory of Helmut :p
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/04-02-14%20LP/DSCN3525_zps56ed37df.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/04-02-14%20LP/DSCN3526_zps757ee358.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/04-02-14%20LP/DSCN3523_zps98b34bc2.jpg

The last highlight was the Orca Ocean
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/04-02-14%20LP/DSCN3573_zps7c9b2d31.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/04-02-14%20LP/DSCN3576_zpsaf99e302.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/04-02-14%20LP/DSCN0566_zps12e6fd45.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/04-02-14%20LP/DSCN0570_zps199c7535.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/04-02-14%20LP/DSCN0574_zps6cee1269.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/04-02-14%20LP/DSCN0578_zps1fbbe48b.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/04-02-14%20LP/DSCN0583_zpsa9cacd6b.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/04-02-14%20LP/DSCN0587_zps83a46372.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/04-02-14%20LP/DSCN0592_zps3feec10d.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/04-02-14%20LP/DSCN0596_zps3fd949cb.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/04-02-14%20LP/DSCN0597_zpsc9c007f9.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/04-02-14%20LP/DSCN3454_zps4aa321b0.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/04-02-14%20LP/DSCN3460_zps0c8ccc6c.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/04-02-14%20LP/DSCN3468_zps41a1cd07.jpg

That was a very full day with lots of impressions
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/04-02-14%20LP/DSCN3449_zps30389af7.jpg
Love and see You soon
Yours
störte


Strunki
strunki1259@web.de

Posted Feb 5, 2014, 10:28 pm
Holá Mum and Dad,

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:D
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/05-02-14%20Strand/DSCN3587_zpsa4754d07.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/05-02-14%20Strand/DSCN3588_zps8dac9bb7.jpg

See us naturist-style-tanning in the sun on our nice plushie-towels :cyclops:
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/05-02-14%20Strand/DSCN3580_zps893410b4.jpg
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 B)
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/05-02-14%20Strand/DSCN3593_zps68f0f530.jpg
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
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/05-02-14%20Strand/DSCN3596_zps358686ab.jpg
Everybody of us found a stone and we stacked up stone on stone together
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/05-02-14%20Strand/DSCN3597_zps1ed616cb.jpg

That´s for today,
Love and see You
Yours
störte


Strunki
strunki1259@web.de

Posted Feb 5, 2014, 11:26 pm
Welcome Your fans of my newest degustation of canary spirits
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/05-02-14%20Strand/DSCN3601_zpsf5e5ba0e.jpg

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
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/05-02-14%20Strand/DSCN3599_zpse090d94a.jpg

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...
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/05-02-14%20Strand/DSCN3604_zps870b1497.jpg

I´m still sitting, but I  must say, a true can opener, You know what I mean...
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/05-02-14%20Strand/DSCN3602_zps01d01b78.jpg

..yyyellow.... sssweeeet... ttttasty...
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/05-02-14%20Strand/DSCN3603_zps6112327c.jpg
ddelissssiooouuuss..... :p

ggoodnightttt
yours sstöööööörteeee :cyclops:

Strunki
strunki1259@web.de

Posted Feb 7, 2014, 10:07 pm
Holá Mum and Dad,

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
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/06-02-14%20Puerto%20Cruz/DSCN3608_zps6f1fc804.jpg

Let´s start our tour at the small old harbour
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/06-02-14%20Puerto%20Cruz/DSCN3613_zps37577a27.jpg

Here we met a nice lady, a fishseller
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/06-02-14%20Puerto%20Cruz/DSCN3615_zps41439fef.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/06-02-14%20Puerto%20Cruz/DSCN3617_zps90a1678c.jpg
Oh Yes, I like her :p ... But she was a bit afraid perhaps??
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/06-02-14%20Puerto%20Cruz/DSCN3618_zpsf59a299c.jpg

The next building was a formely tradinghouse and now You find the Tourist Office there
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/06-02-14%20Puerto%20Cruz/DSCN3622_zpse955dd76.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/06-02-14%20Puerto%20Cruz/DSCN3627_zpseb66abe1.jpg

The street along I found a banana-shrub with fruits on the one and a blossom on the other plant
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/06-02-14%20Puerto%20Cruz/DSCN3633_zpse3c7d62e.jpg
Remember, we are in a town :D

Now we are on Plaza Europa and in the backround You see the old walls of the harbour
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/06-02-14%20Puerto%20Cruz/DSCN3638_zps6b8776fc.jpg

From there You have a first view on the complete seaside and the promenades
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/06-02-14%20Puerto%20Cruz/DSCN3648_zpse48f49f0.jpg
The white fountain You see in the backround is the Fountain of Lago Martianez
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/06-02-14%20Puerto%20Cruz/DSCN3649_zps37103899.jpg

A nice old red building with a typical canarian balcony
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/06-02-14%20Puerto%20Cruz/DSCN3655_zps753a11e7.jpg

And here we are at the promenade San Telmo with a little old hermitage
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/06-02-14%20Puerto%20Cruz/DSCN3668_zpsc2c7ef36.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/06-02-14%20Puerto%20Cruz/DSCN3674_zps6d5b1dd4.jpg

From there we walk along and come to the next promenade Martianez
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/06-02-14%20Puerto%20Cruz/DSCN3676_zps7f332a01.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/06-02-14%20Puerto%20Cruz/DSCN3681_zpsd0d6a046.jpg
Here You see the fountain again
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/06-02-14%20Puerto%20Cruz/DSCN3686_zps39b36ac5.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/06-02-14%20Puerto%20Cruz/DSCN3688_zps9592b36e.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/06-02-14%20Puerto%20Cruz/DSCN3689_zps0284f139.jpg

Let´s have a first rest and take some cocktails :p
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/06-02-14%20Puerto%20Cruz/DSCN3677_zpsd8b2a0db.jpg

Now we are at the beach of Martianez
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/06-02-14%20Puerto%20Cruz/DSCN3694_zps2fe0d2bd.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/06-02-14%20Puerto%20Cruz/DSCN3699_zps9c563d9a.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/06-02-14%20Puerto%20Cruz/DSCN3705_zpsc36e5d43.jpg

This was the outest point and now we walk back on the promenade
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/06-02-14%20Puerto%20Cruz/DSCN3710_zps399d77df.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/06-02-14%20Puerto%20Cruz/DSCN3715_zpsb851e4c0.jpg
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http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/06-02-14%20Puerto%20Cruz/DSCN3728_zpsf1bbb9bc.jpg

Now we see some nice buildings of the old town of Puerto de la Cruz
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/06-02-14%20Puerto%20Cruz/DSCN3663_zps23c3a066.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/06-02-14%20Puerto%20Cruz/DSCN3748_zps91d4b165.jpg
Hotel Monopol, the oldest Hotel here in town in typical canarian style
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/06-02-14%20Puerto%20Cruz/DSCN3736_zpscd0f207b.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/06-02-14%20Puerto%20Cruz/DSCN3738_zps5d87ed66.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/06-02-14%20Puerto%20Cruz/DSCN3743_zps2391a006.jpg

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
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/06-02-14%20Puerto%20Cruz/DSCN3752_zps5a3fe437.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/06-02-14%20Puerto%20Cruz/DSCN3765_zps07700937.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/06-02-14%20Puerto%20Cruz/DSCN3758_zps9a6490c5.jpg

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 :p
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/06-02-14%20Puerto%20Cruz/DSCN3776_zps49a815e1.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/06-02-14%20Puerto%20Cruz/DSCN3778_zpscb340499.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/06-02-14%20Puerto%20Cruz/DSCN3779_zpsc297e7e1.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/06-02-14%20Puerto%20Cruz/DSCN3780_zps508d19bd.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/06-02-14%20Puerto%20Cruz/DSCN3781_zpsbd31b00c.jpg

What a nice but long walk for us plushies, now we are happy and the ice-cream was delicious :cyclops:
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/06-02-14%20Puerto%20Cruz/DSCN3783_zpsd2c84a86.jpg

That´s for the day, love and see You
Yours
störte


Strunki
strunki1259@web.de

Posted Feb 7, 2014, 11:06 pm
Hello Mum and Dad,

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
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/07-02-14%20Puertito%20Guimar/DSCN3945_zps0bdc4114.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/07-02-14%20Puertito%20Guimar/DSCN3946_zpse70eafc2.jpg

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
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/07-02-14%20Puertito%20Guimar/DSCN3931_zps4308db67.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/07-02-14%20Puertito%20Guimar/DSCN3933_zps72a3d043.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/07-02-14%20Puertito%20Guimar/DSCN3935_zps5c5cbd21.jpg

After our meal everybody of us held a short rest and strunki used this time to test some different optical system on the cam
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/07-02-14%20Puertito%20Guimar/DSCN3967_zpsa07d82f4.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/07-02-14%20Puertito%20Guimar/DSCN3968_zps87325cc3.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/07-02-14%20Puertito%20Guimar/DSCN3969_zps62dcecd6.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/07-02-14%20Puertito%20Guimar/DSCN3970_zps04832141.jpg

So, let´s go to the beach now
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/07-02-14%20Puertito%20Guimar/DSCN3951_zps4131f4ff.jpg

And here we are live reporting from the canarian plushie boat regatta 2014 :cyclops:
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/07-02-14%20Puertito%20Guimar/DSCN4002_zps0b6f6e06.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/07-02-14%20Puertito%20Guimar/DSCN4003_zps286605fc.jpg
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http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/07-02-14%20Puertito%20Guimar/DSCN3994_zpsfe79ab82.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/07-02-14%20Puertito%20Guimar/DSCN3995_zpsd5cda15f.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/07-02-14%20Puertito%20Guimar/DSCN3996_zpsc7af6703.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/07-02-14%20Puertito%20Guimar/DSCN3997_zpsb403fa3a.jpg

Next discipline was to test our surf board
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/07-02-14%20Puertito%20Guimar/DSCN4013_zps0d83c33c.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/07-02-14%20Puertito%20Guimar/DSCN4014_zpsaef73760.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/07-02-14%20Puertito%20Guimar/DSCN4015_zps36a70578.jpg
No, definitly not MY sport!!! I´m the only one who became very very wet... (...Not even Lotte fell into the water...)
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/07-02-14%20Puertito%20Guimar/DSCN4031_zps64e8552c.jpg
Bööörks
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/07-02-14%20Puertito%20Guimar/DSCN4030_zps56eeed41.jpg

But at the end we all had great fun at the beach here :D
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/07-02-14%20Puertito%20Guimar/DSCN4025_zpsbbd48d34.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/07-02-14%20Puertito%20Guimar/DSCN4033_zps2dd8c860.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/07-02-14%20Puertito%20Guimar/DSCN4034_zpsea650a87.jpg

That´s all for today, love and see You soon
Yours
störte

Strunki
strunki1259@web.de

Posted Feb 8, 2014, 8:28 pm
Holá Mum and Dad,

today in the morning we visited San Cristóbal de La Laguna, a very old town with a long history.
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/08-02-14%20Laguna-Anaga/DSCN4061_zps2bfd1556.jpg

Here we see the "Leal Theatre"
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/08-02-14%20Laguna-Anaga/DSCN4049_zps88f93a71.jpg

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 :rolleyes:
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/08-02-14%20Laguna-Anaga/DSCN4044_zps0216d215.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/08-02-14%20Laguna-Anaga/DSCN4075_zps9332d0ae.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/08-02-14%20Laguna-Anaga/DSCN4081_zps994c9af6.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/08-02-14%20Laguna-Anaga/DSCN4089_zpsa60aa790.jpg
Here we come to the "Iglesia Cathedral" or "Iglesia Santa María de los Remedios"
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/08-02-14%20Laguna-Anaga/DSCN4090_zps49505776.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/08-02-14%20Laguna-Anaga/DSCN4039_zps59fc91a3.jpg
And here are some last impressions of the town
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/08-02-14%20Laguna-Anaga/DSCN4068_zps9c2eca60.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/08-02-14%20Laguna-Anaga/DSCN4055_zps665b6811.jpg

But the weather was too fine for wasting the complete day in town and so we decided to drive into the mountains of Anaga
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/08-02-14%20Laguna-Anaga/DSCN4063_zps4bb357fd.jpg


Strunki
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
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/08-02-14%20Laguna-Anaga/DSCN4099_zps1f859ae9.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/08-02-14%20Laguna-Anaga/DSCN4100_zpse8740db9.jpg

Our next stop we had at a point called "La Jardinera" (the garden)
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/08-02-14%20Laguna-Anaga/DSCN4107_zps2caa50b8.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/08-02-14%20Laguna-Anaga/DSCN4109_zps8552896b.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/08-02-14%20Laguna-Anaga/DSCN4113_zpsac62eb69.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/08-02-14%20Laguna-Anaga/DSCN4121_zps779264eb.jpg

Look, now we are more than 900m high
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/08-02-14%20Laguna-Anaga/DSCN4123_zpsfd3a7800.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/08-02-14%20Laguna-Anaga/DSCN4137_zps4828da54.jpg
The view from here at "Cruz del Carmen" is almost similar, but not even less stunningly beautiful http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/08-02-14%20Laguna-Anaga/DSCN4124_zps2971318c.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/08-02-14%20Laguna-Anaga/DSCN4128_zpsa33f4747.jpg

The last stop we made at the "Mirador Pico del Ingles"
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/08-02-14%20Laguna-Anaga/DSCN4150_zpsd6e03f91.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/08-02-14%20Laguna-Anaga/DSCN4142_zps4fd7d50d.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/08-02-14%20Laguna-Anaga/DSCN4148_zps182bddae.jpg
Only from this point You have the chance to see left on Santa Cruz in the south
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/08-02-14%20Laguna-Anaga/DSCN4157_zps9dc71139.jpg
and right the complete northern coast
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/08-02-14%20Laguna-Anaga/DSCN4158_zps6e2b25f4.jpg




Strunki
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
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/08-02-14%20Laguna-Anaga/DSCN4162_zps6b200a1a.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/08-02-14%20Laguna-Anaga/DSCN4166_zps631b5d37.jpg

Everybody of us has fun at the coast here :cyclops:
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/08-02-14%20Laguna-Anaga/DSCN4171_zps27daa564.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/08-02-14%20Laguna-Anaga/DSCN4176_zpsf5f417aa.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/08-02-14%20Laguna-Anaga/DSCN4181_zps5706df28.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/08-02-14%20Laguna-Anaga/DSCN4183_zps62b51cc0.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/08-02-14%20Laguna-Anaga/DSCN4184_zpsfb294c25.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/08-02-14%20Laguna-Anaga/DSCN4187_zpse6231d4f.jpg

That was also a full day
Love and see You soon
Yours
störte

Strunki
strunki1259@web.de

Posted Feb 9, 2014, 9:57 pm
Holá Mum and Dad,

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.
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/09-02-14%20Teno/DSCN4195_zps2a0d79e7.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/09-02-14%20Teno/DSCN4196_zps86764e7b.jpg
... And Charlotte highly recommended the Mirador as unmissable especially for the girls, but I didn´t understand exactly why  :rolleyes:
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/09-02-14%20Teno/DSCN4205_zps602ed37a.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/09-02-14%20Teno/DSCN4200_zps402f2d7b.jpg

Then we came to the entrance of the Teno-Mountains
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/09-02-14%20Teno/DSCN4207_zps6e97a0a3.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/09-02-14%20Teno/DSCN4208_zps725fb1a3.jpg
and are estimated about 900m over Sea-Level
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/09-02-14%20Teno/DSCN4215_zps98afa458.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/09-02-14%20Teno/DSCN4216_zps912bae40.jpg
Even in this altitude Oranges grow here
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/09-02-14%20Teno/DSCN4224_zpsd09678a1.jpg
But have You ever seen a sunflower blooming in February??
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/09-02-14%20Teno/DSCN4222_zpsa72bb2ec.jpg

Our next stop we held in Santiago del Teide
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/09-02-14%20Teno/DSCN4319_zpse4836521.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/09-02-14%20Teno/DSCN4321_zpsb4763bdd.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/09-02-14%20Teno/DSCN4325_zpsef3569c1.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/09-02-14%20Teno/DSCN4330_zpsd2d44778.jpg

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
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/09-02-14%20Teno/DSCN4336_zps8a34a60f.jpg
But again we had free sight on the great looking Mount Teide
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/09-02-14%20Teno/DSCN4341_zps28f46d7e.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/09-02-14%20Teno/DSCN4346_zps94d28ac7.jpg

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
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/09-02-14%20Teno/DSCN4249_zps181a9a9c.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/09-02-14%20Teno/DSCN4242_zps99f21959.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/09-02-14%20Teno/DSCN4228_zps3b5f6be9.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/09-02-14%20Teno/DSCN4237_zps909e884a.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/09-02-14%20Teno/DSCN4238_zpsb19b6f3d.jpg
A wonderful landscape
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/09-02-14%20Teno/DSCN4257_zps5508f141.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/09-02-14%20Teno/DSCN4258_zps3fc51687.jpg
with nice flowers like the common asphodel [Asphodelus aestivus]
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/09-02-14%20Teno/DSCN4267_zpsd9194592.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/09-02-14%20Teno/DSCN4268_zpsecadd6b4.jpg

The next attraction of today were the cliffs of Los Gigantes
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/09-02-14%20Teno/DSCN4279_zpsee3b73a3.jpg
and the view on the neighbour island La Gomera
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/09-02-14%20Teno/DSCN4278_zps6b85838f.jpg
The table promised that You sometimes can watch whales there
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/09-02-14%20Teno/DSCN4285_zpsffed5194.jpg
But what we found in the harbour of Puerto de Santiago let my heart beaten higher :D A pirate ship
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/09-02-14%20Teno/DSCN4290_zpse51b132e.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/09-02-14%20Teno/DSCN4294_zps66c10ffc.jpg
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
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/09-02-14%20Teno/DSCN4357_zps9c919a4e.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/09-02-14%20Teno/DSCN4358_zps0a73a799.jpg

What a full day this was
love and see You soon
Yours
störte



Strunki
strunki1259@web.de

Posted Feb 9, 2014, 11:00 pm
Hiho You old landlubbers at home,

today I did (only for You landlubbers at home) a  new degustation of another famous ron from the canary islands
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/09-02-14%20Teno/DSCN0676_zps298dabe8.jpg
It´s called "Guajiro" and is destilled at Cran Canaria
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/09-02-14%20Teno/DSCN0677_zpsa986e70e.jpg
Yeah, even very delicious :p
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/09-02-14%20Teno/DSCN0678_zpsf026b753.jpg
Ooouuups
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/09-02-14%20Teno/DSCN0680_zpsddf893ac.jpg
I MUST tell strunki that she doesn´t buy this tooooo little bottles anymore
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/09-02-14%20Teno/DSCN0679_zpsc72213c0.jpg

Good night and sweeeeet dreams
Yours
störte


Strunki
strunki1259@web.de

Posted Feb 10, 2014, 10:02 pm
Holá Mum and Dad,

today we made only a short trip and visited the Taoro Park in Puerto de la Cruz.
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/06-02-14%20Puerto%20Cruz/DSCN3795_zpsd5bbca44.jpg
A few years ago they renovated this park and now a lot of citizens use it in the afternoon to go jogging
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/06-02-14%20Puerto%20Cruz/DSCN3790_zps1c664407.jpg
A lot of different palms we found here
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/06-02-14%20Puerto%20Cruz/DSCN3805_zpse73ddb05.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/06-02-14%20Puerto%20Cruz/DSCN3831_zps40a31b7e.jpg
And also nice flowers
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/06-02-14%20Puerto%20Cruz/DSCN3836_zps04f9e984.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/06-02-14%20Puerto%20Cruz/DSCN3841_zps0b20124d.jpg
Some lizards between the vulcanic stones
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/06-02-14%20Puerto%20Cruz/DSCN3843_zpsb6a83876.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/06-02-14%20Puerto%20Cruz/DSCN3858_zps50cdede4.jpg
White strelitzia nicolai with flowers
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/06-02-14%20Puerto%20Cruz/DSCN3814_zpsdd893db2.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/06-02-14%20Puerto%20Cruz/DSCN3815_zpsec4fc334.jpg
And violet lavender
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/06-02-14%20Puerto%20Cruz/DSCN3821_zps3541d772.jpg
A very lovely place to spend some quiet hours :D
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/06-02-14%20Puerto%20Cruz/DSCN3852_zpseba1be82.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/06-02-14%20Puerto%20Cruz/DSCN3879_zps34797129.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/06-02-14%20Puerto%20Cruz/DSCN3884_zpsf4c4b22f.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/06-02-14%20Puerto%20Cruz/DSCN3890_zps81afa94a.jpg

That´s for today,
love and see You soon
Yours störte


Strunki
strunki1259@web.de

Posted Feb 11, 2014, 8:37 pm
Holá Mum and Dad,

today we spent a wonderful sunny day at the beach of San Marcos. This is a village near by Icod de los Vinos.
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/11-02-14%20San%20Marcos/DSCN4519_zps60181742.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/11-02-14%20San%20Marcos/DSCN4524_zps30eb461e.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/11-02-14%20San%20Marcos/DSCN4530_zps5404f897.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/11-02-14%20San%20Marcos/DSCN4531_zps6ff65c9b.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/11-02-14%20San%20Marcos/DSCN4536_zpsc2d74fe1.jpg

But before I was able to lay in the sun, Charlotte had to put on some lotion on me :D
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/11-02-14%20San%20Marcos/DSCN4543_zps854d93e0.jpg

See us enjoying the wonderful canarian sun the whole day :cyclops:
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/11-02-14%20San%20Marcos/DSCN4539_zps3c583108.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/11-02-14%20San%20Marcos/DSCN4540_zps8c68abeb.jpg

But at 6 o´clock we left the beach when the sun went down behind the cliffs
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/11-02-14%20San%20Marcos/DSCN4550_zps9491a7ee.jpg
And the best: Nobody of us got a sunburn :cyclops:

That´s for today, love and see You soon, Mum and Dad
Yours
störte

Strunki
strunki1259@web.de

Posted Feb 11, 2014, 9:20 pm
Hello You fans of my cruise through the canarian spirits,

tonight I will show You a verrry elegant way of degustation: Enjoying a RonMiel in a cup of milkcoffee :p
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/11-02-14%20San%20Marcos/DSCN0985_zps923f9ab1.jpg
No, don´t worry folks, I´m not ill, but I´like the idea of drinking a harmless looking coffee with bumb in :cyclops:
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/11-02-14%20San%20Marcos/DSCN0986_zps8b4748e0.jpg
tthhe ssecret is the mixing ratio...
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/11-02-14%20San%20Marcos/DSCN0987_zps4b5f4872.jpg
nnoorrrmyllll theyy use to mix it 1:10...means 1 part *hicks* ron and 10 pppartsss cccoffeeee...
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/11-02-14%20San%20Marcos/DSCN0988_zps3a41e3e6.jpg
Yyyou ccan immmaginnne that Iiii prefer the *buuuuurp* ccccconversely way :cyclops:

Good night and sleep well
Yours relentless
störte
Strunki
strunki1259@web.de

Posted Feb 12, 2014, 10:20 pm
Holá Landlubber-Mum and Landlubber-Dad,

today I want to show You our nice "home-beach" called "Playa Jardin" here in Puerto de la Cruz
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/12-02-14%20Playa%20Jardin/DSCN4555_zps07af1300.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/12-02-14%20Playa%20Jardin/DSCN4560_zps71d9a129.jpg
Before we come to the black lava beach, we make a small trip through the nice looking garden part
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/12-02-14%20Playa%20Jardin/DSCN4568_zps46ab5d6e.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/12-02-14%20Playa%20Jardin/DSCN4569_zpsb90fdb3c.jpg
All sorts of tropical green plants we find here
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/12-02-14%20Playa%20Jardin/DSCN4575_zpsd2880d59.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/12-02-14%20Playa%20Jardin/DSCN4580_zpsef695034.jpg
Will we reach the beach soon?
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/12-02-14%20Playa%20Jardin/DSCN4584_zpsaef427e8.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/12-02-14%20Playa%20Jardin/DSCN4590_zpsd0a312f5.jpg
Yeah, must be coming nearer
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/12-02-14%20Playa%20Jardin/DSCN4595_zpscd30fdc7.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/12-02-14%20Playa%20Jardin/DSCN4606_zps8f5da084.jpg
I hear the sea all the time and finally now I can see the first black sand
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/12-02-14%20Playa%20Jardin/DSCN4600_zps2fc470d9.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/12-02-14%20Playa%20Jardin/DSCN4611_zps264812cd.jpg
Yes! Here we want to stay for this day, playing and sailing and laying in the warm sun :D
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/12-02-14%20Playa%20Jardin/DSCN4602_zps81947cc9.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/12-02-14%20Playa%20Jardin/DSCN4616_zps07092d39.jpg
Sailing?? Did I say something about sailing?
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/12-02-14%20Playa%20Jardin/DSCN4620_zpsa801e000.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/12-02-14%20Playa%20Jardin/DSCN4619_zps884bd4a3.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/12-02-14%20Playa%20Jardin/DSCN4618_zps1ea7f401.jpg
Wooow, strunkis husband handcrafted a very handsome sailingboat only for us plushies :cyclops:
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/12-02-14%20Playa%20Jardin/DSCN4621_zps5ca20863.jpg
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http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/12-02-14%20Playa%20Jardin/DSCN4629_zps0111b9b8.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/12-02-14%20Playa%20Jardin/DSCN4630_zps4f2b1446.jpg
See me sailing with little Hase and my petty officer second class UrselHH
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/12-02-14%20Playa%20Jardin/DSCN4631_zpscc10c98d.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/12-02-14%20Playa%20Jardin/DSCN4632_zpsc5568fa7.jpg
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http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/12-02-14%20Playa%20Jardin/DSCN4635_zpsbf48d5dd.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/12-02-14%20Playa%20Jardin/DSCN4636_zpsb3492d53.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/12-02-14%20Playa%20Jardin/DSCN4637_zpse5009d00.jpg
See me sailing with my fearless pirate-brother *Nick*
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/12-02-14%20Playa%20Jardin/DSCN4639_zpsd800b2c3.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/12-02-14%20Playa%20Jardin/DSCN4640_zps2927c61f.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/12-02-14%20Playa%20Jardin/DSCN4641_zpseae5cfe5.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/12-02-14%20Playa%20Jardin/DSCN4642_zpsdfdc7bcb.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/12-02-14%20Playa%20Jardin/DSCN4643_zps52c1d8f3.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/12-02-14%20Playa%20Jardin/DSCN4644_zpsaa5dc150.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/12-02-14%20Playa%20Jardin/DSCN4645_zpsfb87ff6f.jpg
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http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/12-02-14%20Playa%20Jardin/DSCN4648_zps8269e746.jpg
And here I am alone in my boat with glamouros Charlotte B)
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/12-02-14%20Playa%20Jardin/DSCN4649_zps466fa23b.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/12-02-14%20Playa%20Jardin/DSCN4650_zps510cc59f.jpg
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http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/12-02-14%20Playa%20Jardin/DSCN4655_zpsed972f4f.jpg
Here we landed at unknown shores...
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/12-02-14%20Playa%20Jardin/DSCN4656_zpsad2eb5ed.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/12-02-14%20Playa%20Jardin/DSCN4659_zps01d67a3f.jpg

Perhaps the point, wich is marked on my treasure map??
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/12-02-14%20Playa%20Jardin/DSCN4662_zpsc68b6425.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/12-02-14%20Playa%20Jardin/DSCN4661_zps824f97ec.jpg

No treasure hunting without a shovel :o
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/12-02-14%20Playa%20Jardin/DSCN4663_zpsbf725a4f.jpg
Digging
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/12-02-14%20Playa%20Jardin/DSCN4664_zpsfb2c326f.jpg
Digging deeper
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/12-02-14%20Playa%20Jardin/DSCN4665_zps4e0bc2be.jpg
I´ve never worked so hard in my whole life...
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/12-02-14%20Playa%20Jardin/DSCN4666_zps27e38fc4.jpg
And then... a red cloth
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/12-02-14%20Playa%20Jardin/DSCN4667_zpsa7e986bc.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/12-02-14%20Playa%20Jardin/DSCN4668_zpse0ecc317.jpg
Good ol störte needs Your help to pull
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/12-02-14%20Playa%20Jardin/DSCN4669_zpsb501d763.jpg
Ooooouuups
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/12-02-14%20Playa%20Jardin/DSCN4670_zpse57a847c.jpg

The hoard is yielded!!!
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/12-02-14%20Playa%20Jardin/DSCN4671_zpsa1863da2.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/12-02-14%20Playa%20Jardin/DSCN4672_zps7535bd72.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/12-02-14%20Playa%20Jardin/DSCN4673_zps592000b4.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/12-02-14%20Playa%20Jardin/DSCN4674_zpsaae2a86d.jpg

What will be in the treasure chest??
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/12-02-14%20Playa%20Jardin/DSCN4675_zpse2777acb.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/12-02-14%20Playa%20Jardin/DSCN4676_zps27f730c1.jpg

YES, STRIKE!!!! Pearls, Diamonds and all the classic treasure stuff :D
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/12-02-14%20Playa%20Jardin/DSCN4677_zps7136e32d.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/12-02-14%20Playa%20Jardin/DSCN4678_zps7729dde8.jpg
My pirate dream comes true :D
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/12-02-14%20Playa%20Jardin/DSCN4679_zps02bf1c5f.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/12-02-14%20Playa%20Jardin/DSCN4680_zps2fb23088.jpg

Who is that??
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/12-02-14%20Playa%20Jardin/DSCN4685_zpsf21d7146.jpg
"Hello, I am Ali Gator and You set me free when You found the treasure I was captivated in"
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/12-02-14%20Playa%20Jardin/DSCN4686_zps87a474e1.jpg
"HiHo, Ali Gator, I´m störte and I´m sure we´ll be friends from now on?
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/12-02-14%20Playa%20Jardin/DSCN4684_zps8546a13e.jpg
(A real pirate MUST have a pirate animal on his shoulder, but a parrot has almost everybody of my pirate comrades :cyclops:  )
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/12-02-14%20Playa%20Jardin/DSCN4683_zpsaea4e0b1.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/12-02-14%20Playa%20Jardin/DSCN4682_zpsb597124a.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/12-02-14%20Playa%20Jardin/DSCN4690_zpsbad04f67.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/12-02-14%20Playa%20Jardin/DSCN4687_zps7237ff62.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/12-02-14%20Playa%20Jardin/DSCN4688_zps6d76f5b9.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/12-02-14%20Playa%20Jardin/DSCN4689_zps034e545a.jpg

"Welcome, Ali Gator, we are ToyVoyager-Plushies, would You accompany störte and us from now on?"
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/12-02-14%20Playa%20Jardin/DSCN4681_zps6a2cb700.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/12-02-14%20Playa%20Jardin/DSCN4691_zpse3fd1d1e.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/12-02-14%20Playa%20Jardin/DSCN4692_zpsd0cce6bc.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/12-02-14%20Playa%20Jardin/DSCN4693_zps220a1896.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/12-02-14%20Playa%20Jardin/DSCN4694_zps20686cd3.jpg

Our hottest holiday adventure :D
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/12-02-14%20Playa%20Jardin/DSCN4695_zps6a9ad206.jpg

Love and see You soon
Yours störte with Ali

Strunki
strunki1259@web.de

Posted Feb 13, 2014, 11:55 pm
Holá Mum and Dad,

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.
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/13-02-14%20Teresitas-Party/DSCN1021_zps184a18e9.jpg
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

Strunki
strunki1259@web.de

Posted Feb 15, 2014, 7:44 pm
Holá Mum and Dad,

so this is our very last day here on Tenerife and we decided to celebrate a little farewell-party and enjoying the sundown
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/13-02-14%20Teresitas-Party/DSCN3896_zpsa19ad45f.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/13-02-14%20Teresitas-Party/DSCN3910_zps69e8e12c.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/13-02-14%20Teresitas-Party/DSCN3927_zps2288fbcd.jpg

And we remembered, laughed and had fun when we talked about our adentures on this lovely island
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/13-02-14%20Teresitas-Party/DSCN3918_zps33bcfabe.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/13-02-14%20Teresitas-Party/DSCN3922_zps869a85fa.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/13-02-14%20Teresitas-Party/DSCN3924_zpsfc4ce35a.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/13-02-14%20Teresitas-Party/DSCN3902_zpsc072aca9.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/13-02-14%20Teresitas-Party/DSCN3904_zpsc9411651.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/13-02-14%20Teresitas-Party/DSCN3905_zps812277f5.jpg

Goodbye Tenerife amabile
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/13-02-14%20Teresitas-Party/DSCN3913_zps8373c717.jpg

And even the moon waved a goodbye to us
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/13-02-14%20Teresitas-Party/DSCN1069_zpsc4008098.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/13-02-14%20Teresitas-Party/DSCN1070_zps9e72e318.jpg

Love and see You
Yours
störte

Strunki
strunki1259@web.de

Posted Feb 16, 2014, 9:18 pm
Hello Mum and Dad,

we are back in Germany and visited the greenhouses of the Botanical Garden Solingen , because today they are open for a few hours
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/16-02-14%20BG%20SG/DSCN4845_zps5ccaeabd.jpg

Let´s start at the tropical greenhouse with lots of plants we saw only a few days ago outside on Tenerife
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/16-02-14%20BG%20SG/DSCN4856_zps339b6a26.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/16-02-14%20BG%20SG/DSCN4857_zps4fbf69dc.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/16-02-14%20BG%20SG/DSCN4858_zps16be1994.jpg
Strelizia
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/16-02-14%20BG%20SG/DSCN4901_zps3606f869.jpg
and Bananaplants
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/16-02-14%20BG%20SG/DSCN4896_zpsc9682e85.jpg
(very important for the yummy bananliquior)  :p

Some nice orchids You find there
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/16-02-14%20BG%20SG/DSCN4865_zps9538f048.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/16-02-14%20BG%20SG/DSCN4881_zpsca1ba918.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/16-02-14%20BG%20SG/DSCN4891_zps8ccf0ae9.jpg

Here we are in the succulent-hall and see many cacti
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/16-02-14%20BG%20SG/DSCN4870_zps4b8fe640.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/16-02-14%20BG%20SG/DSCN4872_zpsab4eb42a.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/16-02-14%20BG%20SG/DSCN4876_zpsed0a55ff.jpg

And here we have a short look into the hall of bromeliads
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/16-02-14%20BG%20SG/DSCN4886_zps1a53624b.jpg

Worth to see this small greenhouses and a nice memory to what we enjoyed a few days ago
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/16-02-14%20BG%20SG/DSCN4903_zps3809960a.jpg

And even outside we found some very early flowers: small crocuses :D
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/16-02-14%20BG%20SG/DSCN4906_zps81a8bf60.jpg

That was our sunday-tour
Love and see You soon
Yours
störte
Strunki
strunki1259@web.de

Posted Feb 17, 2014, 10:25 pm
Hello Mum and Dad,

today UrselHH and Charlotte will leave Remscheid for travelling to RikeH
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/17-02-14%20Abschied%20Ursel-Hase-Lotte/DSCN4916_zps602149f6.jpg
and Hase will travel home to Dr. Kröbner
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/17-02-14%20Abschied%20Ursel-Hase-Lotte/DSCN4915_zpscc629956.jpg

Hase, it was great to meet You and I will miss You
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/17-02-14%20Abschied%20Ursel-Hase-Lotte/DSCN4917_zps1c5bf5a0.jpg

Charlotte, what great adventures we had together
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/17-02-14%20Abschied%20Ursel-Hase-Lotte/DSCN4921_zps59460198.jpg

Goodbye You ToyVoyagers, see the World and enjoy Your adventures, we will see us again, someday, somtime
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/17-02-14%20Abschied%20Ursel-Hase-Lotte/DSCN4923_zps39f6a250.jpg

Love and see You soon
Yours
störte
Strunki
strunki1259@web.de

Posted Feb 19, 2014, 10:02 pm
Hiho You old landlubbers at home,

today Sean arrived :D
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/19-02-14%20Ankunft%20Sean/DSCN4925_zpsd96e0761.jpg

Here we gave him a warm welcome
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/19-02-14%20Ankunft%20Sean/DSCN4926_zpsee4c7668.jpg

He showed what he brought, a nice postcard of Bad Salzdetfurth and some yummy gumbears, Thanks a lot, HoBi
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/19-02-14%20Ankunft%20Sean/DSCN4927_zps8b1240a9.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/19-02-14%20Ankunft%20Sean/DSCN4928_zps7cb97e5d.jpg

Sean and *Nick* became friends while I studied the postcard
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/19-02-14%20Ankunft%20Sean/DSCN4929_zpsd32eb373.jpg

Then Sean talked with me, we became friends and *Nick* studied the postcard
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/19-02-14%20Ankunft%20Sean/DSCN4931_zps1433f457.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/19-02-14%20Ankunft%20Sean/DSCN4932_zps8267e4e0.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/19-02-14%20Ankunft%20Sean/DSCN4933_zps78841ed7.jpg

We all have a nice evening and will have a great time together
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/19-02-14%20Ankunft%20Sean/DSCN4934_zps6d4f4058.jpg

That´s it for today,
love and see You soon
Yours
störte
Strunki
strunki1259@web.de

Posted Feb 23, 2014, 9:54 pm
Hiho You old landlubbers at home,

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
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/22-02-14%20Weert/DSCN4936_zps95f0d70b.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/22-02-14%20Weert/DSCN4940_zpsd90a1443.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/22-02-14%20Weert/DSCN4943_zpsff1ce6a1.jpg
Everywhere You see the typical brick buildings, almost in red, sometimes overpainted with white paint
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/22-02-14%20Weert/DSCN4946_zps2e7ffee9.jpg

Here we are at the market and because it is Saturday, the grocery market with lots of different booths are there
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/22-02-14%20Weert/DSCN4949_zpse4b47062.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/22-02-14%20Weert/DSCN4952_zps438ad1f4.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/22-02-14%20Weert/DSCN4955_zpsa2efc0c0.jpg

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
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/22-02-14%20Weert/DSCN4957_zps9610a03f.jpg

Here is the entrance
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/22-02-14%20Weert/DSCN4959_zpsd8cb0ad7.jpg

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
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/22-02-14%20Weert/DSCN4964_zps449741fd.jpg

Weert has a very attractive pedestrian zone and we found a lot of nice and funny things, even for us tv´s :D
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/22-02-14%20Weert/DSCN4966_zps82dddb0c.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/22-02-14%20Weert/DSCN4967_zpsd8380ed8.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/22-02-14%20Weert/DSCN4968_zpsea3bd583.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/22-02-14%20Weert/DSCN4969_zpse298cd1b.jpg
Look at this huge air-giraffe
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/22-02-14%20Weert/DSCN4971_zps57013a96.jpg

Another reasons I like being here are the drinks and the food :p
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/22-02-14%20Weert/DSCN4978_zps05d29316.jpg
And the region is famous for its Bitterbollen
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/22-02-14%20Weert/DSCN4973_zps833e4c77.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/22-02-14%20Weert/DSCN4974_zps7e463d53.jpg
But the very best for me it´s the local beer :cyclops:
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/22-02-14%20Weert/DSCN4980_zpscf07a76b.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/22-02-14%20Weert/DSCN4982_zps297d6440.jpg

On our way back we made a short stop at the nice looking Aurorawindmill
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/22-02-14%20Weert/DSCN4984_zpsf6eca661.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/22-02-14%20Weert/DSCN4987_zps65e17438.jpg

That was it for today, love and see You soon
Yours
störte


Strunki
strunki1259@web.de

Posted Mar 1, 2014, 6:34 pm
Hello Mum and Dad,

today a parcel arrived, we found it in the garden
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/25-02-14%20Helmut%20Ankunft/DSCN4989_zps4dfc3a49.jpg
We opened it to help HelmutBluepant coming out of the box
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/25-02-14%20Helmut%20Ankunft/DSCN4990_zps4c8544d4.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/25-02-14%20Helmut%20Ankunft/DSCN4991_zps6bb1a44e.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/25-02-14%20Helmut%20Ankunft/DSCN4992_zpsaf7fa7c5.jpg

Here he is, the lost son and we gave him a warm welcome
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/25-02-14%20Helmut%20Ankunft/DSCN4993_zps34016d41.jpg
Helmut, You look great after Your holiday at rikes home
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/25-02-14%20Helmut%20Ankunft/DSCN4995_zps97defab4.jpg

He showed us the gifts from RikeH and Dicker Kumpel: Nice Magnets from Hamburg and a cardplay
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/25-02-14%20Helmut%20Ankunft/DSCN4994_zps32ad3be6.jpg

See us playing with the cards and having fun
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/25-02-14%20Helmut%20Ankunft/DSCN4998_zps30ed584f.jpg

That´s for today,
love and see You
Yours
störte
Strunki
strunki1259@web.de

Posted Mar 2, 2014, 9:15 pm
Hiho You old landlubbers at home,

today we made a short trip to the municipal park Remscheid with its little lake
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/01-03-14%20RS-Park-Hasten/DSCN5004_zpsb64c572a.jpg
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.
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/01-03-14%20RS-Park-Hasten/DSCN5000_zps4757abf9.jpg
Last Year the wooden fish has been kidnapped, here are some articles to read about his mysterious disappearence
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/01-03-14%20RS-Park-Hasten/DSCN5008_zps34ee43d1.jpg

Here I show You the Bismarcktower with its astronomical observatory on the top
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/01-03-14%20RS-Park-Hasten/DSCN5012_zpsdf3f0d9e.jpg

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
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/01-03-14%20RS-Park-Hasten/DSCN5016_zps3b5893b4.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/01-03-14%20RS-Park-Hasten/DSCN5023_zps8f1e144c.jpg
See me playing in the witch hazel
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/01-03-14%20RS-Park-Hasten/DSCN5020_zps5d8b836b.jpg

From one point we had a nice view over the district of Hasten
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/01-03-14%20RS-Park-Hasten/DSCN5025_zps9db03b65.jpg
and we decided to walk there
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/01-03-14%20RS-Park-Hasten/DSCN5031_zpsc2312e93.jpg
Here we found some nice buildings
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/01-03-14%20RS-Park-Hasten/DSCN5036_zps2b4a406f.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/01-03-14%20RS-Park-Hasten/DSCN5040_zps5990b51a.jpg
and came to the House Cleff, an impressive example of a patrician half timbered house in the so called "Bergisch Baroque"
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/01-03-14%20RS-Park-Hasten/DSCN5046_zpsbf738597.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/01-03-14%20RS-Park-Hasten/DSCN5056_zps578984ac.jpg
See me with the lion head doorknocker
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/01-03-14%20RS-Park-Hasten/DSCN5051_zps82594472.jpg
...who laughs first, looses... sorry, but I´m soooo thirsty...
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/01-03-14%20RS-Park-Hasten/DSCN5052_zps48e943a4.jpg
Here You see us in front of the backside of the house
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/01-03-14%20RS-Park-Hasten/DSCN5064_zps474fbf01.jpg
We had a nice afternoon walk, but now we like to rest here, enjoy sitting on the bench for a while :D
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/01-03-14%20RS-Park-Hasten/DSCN5063_zps7aa9c616.jpg

That´s the tour of today,
love and see You soon
Yours
störte
Strunki
strunki1259@web.de

Posted Mar 4, 2014, 10:07 pm
Hiho You old landlubbers at home,

today we visited the deer-park in Grafenberg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/02-03-14%20Wildpark%20Grafenberg/DSCN5074_zps6a066b6f.jpg
(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
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/02-03-14%20Wildpark%20Grafenberg/DSCN5078_zps248fe7ea.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/02-03-14%20Wildpark%20Grafenberg/DSCN5086_zpse8c0d782.jpg
A friendly wooden boar allowed us to sit on him :D
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/02-03-14%20Wildpark%20Grafenberg/DSCN5081_zpsade5465b.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/02-03-14%20Wildpark%20Grafenberg/DSCN5084_zps85e5cd4e.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/02-03-14%20Wildpark%20Grafenberg/DSCN5083_zps69488e25.jpg

Our next station was the huge free-area of the fallow deer
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/02-03-14%20Wildpark%20Grafenberg/DSCN5105_zpsb58165ac.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/02-03-14%20Wildpark%20Grafenberg/DSCN5106_zps4fb7e003.jpg
Although it was very sunny and a little bit warm, the deer laid under the trees and snoozed
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/02-03-14%20Wildpark%20Grafenberg/DSCN5123_zpsbff3233f.jpg
But the area they have is really nice
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/02-03-14%20Wildpark%20Grafenberg/DSCN5137_zps03f0c201.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/02-03-14%20Wildpark%20Grafenberg/DSCN5138_zps9e66b99d.jpg


Here we met a friendly wooden pixie
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/02-03-14%20Wildpark%20Grafenberg/DSCN5097_zps8869b2e7.jpg
... wasn´t easy for *Nick*, Sean and HelmutBluepant solving me from this appealing lady  :cyclops:
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/02-03-14%20Wildpark%20Grafenberg/DSCN5098_zps8c94ee5c.jpg

This was luck: the wildcat was not sleeping, but outside, that´s very seldom
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/02-03-14%20Wildpark%20Grafenberg/DSCN5118_zps56212f9a.jpg

And another wooden guy
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/02-03-14%20Wildpark%20Grafenberg/DSCN5100_zpsfaa0ef95.jpg

But we were also were here for learning a little bit about the forest here in the "Forest-School"
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/02-03-14%20Wildpark%20Grafenberg/DSCN5143_zps38932e1c.jpg
Whaaat?? learning?? Us?? TV´s?? On Sunday??
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/02-03-14%20Wildpark%20Grafenberg/DSCN5144_zps28d63a59.jpg
But strunki promised us it would be fun for us
O.K., lets have a look inside
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/02-03-14%20Wildpark%20Grafenberg/DSCN5146_zpse71412a2.jpg

A book... with nice pictures
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/02-03-14%20Wildpark%20Grafenberg/DSCN5155_zps79e50495.jpg

This box looks very interesting
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/02-03-14%20Wildpark%20Grafenberg/DSCN5149_zps6a78c164.jpg
What would we find inside?
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/02-03-14%20Wildpark%20Grafenberg/DSCN5150_zps94e2c762.jpg
Soeren knows this box as well, he´s been there a year ago :cyclops:
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/02-03-14%20Wildpark%20Grafenberg/DSCN5154_zpsc5970c7b.jpg
I feel tree bark

This mouflon, the badger and the raccoon next to are impressive
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/02-03-14%20Wildpark%20Grafenberg/DSCN5158_zps6862b313.jpg
a boar and a roe deer
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/02-03-14%20Wildpark%20Grafenberg/DSCN5161_zps1220ec0e.jpg
this lizard was also interesting ..and very colourful ...and lives
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/02-03-14%20Wildpark%20Grafenberg/DSCN5167_zps333ba605.jpg

At the end it became sunnier again and we saw a small herd of red deer
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/02-03-14%20Wildpark%20Grafenberg/DSCN5175_zpsb7f589b2.jpg

This was our sunday-trip
Love and see You soon
Yours
störte
Strunki
strunki1259@web.de

Posted Mar 9, 2014, 9:51 am
Hiho You old landlubbers,

today we had a nice hike around the Sengbachdam, situated inbetween Höhrath, Glüder and the castle Schloss Burg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/08-03-14%20Sengbachtalsperre/DSCN5199_zps88580f95.jpg
We started in Höhrath and found some nice green shuttered houses there and nice blooming bushes
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/08-03-14%20Sengbachtalsperre/DSCN5203_zps4cf0e4e7.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/08-03-14%20Sengbachtalsperre/DSCN5211_zpsb76d5d6d.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/08-03-14%20Sengbachtalsperre/DSCN5215_zps6b577718.jpg

And we met a grass frog in his first trip in the warm sunshine
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/08-03-14%20Sengbachtalsperre/DSCN5209_zps20e21eee.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/08-03-14%20Sengbachtalsperre/IMG_1887_zps980a3ae2.jpg

Here the path to the dam started and after about one kilometre we saw the first water through the trees
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/08-03-14%20Sengbachtalsperre/DSCN5219_zps4170d9e9.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/08-03-14%20Sengbachtalsperre/DSCN5223_zps604ca7db.jpg

The forest here looks very nice and interesting, although there are no leafs
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/08-03-14%20Sengbachtalsperre/DSCN5227_zps53b48107.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/08-03-14%20Sengbachtalsperre/DSCN5233_zpsad7492cf.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/08-03-14%20Sengbachtalsperre/DSCN5239_zpsc800695d.jpg

A sign reminded us to be mindful with the forest and its habitants
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/08-03-14%20Sengbachtalsperre/DSCN5237_zpscfbdde27.jpg

Here we are in the near of the dam again
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/08-03-14%20Sengbachtalsperre/DSCN5244_zps67c92ca1.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/08-03-14%20Sengbachtalsperre/DSCN5248_zpsbdd48db1.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/08-03-14%20Sengbachtalsperre/DSCN5252_zpse10bba9c.jpg

Some landscapes here look similar as the alps
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/08-03-14%20Sengbachtalsperre/DSCN5256_zpsdb0bf61a.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/08-03-14%20Sengbachtalsperre/DSCN5259_zpseca9eb19.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/08-03-14%20Sengbachtalsperre/DSCN5261_zps07fa1fe7.jpg

And here we are on the barrage of the dam itself. It is a reservoire of drinkable water for the town Solingen
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/08-03-14%20Sengbachtalsperre/DSCN5302_zps9fcad322.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/08-03-14%20Sengbachtalsperre/DSCN5306_zpsa47515a6.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/08-03-14%20Sengbachtalsperre/DSCN5307_zps782ac279.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/08-03-14%20Sengbachtalsperre/DSCN5310_zps23f010dc.jpg

The path is part of the so called Bergischer Weg and we found the sign for it here
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/08-03-14%20Sengbachtalsperre/DSCN5313_zps20969982.jpg

Here we rested a little while for playing on the huge roots of this old beech
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/08-03-14%20Sengbachtalsperre/DSCN5317_zpsbe05b0c4.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/08-03-14%20Sengbachtalsperre/DSCN5319_zps935c65f3.jpg

Almost one last hill more upwards
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/08-03-14%20Sengbachtalsperre/DSCN5321_zps961f9d59.jpg

And we had an incredible panorama view on Remscheid and Schloss Burg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/08-03-14%20Sengbachtalsperre/DSCN5328_zps10fcc5ac.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/08-03-14%20Sengbachtalsperre/DSCN5333_zps4bd5bec5.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/08-03-14%20Sengbachtalsperre/DSCN5337_zpsebd7ef88.jpg

At the end we discovered, that we hiked a distance of about 10 Kilometres. Not bad :D
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/08-03-14%20Sengbachtalsperre/DSCN5340_zpscde199ee.jpg

That was our trip of today, love and see You soon
Yours
störte




Strunki
strunki1259@web.de

Posted Mar 10, 2014, 11:39 pm
Hiho You old landlubbers,

You never guess where I have been today:
The first Photo gives You the impression of a spa park
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/09-03-14%20Leverkusen/DSCN5346_zps79846161.jpg
But we are in the Bayer-Park in Leverkusen, one of the hugest chemical regions in Germany
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/09-03-14%20Leverkusen/DSCN5347_zps9f5629ea.jpg

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.
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/09-03-14%20Leverkusen/DSCN5353_zpse614cb11.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/09-03-14%20Leverkusen/DSCN5354_zps613d6270.jpg
Look at the almost open magnolia-blossoms

Some modern architecture of the Bayer AG
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/09-03-14%20Leverkusen/DSCN5358_zpsdebddb1b.jpg

And a open view into the park
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/09-03-14%20Leverkusen/DSCN5466_zpsf764dcd9.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/09-03-14%20Leverkusen/DSCN5452_zps31485862.jpg

We rested on a bench with interesting lionheads
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/09-03-14%20Leverkusen/DSCN5463_zpsac2ab4aa.jpg
And saw a nice looking white lady standing in a temple
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/09-03-14%20Leverkusen/DSCN5464_zpsa5fd17eb.jpg
Of course we wanted to visit her :cyclops:
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/09-03-14%20Leverkusen/DSCN5460_zps1e034cc0.jpg
She gave us the hint to visit a huge red lion
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/09-03-14%20Leverkusen/DSCN5470_zps9ef41f44.jpg
The lion told us to visit the famous Japanese Garden here

Then we followed his hint and visited the Japanese Garden
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/09-03-14%20Leverkusen/DSCN5362_zps5a59c42b.jpg

It was wonderful there, the exotic architecture and the asian style of this garden donated us peaceful feelings of harmony
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/09-03-14%20Leverkusen/DSCN5366_zps0bdbfe8a.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/09-03-14%20Leverkusen/DSCN5370_zps4cb45bf7.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/09-03-14%20Leverkusen/DSCN5374_zpsbcf555ec.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/09-03-14%20Leverkusen/DSCN5377_zps108a28ed.jpg

See me under the helleborus
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/09-03-14%20Leverkusen/DSCN5379_zps5ac87b0e.jpg
And the crocuses
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/09-03-14%20Leverkusen/DSCN5383_zps704ee41c.jpg
Look at the nice red camellia
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/09-03-14%20Leverkusen/DSCN5388_zpsec8dbbb8.jpg
Enjoy the colours and the springtime with us here
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/09-03-14%20Leverkusen/DSCN5393_zpsa2060af5.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/09-03-14%20Leverkusen/DSCN5394_zps9f97bf46.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/09-03-14%20Leverkusen/DSCN5399_zps603763d2.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/09-03-14%20Leverkusen/DSCN5401_zps73be21c8.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/09-03-14%20Leverkusen/DSCN5405_zpsda4678f2.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/09-03-14%20Leverkusen/DSCN5409_zps8afd1105.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/09-03-14%20Leverkusen/DSCN5414_zpsaecd4971.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/09-03-14%20Leverkusen/DSCN5420_zps11b270bc.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/09-03-14%20Leverkusen/DSCN5422_zps3326ed55.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/09-03-14%20Leverkusen/DSCN5424_zps5fc07fec.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/09-03-14%20Leverkusen/DSCN5427_zpsde75f8b8.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/09-03-14%20Leverkusen/DSCN5428_zpsfda60c22.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/09-03-14%20Leverkusen/DSCN5430_zpsbee6749f.jpg
You can call me cherry-blossom
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/09-03-14%20Leverkusen/DSCN5434_zpsf3373466.jpg
The garden is rather small, but very various with a lot of lovely details
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/09-03-14%20Leverkusen/DSCN5439_zps86315052.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/09-03-14%20Leverkusen/DSCN5442_zpsa31cf60f.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/09-03-14%20Leverkusen/DSCN5446_zps319ac0c6.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/09-03-14%20Leverkusen/DSCN5455_zps237c050b.jpg

We all had a lot of fun here
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/09-03-14%20Leverkusen/DSCN5449_zps4dd4c836.jpg
and chilled out the rest of the sunday at home in Helmuts poppy-blossom
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/09-03-14%20Leverkusen/DSCN5501_zpsf62e0be1.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/09-03-14%20Leverkusen/DSCN5502_zpsa643ed2d.jpg

That was our tour of today, love and see You soon
Yours
störte
Strunki
strunki1259@web.de

Posted Mar 16, 2014, 9:14 pm
Hiho You old landlubbers at home,
today we visited the German Tool-Museum in Remscheid-Hasten
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/16-03-14%20Werkzeugmuseum/DSCN5514_zpscc4f058b.jpg

Our tour started at the very first times of tools, at the stone-age
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/16-03-14%20Werkzeugmuseum/DSCN5637_zps214c43e9.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/16-03-14%20Werkzeugmuseum/DSCN5642_zpsd9d47ed4.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/16-03-14%20Werkzeugmuseum/DSCN5643_zpsff80acf1.jpg

Look at me working with the stone-axe
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/16-03-14%20Werkzeugmuseum/DSCN5630_zps5c2ebd46.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/16-03-14%20Werkzeugmuseum/DSCN5631_zps4681c2eb.jpg

Here we are at the bronce-age. The first tools made of metal instead of stone
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/16-03-14%20Werkzeugmuseum/DSCN5625_zpsdebc7d82.jpg

And here we see antique tools
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/16-03-14%20Werkzeugmuseum/DSCN5619_zpsf25c5ef3.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/16-03-14%20Werkzeugmuseum/DSCN5621_zpsc6eca16c.jpg

And finally tools of the middle age
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/16-03-14%20Werkzeugmuseum/DSCN5656_zps3508168a.jpg

A small smithy in old manner, nothing changed for a very long time
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/16-03-14%20Werkzeugmuseum/DSCN5650_zpsb8ade583.jpg

Here are other examples for old craftsmen workshops manufacturing tools and use tools therefore itsself
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/16-03-14%20Werkzeugmuseum/DSCN5516_zps7a1c588f.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/16-03-14%20Werkzeugmuseum/DSCN5521_zps6970031d.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/16-03-14%20Werkzeugmuseum/DSCN5522_zpsd025fd73.jpg

Here You see the three areas of tool industry in Germany: Remscheid, Schmalkalden and Stuttgart
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/16-03-14%20Werkzeugmuseum/DSCN5533_zpsf89bd364.jpg

The work of a filemaker was very hard
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/16-03-14%20Werkzeugmuseum/DSCN5582_zpscc6ecbdf.jpg

The discovery of transmission made many hard works much more easier for the people
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/16-03-14%20Werkzeugmuseum/DSCN5570_zps001e634e.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/16-03-14%20Werkzeugmuseum/DSCN5572_zpsb263173f.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/16-03-14%20Werkzeugmuseum/DSCN5576_zps9146222b.jpg
Here You see the huge wheel of a steam engine
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/16-03-14%20Werkzeugmuseum/DSCN5579_zpsf8e4162a.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/16-03-14%20Werkzeugmuseum/DSCN5569_zpsd681c1bf.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/16-03-14%20Werkzeugmuseum/DSCN5529_zps4d0af39f.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/16-03-14%20Werkzeugmuseum/DSCN5537_zps8c58cd9c.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/16-03-14%20Werkzeugmuseum/DSCN5542_zps32e49687.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/16-03-14%20Werkzeugmuseum/DSCN5543_zps6128d8f5.jpg

And here we see some examples of different tools made in Remscheid and the Bergisch Land
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/16-03-14%20Werkzeugmuseum/DSCN5549_zps6411a3e2.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/16-03-14%20Werkzeugmuseum/DSCN5553_zps7c43913e.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/16-03-14%20Werkzeugmuseum/DSCN5557_zpsb3140191.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/16-03-14%20Werkzeugmuseum/DSCN5566_zps6a84a220.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/16-03-14%20Werkzeugmuseum/DSCN5561_zps60f8192e.jpg
Lots of boy-toys there :cyclops:
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/16-03-14%20Werkzeugmuseum/DSCN5610_zpsfbcd9da8.jpg

There we sit on a time stamp clock, so the workers were controlled that they are at work in time
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/16-03-14%20Werkzeugmuseum/DSCN5583_zps564024e8.jpg

Here You see a part of a metalfoundry and one product: A bell
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/16-03-14%20Werkzeugmuseum/DSCN5586_zpsca1c32e7.jpg

A lot of fun we had in the section where the metaltubes were made
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/16-03-14%20Werkzeugmuseum/DSCN5590_zps1c0831eb.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/16-03-14%20Werkzeugmuseum/DSCN5591_zps96bb0444.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/16-03-14%20Werkzeugmuseum/DSCN5593_zps65667d9f.jpg

The next stations were also interesting: World trade of tools. They shipped them all over the world
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/16-03-14%20Werkzeugmuseum/DSCN5661_zpsebe822e4.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/16-03-14%20Werkzeugmuseum/DSCN5664_zps07305150.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/16-03-14%20Werkzeugmuseum/DSCN5665_zpsb6e59fe1.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/16-03-14%20Werkzeugmuseum/DSCN5667_zps34736566.jpg

Nice examples of older tools and a view around the museum from the first floor down to the ground floor
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/16-03-14%20Werkzeugmuseum/DSCN5671_zpsd0d38d5c.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/16-03-14%20Werkzeugmuseum/DSCN5672_zps79b67405.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/16-03-14%20Werkzeugmuseum/DSCN5673_zpsbd26b0da.jpg

Here we can anticipate, how it was to live in the neighbourhood of the work
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/16-03-14%20Werkzeugmuseum/DSCN5681_zpsc6816e19.jpg

And even outside we found some nice examples of courious machines
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/16-03-14%20Werkzeugmuseum/DSCN5527_zpsee19f25a.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/16-03-14%20Werkzeugmuseum/DSCN5614_zps8e53f95c.jpg
What´s this? A Plushie-pressing-machine?? I don´t know...
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/16-03-14%20Werkzeugmuseum/DSCN5616_zps77ec4e3e.jpg

This was our tip of today,
love and see You soon
Yours
störte
Strunki
strunki1259@web.de

Posted Mar 18, 2014, 9:10 pm
Hiho You old landlubbers at home,

today we visited another technical highlight here in the Bergisch Country: The suspension railway, called Wuppertaler Schwebebahn is a real landmark of the town
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/17-03-14%20Schwebebahn/DSCN5723_zpsa279971f.jpg

At Alter Markt we took one of the trains and drove above the river Wupper
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/17-03-14%20Schwebebahn/DSCN5685_zps184e496f.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/17-03-14%20Schwebebahn/DSCN5689_zps942a185a.jpg

Here we are in the wagon
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/17-03-14%20Schwebebahn/DSCN5692_zps5318fde6.jpg
and looking out of the window
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/17-03-14%20Schwebebahn/DSCN5696_zps16bf437a.jpg

Here we are at the station "District Court" (Landgericht) and we see a station in old renovated manner
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/17-03-14%20Schwebebahn/DSCN5707_zpsa6d1e8c7.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/17-03-14%20Schwebebahn/DSCN5711_zpsbbb70cbe.jpg

Hurry upstairs, the next wagon is coming
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/17-03-14%20Schwebebahn/DSCN5718_zpsae4caf17.jpg
And back again on the railway
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/17-03-14%20Schwebebahn/DSCN5700_zps35f46a4b.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/17-03-14%20Schwebebahn/DSCN5703_zpsda1104f2.jpg

That was a great fun and we hope to drive perhaps again the next sector futher on
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/17-03-14%20Schwebebahn/DSCN5714_zps437407a4.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/17-03-14%20Schwebebahn/DSCN5715_zps85bede37.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/17-03-14%20Schwebebahn/DSCN5716_zps2ed7853c.jpg

Love and See You
Yours
störte
Strunki
strunki1259@web.de

Posted Mar 22, 2014, 8:58 am
Hiho You old landlubbers at home,

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 :D
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/13-02-14%20Teresitas-Party/DSCN4699_zps30103313.jpg
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
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/13-02-14%20Teresitas-Party/DSCN4704_zps0921a40e.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/13-02-14%20Teresitas-Party/DSCN4706_zps90a5c995.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/13-02-14%20Teresitas-Party/DSCN4707_zps96ae2abe.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/13-02-14%20Teresitas-Party/DSCN4764_zpsad0427f7.jpg

See my footprints in the sand
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/13-02-14%20Teresitas-Party/DSCN4752_zpsf9705cd0.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/13-02-14%20Teresitas-Party/DSCN4753_zps970fc1ec.jpg

So what funny things can we start next?
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/13-02-14%20Teresitas-Party/DSCN4760_zps46082954.jpg

Shall we sail with our boats again?
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/13-02-14%20Teresitas-Party/DSCN4714_zpsd49fdc92.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/13-02-14%20Teresitas-Party/DSCN4715_zps05bedbcc.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/13-02-14%20Teresitas-Party/DSCN4718_zps3a80b1bd.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/13-02-14%20Teresitas-Party/DSCN4729_zps70e67295.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/13-02-14%20Teresitas-Party/DSCN4730_zps37ef36ca.jpg

See us racing against the other Team
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/13-02-14%20Teresitas-Party/DSCN4719_zps51a015b6.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/13-02-14%20Teresitas-Party/DSCN4720_zps1f8e2ee5.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/13-02-14%20Teresitas-Party/DSCN4721_zpsd64afed1.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/13-02-14%20Teresitas-Party/DSCN4722_zps906eb471.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/13-02-14%20Teresitas-Party/DSCN4723_zpsac3e3d25.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/13-02-14%20Teresitas-Party/DSCN4724_zpsffa94a23.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/13-02-14%20Teresitas-Party/DSCN4725_zpsd710c53a.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/13-02-14%20Teresitas-Party/DSCN4726_zpsc8bf21f1.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/13-02-14%20Teresitas-Party/DSCN4727_zps3df26b13.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/13-02-14%20Teresitas-Party/DSCN4728_zps6f560923.jpg

After UrselHH renegaded, stole our paddles and joined the adversarial plushie-crew, we hoisted our sail and gave our best to win the regatta
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/13-02-14%20Teresitas-Party/DSCN4735_zpsd838254e.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/13-02-14%20Teresitas-Party/DSCN4738_zps3cb5bfd7.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/13-02-14%20Teresitas-Party/DSCN4741_zpsabefbece.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/13-02-14%20Teresitas-Party/DSCN4742_zps32028544.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/13-02-14%20Teresitas-Party/DSCN4743_zps815bb615.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/13-02-14%20Teresitas-Party/DSCN4744_zpsa898516a.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/13-02-14%20Teresitas-Party/DSCN4745_zps1dce72e3.jpg
and the godess of wind donated us the winning :cyclops:
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/13-02-14%20Teresitas-Party/DSCN4749_zps048eff86.jpg

After the boat race we had fun by doing sanddiving
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/13-02-14%20Teresitas-Party/DSCN4767_zpsf5e70c26.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/13-02-14%20Teresitas-Party/DSCN4768_zpsd5801c6e.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/13-02-14%20Teresitas-Party/DSCN4769_zps1cda88f0.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/13-02-14%20Teresitas-Party/DSCN4770_zps0a9373d2.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/13-02-14%20Teresitas-Party/DSCN4771_zpsd95ba1c8.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/13-02-14%20Teresitas-Party/DSCN4772_zpsbb884a5e.jpg

Finally, everybody dived into the sand
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/13-02-14%20Teresitas-Party/DSCN4773_zps8aa66fc6.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/13-02-14%20Teresitas-Party/DSCN4774_zpsb97f5bf6.jpg

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In the evening we celebrated one of the hottest plushie partys Tenerife ever has seen (and survived) :cyclops:
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/13-02-14%20Teresitas-Party/DSCN4779_zpsbd71473f.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/13-02-14%20Teresitas-Party/DSCN4781_zps49039c7e.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/13-02-14%20Teresitas-Party/DSCN4789_zps2050c20b.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/13-02-14%20Teresitas-Party/DSCN4790_zps0d3afe79.jpg
http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/Achims/13-02-14%20Teresitas-Party/DSCN4791_zps2a2d2e98.jpg

We had a great time here B)
Yours
störte

Strunki
strunki1259@web.de

Posted Mar 24, 2014, 6:23 pm
Hiho You old landlubbers at home,

today I helped strunki working in the office
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/21-03-14%20Buero/DSCN5726_zps7710671f.jpg
...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
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/21-03-14%20Buero/DSCN5733_zps8e14b834.jpg
...nice, but not to compare with the view on the wide open sea, I think...

Here are some funny postcards on the wall
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/21-03-14%20Buero/DSCN5737_zpsf33ecf2f.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/21-03-14%20Buero/DSCN5741_zps6a3f781a.jpg
as well as a map of the Dolomites, nobody knows, why, perhaps they like having maps and looking on them?
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/21-03-14%20Buero/DSCN5746_zps0eb72108.jpg
a photo of a dog-puppy, it´s not strunkis dog, but her goddog and an asian topee
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/21-03-14%20Buero/DSCN5750_zps78bc797b.jpg
... 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
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/21-03-14%20Buero/DSCN5817_zpsc6ff515b.jpg
...Har Har, that´s the way of having a conversation I like... :p

So let´s start working with an important telephone call
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/21-03-14%20Buero/DSCN5822_zps2651699b.jpg
...and it wasn´t only interesting but really funny (for the telephone subscriber on the other side of the phone line...) :cyclops:

My next task was rubber-stamping
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/21-03-14%20Buero/DSCN5775_zpsadb68867.jpg
....Gosh!! NOOOOO  :o...

Lunchtime
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/21-03-14%20Buero/DSCN5754_zps55b622cb.jpg
...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)
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/21-03-14%20Buero/DSCN5758_zps8afc63d9.jpg
...grmbl....grmbl...stiffs...

Next topic was counting the paperclips
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/21-03-14%20Buero/DSCN5769_zpsebe6ff8d.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/21-03-14%20Buero/DSCN5768_zps04198801.jpg
Yes, all complete in there ...what a stupid job...

Then I had to calculate electronically
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/21-03-14%20Buero/DSCN5763_zpsdccc789d.jpg
...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
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/21-03-14%20Buero/DSCN5761_zps658303d1.jpg
...sssst: the squirrel-nerd next to *Nick* is employee of the week... wooow... :rolleyes:

After this almost endless meeting it was time for some sports
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/21-03-14%20Buero/DSCN5783_zps5cba6e67.jpg
Office punch-jump
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/21-03-14%20Buero/DSCN5787_zps1c9d6234.jpg
Yipppiiieee
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/21-03-14%20Buero/DSCN5798_zpsdbcacc21.jpg
The eagle has landed
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/21-03-14%20Buero/DSCN5799_zpsdbc740ab.jpg
(That was the first real funny thing here at the office for me)

Time for another mug of coffee
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/21-03-14%20Buero/DSCN5779_zps0f80bdc7.jpg
...not even a thimble of grog for poor old störte....

At last we had to check the Safety of the sensitive copy-machinery
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/21-03-14%20Buero/DSCN5805_zps1ab16490.jpg
strunki told me, that this is a work only for professional plushies like me (means: not every idiot can do this...)
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/21-03-14%20Buero/DSCN5806_zps67113e12.jpg
Yes, the copier works perfect
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/21-03-14%20Buero/DSCN5813_zps4dd6904b.jpg
...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...  B)

Then finally it was office closing time and I was allowed to call it a day
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/21-03-14%20Buero/DSCN5823_zpsad9fa1da.jpg
...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... ;) :cyclops: :p
Strunki
strunki1259@web.de

Posted Mar 30, 2014, 11:00 pm
Hiho You old landlubbers at home,

today we walked the Fruitpath in Leichlingen
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/23-03-14%20Obstweg%20Leichlingen/DSCN5830_zpsbee6917a.jpg

Although the weather was not the finest (it rained at the beginning), we decided to continue, because we hoped to see the fruittrees blooming
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/23-03-14%20Obstweg%20Leichlingen/DSCN5833_zpscd01cf1c.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/23-03-14%20Obstweg%20Leichlingen/DSCN5835_zpsf020ebe8.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/23-03-14%20Obstweg%20Leichlingen/DSCN5839_zps613f503f.jpg

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.
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/23-03-14%20Obstweg%20Leichlingen/DSCN5844_zps908f09c7.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/23-03-14%20Obstweg%20Leichlingen/DSCN5848_zps30cbe74c.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/23-03-14%20Obstweg%20Leichlingen/DSCN5852_zpsb160d4c5.jpg

But not only fruitflowers we found, look at this nice "forget-me-not" [Myosotis arvensis]
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/23-03-14%20Obstweg%20Leichlingen/DSCN5856_zpsb0318ee6.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/23-03-14%20Obstweg%20Leichlingen/DSCN5857_zps8564c253.jpg

Here are some of the fruitblossoms we came for
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/23-03-14%20Obstweg%20Leichlingen/DSCN5861_zps32f25b2e.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/23-03-14%20Obstweg%20Leichlingen/DSCN5867_zps7108d2c4.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/23-03-14%20Obstweg%20Leichlingen/DSCN5879_zps8103ab1c.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/23-03-14%20Obstweg%20Leichlingen/DSCN5883_zps792079ac.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/23-03-14%20Obstweg%20Leichlingen/DSCN5914_zps55d799e8.jpg

There we met a flock of sheep and look at the lamb, isn´t it nice?
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/23-03-14%20Obstweg%20Leichlingen/DSCN5871_zps20db0c95.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/23-03-14%20Obstweg%20Leichlingen/DSCN5876_zpsb291c940.jpg

Here are some farmhouses
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/23-03-14%20Obstweg%20Leichlingen/DSCN5887_zpsaaf3baa0.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/23-03-14%20Obstweg%20Leichlingen/DSCN5892_zps7ce3f51c.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/23-03-14%20Obstweg%20Leichlingen/DSCN5910_zpsa95f7a50.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/23-03-14%20Obstweg%20Leichlingen/DSCN5923_zpsb551fa31.jpg

See us playing  and having fun in the chaff
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/23-03-14%20Obstweg%20Leichlingen/DSCN5890_zpsd0af2f16.jpg

Passing Leysiefen
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/23-03-14%20Obstweg%20Leichlingen/DSCN5897_zps6c76c3ac.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/23-03-14%20Obstweg%20Leichlingen/DSCN5898_zpsc9374d03.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/23-03-14%20Obstweg%20Leichlingen/DSCN5905_zpsf363566b.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/23-03-14%20Obstweg%20Leichlingen/DSCN5903_zpsad9de906.jpg

What a nice walk we had
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/23-03-14%20Obstweg%20Leichlingen/DSCN5908_zps0b5ad77b.jpg

This was my day, love and see You soon
Yours
störte
Strunki
strunki1259@web.de

Posted Apr 7, 2014, 11:48 pm
Hiho You old landlubbers at home,

You remember our tour with the suspension railway in Wuppertal a few weeks ago?
Today we discovered one district called Barmen
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/24-03-14%20Barmen/DSCN5929_zps5c939de0.jpg
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"
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/24-03-14%20Barmen/DSCN5932_zps2b7c47f7.jpg

Here between the houses we start our tour through the pedestrian zone
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/24-03-14%20Barmen/DSCN5937_zpsd92016bf.jpg

A lot of houses were destroyed in WWII, but some survived the bombing
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/24-03-14%20Barmen/DSCN5942_zps1f55b173.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/24-03-14%20Barmen/DSCN5950_zpse4b1bccd.jpg

See this funny and colourful statues
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/24-03-14%20Barmen/DSCN5946_zps1a6727b4.jpg

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.
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/24-03-14%20Barmen/DSCN5954_zpsc9d825ca.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/24-03-14%20Barmen/DSCN5958_zps907f4126.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/24-03-14%20Barmen/DSCN5962_zps23e45d0f.jpg

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.
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/24-03-14%20Barmen/DSCN5965_zpsdaaad5de.jpg

This is the town-hall of barmen, built in the late 20ths of the 20th century
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/24-03-14%20Barmen/DSCN5967_zpsf1f6ce35.jpg

And bronce-animals again, but much older, here as colums of large lanterns
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/24-03-14%20Barmen/DSCN5971_zps59b73876.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/24-03-14%20Barmen/DSCN5997_zps28ffdba8.jpg


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"
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/24-03-14%20Barmen/DSCN5975_zps8282bd72.jpg

And we met "Tuffi"
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/24-03-14%20Barmen/DSCN5980_zpse0c747ad.jpg
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)
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/24-03-14%20Barmen/DSCN5985_zps0e077df7.jpg

A last view into the pedestrian zone, the street is called "Werth"
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/24-03-14%20Barmen/DSCN5990_zps5092aacd.jpg

This sign shows the distances between Wuppertal and its twintowns
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/24-03-14%20Barmen/DSCN5994_zps302d185a.jpg

A lion, the heraldic animal of the Bergisch Land
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/24-03-14%20Barmen/DSCN5999_zps1b7a1be4.jpg

There our little tour ended and we had a lot of fun
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/24-03-14%20Barmen/DSCN6007_zps77ab0a5f.jpg
 
This was my day, love and see You soon
Yours
störte
Strunki
strunki1259@web.de

Posted Apr 10, 2014, 11:22 pm
Hiho You old landlubbers at home,

today we went to Old Palais Grevenbroich
for visiting an artisans market there
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/29-03-14%20Grevenbroich/DSCN6029_zpsa4852b1c.jpg
It is an old building, but in a nice renovated condition
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/29-03-14%20Grevenbroich/DSCN6035_zpsa51713ad.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/29-03-14%20Grevenbroich/DSCN6037_zps787a240d.jpg
(...remembers me on my last jailvisit...)

Here is an old charter of Grevenbroich
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/29-03-14%20Grevenbroich/DSCN6041_zps8be34798.jpg
(...looks like the letter of marque I dream of :cyclops:  )

The halls inside are very impressive
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/29-03-14%20Grevenbroich/DSCN6051_zps4b1f56ba.jpg
and we saw a lot of nice handcrafted artisanal objects
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/29-03-14%20Grevenbroich/DSCN6046_zpsc43e6a3c.jpg
I love the fine works of the knife- and swordmaker, he even has the right sizes of swords for me
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/29-03-14%20Grevenbroich/DSCN6021_zps9fcdcdd8.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/29-03-14%20Grevenbroich/DSCN6020_zps844e2305.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/29-03-14%20Grevenbroich/DSCN6018_zpsff4fa2be.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/29-03-14%20Grevenbroich/DSCN6016_zps4d941b89.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/29-03-14%20Grevenbroich/DSCN6017_zps4c73a579.jpg
Of course here beats my heart higher, nice spruce for my treasure :cyclops:
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/29-03-14%20Grevenbroich/DSCN6015_zpseafa8cd2.jpg
...but strunki did not allow to plunder... :(

After so much to look inside we need a rest
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/29-03-14%20Grevenbroich/DSCN6053_zps7f9047c8.jpg

And outside the weather became better and better so we decided to discover the rest of the area and the nice park there
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/29-03-14%20Grevenbroich/DSCN6060_zps3f6de78f.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/29-03-14%20Grevenbroich/DSCN6054_zpsc8e03672.jpg
An impressive wooden door
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/29-03-14%20Grevenbroich/DSCN6056_zpsf117a6ee.jpg

The park with a wonderful nice pond
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/29-03-14%20Grevenbroich/DSCN6063_zps82324c65.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/29-03-14%20Grevenbroich/DSCN6065_zps2af63088.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/29-03-14%20Grevenbroich/DSCN6068_zpsbaaf3012.jpg
See us having fun in the bears garlic
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/29-03-14%20Grevenbroich/DSCN6069_zps8fcb8ce3.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/29-03-14%20Grevenbroich/DSCN6072_zps6e31e976.jpg

Enjoy the golden afternoon light in the colourful planting
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/29-03-14%20Grevenbroich/DSCN6075_zpsdf1bbf5f.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/29-03-14%20Grevenbroich/DSCN6078_zpsf394ae03.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/29-03-14%20Grevenbroich/DSCN6083_zps92e611f0.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/29-03-14%20Grevenbroich/DSCN6084_zps50de2d66.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/29-03-14%20Grevenbroich/DSCN6088_zpsdf2c11c7.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/29-03-14%20Grevenbroich/DSCN6086_zps0613d49f.jpg

This was my day, love and see You soon
Yours
störte
Strunki
strunki1259@web.de

Posted Apr 14, 2014, 1:47 pm
Hiho You old landlubbers at home,
today we´ll leave Remscheid for spending the weekend at Bad Driburg, enjoying the nice hotel and meet You and mum on Sunday
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/04-Bad%20Driburg/DSCN6092_zpsda8d6ba8.jpg
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?
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/04-Bad%20Driburg/DSCN6093_zps65adc29e.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/04-Bad%20Driburg/DSCN6094_zps665f0b76.jpg

Good bye to the garden
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/04-Bad%20Driburg/DSCN6098_zps4d1a93dc.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/04-Bad%20Driburg/DSCN6099_zpsc33a8857.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/04-Bad%20Driburg/DSCN6100_zpsda5aca15.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/04-Bad%20Driburg/DSCN6101_zpsd3a4a064.jpg
and good bye, Helmuts poppy blossom, I hope to chill here once again, sometimes
We swear we´ll meet again here
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/04-Bad%20Driburg/DSCN6105_zpsb20cc30b.jpg

Ensuring, that we all have a safe seat
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/04-Bad%20Driburg/DSCN6106_zps253d3cdc.jpg
Bad Driburg, Dad and Mum, we´re coooooooming!


Love and see You soon
Yours

störte


Strunki
strunki1259@web.de

Posted Apr 14, 2014, 3:21 pm
And here we are now, in the middle of the spa park of Bad Driburg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/04-Bad%20Driburg/DSCN6177_zps66075a9b.jpg

Behind the main entrance
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/04-Bad%20Driburg/DSCN6212_zpse1023a68.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/04-Bad%20Driburg/DSCN6216_zpsf8be270d.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/04-Bad%20Driburg/DSCN6220_zps2a394cf8.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/04-Bad%20Driburg/DSCN6225_zps7c1d5cd2.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/04-Bad%20Driburg/DSCN6226_zps1c7880cc.jpg

Our house, the so called "Droste-Haus"
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/04-Bad%20Driburg/DSCN6238_zpscaa43bb2.jpg

This will be our room for the next days
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/04-Bad%20Driburg/DSCN6109_zps91db0f6a.jpg
very nice and quiet here

Our view out of the window
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/04-Bad%20Driburg/DSCN6111_zps20981563.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/04-Bad%20Driburg/DSCN6113_zps8822b490.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/04-Bad%20Driburg/DSCN6117_zps1ee44d33.jpg

But before discovering the area, we have to check the bathroom and eat some fruit :p
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/04-Bad%20Driburg/DSCN6121_zps45a9ade6.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/04-Bad%20Driburg/DSCN6122_zps4767933b.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/04-Bad%20Driburg/DSCN6120_zps90e79f90.jpg

So let´s start our tour through the spa park at the main alley
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/04-Bad%20Driburg/DSCN6130_zps70b513cb.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/04-Bad%20Driburg/DSCN6131_zps2d3f59e3.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/04-Bad%20Driburg/DSCN6132_zps9a817a89.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/04-Bad%20Driburg/DSCN6241_zps05ba48bd.jpg

The drinking hall
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/04-Bad%20Driburg/DSCN6233_zpsb93bb835.jpg
...only water.... pffftttt....

See us sitting on a bench in the so called "Hölderin-Hain
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/04-Bad%20Driburg/DSCN6139_zps167faf6c.jpg
daffodils everywhere
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/04-Bad%20Driburg/DSCN6141_zps43dc2d4d.jpg

The hugest bench we ever saw
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/04-Bad%20Driburg/DSCN6146_zpse66cc37e.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/04-Bad%20Driburg/DSCN6147_zpsd87bd6b5.jpg

We met geese at the park Pond
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/04-Bad%20Driburg/DSCN6149_zps43f49adb.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/04-Bad%20Driburg/DSCN6153_zps8f478581.jpg
and sat on the wooden Bridge
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/04-Bad%20Driburg/DSCN6157_zps640ca5b6.jpg

See me sitting in front of the enclosure of the fallow deer
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/04-Bad%20Driburg/DSCN6160_zps7659eca6.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/04-Bad%20Driburg/DSCN6161_zps1a8e1211.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/04-Bad%20Driburg/DSCN6166_zps48cadf0a.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/04-Bad%20Driburg/DSCN6168_zpsc445133c.jpg

The fountain of the Pond
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/04-Bad%20Driburg/DSCN6173_zpsafd3763a.jpg

Helmut loves this place, we found bear garlic
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/04-Bad%20Driburg/DSCN6181_zpsb90b6639.jpg

Lots of various bulb plants
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/04-Bad%20Driburg/DSCN6184_zps67a6f2b3.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/04-Bad%20Driburg/DSCN6186_zps7ba6986b.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/04-Bad%20Driburg/DSCN6188_zpsdecf9bb9.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/04-Bad%20Driburg/DSCN6192_zps4a5a753f.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/04-Bad%20Driburg/DSCN6196_zps6e23c81f.jpg


That was our first day here, see us later again
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/04-Bad%20Driburg/DSCN6210_zps2c95b78c.jpg


Strunki
strunki1259@web.de

Posted Apr 15, 2014, 1:57 pm
In the evening we joined the very comfortable interieur of the bar
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/04-Bad%20Driburg/DSCN6203_zps32809548.jpg

Of course I had to help the boys wich drink we want to order :rolleyes:
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/04-Bad%20Driburg/DSCN6202_zps3e1a5ea1.jpg
And of course, the best choice, You´ll know, should be... rum :p

very delicious... hicks
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/04-Bad%20Driburg/DSCN6208_zps9b606e99.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/04-Bad%20Driburg/DSCN6209_zps14f91cec.jpg
...the rest of the night I can´t remember, sorry... :cyclops:

meckdaniels


Posted Apr 16, 2014, 9:52 pm
Today mum and dad and their TV-guests met hostmum in Bad Driburg. Nice to see each other again.
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
Strunki
strunki1259@web.de

Posted Jan 14, 2015, 12:00 am
HiiHook, Your old landlubbers at home!

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...
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/December%2014%20stoerte%20Karibik/IMG_0177_zps8a582363.jpg
See the proud ship I entered and forced the crew to bring me away
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/December%2014%20stoerte%20Karibik/IMG_0178_zps2c128df2.jpg

At the first haven we came in, I found a very special christmas-tree, for pirates only :cyclops:
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/December%2014%20stoerte%20Karibik/IMG_0199_zps718ba8bf.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/December%2014%20stoerte%20Karibik/IMG_0202_zps5993e883.jpg
Can You find me??
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/December%2014%20stoerte%20Karibik/IMG_0195_zps3a98f683.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/December%2014%20stoerte%20Karibik/IMG_0197_zps921a35b8.jpg
Jepp  :p

After a while I found myself at this place...
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/December%2014%20stoerte%20Karibik/IMG_0269_zpsa820c1cc.jpg
...sober....

or drunk again, I can´t remember
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/December%2014%20stoerte%20Karibik/IMG_0270_zpseab0b79d.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/December%2014%20stoerte%20Karibik/IMG_0271_zps61bf7c1e.jpg
...but the lady in the backround was nice B)

This pure golden bell was not too big for my proud new ship...
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/December%2014%20stoerte%20Karibik/IMG_0298_zps594d1a4d.jpg
...but too heavy for taking ist away :(

...Dolphins... nice and funny, but full of hedonism...
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/December%2014%20stoerte%20Karibik/IMG_0681_zps673db956.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/December%2014%20stoerte%20Karibik/IMG_0682_zps72895819.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/December%2014%20stoerte%20Karibik/IMG_0683_zps2e3bee71.jpg
this guy betrayed me...
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/December%2014%20stoerte%20Karibik/IMG_0706_zps201a4555.jpg
he sold my last rum...

Alone again
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/December%2014%20stoerte%20Karibik/IMG_0713_zps0ff9b5ef.jpg
...dreaming on my own, how chistmas could be at home...
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/December%2014%20stoerte%20Karibik/IMG_0865_zps90c5f866.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/December%2014%20stoerte%20Karibik/IMG_0902_zpsaa553756.jpg
fruity x-mas scene... too healty for a tough guy like me....

New crew...
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/December%2014%20stoerte%20Karibik/IMG_1113_zps3b7aef2b.jpg

similar vessel
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/December%2014%20stoerte%20Karibik/IMG_1103_zps6d2e6fef.jpg

same old story happened to me: They set me out alone on an island...  I didn´t understand exactly, why...
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/December%2014%20stoerte%20Karibik/IMG_1164_zps006e7eee.jpg

Here I met my escape helper, a tortoise called "Flap"
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/December%2014%20stoerte%20Karibik/IMG_1159_zpseae37fe3.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/December%2014%20stoerte%20Karibik/IMG_1160_zps6f0b5190.jpg
After some days he understood, that he had to carry me away from this rotten island without any rum-stocks...
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/December%2014%20stoerte%20Karibik/IMG_1158_zpsd35fc6e6.jpg
ugly boring place, isn´t it??
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/December%2014%20stoerte%20Karibik/IMG_1285_zpsecaf4d85.jpg

Another boring, rum-free place...
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/December%2014%20stoerte%20Karibik/DSCN4963_zps645dbe2c.jpg

Uhhhgh... Dolphins again...
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/December%2014%20stoerte%20Karibik/DSCN4982_zps9f100f48.jpg

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 :p
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/December%2014%20stoerte%20Karibik/IMG_0063_zps4a3b1535.jpg

See You soon... in another ocean ;)
Yours stoerte








Strunki
strunki1259@web.de

Posted Jan 14, 2015, 12:38 am
Holá You old landlubbers at home,

early in the morning we started our journey to Tenerife from Düsseldorf Airport.
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/13-01-15%20Start%20TF/DSCN8223_zps3f21724a.jpg
Look at our airplane
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/13-01-15%20Start%20TF/DSCN8225_zps36ebf8b6.jpg

The airport was very exciting
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/13-01-15%20Start%20TF/DSCN8229_zps0a7b70ec.jpg

In the air now, what a feeling :D
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/13-01-15%20Start%20TF/DSCN8244_zps3056bc21.jpg

...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
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/13-01-15%20Start%20TF/DSCN8261_zps5331d64e.jpg
Happy, that Ole is with me
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/13-01-15%20Start%20TF/DSCN8262_zpsaf464782.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/13-01-15%20Start%20TF/DSCN8263_zps91888470.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/13-01-15%20Start%20TF/DSCN8264_zps031002a0.jpg

Next adventures will follow, sure :cyclops:
Yours stoerte
Strunki
strunki1259@web.de

Posted Jan 14, 2015, 10:27 pm
...Belive it or not: I ONLY have ONE girl... :D
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/13-01-15%20Start%20TF/DSCN8270_zpsb82811e1.jpg
...ööhm... in almost...every haven, I admit...  :p :cyclops:
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/13-01-15%20Start%20TF/DSCN8269_zps62d745d0.jpg
Strunki
strunki1259@web.de

Posted Jan 16, 2015, 11:28 pm
Buenos Dias You old landlubers at home,

hihi, my first spanish words, they mean : Good Morning ;)

Here You see the main entrance of our hotel
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/14-01-15%20Monasterio/DSCN8462_zps751934ea.jpg

This is the hall
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/14-01-15%20Monasterio/DSCN8466_zpsf083606c.jpg

The pictures of our suite are a little bit dark, but the rooms are very comfortable
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/14-01-15%20Monasterio/DSCN8274_zps20b5fe5b.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/14-01-15%20Monasterio/DSCN8273_zps26618ae0.jpg

Outside the hotel I found a first nice plant: A tree called "Flamboyant"
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/14-01-15%20Monasterio/DSCN8471_zpsfa03025b.jpg


That´s for today, love and see You soon
Yours störte

Strunki
strunki1259@web.de

Posted Jan 17, 2015, 6:08 pm
Holá Landlubber-Mum and Landlubber-Dad,

Today we visited a small hill with an eremitage on top.
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/14-01-15%20Monasterio/DSCN8280_zpsac211dcd.jpg
We started at a place called monastery, where stations of the cross begin
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/14-01-15%20Monasterio/DSCN8284_zpsa1e10155.jpg
The way up to the hill is like going to a little botanical garden with lots of exotic and endemic plants
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/14-01-15%20Monasterio/DSCN8291_zps133917c7.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/14-01-15%20Monasterio/DSCN8292_zps7ee39da8.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/14-01-15%20Monasterio/DSCN8297_zps24e2d8bd.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/14-01-15%20Monasterio/DSCN8302_zps4ac9a0da.jpg

I met a friendly chicken
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/14-01-15%20Monasterio/DSCN8305_zpsb1ac8a54.jpg

The way is very hard at some parts
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/14-01-15%20Monasterio/DSCN8310_zps2d777641.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/14-01-15%20Monasterio/DSCN8314_zps894673a7.jpg
But the scenery there is wonderful
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/14-01-15%20Monasterio/DSCN8311_zpsf88eba0f.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/14-01-15%20Monasterio/DSCN8319_zps76fd91bc.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/14-01-15%20Monasterio/DSCN8320_zpsc1cf73ac.jpg


A view on Puerto de la Cruz
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/14-01-15%20Monasterio/DSCN8322_zps06dbd169.jpg

In the middle of the path we held a rest
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/14-01-15%20Monasterio/DSCN8326_zpsc69517cc.jpg

I saw the little eremitage on top
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/14-01-15%20Monasterio/DSCN8330_zps14b24e42.jpg

Finally, we are on top
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/14-01-15%20Monasterio/DSCN8336_zps03f25b21.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/14-01-15%20Monasterio/DSCN8337_zps00f2e06b.jpg

Look at the beautyful landscape of the valley of Orotava
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/14-01-15%20Monasterio/DSCN8342_zpsacd4d0c7.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/14-01-15%20Monasterio/DSCN8343_zps4d954de1.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/14-01-15%20Monasterio/DSCN8347_zps732c8392.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/14-01-15%20Monasterio/DSCN8348_zps16ea8e4c.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/14-01-15%20Monasterio/DSCN8349_zps1907c4bc.jpg

On our way back we found some nice flowers growing the whole year
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/14-01-15%20Monasterio/DSCN8357_zpsf38fd526.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/14-01-15%20Monasterio/DSCN8363_zps73f3f134.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/14-01-15%20Monasterio/DSCN8368_zps70dc063b.jpg

And finally a rainbow, look  :D
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/14-01-15%20Monasterio/DSCN8379_zpsab333528.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/14-01-15%20Monasterio/DSCN8380_zps7f6bad0e.jpg

That´s it for today, love and see You soon

Yours störte
Strunki
strunki1259@web.de

Posted Jan 19, 2015, 6:15 pm
Holá You Landlubbers,

today we vistited the old town of La Laguna
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/17-01-15%20La%20Laguna-Markt/DSCN8474_zps3b017f55.jpg
The complete name of the town officially is "San Christobal de La Laguna", but everybody here calls the city "Laguna"

http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/17-01-15%20La%20Laguna-Markt/DSCN8479_zpsd56ff731.jpg
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
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/17-01-15%20La%20Laguna-Markt/DSCN8485_zps04f6b0a5.jpg

This is an interesting example of a typical canarian house with an inner patio
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/17-01-15%20La%20Laguna-Markt/DSCN8499_zps62ee9f46.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/17-01-15%20La%20Laguna-Markt/DSCN8491_zps0fc5c5e7.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/17-01-15%20La%20Laguna-Markt/DSCN8493_zps1b2e9d35.jpg
Here we held a rest before we went to the market halls
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/17-01-15%20La%20Laguna-Markt/DSCN8497_zps5d556cfc.jpg

At the market halls I looked for something to eat or drink for our planned picknic tomorrow on sunday
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/17-01-15%20La%20Laguna-Markt/DSCN8503_zps58fc09db.jpg
See tomorrow, what the other TV´s had found for our picknic :p

See You soon and love You,
Yours störte


Strunki
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.
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/18-01-15%20Picknic/DSCN8511_zps77ea6b40.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/18-01-15%20Picknic/DSCN8512_zpse3cba1d7.jpg

In the afternoon we found a nice place and held, like the canary people on sunday often do, a picknic :D
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/18-01-15%20Picknic/DSCN8518_zps0d0da366.jpg

Yesterday at the market I have chosen a yummy vodka-mix
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/18-01-15%20Picknic/DSCN8522_zps82e8eca4.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/18-01-15%20Picknic/DSCN8525_zpsf01806a3.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/18-01-15%20Picknic/DSCN8528_zpse6c1781c.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/18-01-15%20Picknic/DSCN8529_zpsdb0913ce.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/18-01-15%20Picknic/DSCN8531_zpsaf8f06eb.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/18-01-15%20Picknic/DSCN8539_zpsf0beea15.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/18-01-15%20Picknic/DSCN8538_zps216e933e.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/18-01-15%20Picknic/DSCN8543_zpsdb342b88.jpg

The round brown slice is Gofio , a typical canary specialty of the native Canarians, the Guanches
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/18-01-15%20Picknic/DSCN8532_zps27d45fe2.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/18-01-15%20Picknic/DSCN8533_zpsaef82f41.jpg

We had a very nice sunday picknic
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/18-01-15%20Picknic/DSCN8535_zpse4a2f31f.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/18-01-15%20Picknic/DSCN81349_zpsdafde4f2.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/18-01-15%20Picknic/DSCN8534_zps0b1396cc.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/18-01-15%20Picknic/DSCN8530_zps7aac48b2.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/18-01-15%20Picknic/DSCN8536_zps23e62719.jpg


Strunki
strunki1259@web.de

Posted Jan 21, 2015, 6:29 pm
Holá Landlubber-Mum and Daddy,

today we made a small trip down to the old town of
Puerto de la Cruz and to the Promenade.
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/19-01-15%20Puerto%20de%20la%20Cruz/DSCN8562_zps12d14769.jpg

We started at the old harbour
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/19-01-15%20Puerto%20de%20la%20Cruz/DSCN8549_zps7212bc56.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/19-01-15%20Puerto%20de%20la%20Cruz/DSCN8550_zps674fa84b.jpg
(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 :cyclops:
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/19-01-15%20Puerto%20de%20la%20Cruz/DSCN8558_zpsbf06d5ce.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/19-01-15%20Puerto%20de%20la%20Cruz/DSCN8559_zpse3f49d87.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/19-01-15%20Puerto%20de%20la%20Cruz/DSCN8560_zps20993877.jpg

We went on and came to Plaza del Charco
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/19-01-15%20Puerto%20de%20la%20Cruz/DSCN8566_zpsd1d74d98.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/19-01-15%20Puerto%20de%20la%20Cruz/DSCN8569_zpsf6daad44.jpg

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.
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/19-01-15%20Puerto%20de%20la%20Cruz/DSCN8577_zpse800fbbf.jpg
The so called Plaza de la Iglesia is similar to a little park
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/19-01-15%20Puerto%20de%20la%20Cruz/DSCN8578_zpsa8081170.jpg
In the middle of the place You find a spring with a swan
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/19-01-15%20Puerto%20de%20la%20Cruz/DSCN8585_zps7f03dbd2.jpg

A good example for the typical canarian architecture, mainly the wooden balconies
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/19-01-15%20Puerto%20de%20la%20Cruz/DSCN8592_zps3a41de78.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/19-01-15%20Puerto%20de%20la%20Cruz/DSCN8593_zps4caa875f.jpg

Near the promenade, the sea is very rough today
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/19-01-15%20Puerto%20de%20la%20Cruz/DSCN8599_zps9a439eca.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/19-01-15%20Puerto%20de%20la%20Cruz/DSCN8606_zps0b915c7c.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/19-01-15%20Puerto%20de%20la%20Cruz/DSCN8607_zps74605339.jpg
From here You have a good sight of the swimming pools of Lago Martianez
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/19-01-15%20Puerto%20de%20la%20Cruz/DSCN8630_zps2e2471fb.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/19-01-15%20Puerto%20de%20la%20Cruz/DSCN8631_zps08f0a61d.jpg

Look, Bananas, in the middle of a Town :p
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/19-01-15%20Puerto%20de%20la%20Cruz/DSCN8613_zpsd6a6bf9c.jpg
We found them at the[url=Ermitá de San Telmo] http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Telmo_%28Puerto_de_la_Cruz%29
[/url]
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/19-01-15%20Puerto%20de%20la%20Cruz/DSCN8618_zps8efc17a4.jpg

Here ended our tour while we rested in a red and yellow Aloe
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/19-01-15%20Puerto%20de%20la%20Cruz/DSCN8622_zps2014386d.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/19-01-15%20Puerto%20de%20la%20Cruz/DSCN8624_zpsd69bc409.jpg

That´s all for today, love and see You soon, Yours störte

Strunki
strunki1259@web.de

Posted Jan 21, 2015, 9:49 pm
Holá Landlubber-Amigos,

today we visited one of the nicest urban parks on Tenerife:
Parque Garcia Sanabria
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/20-01-15%20Parque%20Garcia%20Sanabre/DSCN8662_zpsaa8570d7.jpg

Here we are at the famous flower clock
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/20-01-15%20Parque%20Garcia%20Sanabre/DSCN8655_zps9c0b0475.jpg

Seven different alleys lead to the centre with the main spring inside.
Here You see one of the alleys with nice statues
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/20-01-15%20Parque%20Garcia%20Sanabre/DSCN8647_zpsc106747b.jpg

Another view from another alley with palmtrees
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/20-01-15%20Parque%20Garcia%20Sanabre/DSCN8636_zpsbc321e50.jpg

One of the highlights in the park is the cactus area with lots of different cacti.
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/20-01-15%20Parque%20Garcia%20Sanabre/DSCN8638_zpsfb4d35d8.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/20-01-15%20Parque%20Garcia%20Sanabre/DSCN8644_zps125f132d.jpg

But the main attraction finally here is the sculpture of a sitting woman in the middle of the main spring
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/20-01-15%20Parque%20Garcia%20Sanabre/DSCN8651_zps53e052b6.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/20-01-15%20Parque%20Garcia%20Sanabre/DSCN8665_zpse8068ef2.jpg

This was our excursion through the park.
Love and see You soon, Yours störte

Strunki
strunki1259@web.de

Posted Jan 21, 2015, 10:45 pm
Holá Landlubber-Mum and Landlubber-Dad,

no, we are not in the Black Forest Mountains, even when the backround of the photo looks similar ;)
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/20-01-15%20Parque%20Garcia%20Sanabre/21-01-15%20Aguamansa/DSCN8677_zpsef935b06.jpg

In more than 1.000 metres about sea level we visited the trout farm of Aguamansa.
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/20-01-15%20Parque%20Garcia%20Sanabre/21-01-15%20Aguamansa/DSCN8681_zps70bc9617.jpg

The weather was very very cold, not more than 8°C and rainy, so we didn´t stay very long there :thinking:
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/20-01-15%20Parque%20Garcia%20Sanabre/21-01-15%20Aguamansa/DSCN8684_zps232ccb49.jpg

So love You and see You soon, Yours
störte

Strunki
strunki1259@web.de

Posted Jan 24, 2015, 9:23 pm
Hello Landlubbers at home,

today we spent our day in the famous Loro Parque
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/22-01-15%20Loro%20Parque/DSCN8695_zpsb9b03df8-1.jpg
We passed the entrance
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/22-01-15%20Loro%20Parque/DSCN8801_zpsbbb72aa4-1.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/22-01-15%20Loro%20Parque/DSCN8802_zps2fb2f6ec-1.jpg

and came to a forest of palmtrees
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/22-01-15%20Loro%20Parque/DSCN8808_zps3d147a9c-1.jpg

Planet Penguine
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/22-01-15%20Loro%20Parque/DSCN8814_zps7eedaf57-1.jpg

The Loro Show
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/22-01-15%20Loro%20Parque/DSCN8780_zps99ae2273-1.jpg

The Aquarium
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/22-01-15%20Loro%20Parque/DSCN8793_zps9bd93b60-1.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/22-01-15%20Loro%20Parque/DSCN8839_zps6a815391-1.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/22-01-15%20Loro%20Parque/DSCN8840_zpsbc85b1d8-1.jpg
Deep Blue :D
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/22-01-15%20Loro%20Parque/DSCN8851_zps7aa6589c-1.jpg

The zone with free flying birds
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/22-01-15%20Loro%20Parque/DSCN8715_zps78a4b610-1.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/22-01-15%20Loro%20Parque/DSCN8720_zps418c5fab-1.jpg

The Dolphin Show
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/22-01-15%20Loro%20Parque/DSCN8750_zps20ffb5a8-1.jpg

At the Orca Ocean
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/22-01-15%20Loro%20Parque/DSCN8760_zps30712b83-1.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/22-01-15%20Loro%20Parque/DSCN8761_zpsa45b484f-1.jpg

We had fun by watching the Otters
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/22-01-15%20Loro%20Parque/DSCN8818_zps27977e81-1.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/22-01-15%20Loro%20Parque/DSCN8819_zps466f75d1-1.jpg

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
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/22-01-15%20Loro%20Parque/DSCN8771_zps9b2dc903-1.jpg

What a full day we had here :D
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/22-01-15%20Loro%20Parque/DSCN8852_zps1bc76d70-1.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/22-01-15%20Loro%20Parque/DSCN8853_zps12a9cee6-1.jpg

Love and see You soon,
Yours störte

Strunki
strunki1259@web.de

Posted Jan 27, 2015, 8:54 pm
Night Life at Puerto de la Cruz  :p
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/23-01-15%20Night%20Life/DSCN8864_zps57885ace_1.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/23-01-15%20Night%20Life/DSCN8870_zps36cc632e_1.jpg
no comment :cyclops:
Strunki
strunki1259@web.de

Posted Jan 29, 2015, 9:15 pm
Holá Landlubber-Mum and Dad,

today we vistited the town La Orotava in the near of Puerto de la Cruz.
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/24-01-15%20Orotava/DSCN8879_zpsa5a0724f_1.jpg
The old town is famous for its nice wooden balconies
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/24-01-15%20Orotava/DSCN8880_zps7a835e1b.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/24-01-15%20Orotava/DSCN8897_zps4ac01a30_1.jpg

Here we have the view from Orotava to Mount Teide
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/24-01-15%20Orotava/DSCN8887_zps04021fda_1.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/24-01-15%20Orotava/DSCN8888_zps3841b175_1.jpg

Unfortunately the Botanical Garden of Orotava was closed... :(
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/24-01-15%20Orotava/DSCN8907_zps420064b3_1.jpg

So we only had a small look from outside
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/24-01-15%20Orotava/DSCN8902_zps52d4c95e_1.jpg

But instead of we spent some nice time in a Terrace-Garden called "La Victoria"
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/24-01-15%20Orotava/DSCN8910_zps41e4f670_1.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/24-01-15%20Orotava/DSCN8911_zps6b790135_1.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/24-01-15%20Orotava/DSCN8918_zps953465a3_1.jpg

At the end we had the chance to have a look inside a typical canarian patio
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/24-01-15%20Orotava/DSCN8926_zps44b26f35_1.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/24-01-15%20Orotava/DSCN8927_zps0f53b7f6_1.jpg

and saw some nice handcrafted cloth
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/24-01-15%20Orotava/DSCN8932_zpsb0bb695e_1.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/24-01-15%20Orotava/DSCN8933_zps3426e299_1.jpg

Love and see You soon, Yours
störte
Strunki
strunki1259@web.de

Posted Feb 16, 2015, 7:32 pm
Hello You old Landlubbers at home,

today we drove to the Cliffs of Los Gigantes
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/25-01-15%20Los%20Gigantes/DSCN8937_zps0766d523.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/25-01-15%20Los%20Gigantes/DSCN8938_zps7492b293.jpg

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
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/25-01-15%20Los%20Gigantes/DSCN8945_zpsb0fa3463.jpg
...but today we didn´t see any whale...

That´s for today, love and see You soon
Yours
störte

Strunki
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.
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/26-01-15%20Teide/DSCN8953_zpsad4b2824.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/26-01-15%20Teide/DSCN8954_zps47acfba5.jpg

See the foot of the mountain at an altitude of 2.100 m
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/26-01-15%20Teide/DSCN8963_zpsc2c31454.jpg

The landscape here in the so called "caldera" is awsome
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/26-01-15%20Teide/DSCN8969_zpsf1391cf3.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/26-01-15%20Teide/DSCN8970_zpsb9976e3c.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/26-01-15%20Teide/DSCN8971_zps4c8ce54d.jpg

Love and see You Soon
Yours
störte

Strunki
strunki1259@web.de

Posted Jun 4, 2015, 11:04 am
Hello You old landlubbers at home,

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.
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/26-01-15%20Teide/30-01-15%20Playa%20Sibora/DSCN8999_zpsxnhw64wc.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/26-01-15%20Teide/30-01-15%20Playa%20Sibora/DSCN9004_zpsqyjucjy0.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/26-01-15%20Teide/30-01-15%20Playa%20Sibora/DSCN9006_zpsbv2ceweh.jpg

And here You see the nice village of Garachico
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/26-01-15%20Teide/30-01-15%20Playa%20Sibora/DSCN9010_zpsssfrp2ml.jpg

Garachico was lost under the ashes of a volcano in the 18th century
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/26-01-15%20Teide/30-01-15%20Playa%20Sibora/DSCN9015_zpsjju4tick.jpg

This is the castle of Garachico
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/26-01-15%20Teide/30-01-15%20Playa%20Sibora/DSCN9022_zpsbds4jn5w.jpg
...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
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/26-01-15%20Teide/30-01-15%20Playa%20Sibora/DSCN9025_zpsopqhbh8y.jpg

A view on the natural swimming pools Garachico is famous for
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/26-01-15%20Teide/30-01-15%20Playa%20Sibora/DSCN9032_zpsvor8ac8q.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/26-01-15%20Teide/30-01-15%20Playa%20Sibora/DSCN9033_zpsne9tx51g.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/26-01-15%20Teide/30-01-15%20Playa%20Sibora/DSCN9034_zpstoaesqqx.jpg
...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.
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/26-01-15%20Teide/30-01-15%20Playa%20Sibora/DSCN9045_zpssvllnehx.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/26-01-15%20Teide/30-01-15%20Playa%20Sibora/DSCN9046_zpshry2i9vj.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/26-01-15%20Teide/30-01-15%20Playa%20Sibora/DSCN9047_zpshhh22ckg.jpg
Similarities with me are for purely accidental... In my opinion... but he says that he wants to adopt me as his pa  ;)

http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/26-01-15%20Teide/30-01-15%20Playa%20Sibora/DSCN9049_zpspywq4eau.jpg
...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...
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/26-01-15%20Teide/30-01-15%20Playa%20Sibora/DSCN9048_zpsufuax3yh.jpg
Jorge, Welcome in my pirate-life  :D

Strunki
strunki1259@web.de

Posted Jun 4, 2015, 3:54 pm
a final Holá from Tenerife: We drove to the nicest beach of the island, Playa las Teresitas.
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/31-01-15%20Las%20Teresitas/DSCN9058_zpspcxyshf7.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/31-01-15%20Las%20Teresitas/DSCN9059_zpsuv4llz4n.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/31-01-15%20Las%20Teresitas/DSCN9069_zpsbdb3fxde.jpg
Today is our last day and since now we didn´t test Helmuts boats he stored here the year before
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/31-01-15%20Las%20Teresitas/DSCN9084_zpsjqbxmp6u.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/31-01-15%20Las%20Teresitas/DSCN9085_zpsmlnnbmxi.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/31-01-15%20Las%20Teresitas/DSCN9086_zpsajyjxtbx.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/31-01-15%20Las%20Teresitas/DSCN9087_zpshgue2mbq.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/31-01-15%20Las%20Teresitas/DSCN9089_zpsyt1qiot8.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/31-01-15%20Las%20Teresitas/DSCN9092_zpslngmnitb.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/31-01-15%20Las%20Teresitas/DSCN9095_zpse4gbsd6m.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/strunki/31-01-15%20Las%20Teresitas/DSCN9099_zps6hfzjuza.jpg
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

mcdaniels


Posted Oct 6, 2015, 6:38 pm
Sniffing sea air....great!!
mcdaniels


Posted Feb 2, 2016, 7:32 pm
The both important things on an island: the sea and a decent drink!
Happy new year!!

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