Eichtersheim, Germany - 13th July 2009
By: fam-united
Ralf and Petra read in the newspapers, that there are Scottish Highland Games in Angelbachtal. Both are big Scotland fans, although they never had been there already - but they surely will go there one day, that's what they told us. So today they decided to go to the festival and watch the games and listen to the Pipes and Drums Bands.
(sorry for being not in this photo, Petra said, that she has to zoom it)
There were several shops and Petra bought a Scottish Teddy Bear - me - and some hair bands and Ralf bought two Scottish flags.
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Posted Sep 19, 2009, 3:41 pm
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Untergrombach, Germany - 5th August 2009
By: fam-united
Today we drove to the Michaelsberg in Untergrombach. Untergrombach is one of Bruchsal's suburbs with about 6000 inhabitants.
3500 to 2600 BC there were frist human signs on the Michaelsberg, which gave this culture the name "Michaelsberger Kulturkreis"
1502 AD Joss Fritz from Untergrombach planned the "Bundschuhaufstand" during the time of Peasant's Wars.
The chapel is on top of the Michaelsberg.
In the far (right side) you see some houses, which belong to Bruchsal.
Bruchsal and also Untergrombach are located at the edge to the Kraichgau. Here you see the Rhine Valley. If the weather is sunny, you can see the Palatinate Forest in the far.
I learned something about "Magerrasen" (neglected grassland), which is typical for the Michaelsberg. Behind the sign you see so-called "Steinriegel" (field clearance cairn), made by people working on their fields a long long time ago. They threw the big stones from their fields to the border of the neighbour's field, so that in the middle all stones were accumulated. Many animals and flowers love this gaunt places and that's why a few weeks ago, people cleaned the Steinriegel from all the earth, that came between the stone during the many many years and from all the other plants, that love to grow in earth.
The nature reserve sign, they shortly added some rules.
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Posted Sep 19, 2009, 3:53 pm
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Bruchsal, Germany - 5th August 2009
By: fam-united
Then it was time for me to say good bye to my host's family and my friends Tito, Tilla Mook, Galo, Nanu the cub, Spooky, Coco, Kari, Tasmanian Devil, Scotty and Friendship Bear.
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Posted Sep 19, 2009, 3:55 pm
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somewhere on our way home, Germany - 14th August 2009
By: fam-united
On our way home we stopped at a field, where you can pick flowers and throw the money in a box. We bought some gladioli.
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Posted Sep 19, 2009, 4:03 pm
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Altleiningen, Germany - 26th August 2009
By: fam-united
Altleiningen is a castle and a town in Rhineland-Palatinate. It belongs to destrict Bad Duerkheim. It was built on top of a 400 m high hill. You still can see a few remains of the old building from 1100 AD. Nowadays it is a youth hostel and my hosts' daughter already had been there with her class in 2006.
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Posted Oct 4, 2009, 7:55 pm
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Neuleiningen, Germany - 26th August 2009
By: fam-united
At Neuleiningen we only had a short stop to take a far away photo of the castle there.
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Posted Oct 4, 2009, 7:57 pm
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Kleinkarlbach, Germany - 26th August 2009
By: fam-united
On our way home we drove to a village and came through this beautiful street. Kleinkarlbach is a municipality in the collective municipality of Grünstadt-Land in the district of Bad Dürkheim in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate in southwestern Germany.
Kleinkarlbach is a wine-growing village in the Palatinate lying near the edge of the Palatinate Forest. (wikipedia)
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Posted Nov 14, 2009, 10:09 am
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Bruchsal, Germany - 20th September 2009
By: fam-united
Today there is a thunderstorm and Petra decided to read a book. We were very curious, what it was: the "city of...." books, but she said, that she prefers the twighlight books.
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Posted Nov 22, 2009, 8:55 am
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