Travelog for: nanu the cub

Today Petra asked me and some other toyvoyagers to help her in her so called "paper-room" at school. She had to sort the paper, which they need for handicrafts and more.

Today Petra's family met members of their familyclub from church. They meet about 2 times a month and go somewhere together. Today they drove to Germersheim to visit the street museum. We saw old machines, which they needed to built streets, but also other machines like this old copy machine.

I want to show you some of the flowers in Petra's garden behind the house. I love those flowers.

Today we decided to go on a day trip to see a model railway. We drove to Merklingen (near Ulm), where they say, that they own Europes most beautiful model railway.













I also saw a real Ralf Schumacher Formel 3 race car.

On our way home we stopped at Märklin museum in Göppingen. Petra and her family go there about one or two times in a year. Today seems to be a model railway day.

Today we drove to the Michaelsberg, a small hill, which belongs to Untergrombach. Untergrombach is one of Bruchsals suburbs. There are Untergrombach, Obergrombach, Heidelsheim, Helmsheim and Büchenau.

The first photo shows a view to Obergrombach.





On top of the Michaelsberg there is a chapel called Michaelskapelle. Next to the chapel is a restaurant, where you have a nice view over the Rhine valley.

Petra loves to go on the Michaelsberg to show the Rhine valley to her guests and to show them the edge to the Kraichgau. Today she told us, that she wanted to go there, because she wanted to watch the sunset.




The houses you can imagine on the right side belong to Bruchsal. And you see a part of the quarry pond of Untergrombach too. On the horizon you can imagine two small small towers, which belong to the nuclear power reactor of Philippsburg.





Here you see Untergrombach down the hill.





Here we look in direction, where you come to Karlsruhe, which is in the Rhine valley too. You maybe can imagine the edge to the Kraichgau with its small hills.





I love this last view to the chapel in the evening sun.

Martin, Sabrina and Petra took us for an outing today. We drove to Pforzheim to visit the wild park. It was founded in 1968, is about 16 ha large and there live more than 400 mammals.

Just a few minutes after our arrival, Petra stumbled over a roundwood and fell on her two hands. She was happy, that she had time to relax before she had to drive again - but she didn't expect, that she had broken her right thumb and torn a ligament there too.


I listened to different bird songs and tried to find out, which bird it was.

Today we drove to Oberhausen to take a look at the church, especially because Ralf, my host's husband, has to take photos of a wedding there.

Then we drove to Rheinhausen, because we wanted to see the Rhine. The Rhine is one of the longest and most important rivers in Europe, at 1,320 km,with an average discharge of more than 2,000 m³/s. It is the longest river in Germany. The Neckar, Main and Moselle flow in it in Germany.




 








There is a post museum in Rheinhausen. I wanted to go inside, but there was no time for it, we where too late. The oldest post office is located in Rheinhausen, dated 14. July 1490.
In 1552 the post house was built by the family Taxis and members of the family lived there as administrator.

In the Rhine Valley they plant asparagus. Bruchsal is the most important asparagus market in Europe. So it isn't a big surprise, that my hosts like to eat asparagus during asparagus season. They prefer to eat it with mayonnaise and cooked potatoes.

Rainy days with thunder and lightning in Bruchsal



















So we sat together in Petra's bedroom and read her current favorite book

Another thunderstorm

Today we saw a beautiful rainbow

Finally the weather is better again, so we went outside to take some photos of the beautiful flowers in Petra's garden.

My host family drove to Heidelberg, because their son begins with work experience at a medical laboratory tomorrow. So they thought, if would be a good idea to look where this laboratory is and then go to see the castle. But it was so crowded at the castle, that we turned around and decided to go there sometime later. So we only had been able to take a photo of the bridge.