Travelog for: Tux

Untergrombach is one of the suburbs of Bruchsal. Here we are on the "Michaelsberg" (hill) and have a wonderful view over the Rhine valley. Petra's parents live close to the wood, but on the right side, which belongs to Bruchsal.
As young girl she loved to swim in that quarry pond, but since she is married and has kids, she prefers to go to the swimming pool of Bruchsal. In the background you see the hills of the Palatinate.
(I'm sorry for the photo quality )


This chapel stands on the top of the Michaelsberg and it is called Michaelsbergkapelle (chapel)


On this photo you see a part of the Kraichgau hill country. Bruchsal lies at the border to the Kraichgau and Rhine Valley.

Here we are back in Bruchsal. The building you see here is the old slaughterhouse. Nowadays a part of it is a restaurant and a place for comedy shows. Ralf and Petra, my hosts, like to go there. Funny!
Also you see on the photo, that Bruchsal has parts belonging to the Kraichgau. The first photo with the view to Bruchsal (in Untergrombach) showed a part that belongs to the Rhine valley.

Here you see the envie with  Small Fry, who arrived this morning.



Here is the place, where all toyvoyagers sit in the livingroom since the weather is colder and you need to make a fire in the oven (on which the toyvoyagers normally sat during summer). Now we are Tamalyn, Dottie Grace, Decker, Alfie Langer, Tux, Glory, Bongo, Elisabeth and Small Fry, but tomorrow it will be my last day here and also Tamalyn, Decker and Alfie Langer will say Good bye.

I caught a fish!!!!

But I didn't want to eat it and I don't know, whether this counts for fulfulling one of my missions. It is Small Fry, who came to us in Bruchsal and who will stay here for a while. Frist Small Fry was very fearful, but then I told him, that I just played with him.

Today we played soccer. It's not so easy to play "sit-soccer" (that's how my hosts call it). I was the goalkeeper.


At first everyone sat on the place, where he or she was supposed to be. You only had been allowed to move on the place by turning around, but without walking. Alfie Langer was the referee. He was the only one with a real soccer shirt.



At once Tamalyn tried to score, but Elisabeth did a good work and



just jumped to the right place and caught the ball. But then her punt was bad and luckily Bongo got the ball. He tried to score, but Decker was just at the right place to defend in front of me, who was the goalkeeper.



At the end of the first half we still played 0:0, but of course we had some chances for the first goal.


Start of the second half



Somehow Glory fell. I know, that I didn't hit her or something.



Small Fry nearly shot a goal after that, but I was such a good goalkeeper and caught the ball. Glory fell again, maybe she already was very tired, she is so tiny.



Here Tamalyn got the ball and tried to play to Glory.



Small Fry got the ball to play, but had no chance to score.



After a while Alfie Langer had to talk to Dottie Grace, who complained about something I didn't understand.



1:0 against my team!!! Thanks to Dottie Grace!!



And then a silly thing happened, but this was a big luck for my side. Bongo and Small Fry tried to catch the ball with their bodies, but they had no luck.



Elisabeth jumped to the right side of her goal, but the ball rolled into the goal on the left side.
So at the end the result was 1:1



After the match we danced around the ball, because we were happy that nobody had lost in this match.

Hurray, Petra didn't forget to take a photo with me in front of her monitor. She had to upack me again



Good bye, Tux!

You became a very good friend and we will miss you.

I already arrived quite a while ago but my host was sick. So the travelog was updated a little late. Here you see me arrive in my little package .... good to be out of that plastic bag and breathe freely again 

As my host was not able to walk we stayed home and followed the travels of the other TVs. My host is using a nice Fujitsu Siemens Amilo Pro laptop. Nice silver shine and big screen 

We went to Frankfurt for the weekend. The photo shows me on a brigde over the Main river with the skyline of Frankfurt. Some people call Frankfurt "Mainhattan" because there are a lot of skycrapers - most of them used by banks.

I accompanied my host to the Kloster Bernried (Bernried monastery) close to the Starnberger See to get one week of Qigong training. Very nice and relaxing even though the weather was foggy. Sometimes I though I would sit in a white cloud when looking out of the window.

Today I went to Marienplatz - the Christmas market has started and everywhere is the smell of cookies and mulled wine 
I also saw the Hofbräuhaus - what a huge beer hall!

I went strolling around town - oh god, there were masses of people doing their Christmas shopping. So I prefered just to take a photo of the Stachus (Karlsplatz) where there was a skating rink set up and later some more photos of different  market places in the dark

On Sunday we went for a walk along the Ammersee (lake south of Munich). After 2 hours we decided that it's time for a mulled wine at the Dießen Christmas market. This Xmas market is held only at one weekend at Dießen. And there is no electricity allowed and the goods sold are solely hand-made. It was great when it was getting dark and everything was lit by little candles. In the middle of the market a real blacksmith was working on the metal. It's a pity that the camera could not take photos in the dark.

Tried on our host's new cross-country ski set. As there was no snow in Munich we took the train to Bayrischzell and went skiing there.

I had a nice, long walk in the English Garden today and had a mulled wine at the Christmas market at the Chinese tower.