Remscheid, Germany - 16th June 2009
By: olgamaus
Hi Mummy,
I arrived in Remscheid today. I already met another little horse here.
Bye
Carlisle
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Posted Jun 16, 2009, 9:51 pm
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at home in Remscheid, Germany - 16th June 2009
By: olgamaus
Hi Mummy,
the first ToyVoyager I met here is Penny-Bo from Southern Germany,a little horse like me
The weather is rather bad today, so my host Katja had the idea to bake a cake. She talked to another member of ToyVyoagers about rhubarb cake with meringue topping, so she decided to bake such a cake. She bought rhubarb on her way home.
After washing it she began to cut it into pieces. It was obvious than that the rhubarb was of a really bad quality, completely dry and lingneous inside. What to do now? I saw an ananas and asked "What about the ananas?" Katja thought this was a great idea. We decided immediately to bake an
Ananas cake with meringue topping.
For the dough you need
750 g rhubarb 500 g prepared ananas
125 g butter
125 g sugar
1 pinch salt
1 package vanilla sugar
3 eggs
200 g flour
2 tsp. baking powder
3 tbspn. cream
butter for the baking pan
For the topping:
3 egg white
150 g sugar
Prepare the ananas and cut it into small pieces. Stirr butter with sugarm vanilla sugar and salt, add the eggs. Stirr it foamy. Mix flour and baking powder, stirr it under the butter-egg-mixture, add cream.
Put the dough into a greased baking pan (28 cm diameter, 26 cm are also ok). Put the ananas on top of the dough.
Baking: 175°C, about 30 minutes
Beat egg white and sugar to a stiff foam, put it on top of the cake after 30 minutes baking, put it back into the oven and bake it for 15 more minutes.
Enough ananas for the cake!
Here the dough is ready.
We put it into the springform pan and added the ananas pieces.
After baking for half an hour we had to put the meringe on top of the cake.
This meringue stuff is really sticky.
After baking for another 15 minutes the cake was ready.
We will taste it tomorrow, it's already too late.
Bye
Carlisle
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Posted Jun 17, 2009, 6:36 pm
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at home, Germany - 5th July 2009
By: olgamaus
Hi Mummy,
Katja told me that we wil travel to Spain tomorrow, to Barcelona.
That's great!
Unfortunately my new friend Penny-Bo is afraid of flying. She is already considering to stay here.
I promise to do everything to make her come with us. I'm looking foreward to see the Alps, France and the Mediterranean Sea from above.
Bye
Carlisle
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Posted Jul 5, 2009, 11:30 am
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Remscheid, Germany - 6th July 2009
By: olgamaus
Hi Mummy,
we went to the railway station to go to Düsseldorf airport. We'll fly to Barcelona!
When we left the house, we found an envelope on the stairs with cute little mouse UrselHH inside. She arrived just in time to accompany us to Spain.
At the railway station we climbed out of Katja's bag to get a bit of fresh air.
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Posted Jul 11, 2009, 1:18 pm
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Barcelona, Spain - 6th July 2009
By: olgamaus
It was late evening when we had reached Barcelona, went to our hotel by bus and went out to the promenade. We walked to the harbour and had dinner.
Bye
Carlisle
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Posted Jul 11, 2009, 1:36 pm
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Barcelona, Spain - 8th July 2009
By: olgamaus
Hi Mummy,
today we took a walk along the beach promenade. Our hotel is close to the coastline, so we only had to cross the street to get there.
These high-rasers were built for the Olympic Village of the 1992 Summer Olympics.
This is a fish fixation, created by the architekt Frank Gehry, manifested by a 35 metre x 54 metre fish made of steel lattice. The fish marks the start of the Olympic Port area and is placed at the base of the two landmark towers.
A look behind ...
We walked through the old district Barceloneta, also with an own beach sector.
This is the tower of an aerial ropeway to Montjuic, a mountain in the municipal area.
You can find artwork here at the beaches, for example this statue in front of the ropeway tower.
We went to Port Vell than, the old harbour.
Here you can see the statue "El Cap de Barcelona" by the American pop artist Roy Lichtenstein.
We were in Port Vell than.
We also visited Ramla de Mar, a prolongation of the world famous boulevard Las Ramblas, leading to the Christopher Columbus Monument.
We also walked to the newer part of the harbour.
This fantastic steel construction is overspanning an intersection.
We walked to the old town to have lunch in a cava-bar. Cava is the Catalanian Champagne. You eat tapas and drink cava here. Really delicious! I tasted the local cheese, Katja and her friend had fish.
We went to the old town, built in medieval times with narrow lanes.
This is the church Santa Maria del Mar, we wanted to have a look inside, but it was closed until afternoon.
In the background you can see one of the historic markets. It is under construction at the moment.
Instead we visited Parc de la Ciutadella, the city's main central park.
Originally here was a citadel, after it was torn in 19th century, this park was built here. It contains a pond, a fantastic fountain (which is also under construction at the moment) and the Barcelona Zoo.
This is the fountain.
We went to Montjuic by bus. Here you can find the Olympic arena.
Montjuïc is a broad shallow hill with a relatively flat top overlooking the harbour, to the southeast of the city centre. The top of the hill (height: 173 metres) was the site of several fortifications, the latest of which (the Castell de Montjuïc) remains today. The fortress largely dates from the 17th century, with 18th century additions. We visited the remains of the fortress.
This is the view across the city. Georgeous, isn't it?
From here you are also overlooking the harbour.
We went downhill and reached Placa d'Espanya, one of the central squares of Barcelona.
We went back to the city centre by bus, reaching Placa Catalunya. It was already dark and we took some photos with the illuminated fountains.
On their way to the hotel Katja and her friend had one or two drinks in a nearby beach bar. Tomorrow we will return home, what a pity!
Bye
Carlisle
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Posted Jul 11, 2009, 2:08 pm
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Remscheid, Germany - 21st July 2009
By: olgamaus
Hi Mummy,
Katja bought a new camera yesterday. Today we took a photo from the roof light. We saw the water tower and the tower of the city hall.
Bye
Carlisle
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Posted Jul 21, 2009, 4:47 pm
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at home, Remscheid, Germany - 23rd July 2009
By: olgamaus
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Posted Jul 26, 2009, 10:03 am Last edited Jul 26, 2009, 10:12 am by olgamaus
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Remscheid / Wuppertal, Germany - 2nd August 2009
By: olgamaus
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Posted Aug 3, 2009, 6:34 pm Last edited Aug 3, 2009, 6:39 pm by olgamaus
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