Slough, UK - 6th December 2009
By: blum
Hi! I'm Walter the lion, and I'm sure you'll agree, that though I might be small I'm a very fine lion indeed!
Anyway, I'm here to let you in on a secret. I don't like my jungle here anymore. A long time ago little children used to play with me and we'd have so much fun, but the last few years? Bah! I might as well be invisible for all the attention I've had, brought to light only to be moved from one dark box to another. Well, I've had enough! I'm leaving!
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Posted Dec 6, 2009, 7:38 pm Last edited Dec 9, 2009, 10:47 am by blum
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Slough, UK - 9th December 2009
By: blum
Well, today is the day! I'm a-going travelling! I'm so excited, I can't wait to see what's out there! Will I see some 'sights'? Meet new people? Have adventures? Try new food? Learn new languages?
I've had an invitation to go to Germany for a while. Hmmm, that means climbing back in a dark box for the trip, but I can do it! And it'll give me some peace to practise my german before I get there!
Oh, Germany here I come! And I can't wait!
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Posted Dec 9, 2009, 10:58 am
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Remscheid, Germany - 16th December 2009
By: olgamaus
Hi there,
I arrived at my first host's home today. Here are already some ToyVoyagers. They are Murph, Cyryl, a lion like me, Cilly, Wieka and Nala. Katja is my first host.
She took me with her when she returned to her workplace after lunch break. The first photos were taken in the vicinity of my home.
Many old houses!
This is a water tower, together with the tower of the city-hall it makes the typical silhouette of Remscheid.
And this is the city-hall. The Christmas-market is taking place in front of it, so we cannot take a proper photo of the city-hall.
When we returned home in the evening, we made cookies. Germans usually make lots of cookies before Christmas. Katja got the receipe from another ToyVoyager member from Austria. Today we tried to make them.
First we had to cook cream, honey and butter until the mass was thickening. Than we added almonds and candied fruit, later also some wheat flour.
We made little piles of dough onto a baking tray. They had to bake for about 10 minutes. Than the result was looking like this:
They were already delicious, but Katja added some melted chocolate, which made them even better.
Than I found the mug with the melted chocolate inside ...
Yummy!!!
The first day of my journey was really exciting.
Bye
Walter
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Posted Dec 16, 2009, 9:03 pm
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Remscheid, Germany - 24th December 2009
By: olgamaus
Hi,
I'm wishing you a very happy holiday.
Bye
Walter
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Posted Jan 4, 2010, 4:59 pm
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Remscheid, Germany - 5th January 2010
By: olgamaus
Hi,
I met Katja's pets today. We went into the garden with them to let them play in the snow. Katja is keeping ferrets, here you can see Shiva, she is very curious. She loves to play in the snow.
Ferrets are predators like me, in the evenings they share their raw flesh with me.
Bye
Walter
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Posted Jan 6, 2010, 9:30 pm
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Cologne, Germany - 11th January 2010
By: olgamaus
Hi,
we went to Cologne today. First we had to appompany Katja's daughter to the airport. She went on a class trip to Prague in the Czech Republic today.
Afterwards we went to the city centre. When you leave the train station the first thing you see is Cologne Cathedral.
Cologne Cathedral is a Roman Catholic church, seat of the Archbishop of Cologne and is under the administration of the archdiocese of Cologne. The cathedral is a World Heritage Site.
Construction of Cologne Cathedral began in 1248 and took, with interruptions, until 1880 to complete; a period of over 600 years. The cathedral is he largest Gothic church in Northern Europe and one of the world's largest churches. Because of its enormous twin spires, it also presents the largest façade of any church in the world. Its medieval builders had planned a grand structure to house the reliquary of the Three Kings and fit its role as a place of worship of the Holy Roman Emperor.
It is so large that you cannot take any good photo from here.
We went to the shopping streets than. Here you can see the old brewhouse of "Früh", one of many "Kölsch"-breweries here.
Carnival season started on November, 11th. The residents of Cologne love carnival
This is Neumarkt. Can you see the large ice cream cone on one of the buildings?
This is one of the most famous buildings in the shopping street, the "whale" of Peek & Cloppenburg. You can see more of it here.
We went to the old town than. You can find old houses here which were built in 13th century. Not all of them, of course, but the old town still has this medieval character with its narrow lanes.
They have a lot of pubs here in the old town.
The remains of the old town are close to the river Rhine.
Opposite of those buildings there is the jetty of one of the excursion boats.
We walked along the rivr bank until we reached the old harbour. Nowadays several companies settled here and you can find extraordinarily expensive appartements here.
Two museums are also situated here on the Rhine peninsula, the Imhoff Schokoladenmuseum (Imhoff Chocolate museum) and the Deutsches Sport- and Olympia Museum (German sports- and olympics museum).
Those large buildings are partly still under construction.
We walked back to the city centre than.
From here you can see more Cologne Cathedral .
We went back to the train station and went home.
Bye
Walter
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Posted Jan 14, 2010, 12:36 pm
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travelling to, Poland - 28th January 2010
By: olgamaus
Hi,
I am on my way to my next host in Poland now.
Bye
Walter
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Posted Jan 28, 2010, 11:22 am
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