Posted Oct 7, 2012, 12:55 pm
And I got a loop in the hair
Posted Oct 7, 2012, 12:56 pm
This is banana juice and cherryjuice
Posted Oct 7, 2012, 12:59 pm
Delicious
Posted Oct 18, 2012, 9:17 am
Her name was Biene Maja.
Louis12, Mimi-Lilo and I say hello to her
then we play Mario Party 9 on the wii
Posted Oct 18, 2012, 9:40 am
makes baked toast with chilli Feta
Posted Nov 14, 2012, 8:22 am
I was of course any ideas
as always
Only then hang in trees and then fall down and run wonder why you fell.
I just stay when flying
Later i drink a little bit Coffee
Now i look of that Map to the next stop
And i say he Mummy and Dad we must drive with the Tram!!!!
Posted Nov 14, 2012, 8:29 am
Hey available here so the Struweltpeter
I deliberately did not what she meant.
She then told me the story and she said the next time she goes to grandma times the book brings the Struwelpeter
Then Dad said we can walk along the Big Island mountain so high, we have also made.
When we finally were up, we were fixed and foxi except the dad thought it was great
Posted Nov 14, 2012, 8:34 am
I was just rather angguckt the river than to pay attention to the road.
I was really glad we were back on the train back home
Posted Nov 14, 2012, 8:46 am
Mr Pumba visit us
was very cool
He is very nice
Posted Nov 14, 2012, 9:18 am
Big trains, small trains, all trains, broken trains
Eventually, I could no longer fly, because my wings hurt because Dad has supported me then
Posted Nov 14, 2012, 2:07 pm
He now travels to Austria
Draco looked at me again so funny, what about just going on.
Posted Nov 19, 2012, 4:36 pm
but he's right, the medicine was really disgusting
he had to take and did not want
because we had to use the light-violent he takes
Posted Nov 27, 2012, 11:34 am
I'm So Excited.
DracoI wanted to smooch but there was fortunately Minni with gifts for my hostmami. I've also written a letter to her.
I sleep i I sleep in recent times as bad.
Mom told me that I'm going to Remscheid. This is near Dusseldorf. Hopefully my Hostmami says about my sweet gifts. So host mama I come
Posted Nov 29, 2012, 8:33 pm
I arrived in Remscheid today! Unfortunately my host Katja was very busy today, but at least we took a welcome photo with all the other ToyVoyagers here. They are Luc Zeke, Voi Nam, 3*Euro, Kevin Kiwi, Little T.B., Arimbi and Suny, who also arrived today.
The weather outside is not great, the weather forecast promised snow for the weekend. Let's see!
Bye
Lady Katherine
Posted Dec 2, 2012, 8:47 pm
today I took a few steps outside, but only into the park in front of the house. It was cold!
In the evening, when it was already dark, I went with Katja to visit a friend. Katja and some friends usually meet on Friday evening to knit together (and have a beer or two).
The blurred tower on the right side of the next photo is the city hall.
It was not later than 8:00 p.m., but the city seemed like a ghost town.
Bye
Lady Katherine
Posted Dec 2, 2012, 8:59 pm
something happened during the night ...
It looks like terrible cold.
Bye
Lady Katherine
Posted Dec 7, 2012, 4:11 pm
(hopefully I will not get a cold!)
We walked along the so called "Route of Tools", a former track for freight trains. Many tracks were closed and were built to lanes for pedestrians and cyclists. Remscheid is an industrial city, famous for the tool producing industry here. Building the route was sponsored by local companies, so it was called "Route of Tools".
The route is about 5 km long, following the former track from the central station to the district Hasten. You can find a lot of industrial complexes along the route, as well newer ones as historical ones. This complex was a slaughterhouse once.
The closer we came to Hasten, the route was crossing more dwellings than industrial sites.
Someone is collecting souvenirs from the former railway track
You can also find signs with the logos of sponsoring companies here.
Later we went home through the municipal park.
Bye
Lady Katherine
Posted Dec 13, 2012, 12:39 pm
have a look at this ugly mess:
Hanging around in the law firm is not so exciting, but better than having wet feet
Bye
Lady Katherine
Posted Dec 13, 2012, 12:46 pm
today the sun is shining and we had new snow in the morning. In Katja's lunch break we took a short walk in the city centre.
The city hall is close to my host's work place.
This is the main entrance of the shopping mall - I have been here before!
A shop for flowers and decorating items is situated here.
This is the public library. We had to go there to return an overdue DVD - it should have been returned two weeks ago.
This building was the company building of the local newspaper RGA (Remscheider General-Anzeiger).
Here you can see the central bus station.
Soon our lunch break was over.
Bye
Lady Katherine
Posted Dec 16, 2012, 11:05 am
today we went to a DIY-store to buy a new lock for the letter box.
Huhh... was so cold that I closed my wings.
This is one of the churches in the city centre.
The shopping street is beginning here.
All the trees on the space around the church are decorated with pretty yellow stars.
We walked to the station area next.
The station was built only a few years ago. The old building was demolished and the new "station" is only a small waiting zone along the track. But at least the whole area around the station was also rebuilt with a small shopping mall and a bridge for pedestrians to reach the city much easier.
When we reached the DIY-store the whole outdoor facilities were full of snow shovels and road salt. A horrible sight, that made me freeze even more!
Bye
Lady Katherine
Posted Dec 26, 2012, 11:02 am
today in the early evening Katja met her colleague to enjoy an eggnogg on the Christmas market.
Cheers!
(I'm going to tell you a secret: The ladies did not only have one eggnogg, no, they had four of them and they had a terrible hangover the next morning
)
Bye
Lady Katherine
Posted Dec 26, 2012, 11:20 am
I helped Katja to wrap the last presents. Look what her sister will get!
Good-bye. little vampire!
I wish you a merry Christmas!
Love
Lady Katherine
Posted Dec 31, 2012, 5:13 pm
today we met Katja's friend Kerstin and took a walk with her and her dog.
We went to Wuppertal, to Scharpenacken, a former army training area. This area was used for military purposes until 2004 A.D as a shooting range. Today there is a local recreation area with vast open areas, but also woodland.
The whole area will be renatured in the coming years.
A lot of people come here with their dogs to let them run and play.
Katja told me that Pepe, the dog, in summer usually is taking a bath in the creek which is running through the meadow.
Bye
Lady Katherine
Posted Jan 3, 2013, 4:50 pm
today we made a trip to the neighbour city Wuppertal.
One of the citys greatest attractions is the suspended monorail (Schwebebahn), which was established in 1901. The tracks are 8 m above the streets and 12 m above the Wupper River. The Schwebebahn is crossing some streets and even a motorway!
Here you can see one of 20 stations along the 13,3 km long route. This one is nearby the local court and district court.It was rebuilt last year in its original historic style. It's the one we just had left.
We made a side trip to the Botanical garden because one of the TVs, Suny had a special wish which Katja tried to fulfill. The Botanical garden is situated high upon a hill called "Hardt" and we had to climb stairs after stairs for what felt like an eternity.
You can find the former country house of a textile manufacturers named Eller, which contained a villa (built 1820), orangery, residential and farm buildings, and the Elise Tower (built 1838) which provides the garden's focal point.
Katja showed me a special tree in the garden, this one.
It looks more or less like a dangerous animal, but not like a tree. It is a monkey puzzle tree, (Araucaria araucana). It originally came from South America, from Chile and Western Argentinia. Due to similar climate conditions it can grow here.
Because a Botanical garden is not so exciting in winter we walked back to the city centre because we had only about 90 minutes until it would get dark.
Walking stairs downhill was much more fun
In the city centre we recognized that Wuppertal is much larger than Remscheid. The pretty city hall was hidden behind a scaffolding.
We saw the Schwebebahn again, next to a bank and a car park.
Here you can see one of the other stations, a modern one this time.
Later we met Katja's daughter here and we spend some hours in the shopping streets.
Bye
Lady Katherine
Posted Jan 4, 2013, 10:42 pm
in the afternoon I played with the ferrets. There are three of them, but only Zaehnchen and Brighty had fun with me. The third one, Shiva, was sleeping.
Ferrets love to play rough games.
They are cheeky little things, trying to frighten me, but they have never met a vampire before!
When my host came home from work today she brought a large bag full of fruits. She is working in a law firm and a client brought those fruits for the staff from his home in Greece in Southern Europe. He is doing this every year. He brought tangerines, kiwi fruits and lemons.
Katja told us that there were so many fruits that we would have to eat nothing but kiwi and tangerine for at least four days. She had a better idea: Let's cook jam!
First the tangerines were peeled an put into a sieve mill to press the juice of of them.
The kiwis were cut into small pieces, lemon peel and lemon juice were added and also a vanilla bean. We had to weigh the mixture, than the same weight gelling sugar was added.
This mixture had to boil for about four minutes.
It was pureed and filled into jars. The jars were placed upside down for a few minutes to create a vacuum which helps to preserve the jam.
Tomorrow we will try the jam for breakfast.
Bye
Lady Katherine
Posted Jan 16, 2013, 6:01 pm
we went to Katja's sister-in-law's family today to celebrate the last day of the year. When we arrived, there already was everything prepared for Raclette.
There were lots of vegetables like sweet pepper, carrots, mushrooms, tomatoes, than there was beef and chicken meat, prawn, bread, potatoes and much more. Of course there was a lot of cheese
Later we called a tile-based game called "Rummikub". Do you know it?
At midnight we all had a glass of sparkling wine when we went outside for the fireworks.
Happy New Year!
Iit was raining the whole time, so the fireworks did not show up as nice as they could have had.
Love
Lady Katherine
Posted Jan 16, 2013, 6:05 pm
the weather is still ugly, nobody wants to go outside. Instead we helped Katja to prepare a veggie dinner.
First we fried zucchini and dryed tomatoes in a pan and added tomatoe sauce. Than we prepared feta to scallop the vegetables with it.
We cut the remaining feta into pieces and fillend them into a jar with garlic, herbs, spices and dried tomatoes.
GARLIC?! Oh noooo ...... Katja should know that vampires HATE garlic!
We filled the jar with olive oil than to preserve the cheese.
Bye
Lady Katherine
Posted Jan 16, 2013, 6:09 pm
today we had the first day without rain since mid December! That's why Katja already planned to take a walk in the afternoon, but first a new guest arrived, Stoker. Another vampire! Although Stoker believed he was a bat.
We walked to a nearby valley.
Soon we left the streets and walked towards the forest, through a rural hamlet. I met Cameroon sheep here.
This pretty house is hidden in the valley. Katja told me that those half-timbered houses were typical for this region.
It was rather cold - about freezing point!
We reached the district Luettringhausen than, one of the historic districts of Remscheid. When we came here the sun came out for a few minutes. Of course I would have preferred a dark cloud.
The weather forecast said that we would have better weather soon, even with sunshine at the weekend.
Bye
Lady Katherine
Posted Jan 16, 2013, 6:14 pm
the weather forecast was right - we are having fantastic weather. We decided to visit Muengsten Bridge, Germany's highest railway bridge.
Here you can see river Wupper, marking the border between Remscheid and the neighbour city Solingen. Muengsten Bridge is crossing this valley. Before it was built, it took people more than 40 km to get to the nearby neighbour city by train.
Here you can see the bridge overspanning the valley.
First we walked uphill on the Solingen side of the valley.
Muengsten Bridge was built of steel, completed in 1907. It is about 480 m long and 107 m tall. There are extensive repair works going on in the last few years, and there will be more this year from April till at least October.
All the puddles along the path are frozen!
Later we crossed river Wupper here at this small bridge.
We walked back on the Remscheid side of the valley than.
On the very first photo you can see an outlook pavilion. We came here on the way back and had a fantastic overview across the valley.
Bye
Lady Katherine
Posted Jan 27, 2013, 11:43 am
we are having snow again! Not much, but enough for having cold and wet feet.
Bye
Lady Katherine
Posted Jan 27, 2013, 11:48 am
it was still really cold today. Katja had to buy a few things and took us through the quarter where she lived until summer 2012.
Large parts of the city of Remscheid were destroyed in World War II, but there are still quarters with lovely old houses, mostly built in late 19th or early 20th century.
This is the local court, the old building on the right side, the new annex on the left side.
Soon we reached the shopping street.
It was so terribly cold that I preferred to sit in Katja's bag
Bye
Lady Katherine
Posted Jan 28, 2013, 8:07 pm
today the phone rang.
Someone from my home called me ... but I was not sure who it was.
We talked and talked until it was dinner time for Reika.
Bye
Lady Katherine
Posted Feb 6, 2013, 5:31 pm
after two weeks with crazy weather (snow, rain, black ice, snow again, rain again, fog and mud) we are having snow once more - and SUNSHINE!!! Although vampires do not like the sun I went with my TV friends to the municipal park. Besides this is my last day in Remscheid, so I wanted to go out with my friends.
The pond in the park was not yet frozen completely.
Walking back home ....
I'll travel home tomorrow
Bye
Lady Katherine
Posted Feb 7, 2013, 2:02 pm
in the early morning I prepared my departure. Even the ferrets came to say good-bye to me (of course usually they are not allowed to sit on the kitchen table
). I will even bring sweets from another (German) state, from North Rhine-Westphalia.
See you soon!
Love
Lady Katherine
Posted May 23, 2013, 6:44 pm
Here I am again!
Today I arrived at my new hosts. At first I checked up where I had landed. I couldnīt see anything! So I put on my glases and then I saw a lot of other TVs!
Seems to be a TV-loving house
But I am sooo tired that hostmum allowed me to check several places to sleep.
Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrttttttttttttttttsssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss
Posted May 31, 2013, 6:52 am
we catched the few hours without rain to make a hiking trip to the Staffelberg.
Hostdad helped us
On our way we passed the big and famous monastry "Vierzehnheiligen"
We came through a magic forest where I couldnīt stop flying around and hanging up
We even passed some rocks and I guess, there were caves with wonderful sleeping places inside!
After reaching the top of the Staffelberg we were very hungry. I chose a blood sausage
Very yummie
Posted Jun 9, 2013, 5:46 pm
I spent wonderful holidays in Alto Adige!
On our first day we made a trip around the Kalterer See and the nature trail. Itīs really a wonderful landscape, ideal for bats
with a lot of chances to hang up
Our evenings we spent in a tavern called Fischerkeller
We ordered wine and a mixed plate for 2 persons or 10 plushies
Hmmmmmmmmmmmm, this yummie wine! It looks like blood
Posted Jul 9, 2013, 8:47 pm
We had a huge TV meeting here! We were 23 TVs from all over the world! Do you know some of them? Hostmum made a yummie cake for us and we all enjoyed it.
Yours, Lady Katherine
Posted Jul 28, 2013, 8:05 am
Do you enjoy the summer as we do?
Today we had a TV meeting with 16 TVs! MA_17 visited us and certainly we exchanged our experiences of our TV adventures.
I was very happy tto meet two other flying TVs, Nathalie and Landroval.
Last but not least we had to say Goodbye to the cute dog Mr.Casanova. Iīm sure that we sonn will continue his journey around the world
Yours, Lady Katherine
Posted Jul 28, 2013, 5:35 pm
Today we made a trip to a historic festival. Unfortunately I forgot my glasses, so some pictures are blurry
There was a smith who showed his swords. On the other side was something for the girls: a lady yarned wool.
But then I saw something really interesting: a skull! I like skulls very much and so I posed in front of it.
Yours, Lady Katherine
Posted Aug 17, 2013, 6:39 am
Today I had to say Goodbye to all my plushie friends and to hostmum. She gave me a present for the journey which should not be too long.
I am happy to see you again!
Yours, Katherine