Travelog for: Marmalade

Hello, I am Marmalade. I have lived on this shelf for nearly 8 years. I was given to Highland Hermit when she was expecting a mini hermit. I was put on the shelf along with some other toys to await the time we would get played with. I'm not sure the Hermit really wanted to let the children play with me as i remained here almost alone ever since then. I did have another Giraffe to keep me company, so i wasn't lonely.

I decided to leave the shelf and explore  the world beyond. I found a bookshelf full of interesting tales. Some of the books had interesting pictures of animals on the covers.

After reading them, I had a further wander around the house to learn about things.

I had learnt a little about boats, but I think this one is much too small for me.

I can't wait, I have been invited to go and visit BlackCat in Germany. Waves at BlackCat, I will see you soon.   

Hey !

Today I arrived at Fabi's home, but not alone. Matcha arrived at the same time as me. We met Jasper at her home, but had to say goodbye to him right away as he will go on his own travel again tomorrow.

I am excited for my time with Fabi and I hope we'll have a lot of fun.

Love,
Marmalade

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today we got to join BlackCat for school and had a walk around her school.
On the first photo you can see her school. It's a really modern building. There is a park right in front of it as you can see on photo two.
We visited IKEA which is close to her school and on our way to the bus stop.
The Colloseum Theater is the place where they show musicals in Essen. It's a really lovely place and BlackCat loves going to musicals there.
The big round place is called "Berliner Platz" and is really chaotic for car drivers, at least I think so.
Limbecker Platz is a shopping centre which is kinda new (maybe 4 years old) and has all kind of shops.
The bear statue is for the "Berliner Platz" - Bär means bear in German and is spoken like the Ber in Berliner Platz. So it kinda symbols the place.
We saw the university (the colorful buildings) and an ambulance drove past us.
And last but not least we got to see the emblem of Essen.
A lot to see on our walk from the school to the bus stop.

Love,
Marmalade

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today MiaoMiao arrived at BlackCats home. I hope we will have lots of fun together in the next weeks. We'll see.

Love,
Marmalade

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today we had a short walk and saw an old house and a church. The church is called St. Laurentius and BlackCat always had to go there for school.

Love,
Marmalade

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we visited a friend of BlackCat this weekend and it was a lot of fun. She still had her winter decoration outside.
Her town is a really small one and we loved looking at everything. My favorite place actually was the inside of the church, which looks so lovely, don't you think so?

Love,
Marmalade

Hey,

We went to coal mine Zollverein which is a UNESCO WHS!
We took a lot of photos there. Just look at them and I hope you like them. It was lots of fun to be there.
Go to this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zollverein_Coal_Mine_Industrial_Complex for more information about it.

Love,
Marmalade

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today we had a short walk with BlackCat, which was actually quite fun.
We saw a pitman statue and some colorful graffitis, the house is the townhall of Steele (the part of Essen where we had the walk).

Love,
Marmalade

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today we went to the zoo. We took so many photos there, that it would be a hell of a work to tell you all the animals we saw, but I can tell you some of our highlights and you can look at the photos!
We saw the dolphin show, which was quite the fun. The koalas were really cute in my opinion. I also liked the Chinese garden. And at the end we were on a monkey island where the monkeys were running around free. That was interesting.
The other animals were all cool as well though. I hope you like our photos.

Love,
Marmalade

Hey,

today we had a walk in the forest near BlackCats home and then walked to the water tower and then to Steele (a part of Essen) to take the bus home. In Steele we saw the church St. Laurentius. It was a nice spring day, so we enjoyed the warm weather and I hope you'll enjoy our photos.

Love,
Marmalade

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today we had to say goodbye to Matcha. I hope he has a good travel now!

Love,
Marmalade

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today we visited a carnival, called Send, in Münster. We saw bumper cars, a rollercoaster, a big wheel and so much more. We also had Churros, which BlackCat loves a lot. I hope you like the photos.
On the carnival BlackCat won a little toy who is now a toyvoyager - he is called Crabs.

Love,
Marmalade

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we stayed at BlackCats best friends house and had a walk with her in her town. It's a really small town, but we loved having a walk there. What do you think?

Love,
Marmalade