Travelog for: Greeny delMonte

Hello mummy, today I might decorate with guest mummy and dad the flat for Christmas. My last days have begun and now I am already glad about the new challenge in Berlin.

In dear your Greeny delmonte

A wish of me was always to be ridden on a hamster and today my wish has been fulfilled and it fits perfectly then I ride directly under the Neusser town coat of arms :-)

Mummy your wish was fulfilled and, finally, I might experience a sundown with.

Thanks guest mummy and dad

Hello Mummy,

I arrived safe in Berlin.

Somebody took the scissor to open my envelope. I was a little bit afraid.


Then there were two white creatures crawling into my envelope. I was still afraid what they want from me.


They just wanted to help me out. Nice guys!


Now I'll enjoy my time with Chrissy, Beate, Tapsi and Joe.

Hey Mom,

today we found a colorful envelope at hour hosts home.


We opened it carefully and saw something red inside. We were a little bit afraid.


It was Crawfish in the envelope. She came the long way from the US. And she had something sweet to eat for us.


Yours,
Greeny

Hey Mum,

today we had to say goodbye to Beate, Chrissy and Tapsi.



We went to Halle today. It is the largest city in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt. It is also called Halle an der Saale (literally Halle on the Saale river, and in some historic references simply Saale after the river) in order to distinguish it from the town of Halle in North Rhine-Westphalia. The current official name of the city is Halle (Saale). The University of Halle was founded here in 1694. The famous Baroque composer George Friderich Handel was born in Halle in 1685.

This is the Technical Hallors and Saline Museum. It was founded in the buildings of the former Royal Prussian Saline, Halle upon Saale in 1967. Hallors had been members of a brotherhood of salt producers .


Here you can see me in front of the main radio studio of MDR .


This is the "Marktkirche Unser Lieben Frauen" (Market Church of Our Dear Lady), also known as St. Mary's Church and Market Church. It was built between 1529 and 1554. Its four towers, together with the Red Tower of the city hall, make Halle the city of five towers. In German, its official name is shortened to Liebfrauenkirche and it is also referred to as Marienkirche and Marktkirche. It is the church where George Frideric Handel was baptized and received his first organ lessons, where Johann Sebastian Bach inspected the new organ, and Wilhelm Friedemann Bach was an organist.



I also went to a the Christmas market. It smelled sweet everywhere and I finally got the feeling of Christmas.



In the evening we met some lovely animals!
A turtle named Ines, a hamster without a name and 5 lovely budgies.




I'm really tired now.

Yours
Greeny

Hello Mommy,

today is not a good day. It is stormy and rainy outside! I don't like it. But I didn't stay inside. Joe, Crawfish and I drove through small villages, forests and fields by car to Kemberg. It is a small town in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. The town lies on the north edge of the Dübener Heide Nature Park.







When we arrived in Kemberg it stopped raining for a short time, so I could take a picture outside the car. The town's most striking sight is the soaring Church of Our Lady ( "Unser Lieben Frauen" ) which can be seen far away over the Elbaue (natural polder). It is a hall church with a nave and two aisles dating from the 15th century (or so it is believed) with an 86-m-tall tower built in the 19th century.


I hope the weather will be better tomorrow.

Yours,
Greeny delMonte

Hey Mum,

today we went to Oranienbaum and visited the area around the castle. At the moment the castle is closed because of winter time and we couldn't go inside. But we saw the castle from outside and went to its gardens. The Gardens had its origin in the 17th century, when the marriage of Leopold's great-grandfather Prince John George II of Anhalt-Dessau to the Dutch princess Henriette Catharina, in 1659 brought a team of engineers and architects from the Low Countries to lay out the town, the palace and a Baroque garden in the former settlement of Nischwitz, which was renamed Oranienbaum in 1673. The Dutch influence remained prevalent in the Principality of Anhalt-Dessau for many decades.
Oranienbaum Palace was finished in 1683 as the summer residence of Henriette Catharina, where she retired after the death of her husband in 1693. From 1780 on Duke Leopold III had the palace and the park rebuilt in a Chinese style with several arch bridges, a tea house and a pagoda. In 1811, the orangery was built, with 175 m (574 ft) in length one of the largest in Europe, which still serves to protect a wide collection of citrus plants. It was too cold to go to the orangery!
Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, Princess of Orange-Nassau, inspected the restoration works on March 3, 2004.

This is the castle from the front (street view):


The castle from the backside (garden view):


The garden. I heard there are lots of palm trees in summer!


We walked to the Chinese pagoda...


Below the pagoda:


The beautiful Chinese pagoda:





Yours,
Greeny

Hello Mum,

today I visited the Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm again. But today I went to Wörlitz. The central Wörlitzer Park lies adjacent to the small town of Wörlitz at an anabranch of the Elbe river. It was laid out between 1769 and 1773 as one of the first English gardens on the continent. According to the ideals of Duke Leopold III the park would also serve as an educational institution in architecture, gardening and agriculture, therefore large parts were open to the public from the beginning. Most buildings were designed by Erdmannsdorff, while the gardens were laid out by Johann Friedrich Eyserbeck. The gardens are protected from floods of the Elbe river in the north by a dam which is also a belt-walk offering numerous views along the park's sight lines.
Wörlitz Palace finished in 1773, residence of Duke Leopold and his wife Louise of Brandenburg-Schwedt, was the first Neoclassical building in present-day Germany. The palace and its interior with valuable cabinets from the studio of Abraham and David Roentgen as well as a large collection of Wedgwood porcelain were publicly accessible. Louise had her private home in the adjacent Graues Haus (Grey House). At the eastern rim of the palace's garden stands the Wörlitz Synagogue built in 1790 as a rotunda modelled after the ancient "Temple of Vesta in Tivoli, Italy. The Neo-Gothic St Peter's Church in the west with its 66 m (217 ft) tall steeple was finished in 1809.
The philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the aesthetic of Johann Joachim Winckelmann underlie the design of the park. Wörlitz Lake featured an island atop which was a model of Mount Vesuvius. The duke would stage fireworks that seemed to issue from an erupting volcano to entertain his guests. At the foot of the mountain on the island was a building intended to suggest William Hamilton's home at Pompeii.
Few years ago my host worked as a tour guide in the castle and the park.

Here you can see the castle from the front, the side and the back.




This is just a small part of the big Wörlitz lake.


At the end of the lake you can see Mount Vesuvius and Villa Hamilton.


This is the synagogue.


This is St Peter's Church. We could see the tower 10 minutes before we arrived to that village!



Yours,
Greeny

Hey Mom,

today we went to Dessau for some shopping. Dessau is situated on a floodplain where the Mulde flows into the Elbe. This causes yearly floods. The town is surrounded by numerous parks and palaces that ranks Dessau as one of the greenest towns in Germany.
We didn't have so much time. First we bought all Christmas presents. Later we had time to see the town hall. And we have been on stage at the Christmas market! Now we're famous! 





Yours,
Greeny

Hey Mum,

today I show you the difference between two Christmas trees in Berlin.
The first one is a "traffic tree" at Breitscheidplatz. It is made of waste, found in the streets of Berlin.
The second one is hanging in the Sony Center (Potsdamer Platz). It's full of bling bling. 





Love,
Greeny

Hello Mommy,

today I did a short stop at the Christmas market. It was really nice, but also really cold!





Love,
Greeny

It's raining outside...
So all I can do today is having a good breakfast.

MERRY CHRISTMAS MOM

Santa has been here. I've been a good guy so I also got a present. We found the presents under the Christmas tree. Everybody got it's own color of ribbon. We unpacked it and whoohooo look what I got... my own scarf!!!








I hope you got something nice, too.

Love you Mom!

Greeny

Hey Mommy,

today I went to the KaDeWe. It is the most famous department store of Berlin and the largest department store on the European continent, famous above all for its gourmet food department on the sixth floor.


When I came out of the store it became dark outside. I decided to have a look around if there's anything else interesting. I found a nice building. It's the "Theater des Westens". This private theatre designed by Bernhard Sehring and constructed in 1896 is a well-preserved example of magnificent bourgeois architecture. The form language floats in eclectic quotations, a mixture of styles from the antiquity, and the medieval and renaissance ages.
They have a famous show inside: Dance of the vampires!


I also met this lovely guy. He's a Buddy Bear. There are so many all over Berlin and there exist also more than 140 country bears with most of the countries of the world. And these bears are travelling around the world. They are tall toyvoyagers!!!
Can you see me on his right shoulder?


And I found a huge snowman. WOW. Amazing!


Look, there's a Buddy Bear copy of the Quadriga, which is original placed on the top of the Brandenburg Gate.


That's all for now.

Yours, Greeny