Balatonfüred, Hungary - 27th July 2008
By: Szeri
Hi,
We managed to choose a nice dress for Szeri, so she could go to the meeting. After that, we came to Lake Balaton, where Szeri's family has a small flat. It has a great view from the balcony, I hope you will be able to see the photo.
Lake Balaton is a popular holiday place in Hungary, and many tourists come here from Germany and Poland, too. We are now in Balatonfüred, which is on the Northern bank of the lake.
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Posted Aug 6, 2008, 1:19 pm
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Balatonfüred, Hungary - 28th July 2008
By: Szeri
Today was very hot here, so we went to the local beach. It is about 500 meters from our flat, you can imagine what a long distance it is for a little monkey like me. By the end of the walk I was so tired that I could not do anything but lay on the beach and sunbathe. Fortunately, I bought a bottle of suncream yesterday. Good, Hungarian type... Never forget about protection against UV rays, it's important, really.
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Posted Aug 7, 2008, 5:13 pm
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Balatonfüred, Hungary - 28th July 2008
By: Szeri
And this is the entrance of the beach. I really liked it, though I was too exhausted to tell it to Szeri when we arrived there.
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Posted Aug 7, 2008, 5:19 pm Last edited Aug 7, 2008, 5:20 pm by Szeri
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Balatonfüred, Hungary - 30th July 2008
By: Szeri
Now we had enough of sunbathing and swimming all day, so we went to walk on the most famous promenade of the city, and probably of all the cities near Lake Balaton. The promenade is named after Rabindranath Tagore, who was great Indian poet. He spent some weeks in the heart sanatorium (at the end of the promenade), where he regained his health and was very-very grateful for this.
First I looked around, but when I became a bit tired, I sat down on a bench with Morado.
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Posted Aug 20, 2008, 2:00 pm Last edited Aug 20, 2008, 2:01 pm by Szeri
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Balatonfüred, Hungary - 30th July 2008
By: Szeri
We walked and walked and walked on the promenade until we arrived at a line of trees. These trees have been planted by famous people, like prime ministers or other leaders, who spent some time in Balatonfüred. I could read from the stone signs in front of the trees that those that you can see in the picture were planted by great scientists, mainly Nobel-prize winner physicists. Wow, that's something...
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Posted Aug 22, 2008, 5:45 pm
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Balatonfüred, Hungary - 1st August 2008
By: Szeri
This is our last day here, in Balatonfüred. I'm quite sad about this, because I met a nice lady who is not willing to move with me... You can see her photo here.
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Posted Aug 28, 2008, 5:34 pm
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Budapest, Hungary - 8th August 2008
By: Szeri
Hi,
Now I'm back in Budapest.
It was the beginning of the Summer Olympic Games in Beijing today. We were all quite interested in the Opening Ceremony, so we could persuade Szeri to watch it together.
You can see the Hungarian team coming into the stadium in the last picture.
SaruMaru
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Posted Sep 16, 2008, 8:22 pm
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Remscheid, Germany - 21st November 2008
By: olgamaus
Hi Mummy,
I arrived in Germany today. My new host Katja is living in Remscheid, an old town in Northrhine-Westphalia. It's snowing today! We'll take a few photos outside tomorrow. It was already dark when Katja picked me up at the post office. My envelope was too thick for the mail slot, so I was brought backt o the post office.
I met more ToyVoyagers here: Moley, Titch, Muri, Odette and Theodore. Theodore is from Florida like me.
I'm looking foreward playing in the snow tomorrow!!!
Bye
SaruMaru
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Posted Nov 21, 2008, 6:02 pm
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Remscheid, Germany - 22nd November 2008
By: olgamaus
Hi Mummy,
we all took a look out of the kitchen window in the morning. It's looking nice outside.
I hope we will go out today.
Bye
SaruMaru
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Posted Nov 22, 2008, 10:40 am
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Remscheid, Germany - 27th November 2008
By: olgamaus
Hi Mummy,
the snow is already melting, the whole town is covered with fog and it is drizzling. Really nasty
We all prefer staying at home.
Bye
SaruMaru
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Posted Nov 27, 2008, 9:52 pm
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Remscheid, Germany - 28th November 2008
By: olgamaus
Hi Mummy,
in the evening we had a visitor, a friend of Katja. The two ladies were knitting the whole evening, Katja showed her friend how to knit socks. They seemed to have cold feet. But they also have another solution against cold feet: a delicious beer. Not a simple beer, but a special christmas beer from a brewery in Heidelberg. It has a highter alcohol content that normal beer and a really cute label.
Katja and her friend had a lot of fun, I think I would also like to knit when I could have a beer or two than.
Bye
SaruMaru
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Posted Nov 29, 2008, 4:27 pm
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Remscheid, Germany - 29th November 2008
By: olgamaus
Hi Mummy,
today I accompanied Katja when she went shopping to the farmer's market, Theodore also came with us.
Usually the farmer's market is taking place in front of the town hall. Now the christmas market is there, so the farmer's market had to move to a space close to the muncipal park.
On our way to the market I saw something large and yellow. I wanted to take a closer look at it.
A telephone booth and a letter box!
On the farmer's market:
On the way back we came along a playground. There were no kids playing because it was quite cold outside.
I can see the tower of this church from our living room window.
The next photos were take in the vicinity of my current home. Most of these houses were built in the late 1800s or early 1900s.
The house in the background with the tree in front of it is a grammar school.
When we came home we had to unpack the vegetables that we bought on the market.
With today's mail a ToyVoyager arrived - Thiele, a cute little pelican.
A friend called and asked if Katja wanted to take a walk with her. Of course she wanted because the weather was really good today.
Thele, Moley and Titch stayed at home, Theodore and I went with Katja. Before we left Katja had to prepare a little present for her friend. She took a large ceramic pot and an empty screw-top jar. When she opened the ceramic pot I smelled something delicious: it smelled like rum and fruits.
This is a "Rumtopf" (fruit in rum) which is very favourite in Germany. During summer you take fresh fruits like strawberries, cherries, peaches, apricots and what elso you like, cut them into pieces, put them into the pot with rock candy and pour as much rum into the pot until fruits and sugar are covered. In late autumn the Rumtopf can be tasted. I hope I can taste it in the evening!
Katja filled some of the fruits with rum into the jar, closed it and decorated it with a nice fabric.
We went outside then.
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Posted Nov 29, 2008, 4:55 pm
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