Travelog for: Nuada

Today, I was very lucky. I was sitting in a shop, and I was very bored. Although there were other toys around me, it wasn't exactly interesting. Amanda, the bee, just wouldn't stop talking about flowers and honey, and I would have done everything to escape from her.
I was about to fall asleep, when I felt a hand closing around me. I jolted awake, and looked into the face of a young woman.
"Who are you?" I asked.
"My name is Ilona," she answered. "Do you mind if I take you home with me?"
Of course, I didn't mind at all. Ilona took a closer look at Amanda, as though she wanted to take her, too. When we finally moved away without Amanda, I let out a breath I didn't know I was holding.
So here I am, in a small room in the students residences somewhere in Rostock, and I'm looking for an adventure.

After a short travel I arrived in Bruchsal. It's a rather old city founded in 976, but I didn't see anything of it.
Nevertheless I had a lot to do, because I met a couple of other toyvoyagers here. Ballet Cindy will start her travel to the USA soon so we will have some fun at home and maybe do a little sightseeing tour with her before she starts her travel.



Nuada's travel plans:
Iloenchen
fam-united
Belessita (A Coruna, Spain)
Florazoom (Arles, France)
2012 (Finland)
Hermione4586 (USA)
huldab6 (Iceland)  staying here

We had nice weather and so our host told us to get ready for a sightseeing tour. I hope, you will enjoy the photos.

Here you see some views over Bruchsal. The big tower behind me is the tower of the old castle. Right behind me you see the tower of the Stadtkirche (City Church).


Here you see the two towers of the baroque church St. Peter and not far away from it the house St. Maria. Both are close to the house, where my hosts live. I'm sorry, that you can't see it, because it is behind my nice body.


On this photo you see the new and old part of the older people house just behind me and on the left. Far behind on the left side you see a grey building. This is the catholic grammar school St. Paulusheim. All children of my hosts are there next year.


When we turned around, we saw a nice park and went there. In this park is a Belvedere, a baroque hunting lodge.


I loved this linden tree.



Not far from this Belvedere is a big grammar school. You see a part of this building on the photo.



This is one of the streets next to the "Stadtgarten", that's what my hosts called the park.

Then we went to the baroque palace and palace garden.

I'm in front of the court house.



The Damiantor is a gate to the palace area.


This is the mainbuilding of the palace



This part of the palace is the catholic church, in which my hosts go to join the service on Sundays. The tower is behind the building.


On the wall of one building we found a sundial



The Grundschule, in which all the kids of my hosts were from age 6 to 10, is very close to the palace.



Here you see a view into a street close to the palace garden



In the palace garden are many statues and Petra told us, that there are four statues for each season spring, summer, autumn and winter and four statues for each element water, fire, air and earth (ground). Here you see the fire statue.



A part of the palace garden is a nice rose garden.

We drove to Untergrombach, on of the suburbs of Bruchsal. Bruchsal has about 27 000 inhabitants and with its suburbs there are about 42 000. Untergrombach is the biggest suburb.

Here we are on the Michaelsberg. Berg means mountain, but it is more like a hill and not a mountain. You have a nice view over the Rhine valley and far behind you see the Palatinate mountain. On the first photo you see a part of Bruchsal.



The town you see next to us is Untergrombach and then you see Büchenau.
My hosts parents live in Bruchsal, but close to the wood you see on the photo. Petra herself swam in the quarry pond, when she was a young girl.



The Michaelsberg is a nature reserve area and there are very special flowers and other plants.



We didn't take a photo of the nice chappel on the hill, because they put up a scaffolding.

Bruchsal is at the edge to the Kraichgau hill country. It's not so easy to take a photo of that, but maybe you can imagine, how it look like, when you see this.






We found some grapes, but Petra told me, that I can't eat them, because they aren't ripe.

We saw an old castle in Obergrombach, but we didn't go closer, we had been too tired.
Obergrombach is another suburb of Bruchsal. Büchenau, Heidelsheim and Helmsheim also belong to Bruchsal.

The last place we saw, was the school, in which Petra works as a teacher.

Today we took photos of the grammar school St. Paulusheim



the baroque church St. Peter
St. Peter is the church that is next to the graveyard and Petra told me, that normally she saw a lot of squirells there, but not this time

 

and the house Sancta Maria



And we took some more photos with views over Bruchsal. I hope you like it.









This is the street next to the house of my hosts. Their garden is behind that tree you can see here. You see that tree also on the photo of their (rent) house. You can see also the garage and a part of their car.





Then we said fairwell to Ballet Cindy and HolidayHarry. They will travel to Farmington, USA now. We hope they will arrive soon.

Because the weather was bad, Nuada and I sat at the African violet and looked at the little home fountain.

Later Petra showed me how to knit a pullover.

Here are photos of the views from the balcony and from a room of my host's house. Maybe you detect the baroque church St. Peter and the house St. Maria?

We were in Heidelberg today, but only visited the zoo for one hour. Then we had to go back to the car, because everyone was wet from the heavy rain.

Back in Bruchsal I learned how to sew a curtain. Then I packed my bag and started my travel to Belessita in Spain.

Good bye, Nuada.

You are really a cutie. Have a nice journey.

Hi!!! i´m in Spain now

I went with belessita and her boyfriend to the Comic Festival and the old books Festival in Coruña.

This is the Alfonso´s Kiosco, an important build of Coruña. Now the city use this build for make exhibitions. In this case one about Comics ^^



Next i see a lot of heros!! i think that snape the squirrel would be happy here!

with lucky!


with hellboy!


with Groucho marx!


I´m a comic!


With Spiderman!


Later we arrived to home, but during the way... I found a John Lennon Monument! ^^





And i want a delicious ice cream!



Here in a fountain of the Cantones


This weekend i´m going to Ferrol, the city of the parents of Belessita

Here i am with her cat Cuchi

Ferrol is a small town near A Coruña, this is the view that are in front of the house of belessita.





I couldn´t sleep this night, for this i prefered see all baby photo albums of belessita. In this photo belessita is with a Bear. Can you see him?? Her name is Pelon.



Well... i´m here with him 23 years later ^^