Bali, Indonesia - 8th November 2012
By: Linda Fdph
Hello, my name is Arimbi
Iam from Bali Indonesia, and waiting for my first journey.
Here , some picture of my cityhome, Bali Indonesia
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Posted Nov 8, 2012, 11:29 am
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Denpasar-Bali, Indonesia - 9th November 2012
By: Linda Fdph
Hello, i will visit Germany as soon, to feel my first snow. But i will show a little bit my hometown before I leave Bali. Here my picture with my Indonesian friends Bima, Sena and Bisma the Lion, and also With SchokoCookie my friend from Germany. We enjoy Sanur Beach, Matahari Terbit beach and Bajra Sandhi Monument around Denpasar, capital city of Bali
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Posted Nov 9, 2012, 8:50 am Last edited Nov 9, 2012, 9:16 am by Linda Fdph
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Denpasar-Bali, Indonesia - 9th November 2012
By: Linda Fdph
My last day in Bali. Today I leave Indonesia, to starting my first journey. Before i leave, Konrad come to my home, and i take a picture with Konrad . Welcome to Bali-Indonesia, Konrad
And here my last upload before i leave. In frangipani tree, the Bali's iconic flower, Bali's statue, with Bisma, climbing tree sorrel ( Avverhoa bilimbi) and in front of the Temple.
Now, iam ready for my first journey. Wish me luck
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Posted Nov 9, 2012, 11:19 am
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Remscheid, Germany - 23rd November 2012
By: olgamaus
Hi Mummy,
I arrived at my first host's home today. My host Katja and a whole flock of ToyVoyagers gave me a warm welcome.
My new friends are Emma Squirrel, Voi Nam, another travelling elephant, 3*Euro, Kevin Kiwi, Luc Zeke and Little T.B..
Both my host and all the TVs were excited by the presents I brought with me. I brought tea (Katja LOVES black tea ), chopsticks, a lovely purse, a little stick with a figurine on it and a pretty postcard.
Being tired from the long trip, I only had a quick look to the backyard ... a lawn, garages and bald trees ...
and to the front of the house. There is a little park. My current home is an apartement on the second floor, so I have a good overview to the streets and the park.
That's all for today
Bye
Arimbi
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Posted Nov 24, 2012, 4:58 pm
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Remscheid, at home, Germany - 2nd December 2012
By: olgamaus
Hi Mummy,
something weird happened during the night. In the morning everything outside was covered with white stuff.
Snow!
Katja promised that we would go out later.
Arimbi
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Posted Dec 2, 2012, 9:10 pm
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Remscheid, at home, Germany - 7th December 2012
By: olgamaus
Hi Mummy,
on Friday usually two or three friends are visiting us, Katja's knitting friends. Today I also met one of Katja's pets - she is keeping ferrets. (I don't know if ferrets are known in Indonesia) Ferrets are cute little predators, really playful, curious and cheeky pets. This one is Zaehnchen, sitting on the lap of Katja's friend, enjoying liver sausage paste.
Later Katja prepared eggnogg for her friends. Eggnogg is a popular winter drink in Germany, you can often get it on Christmas markets. To make it you need milk, cream, egg liqueur, rum, triple sec and amaretto.
First you have to mix and heat milk, cream and egg liqueur - it must not boil!
Than you add the spirits and fill it into glasses. Served hot with whipped cream on top it is perfect
Bye
Arimibi
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Posted Dec 7, 2012, 9:31 pm
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Duesseldorf, Germany - 15th December 2012
By: olgamaus
Hi Mummy,
today we made a fantastic trip to Duesseldorf, the capital city of the German state North-Rhine-Westphalia. We went there by train and walked from the station towards the old town with all the Christmas markets.
Ah, this is already looking like a larger city. And they do not have snow here.
We reached the shopping streets than.
A few minutes later we reached the old town. Christmas markets everywhere!
You can buy all sorts of Christmas decorations, arts and crafts items, socks, herbs and spices and of course all the traditional food like potatoe pancakes, battered fish, sweets like sugarroasted almonds and nuts, candied fruits, candyfloss and all those hot winter drinks like hot wine punch and eggnogg.
We went into a shop in this quarter and spend some minutes there.
When we came out a miracle had happened - the sun was shining and we had only a few steps to take to reach the river Rhine.
We went along the Rhine promenade with lots of bars and restaurants. In the background you can see the Burgplatz with a Ferris wheel.
There is a lot of shipping traffic on the Rhine, mostly freight ships.
We walked closer to the Burgplatz.
We decided to take a walk into the opposite direction, towards the parliament which is situated close to the Rhine promenade.
A look back to the old town ...
We reached the parliament building than, a fantastic complex situated close to the Rhine promenade.
Here you can see an overview photo of it.
Here you can see the "Rheinkniebrücke", one of three bridges crossing the Rhine in the city area.
We took a group photo on the lawn in front of the parliament building.
We walked around the building.
This is the entrance area.
Later we went back to the old town to have lunch. Because it is getting dark so early we decided to have lots of fun with eggnogg, beer and mead without taking any more photos
Love
Arimbi
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Posted Dec 16, 2012, 10:24 am
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Remscheid, at home, Germany - 24th December 2012
By: olgamaus
Hi Mummy,
we helped Katja to wrap the last presents. Those socks in reggae colors, size 46? A present for a man, for her future son-in-law.
I wish you a merry Christmas!
Love
Arimbi
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Posted Dec 26, 2012, 11:29 am Last edited Dec 31, 2012, 5:17 pm by olgamaus
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Remscheid, Germany - 31st December 2012
By: olgamaus
Hi Mummy,
we went to Katja's sister-in-law's family today to celebrate the last day of the year. When we arrived, there already was everything prepared for Raclette.
There were lots of vegetables like sweet pepper, carrots, mushrooms, tomatoes, than there was beef and chicken meat, prawn, bread, potatoes and much more. Of course there was a lot of cheese
Later we called a tile-based game called "Rummikub". Do you know it?
At midnight we all had a glass of sparkling wine when we went outside for the fireworks.
Happy New Year!
Iit was raining the whole time, so the fireworks did not show up as nice as they could have had.
Love
Arimbi
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Posted Jan 2, 2013, 9:53 pm
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Wuppertal, Germany - 2nd January 2013
By: olgamaus
Hi Mummy,
today we made a trip to the neighbour city Wuppertal.
One of the city’s greatest attractions is the suspended monorail (Schwebebahn), which was established in 1901. The tracks are 8 m above the streets and 12 m above the Wupper River. The Schwebebahn is crossing some streets and even a motorway!
Here you can see one of 20 stations along the 13,3 km long route. This one is nearby the local court and district court.It was rebuilt last year in its original historic style.
We made a side trip to the Botanical garden because one of the TVs, Suny had a special wish which Katja tried to fulfill. The Botanical garden is situated high upon a hill called "Hardt" and we had to climb stairs after stairs for what felt like an eternity.
You can find the former country house of a textile manufacturers named Eller, which contained a villa (built 1820), orangery, residential and farm buildings, and the Elise Tower (built 1838) which provides the garden's focal point.
Katja showed me a special tree in the garden, this one.
It looks more or less like a dangerous animal, but not like a tree. It is a monkey puzzle tree, (Araucaria araucana). It originally came from South America, from Chile and Western Argentinia. Due to similar climate conditions it can grow here.
Because a Botanical garden is not so exciting in winter we walked back to the city centre because we had only about 90 minutes until it would get dark.
Walking stairs downhill makes much more fun
In the city centre we saw that Wuppertal is much larger than Remscheid. The pretty city hall was hidden behind a scaffolding.
We saw the Schwebebahn again, next to a bank and a car park.
Here you can see one of the other stations, a modern one this time.
Later we met Katja's daughter here and we spend some hours in the shopping streets.
Love
Arimbi
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Posted Jan 2, 2013, 10:21 pm
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