Hi Mummy,
the weather has gone really bad. It’s raining sometimes, but that’s not the worst thing. It became cold, 7°C (44°F) in the morning. I did not want to leave my warm bed today. In the afternoon the weather became better and in the early evening we took a little walk along the route of tools. Katja wanted to convince us that Remscheid is not only consisting nice flowers in the muncipal park, forrests and cam side roads but it is also an idustrial town.
The route of tools is made on a closed railway track, I already told you. Along this route you can find many industrial companies and also abandoned factory buildings.
These are two old railway cars. On one of them a funny picture is drawn, it is an advertise for a company that peeled potatoes and sold them to restaurants and canteens.
This is one of the abandoned buildings.
Here they are still working, but large parts of this complex of buildings were torn down in the last months. A big smoke stack is still standing, it will be blown up some day. We hope we can be as close as possible to it when it will happen.
This complex of buildungs formerly contained the local slaughterhouse. Now there are offices and other companies in the buildings wich are now under monumental protecion.
Here we are sitting on a bench that is made of really old parts. One of them is the axis of a historic water wheel.
Oh yes, we saw a completely different town today. No more trees and flowers but factories like that.
And this,
We went back home then, into the district with trees, flowers and nice old houses. We had to hurry because it started raining again. But we reached our home save and dry. Later we will watch TV.
Bye
Bertie