Recklinghausen, Germany - 22nd October 2012
By: La_Kate_Boheme
Hey Mummy,
we've been to Recklinghausen this evening. It's a city near Dortmund and Bochum, about 15 or 20 minutes by car. There's a special event these days, it's called "Recklinghausen leuchtet", in english it's something like "Recklinghausen shines". There are many light installations in the inner city which illuminate 46 houses. Everything looks so lovely! I absolutely loved being there and I could've spent many hours there. I couldn't take pictures with all of them, it was way too much!! So, some pictures are with me, some are just with my shape (haha) and some are just private photos that my host took, but we wanted to show you how lovely everything looked
This is the town hall of Recklinghausen. The illumination changed every few seconds, I think this one was the nicest It shows a very old map of a part of Germany (and a bit of Great Britain on the left, the reddish thing).
This is an old pharmacy
I think this was a law office, but I'm not quite sure Besides of the nice lights, there was a ghost that flew along the building (also an illumination), it was so cute!! Unfortunately I couldn't take a picture of the ghost
Here you can see the entrance of a hotel. It looked much nicer than in this picture and it was a huge building, but there were so many people in front of the hotel and I didn't want them to be seen in the pictures.
I don't know exactly what this building is for... Anyhow, it shows a scene of the bible, the feeding of the five thousand and the multiplication of the loaves (well, and the fishes, that's why you see so many fishes there). Haha, it's hard to recognize my shape, it was so dark!!
This is the house of a jeweller. It's one of my favourite buildings here in Recklinghausen, it's so colourful Haha, can you find me or my shape?
Well, there were maaaaany installations, maybe I'll go back to Recklinghausen at the end of the week and take some other pictures for you, mummy
It's late now and I need some sleep. Have a nice evening!!
Love,
Germanya
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Posted Oct 22, 2012, 9:56 pm Last edited Oct 22, 2012, 10:03 pm by La_Kate_Boheme
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Dortmund, Germany - 7th November 2012
By: La_Kate_Boheme
Hey Mummy,
my host is very busy at the moment so I stayed at home the last days. It's very rainy, cold and gloomy outdoors so I just cuddled up on the sofa with a blanket and a hot-water bottle. The others joined me Ooooh the joy of a cosy spot and the pleasant feeling of warmth...
Germanya
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Posted Nov 7, 2012, 3:25 pm
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Bochum, Germany - 10th November 2012
By: La_Kate_Boheme
Hey Mum,
I spent some time in the city this evening, there's so much to see at night RedSwan joined us with the TV's that she's hosting, Leif E and her own TV Collenferð.
There's a metro station called "Lohring" with some pretty nice light installations The floor is made of glass with lamps under it and there's a big yellow "x" on the enamel wall. I think it looks quite nice
Here you can see the metro station and a group photo:
This is at the metro station at the city hall, it's a guy named Carl Arnold Kortum who lived from 1745 - 1824.
Well, this is the german mining museum by night, I've already been here on the 12th of October so I won't tell you anything about it again The TV which is on the picture with me is Leif E
Our last stop was at the Bermuda3Eck, the "Bermuda triangle". It's a very popular bar district in the inner city of Bochum with heaps of bars, it's so nice!! There's a lot of activity every evening, hundreds of people come here every evening to have a fun night out, drinking alcohol and to wine and dine. On the following picture you can see the end of the Bermuda3Eck with a huge lettering on top of a building so people can see it from further afar. A special thing about this building is that there's a big outdoor skate park on top of the building. You can reach it by entering the store for skater on the ground floor. Pretty cool!! Maybe I'll be able to take another picture during the day.
That's it about my evening in Bochum so far
Love,
Germanya
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Posted Nov 10, 2012, 8:31 pm
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Bochum, Germany - 19th November 2012
By: La_Kate_Boheme
Hey Mum,
my host bought some postcards for Postcrossing today There are some pretty nice cards, don't you think?
Germanya
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Posted Nov 20, 2012, 11:41 am
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Bochum, Germany - 27th November 2012
By: La_Kate_Boheme
Hey Mummy,
Sorry for being such a faithless friend in the past few days, things are very busy at the moment.
Well, it's a rainy day but Kate had something to do in the inner city, so she took me with her today. She showed me the townhall of Bochum. The architect Karl Roth started to build it in 1926, since then the building grew more and more and some buildings were added.
Love,
Germanya
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Posted Nov 27, 2012, 10:36 pm
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Bochum, Germany - 1st December 2012
By: La_Kate_Boheme
Hey Mum
It's the 1st day of December and it's time for some christmas spirit!!
We visited the christmas market here in the inner city of Bochum this evening, it was lovely! There's not only the normal christmas market, there's even a medieval christmas market!!
The savings bank installed some lights in the form of a christmas tree
There are many stalls on the christmas market and you can buy everything you want there, it starts with food and drinks but there are also stalls for candles, jewellery, clothes, gifts in any shape or form, toys and much more.
There are many stalls where you can buy "Glühwein" (mulled claret / glogg), but there's one special stall. It's in the form of a christmas pyramid, it's so nice!!
As we moved on we noticed the first snow of the year here in Bochum
Everything was very wet so we decided to take cover from snow in a stall at the medieval market. There worked a woman, dressed in medieval clothes, and she produced a belt for a customer all by herself.
Well, as the weather wasn't so nice I couldn't take many pictures but I hope to visit the christmas market again to catch the atmosphere in some more and better pictures.
Love,
Germanya
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Posted Dec 1, 2012, 11:29 pm
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Bochum, Germany - 27th December 2012
By: La_Kate_Boheme
Hello Mummy,
it's raining cats and dogs today, but we took a long walk anyway. As we strolled through the park we ended up at the synagogue for the jewish community. It's relatively new, it opened in 2007.
Next to the synagogue is the planetarium. It's called "Zeiss Planetarium Bochum". It's one of the most modern planetariums worldwide at the moment, even though it doesn't really look like it'd be so modern. Well, it does look a bit gloomy on this picture because of the rain, but normally it's a quite nice place.
Afterwards we passed an old church. It's called "Lutherkirche" and was built in 1911/1912. You know, almost every building in Bochum got destroyed in World War II and this church is one of the few buildings that remained and reminds of the history before World War II. It looks nice, doesn't it?
On our way back home we passed the Bismarck tower. Bismarck towers (in german it means "Bismarcktürme") are a unique genre of German monuments, built to honour the ex-chancellor of Prussia, Otto von Bismarck. 240 towers were built between 1869 and 1934 across the German Empire, 173 of them still remain.
Well, even though the weather was bad and the pictures look very gloomy, it was a nice afternoon and I enjoyed to catch some fresh air.
Love,
Germanya
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Posted Dec 27, 2012, 6:54 pm
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Bochum, Germany - 31st December 2012
By: La_Kate_Boheme
Hey Mummy,
it's New Year's Eve and the year 2013 is slowly getting closer. When I look back at the year 2012 it was a good year for me. I visited many new places and got to know many nice TVs and hosts here in Germany, that's exactly how I wanted to spend my year.
However, I didn't celebrate New Year's Eve at a big party as my host had to work and just came home about 11.25pm, nearly half an hour before midnight, so we didn't have the time to go out. But we had a nice evening anyways.
I hope you had a great New Year's Eve.
Love,
Germanya
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Posted Jan 1, 2013, 1:15 pm
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