Travelog for: Günther

Hello Mommy,

another update by car.

This time we used the freeway.


Hit the gas to get some speed...


...passing a truck...


This bridge isn't for cars or people. It's for animals like deers, foxes or boars to go from side of the freeway to the other side.


...free way, hit the gas, reached 160km/h (about 100mph)...


...passing another freeway (interchange)...


...and another interchange...


...arrived in Berlin, this bridge is for the city train.


...traffic jam...


ICC - International Congress Center


...on the city-freeway...




...through the city...



...and back the same way...



This old tribune belongs to an old race course of the GDR called Avus. So we are traveling on a racetrack!


...passing bridges and trucks...



Your Günther

Hello Mommy,

today we did a short stop-over in Oranienbaum. We visited the Baroque parish church which was built in 1712.


We also stopped in front of the famous orange tree on the historical market square. The tree is the symbol of the city.


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Alex told us about a problem he has with a mouse. He decided to built a trap and needed our help.


We put some cheese and sausage in the trap. Mice like that.


Then we hid ourselves behind a tree and waited.


After a while we saw someone in the trap.


We caught it!!!


We let the trap down and oh... it wasn't a mouse. It was Alex' brother Rudy.


We told him about the mouse and the trap and tried it again. We hid ourselves again behind the tree.
After a short time there was somebody else in the trap.


We caught that creature!


When we let the trap down we found just 2 golden coins instead of a mouse or cheese or sausage in the trap.


Rudy told us to use some pumpkin seeds, mice would love them. So we did.


We went behind the tree and after a short time we saw someone in the trap again.


We caught it! Yeah, we could see the feet. We got it!


We let the trap down and...what the...just another golden coin?! How could this be??? Alex is confused now!


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Hello Mommy,

today we enjoyed our day at the lake "Gurke" ("cucumber" ). The original name is "Abandoned quarry Golpa II". The lake has a size of 20,94 hectare! It was an opencast for brown coal from 1936 till 1957. Now it is full of groundwater. Lots of people like to swim, do fishing or dive. Some people say that there are old trees under the water, but I don't believe that! At the lake is also a rowing club.







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Hello Mommy,

today we jumped into the car and went to Delitzsch. It's a city in Saxony with about 26,300 inhabitants.












First we visited the Baroque Castle with the Lustgarten, former widow of travel and residence of the Dukes of Saxony-Merseburg.






This beautiful building is the registration office.


The "Breiter Turm" (Wide tower). It's a part of the defensive wall.


The City Church of St. Peter & Paul is a brick church of the 15th Century with significant high altar.


On our way back home we took some more pictures.











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Hey Mommy,

today the weather was beautiful, so we decided to do a little tour in our car.



After a while somebody stopped us. He introduced himself as Flow and asked if he could drive the car. We all were really confused. Alex told us that one of his brothers drove along with Flow few weeks ago.


While all seats in our car were filled with us there was no space for that Flow-guy. Alex told him that he's allowed to shift the car. He did it! So we saved lots of energy.


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Hello Mom,

today we enjoyed the beautiful day at the abandoned quarry "Seelhausener See". It was sunny, warm and very windy. But have a look, isn't this beautiful?!



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Hey Mommy,

time for some sightseeing in the German capital.

First I saw the German Bundestag which is located in the Reichstag Building. The centrepiece of the building is the generously glazed chamber that is crowned by the dome. A funnel with panes of mirror glass reflects the daylight from above into the chamber.


Then I saw one of the most well-known landmarks of Berlin and Germany, the Brandenburg Gate.



Near the Brandenburg Gate I found the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, also known as the Holocaust Memorial. It is a memorial to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust. It consists of a 19,000 square metres site covered with 2,711 concrete slabs or "stelae", arranged in a grid pattern on a sloping field. The stelae are 2.38 m long, 0.95 m wide and vary in height from 0.2 to 4.8 m.



Potsdamer Platz - it is an important public square and traffic intersection in the centre of Berlin. It is named after the city of Potsdam, some 25 km to the south west, and marks the point where the old road from Potsdam passed through the city wall of Berlin at the Potsdam Gate. After developing within the space of little over a century from an intersection of rural thoroughfares into the most bustling traffic intersection in Europe, it was totally laid waste during World War II and then left desolate during the Cold War era when the Berlin Wall bisected its former location. Since German reunification, Potsdamer Platz has been the site of major redevelopment projects.


The Sony Center is a Sony-sponsored building complex located at the Potsdamer Platz, opened in 2000. Sony Center contains a mix of shops, restaurants, a conference centre, hotel rooms, luxurious rented suites and condominiums, offices, art and film museums, cinemas, an IMAX theater, a small version of Legoland, and a "Sony Style" store.
At its highest point, the roof measures up to 67 meters above the Forum and has a free span of 102 meters length on the main axis and 77 meters length on the ancillary axis. By night the roof changes its colors between pink, red, blue, green...


Your Günther

Hello Mommy,

we put some skateboards behind the car. Crawfish hit the gas and we guys skated behind the car. Little Sunny checked that we don't lose anybody!




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Hello Mommy,

we've been to the "Kohle-Dampf-Licht"-Radweg (Coal-steam-light-bicycle route). There are a lots of statues made of discarded metal. Have a look.






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Today we found an empty box. There was nothing inside.


Then we heard someone laughing. We turned around and saw GustavHH. He'll stay with us for a while.


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Hey Mommy,

today we went to the river Mulde. It is a river in Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt, a left tributary of the river Elbe and 124 km in length.
In August 2002 a flood caused severe damage! All places we were at these pictures were flooded in 2002, too!




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Today we said goodbye to Kevin the little kiwi.
We all hugged him.


Then he crawled into his envelope and left to Thuringia. Have fun little bird!


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Hello Mommy,

Crawfish found her perfect profession (except driving a car): pianist!

She played all kind of songs the whole day while we were listening to her. I liked it!




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Günther

Hey Mommy,

we visited a small lake called "Sachsenburg" today. It is an abandoned coal mine which was flooded by domestic water.

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