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Essen, Germany - 26th July 2010
By: Apperveilchen
There was supposed to be a photo-tour of the city today, but as you can partially see in the picture it's raining once again, it has hardly stopped for any usable time all weekend. Hopefully we'll have some nicer days again soon. But we'll find something else to occupy our time instead.
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Posted Jul 26, 2010, 3:26 pm
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Essen, Germany - 2nd October 2010
By: Apperveilchen
We're still here and because TravelingTuffy likes to try out the candy of the world, out host unpacked some. Of course we other tvs were there at once and had to try some, too.
We started out with some swiss chocolate with 70% cacao, our host's current favourite. My favourite, too.
Personally, I prefered the sweeter kind. Here's a Butterkeks (butter cookie):
They come as regulars, whole wheat, with or without choclate cover and sometimes, as in this case, with a yoghurt cream. Yummy!
Swiss chocolate also come in variations, of course. Napolitains are small pieces, individually wrapped and often come in packs of different kinds:
Zartbitter/dark chocolate, Haselnuss/hazlenut, Milchschokolade/milk chocolate, and giandor(or a variation - a kind of chocolate/nut cream)
Here's Brause. It bubbles and prickles on the tongue. Ahoi is a favourite kind of that sweet here and these little bears come in coke, strawberry, banana or peach flavour.
There's also powder to dissolve in water, big chunks or other small forms with different flavours.
Maoam is another favourite brand. It's chewy candy in all kinds of forms now, regular or extra sour flavours (which should be "sauer" in German, but for some reason it says "sour" on the wrapper).
No list of favourite brands of candy would be complete without Haribo. Here we have their licorice mix, called Matador, but licorice is Lakritz in German.
There's salt licorice or other kinds in there. Here's the favourite licorice snail: Lakritzschnecke. It can be eaten like this or be unwound, or even separated into halfs before eating.
I'm stuffed!
I think I ate 10x my weight in candy today.
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Posted Oct 4, 2010, 10:20 pm
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Essen, Germany - 6th October 2010
By: Apperveilchen
We were in the city center today after our host got off work but we had to hurry in order to complete our errand before closing time.
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Posted Oct 10, 2010, 3:16 pm
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Werden, Germany - 24th October 2010
By: Apperveilchen
This Sunday there was a German-Dutch "Tuchmarkt" (cloth market) in werden. It was very busy and nearly impossible wo find parking in the whole town and even a long way out the roads leading to it.
The actual market wasn't that big but there were other small attraction and food booths and it was generally very busy.
Slate covered houes again.
These 2 black und white spotted lambs with their mother were very cute, along with some calves, little chicks and fluffy rabbits.
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Posted Nov 12, 2010, 9:15 am
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Köln (Cologne), Germany - 26th October 2010
By: Apperveilchen
We visited Cologne and this is me in front of Cologne cathedral. It's a UNESCO World Heritage site. The towers are 157 m high. Many visitors try to count the steps when going up but usually mess it up at some point. Officially there are 533 but when walking up one might thin they've missed a few (thousand). There's space intended for 4000 people inside. You can find more information via the link. It's a constant contruction site, never really without a visible scaffolding or something smilar. Nevertheless it was quite impressive and it's in the heart of the city at the banks of the Rhine. We walked around and looked a some shopwindows. People in Cologne like the Carnival and have a big one in winter. Now the windows are stocked with halloweena dn winter things.
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Posted Oct 28, 2010, 7:48 pm
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Köln (Cologne), Germany - 26th October 2010
By: Apperveilchen
Our real reason to visit Cologne was the exhibit of Tutanchamun's tomb. Philbert, Crush, Knopf and I had a good time. It's kind of a modern multimedia installation to simulate the discovery of the tomb and give an idea of the historical context, both of Tutanchamun's death and of the discovery of his tomb by Howard Carter. They only showed replicas of the original finds but added some photos and copies of drawings etc. from the original dig.
Some informational boards gave a rough overview of Ancient Egypt and Howard Carter, to start the exhibition.
Next came short films and audio information before being led by the audio guide(pretending to be Carter) into the simulation of the tomb as it was originally found.
Here's a model of the grave. Above it was the grave on Ramses V. Carter already dug there 5 years before he actually found the tomb and had to stop so as not to make the other tomb, a main tourist attraction, inaccessible. He also stopped when he found some od worker' huts because he didn't think anything would be found under them. He only went back to them in the last dig he could finance, when he had already tried all other parts of the Valley of the Kings. You see the depression were the worker' huts were, the steps leading down, which were finally discovered during the last dig, the first walle dup entrace, the corridor leading to the 2nd walled up entrance, the entrance chamber, an additional side chamber behond that, and a wall with the burial chamber behind it and an entrance to the treasure chamber beyond that.
Grave-robbers must have been in the side chamber shortly after the tomb was originally sealed, so that was in disarray, but they didn't get much further and the tomb was re-sealed.
Something like this was the first view Carter had when they made a hole into the second walled door, looking into the entrance chamber:
The outer-most sarcophagus out of 4:
It's as big as many rooms. Inside it are engravings of the story of the end of the earth.
It must have been very hard to remove the different sarcophagi from a chamber that was only about half a meter bigger in each direction that the biggest one. Photos show how Carter and his men were working with pulleys on site. In the end they had to take out part of one wall. The sarcophagi consisted only of 4 walls and a top, they rested on the ground as the bottom.
The famous mask was much in demand, so we couln't get a really good picture or one with me in it.
This is one of the amulets he wore under the mask. It's very beautiful, isn't it?
This is a copy of Carter's original drawings to document how the amulets and pectorals were distributed on the corpse:
In the end there were replicas of the furnitre shown individually. any looked amazingly modern. (Or maybe our furniture is amazingly old-fashioned.)
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Posted Nov 12, 2010, 9:25 am
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Vienna, Austria - 11th December 2010
By: marcie08
Hi Mom!
I have arrived here in Vienna, with lots of snow. I was so happy when I could finally step out of my envelope and enjoy the warmth in the flat. There was already another toyvoyager waiting, Drillo!
He gave me a warm welcome and we talked about our adventures. Then I was ready for some sleep!
Bye!
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Posted Dec 26, 2010, 6:13 pm Last edited Dec 26, 2010, 6:14 pm by marcie08
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