's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands - 20th August 2008
By: Marjolein
Hello everyone! After finishing my study at the goose-university, I want to travel the world. I am way to young to get a job, so I want to get to know cool people first. Like meet bandmember and cool people I can drink cocktails with!
If you want to help me on my way, you can pm Marjolein and she will send me to you!
Love Dieuwerke
Travellist:
Olgamaus (Germany) Thank you so much!
BlackCat (Germany) Thank you!
tea_rose (England) Arrived
samsmith621 (USA)
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Posted Aug 20, 2008, 9:35 am Last edited Jan 14, 2009, 11:14 am by Marjolein
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Remscheid, Germany - 26th August 2008
By: olgamaus
Hi Mummy,
I arrived in Remscheid today. I was welcomed by my first host Katja, Bokkie, Lollipop, Hueso and Lady. Katja was delighted about the nice postcard I brought to her.
Here is my first photo:
Bye
Dieuwerke
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Posted Aug 26, 2008, 12:11 pm
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Cologne, Germany - 31st August 2008
By: olgamaus
Hi Mummy,
today we visited Cologne. We went there by bus. We arrived in Cologne at 10:30 a.m.
Cologne is Germany's fourth-largest city. It is one of the oldest cities in Germany, having been founded by the Romans in the year 38 BC. Cologne lies on the river Rhine. The city's famous Cologne Cathedral (Kölner Dom) is the seat of the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Cologne. It is a Gothic church, started in 1248, and completed in 1880. In 1996 it was designated a World Heritage site.
Katja had a wonderful surprise for us. We met fam-united and her family in Cologne! She was also showing Cologne to a lot of happy ToyVoyagers.
Of course we started our tour at Cologne Cathedral.
We wanted to take a look inside the cathedral but there was still church services going on, so we decided to walk around and have lunch first.
We walked to the river Rhine first. The old town is close to the river. A few excursion boats were waiting for passengers.
We found the perfect place to take photos with all ToyVoyagers, both Katja's and Petra's. Have you ever seen so many ToyVoyagers all at once?
We went back into town then to walk to the restaurant we had chosen for lunch. This restaurant belongs to a brewery, Mühlen Kölsch.
Of course we had a "Kölsch" there, a special beer which is only brewed in the region of Cologne.
When we finished lunch we walked back to the cathedral. Now we could view the inside.
Cologne Cathedral is one of the world's largest churches, being the largest Gothic church in Northern Europe. Construction, with interruptions, of the gothic church began in 1248 and took until 1880 to complete – a period of more than six hundred years. It is 144.5 metres long, 86.5 m wide and its two towers are 157 m tall.
After viewing the cathedral we went back into town again because the ladies were in need of coffee.
We found a nice cafe.
Here you can see Katja, Petra and all ToyVoyagers who visited Cologne today.
Now we had to walk to the central station. We had to get home by train, Petra and her family went home by car.
We took a last photo of the cathedral, this time even with both towers on the photo.
Here you can see the central station.
We said good-bye to all the other TVs and of course Petra and her family.
Bye
Dieuwerke
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Posted Aug 31, 2008, 7:13 pm
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Remscheid, Remscheid - 1st September 2008
By: olgamaus
Hi Mummy,
Katja made a cocktail for me, a Tequila Sunrise!
To make a Tequila Sunrise you need
5 cl Tequila
15 cl orange juice
1 cl grenadine syrup
crushed ice for the glass
ice cubes for the shaker
You have to put ice cubes, orange juice and tequila into a shaker. Shake well, pour Tequila and juice into a glass, filled with crushed ice. Use a strainer to keep the used ice cubes from the glass.
Then you pour the grenadine syrup into the glass carefully, from the rim of the glass.
Take a drinking straw and stir carefully until the dark red syrup will give a red shade on the bottom of the glass.
Enjoy it!
I was enjoying it so loud that the other ToyVoyagers, Bokkie, Lady, Hueso, Pien and Lollipop came running into the kitchen to see what happened.
I don't know why they are all wearing such funny hats. Do you know why?
Bye
Dieuwerke
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Posted Sep 1, 2008, 8:54 pm
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Remscheid, Germany - 14th September 2008
By: olgamaus
Hi Mummy,
we made a fantastic trip today. Katja met her friend Erika at 10:00 a.m. The two ladies had something really special in their minds.
Today it is the "Tag des offenen Denkmals". In english it is called European Heritage Days.
European Heritage Days is a joint action of the Council of Europe and the European Commission involving all 49 signatory states of the European Cultural Convention under the motto, Europe: a common heritage. The annual programme offers opportunities to visit buildings, monuments and sites, many of which are not normally accessible to the public. It aims to widen access and foster care for architectural and environmental heritage. This years’s motto is "Archaelogy and building research".
We decided to visit an ancient mine today. In this region ore mining started in 16th century.
There were three different periods of mining: The first one was before Thirty-Years War (1618 - 1648), the second one from 1758 – 1765 and the third one in 1853. Traces of the second period are difficult to find today.
Mining stopped after the first two periods because there was no possibility for smelting in this region. Actually they had watercraft, but the owners of the lot where smelting would have been possible had no interest in building a smelting works. They even were disappropriated. During this time the slag heaps had become so large that it was impossible to smelt the iron core.
Then in 1853 there was a last effort to revive the mines. In World War I parts of the large slag heaps were assimilated.
In a wooded area a local construction engineer excavated a gallery on his own ground. He found the mouth and built a new pit. Today we were able to see the pit. Before photos of the building site were shown. The engineer startet his work in 2002 and in about two or three years the mine should be ready for visitors.
Now I will show you some photos.
Here we are on our way to the forrest where the mine is located. We are standing on a railway bridge here.
This time we walked underneath the railway track, close to our destination.
Suneshine in the forrest ...
A view from above to the pit ...
This is the emblem of the association that arranged this meeting.
This is the entrance to the pit, hanging above is the closing.
The pit goes down 6 metres and meets the gallery then. It is revetted with concrete.
Here you can see the mouth, unfortunately one of the outside walls crashed so it was not possible to go inside.
We walked then through the forrest to Schloss Burg, an medieval castle in the neighbour town Solingen.
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Posted Sep 14, 2008, 9:09 pm
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Solingen-Burg, Germany - 14th September 2008
By: olgamaus
We reached Solingen-Unterburg. On our way through the forrest we saw many mushrooms. We had a lot of rain here last week, that makes mushrooms grow.
We had to walk downhill really steep to get there. You can see many old houses here.
Here the Burger Pretzels are made and sold. Burger Pretzels are a local speciality, they are sweet pretzels. This is the "Pretzel bakery".
This is the creek "Eschbach", it's flowing into the river Wupper in this district.
We then walked uphill to the castle. It is located above the river Wupper. Those who don't want to walk take the chair lift.
Schloss Burg, located in Burg an der Wupper (Solingen), is the largest reconstructed castle in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany and one of the most popular tourist attraction. Its early history is closely connected to the growth of the Duchy of Berg.
In the beginning of the 12th century (after 1133) count Adolf II von Berg built Schloss Burg on a mountain over the river Wupper.
In 1632 the castle was under siege by Swedish soldiers. After the Thirty years war, in 1648, Imperial troops destroyed the fortifications of the castle including the keep, walls, and gates. In 1700, the main building was partially reconstructed and thereafter used for administrative purposes. 1849, the castle was sold to be scrapped, decayed, and became a ruin.
Today’s appearance is not exactly the original castle was. The reconstructed castle of today is a major public attraction. It also contains the Museum of the Bergische Land. The surroundings offer hiking trails to the forests and to Unterburg, that is where the village is located, at the foot of the mountain.
When we walked back downhill we took another photo. Here you can see the distance to the other part of this district.
Here we saw an ancient cementary. It was sided here in 18th century with 105 similar looking tombstones. About 50 of them are preserved until today. They are all made of a special sort of sandstone.
From here we walked to Muengsten Bridge.
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Posted Sep 14, 2008, 9:41 pm
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