Travelog for: LittleLuzi

Hey at home!

Today Zandy and her mom decided to go shopping and we were allowed to go with them. Therefore we take the city railway, because we went to Heilbronn.



We cross a lot of citys. And in a spezial one we take this pictures:





The name of the city is Weinsberg. And we take this picture, because the castle there (you can see it on the hill on the left or in front of us. I hope you can it wasn't easy to take a good picture while the railway droves) has a nice story. It's called "Weibertreu" (somethink like: broad loyal). Why they call it so? Zandy told me and I'll tell it to you.

In 1140 the owners of the castle were the Guelf (Welfen) and they fight against the Hohenstaufen dynasty about the maystery in the empire. King Konrad III. besiged the castle and won the fight against his adversery Welf VI on the 21st December 1140. So the castle give up some time later and King Konrad III. allowed the women to go. And he said, that the women can take all with them if they can carry it on their shoulders. The men must stay there and the king would kill them.
So the women did it like he said, they take all with them what they can carry on their shoulders: Their men!
And so the castle get it's name.

So enought facts. It's time for fun.  On our way in Heilbronn we found this little boat and decided to play a little bit on it.



After hours we get hungry, so we buy something. Me and my friends decided to eat a salat with scampi.



Look I met this nice Lady.



And while it was cold we drink some hot chocolate. A really big pot for my. *yummy*



Than it was time to go home. While we were waiting for our city railway we take some more pictures. Here I'm in front of the city hall of Heilbronn. The clock is really nice, or?



There are three clocks. The highest one is a phase of the moon clock, the middle one is a normal time clock and the last one ist the astronomical clock. It was build in 1580 by Isaac Habrecht.

On the place in front of the city hall we found an embleme which shows all city partnership of Heilbronn. The cities are: Stockport in the UK, Neath Port Talbot in Southwales, Béziers in France, Solothurn in Schwizerland, Slubice in Poland and Frankfurt (Oder) in Germany. Zandy would take a picture and said we should sit on one flag. Of course I sit on the German flag.





And the last picture before we go home is with the ower of the Kilianskirche (church). It's a gothic one, first it was a romanic build in 1100.



Good night mummy, now I'm tired.

Hi mummy!

Today we‘ve visited Rothenburg ob der Tauber. Rothenburg is a city in Bavaria, in the administrative district Ansbach in Middle Franconia. Rothenburg has round 11000 inhabitants. And Zandy showed us some pictures from some years ago, when she was there. The old city is sooooooooooooo awesome. A really medieval city.

In the morning we waked up and prepair us for our jounrey. It was could outside, but  we heat the car up.





We had a lot of fun during our drive. We sang songs and look outside. There was snow lieing and the landscape was wonderful. After round a hour we came to Rotheburg and look mummy what we saw, when we leave the car.



And than we walked behind the wall and found strairs. We decided to go up.







At the top of the Wall we can walk on the  parapet walk and of course we did it. What a fun and nice thing. Look and then we found this way.





We talked together if we should go there into the dark. And I said, we should do, there is nothing we must have fear.



But before we walked through I saw a very funny sign. Isn’t it?



After our walk on the parapet walk we go down and saw this nice tower. We all were very surprised, that all this things are in such a good situation after all this years.



And then in a separate part of the wall we had a really great view over Rothenburg. And with the snow it was really great.





Here are a grouppicture of us in front of the great view.



But it’s getting colder there, so we decided to walk  our way. And it was good, because we found this old church. (But we can’t go inside, there was a mess and we thought it will be bad to go inside during this.)



And look there was a sun clock on a house.



On the other side of the church we found this relief of a religious szene (*brr*). We are not really sure which one it is and there was no sign.





Oh mummy, and we found a Teddyland. Look how many teddies there in the window. We tried to talk with the teddies but they didn’t hear us. Ok, when they won’t talk with us, the mustn’t …



And then we found a really nice fountain. There are a lot fountains in Rothenburg.



Mummy, Zandy showed us a store with Christmasdecorations. This store is open the whole year. She told us, that it is very funny to go there in summer, because than you didn’t think on Christmas, but in the store you must do it. Sadly it wasn’t allowed to take pictures inside the store and the Christmas museum.





After this visit we went to a museum. A really great museum, I was soooooo happy. It’s called medieval crimemuseum.  Look what we found outside.





A cage in which you put thieves and then you put them into the water.  And before you go in you see this horse buggy. You know what there are for? Yes, in this horse buggy  you bring the thieves to the prison or to the deathsman.



MUMMY! HELP! Look what they do with me!!!! They put me into the gallows. :’-(



Hihi, don’t worry mummy. This was my idea, I want to take a picture. 

And then the doors opend and we could go inside. Wow, it was so dark in the first room, so that the pictures aren’t very well, but we do our best.



A reck. This was a torture instrument to bring the defendant to a guilty plea. And look a chair with thrones.



After this scary torture instrument we found some prison doors. And I decided to go behind so that Zandy could take a picture.



We also saw a thing, that you use to bond the people. In the upper loop you put the head of a person, than the hands you put in the middle ones and the legs in the last one. Strange, or?



Mummy and look at this masks. Buh, scary.  – So cool!



This are Shame masks from the 17./18. from old Austria. The left mask has a mustache with twisted ends, horn and openings on the sides, for attachements of chicken feathers (symboling sexual lack of restrain). On top of the mask are bells which make the public aware when they ring.
The middle mask is one with a pig shout instead of a human mouth. This symbolized that the person wearing it acted like a pig.
The right has big glasses which shows, that the person sees all and the tounge says that the person talked about all.
On the next picture you can see me and my friends reading a strange story. It was in German, so I helped my English speaking friends. And the story was really, really, really strange.



I will tell you what the story tells: The title is “The animal banish”

There was a downright court procedure against animals in the 15. century in the Switzerland.
The area of Bern was attacked several times of cockchafer grubs. To fight the grubs, because they menace the harvest, the bishop of Lausanne began a court procedure against them with the ambition to banish them:
He send a apparitor to them, to call them to send an ambassador to the court. But the animals didn’t came and so the court procedure happened without them. And so the bishop adjudge them to leave the country in a deadline. But the cockchafer didn’t go. And so the bishop anathematized them.

Mummy, we all laughed so loud, that the other people look at us. But we are right, or? So silly people! How they can think, that cockchafer will come to a court procedure? So silly! Really!

But ok, we came to us and than our tour goes on. We found this big equipment, to press emblems of different things.



And this different punishmends of honour.



Mummy, look at this crazy mask. It’s a shame mask from the 17. Century. Shame masks were put on those heads from people standing at the pillories. They served on one hand to elucidate the bad character and crime of the person being punished, and on the other hand to make them look ridiculous and to encourage the mockery on the onlookers.



And this is also silly! A shame mask for women. – No for talkative women. (Ok for EVERY women!  )



We found a glass case which shows some traditional things that women wear on their wedding. How boring. The others things are more interesting! *hrhr*



Of course we found THE torture and death penalty oft the medieval time. The iron maiden. I think you know what this “lady” do. *shiver* This one is an original from the 15./16. century from Nuremberg. But this one wasn’t really a torture or death penalty, it was a shame penalty for women and girls.




Can you see the cage behind us? Ok I know it isn’t easy, but we do our best. It’s known a “The Trülle” here . It’s a pillory in form of a cage in which offenders stood, either standing free on all sides on a public place or fitted into the front of a building (most the town hall). This cage could be rotated , mummy.  It was the punishment for work-dodgers and for revelers who disturbed the peace at night while drunk.

On the right site there is a big justice sword.

Next I saw a funny picture with shows different punishes. Ok, it looks funny on the picture, but in real they were not so funny, I guess.



Mummy do you see the things on the floor? I will tell you what they are.



Left the stone,  this is called Turkish head. After the defeat of the Turks in Vienna 1683, this head was worn around a chain as a symbol of shame. The both stones in the middle are called stones of wickedness (lorry). And right are the wooden block. This is a weight which a person had to wear during he was standing at the pillory.

The next picture shows a justice. I think you can see what the persons and floors shows us.





Mummy, so you know what the next picture shows?



I’ll tell you. It shows a “Drunk Tank”. Especially it was used for men who went often to the inns and drank too much. Through the hole came the head so that the weight of the barrel was carried of the shoulders. As a special hardship sometimes weights were put on the outside. (How silly?!)



Here you can see me and my friends in front of a model of a marketplace. Right you can see a building whit is open, this shows a school and the different classrooms.  When we walked our way we saw an old school table and a donkey.





You didn’t believe for what the donkey was. It was for blithering  pupil, they must sit on the monkey. Funny people!

Oh and we found weights. Whit this people buy their things. Of course some weights were faked, so that people must pay more than they really must.



And we found a glass case which shows different gallows and pillory. How much they have. For everything a different one.





Scary clothes, or mummy? There are from a deathsman. Now I know why people were afraid if they see such a man. But of course I wouldn’t be afraid if I saw him. I’m the evil in person, he will be afraid of me. *hrhr*





The wheels were also a punishment. People were non-friable and than they drive with the wheel on armes and legs oft he people. Mummy, it is sooooo … *hrhr*. What the people in the medieval times had in their heads?! They were so crazy, but funny





Mummy I’ll come to you.
No, don’t worry, we only found this old gun and I decided to take a picture. After all the interesting things I must do something funny.




I saw this picture which shows two criminal persons.



And an axe.



I found this funny chair. But I don’t really remember for what it was.



And this is for hack down heads. Yeah! Great! I need such a thing too mummy. I like it.



And the last great thing: A shame violin and other instruments of torture (bind rails and whips) – Oh äh, this things I need too, mummy!





Look, only for you mummy. Hehe no, I think it’s no good idea to steal them. There are beautiful. But I think our crown-jewles are more important, or mummy?!



Puuuuh this was a trip. Scary, silly but also very interesting. How people change in time, this is very interesting. And I’m happy, that they change, because when not I’ll never become a ToyVoyager. But so I learn something and that’s good. After our trip to the museum we went to a cafe with a delicacy from Rothenburg ob der Tauber. It’s called Schneeball (snow ball). Zandy told me, that this pastries are from shortcrust. The first ones were only with sugar powder but now there are many differend sorts. You can see them behind me and my friends.



Of course Zandy saied that we will taste them and than we had the spoilt for choice. I decided to take a snow ball with marzipan and dark chocolate. And it was sooooooooo delicious. I would like to send one to you, but I think I had no chance to do it. I’m sorry mummy.



Than it‘s getting late and we had to go back to the car. On our way we passed another great fountain. Look at the statue on it.



But than we decided to take another walk on the  parapet walk, but now the other side. First we take this picture, you see me on the wall?!





From above we saw a nice house with a really nice clock. Isn’t it?



And we like the sunset from above. It was really nice. I hope you see it a little bit on the pictures. It was very cold and I don’t know who shivers more I or Zandy.







And we saw this tower with some emblemes, the left and right one shows the embleme of Rothenburg but we don’t know which one the middle one is.



And the last picture was this one.



And than we drove home and fell into our beds, because we were so tired.

Bye bye mummy, I hope you enjoy my Rothenburg-Trip.
Yours,
Luzi

I'm back hoooome! I had a great time together with Zandy, I brought some souvenirs with me



it was so nice to see Lui again!



one of the bonbons Zandy put in my box



we went to Karlsruhe, first we had lunch at Maredo!



yummii..



then we visited the castle, isn't it impressive? would be a perfect home for me













then I saw the pyramid of Karlsruhe, which is on the market place



aaand then, we went to the Faschingsumzug! it's carnival!







hihi.. scary.. the right thing for me





was a nice day

Luzifer

today me, Hase and BineHH had a delicious breakfast!

heeeelloooooo! yesterday we had a beautiful day in Heidelberg! We went to the castle (303 steps high!) and the city center! we had so much fun we all agreed that we love being toyvoyagers!











































we had a mexican lunch













then we went home again. one last picture of the castle!



was a great day!

time to go again! I'm going back to Lichtenfels, visiting Takata and Yosemite





goodbye!

Hey Mummy!

I savely arrived at Lichtenfels. What a welcome! All plushies said hello to me! So much wellknown faces, I love coming back!

I also said hello to my old friends Baerbel, Joschka, Trudi and Friedolin. They will come with us to Denmark, too! I hope hostdad´s car will be big enough for us!

But so much new TVs, too! We will go altogether to Denmark! We will have enough time to chat and exchance experiences of our life as TVs. I am so excited! Maybe I will fulfill one lifemission!

I gave my hostparents the present I brough along. They liked it very much! Exspecially because I had two evidence photos that I painted the easteregg myself!

So, Mummy, hope you have a nice evening!

Love,

Luzi

Hey Mummy!

Today I got a feeling of what we expect in Denmark 

I rode the little motor scooter right to Denmark

Maybe I will arrive earlier than my hosts

Yours, Luzi

Hey Mummy!

At first: HAPPY EASTER!

Today hostmum said, all TVs should come down in the garden. We wondered what was going on. Then she says we should look if we find some sweets, the saw a bunny with a basket full of eggs and sweets a few minutes ago. Oh my god, hostmum sees bunnies! 

But in fact, the first thing I found was a chocolate bunny in the grill  and an egg between the stones.

Altogether we found a lot of sweets in the garden, maybe there was really a bunny with chocolate??? I don´t know.

But the main thing is, that the sweets taste good 

Your LittleLuzi

Hey, my dear Mummy!

We arrived save and sound at Denmark! Today we visited the beach. LIFEMISSION FULFILLED!!!

We had to make a short walk through the dunes. I played in the sand and I really enjoyed it! Because I fulfilled my lifemission the other TVs built a throne of shells for me!

Wow, I felt like the king of Denmark on it!

On our way back home we had to climb over the dunes once more.

To celebrate my lifemission we had a cup of coffee in a little cafe.

What a great day

Kisses, LittleLuzi

Hey Mummy!

I met another dark creature, a chocolate truffle bowl aaaaaahggggggggggggrhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Hej Mummy!

Ugly day today, very bad weather in Denmark. So we made a shopping tour. Do you know what "Bolcher" means? I know 

Just take a look:
There was a man, who rolls a mystic mass. He wore gloves, because the mass was hot. He formed a roll, once black, once white...

Put it into a machine...

When he started the machine it made a pandemonium 

And what came out???

CANDIES!!!

Blavand Bolcher is the oldest candy factory in Denmark!

We certainly MUST taste the candies!

SOoooooooooooo yummie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sweet greetings, your LittleLuzi

Hey Mummy!

Today we have two birthday TVs! It´s Baerle, and Maeusle . They are now 3 years old.

We sang "Happy Bearsday to you" (I am not good in singing )
aaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrhggggggggggggg

But I wished them the very best, this crazy folks and got a cup of coffee and a piece of chocolate cake 

Yours, LittleLuzi

Hej Mummy!

Today we spent a last day at the beach. It was soooo windy! I looked for a place with less wind and found it 

Maeusle, Bodo and me captured the boat in the sandbox and started our way to the south

See you soon!

Yours, Luzi

Hey Mummy!

Time to say Goodbye!

Soon I will leave my hosts and my adventure will go on. BERLIN, I am coming!

For Goodbye the TVs made TV-Diving with me, something like stage diving, only without stage, but with TVs 

See you in Berlin!

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrgh

LittleLuzi