Posted Sep 14, 2013, 3:06 pm
I am *Nick* the bear. Strictly speaking I'm mum's FIRST TV and not the sixth cause she took me with her on many journeys and took photos of me before knowing 'ToyVoyagers'. And when she got to know 'ToyVoyagers' she thought I was too big for travelling...
But now HelmutBluepant came to visit us and he's only a bit smaller than me. He convinced mum to let me become a TV and here I am
! Thank you Helmut, my friend!!!
I decided not to travel in an envelope but to escort mum and dad or their relatives and friends.
On the photo you can see me with my best friends Mefito and HelmutBluepant.
My first journey as a legalized TV will start next week.
See you,
yours *Nick*
Posted Sep 19, 2013, 5:45 pm
Posted Sep 29, 2013, 1:10 pm
In the early morning we took our places in the car and
Most of the time we drove on motorways but together with HelmutBluepant, Charlotte, Mefito, The WotWots, UrselHH and Sargent Froggo it wasn't boring at all.
After a few hours we crossed Hamburg and drove through a long tunnel underneath river Elbe.
A further hour later we crossed the Kiel Canal. The typical landscape we could see outside the car showed us that we were already at our's destination.
And so it was. A few minutes later we reached a nice sofa in our holiday home in Friedrichskoog
Posted Sep 30, 2013, 5:44 pm
Today we drove to the 'Trischendamm', a dam that streches 2 km into the North Sea. On our way to the dam we saw a sign that confirmed us to prefer driving by bike and not by car...driving by car seems to be very dangerous in this region
On the Trischendamm we walked up to the end and stood so to speak in the middle of the North Sea. It was a windy day so we had to pay attention not to fly away...
Back at the dyke we took a rest in a nice wicker beach.
On our way back home we bought some jam standing at the roadside. There were no seller but only a box to put in the money.
See you
yours *Nick*
Posted Sep 30, 2013, 9:54 pm
We all hoped that the sun will shine the next time so that we could use them all together...
Posted Oct 1, 2013, 3:46 pm
After half the distance we took a rest. Cause it was high tide the dam was overflowed at it's end so we unfortunately couldn't reach the lighthouse and had to turn back.
Perhaps we'll try again at low tide.
Back at the dyke we found a big stone with an inscription: at this place runs the 54th northern latitude.
Posted Oct 2, 2013, 11:15 am
If I'll marry one day perhaps I'll do it here
Posted Oct 2, 2013, 8:32 pm
Posted Oct 2, 2013, 9:10 pm
In the afternoon the weather was much better so we drove to Meldorf, a little nice town near Friedrichskoog.
First we visited the cathedral built up in the 13th century. And then mum showed us the market square with her favourite café, of course we went in...very good
Somebody had an old anchor in his garden and of course we wanted to sit on it...
See you
yours *Nick*
Posted Oct 3, 2013, 10:41 am
Posted Oct 3, 2013, 6:13 pm
After picking some we took arest on the big stones.
On our way back we had a great sight of the mud flats.
Back at the dyke we met 'Fritze', a very big mud flats worm and then we played on a nice boat and took another rest on deck.
In the afternoon we went into another nice café...mum and dad love cafés as you can see...
Posted Oct 4, 2013, 12:38 pm
But first Charlotte wanted to visit her sister-in-law who lives here at the dyke. Charlotte's brother unfortunately is in prison (and she doesn't want to tell us why) as Helmut told a few weeks ago, you remember? And so she went alone into the rabbit burrow (Charlotte's brother had married a rabbit as you can see) and we had to wait outside while she was talking with her siste-in-law.
After a while she came back, hugged HelmutBluepant but she didn't want to say anything about her visit. If you ask me it seems to be a not so pleasant part of her family...
So we started to the lighthouse and reached it. Before going back we took a long rest sitting there and talking about life...
Yours *Nick*
Posted Oct 4, 2013, 1:23 pm
Posted Oct 4, 2013, 6:18 pm
Posted Oct 4, 2013, 8:03 pm
Be careful and see you soon, dear brother!
Posted Oct 6, 2013, 4:43 pm
Cause I don't want to travel in an envelope mum accompanied me and my friends to Remscheid where I'll stay with HelmutBluepant and Charlotte
We were welcomed very warmly by Gozer, Elmar, Hase and Laika and of course by Strunki.
And we weren't the only guests: olgamaus came as well with her TV-guests, it was fantastic!!! So I got to know KoalaMimi, Rocky Raccoon, OleOrangescarf, Kirin, Tsukumo, nosyblue and Lamikins It was fantastic!!!
Hase came with presents for each of us, yummy chocolate, a candle, a lolly and a scarf, isn't it cool?
After eating the yummy meal Strunki and her guests had cooked for us we went into a garden and built up the greatest ToyVoyager-polonaise you've ever seen
And then the world's best party began...
Hours later mum had to drive home again so I had to say goodbye to her, The WotWots, UrselHH and Sargent Froggo
And now I'm looking forward for my adventures!
Love you all yours *Nick*
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Oct 6, 2013, 6:04 pm
and here You see some more funny pictures, hihi, but I tell You, it was a little bit hard for all of us in the morning...
...And i swear that I have nothing to do with the balloons at Helmuts ears...
But don´t worry Mum, we are all ok, but happy to get more sleep today on sunday
Love You Mum
Yours
*Nick*
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Oct 8, 2013, 7:41 pm
I brought Elmar, Gozer and Helmut the great idea to celebrate a "silly sports day"
Have You ever heard about gum-diving?? Here You see the very first four athlets... We hope it becomes an olympic discipline
The next discipline is "marshmellow-Balance", veeeeery difficult and You need an absolute perfect body control...
Elmar... he won, because the rest of us ate the marshmellows before the contest ended...
The last discipline was cake-jumping...
But look what happend with Elmar... his trunk plugged into a hole in the cake...
Of course I helped and pushed him out
I´m sure mummy, the next days will be funny as well
See and hughughug You
Your good boy
*Nick*
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Oct 8, 2013, 10:13 pm
Laika, our time was too short, I regret
Gozer, a short but great time we spent together
Have a nice trip to Finland and enjoy Your stay
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Oct 13, 2013, 5:19 pm
today we made a little trip around and under the Müngstener Brücke, the oldest and highest Railwaybridge in Germany.
Here we start over a small bridge over the Wupper and You can see the Diederichstempel
Here You have the first impression of this huge building
We found one in plushie-size, the complete area of the Wupper-valley around the bridge on an bronce-table
Here we are directly under the construction, it is soo huge and impressive...
That stone remembers, how old the bridge is.... The German emperor Kaiser Wilhelm visited Müngsten in 1899
Here is a good view
But now we left the bridge behind us for taking a walk through the nice autum forest on the footpath next to the Wupper
Here I found a fly agaric [Amanita muscaria]
But don´t worry mum, I did not want to taste it in the way the old Wikings did in the middle age... Helmut wanted, but Lotte, the old spoilsport didn´t allow it...
Here at this interesting stone with handprints carved in we rested
and met the guests of olgamaus, Tsukumo, KoalaMimi, Rocky Raccoon and her newest guest, RSG Leo
Here we are at the place called Wiesenkotten. There is a bridge and we change the riverside
Helmut and me
There we hiked on the way back
and came to this beautyful landscape
A few meters away we are under the bridge again, only much more higher and on the other side
Now we reach the Diederichstempel
And have the last nice view on the bridge from there before we enjoyed the hospitality of olgamaus with koffee and the typical Bergisch rusk
That´s it for today Mum,
love and hug You
Yours very good boy
*Nick*
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Oct 14, 2013, 6:30 pm
today was a typical autum day here: Ist was very cold, sometimes windy and for a few moments we saw the sun
And we went to an orchard festival at Stiftung Tannenhof
At the entrance we saw the biggest apple of our life
And behind the entrance we were expected by some bronce statues
The next surprise was an nice old red tractor and we were invited to drive onto a trailer behind the tractor to have a first roundtrip on the huge area of the older parts of Tannenhof
Helmut was sooo happy to sit with me on his favourite tractor model, an old "Porsche Junior", built in the 60ties :-)
We had a lot of fun on the trailer
Our next station was a tent with some very different apples
All looked soo yummy
Behind me You can see two huge manual cider presses for apple juice
Here are impressions of the festival
and the orchard itsself
See us sitting on a warm and soft sheepskin
and carving the pumpkin was a lot of fun
but we liked the soup as well
And we love sitting under the spindle tree [Euonymus europaeus]
funny was the distorting mirror
What a full day and we were happy having the oppurtunity to chill out in the nice seat zone
What a great day, even when it was cold....
That´s it for today, mum
See and love You
Yours
*Nick*
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Oct 16, 2013, 10:42 pm
today HelmutBluepant got a very big suprise: He got his first real camera
We all helped him to pack it out of the box
Of course the girls had to read the instruction manual first while we boys admired this new high tech instrument
But Elmar helped the girls understanding the manual
See me how I congratulate the happy Helmut
But before the first shots Helmut had to study the manual as well
Proud and happy
Helmuts very first experiences with the new cam
Looks nice and sooo professional
That´s the news of today, Mum
see and love You
Yours
*Nick*
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Oct 20, 2013, 12:00 am
today we went to Hohenhagen, a very high point in Remscheid
Here is the telecommunication-tower
Suddenly we saw some kites
Of course we built up our own kite as soon as possible
Then I decided to start my big adventure
I had a great flight
All my friends congratulated my to my first flight
What a nice adventure, that was great
Love You Mum
Yours
*Nick*
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Oct 21, 2013, 10:51 pm
today we visited Wuppertal-Kohlfurth and had a lot of fun in the tram-museum there
The entrance is free but the members of the tram-club are very happy when the visitors donate an amount
See us here in front of a nice miniature landscape and a grey shunting locomotive
Here we have a small view inside the tram-hall
This was a nice tram, about 70 years ago it drove through Wuppertal
see the city coat of arms of Wuppertal
and the nice old advertisment
The timetable of the tram
The very friendly tram-conductor allowed us to see the tram from inside
Oooops
Suddenly the tram began to move... with us inside, but without us having a ticket...
But the friendly conductor sold me a sample-special-ticket for us plushies
Then we enjoyed our ride on the tram
The next nice suprise was meeting Frederik in the tram
What a cool trip
This was our trip in Kohlfurth,
tbc at the Arboretum in Cronenberg...
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Oct 25, 2013, 5:49 am
Here we found a nice blooming spindle tree [Euonymus europaeus]
This is the beginning of of the main path
From this point You have a beautiful view on the landscape
Here we made a short break and I met my brother, Frederik, who is guest of Olgamaus
Oh, how nice to meet You here, little brother, You look great
After a while enjoying the landscape we went on deeper into the forest and saw a lot of sequoia trees
See me playing in the tree
Later on the ground we found a lot of mushrooms, but we know too less about them, but some look very yummy
Perhaps we should ask HoBi, wich are eatable
At last we admired the giant sequoia trees, they are still very young there in the arboretum, but very huge
That was it for the weekend,
see You soon and love You, mum
Yours
*Nick*
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Oct 27, 2013, 5:44 pm
today its almost a nice autumnday and olgamaus invited us to accompany her and her guests Kirin, Rocky Raccoon and Frederik to a little trip in and around Hasten
Here You see the most significant Building near to the main place, a house with a round tower
We start in Büchel, where a lot of old and typical Bergisch half-timbered houses with slate fronts and green shutters are
It´s a very quiet and peaceful area here where You also can find some nice details at the houses
Look at this paintings in the backround
In the near we met a cat
some cool pumpkins
and a dog
After a while walking down to the valley of the Morsbach we reached Clemenshammer, but we didn´t stay there
Also there very impressive houses
Following the small river Morsbach, we found this huge rock with a nice poem carved in
Can You read it?
" A little shower only
She lured him
under the umbrella
tears of joy"
Then, after reaching a place called Gerstau, we met some friendly sheep
And came back into the forest again
Here we learned from a sign, that this place was used in older times to guard sheep and that the people used the forest to burn charcoal
a meadow with some more sheep and a horse
Coming out of the forest we saw an old smithy
Here we are at a small hammer-lake
See me and my best friend HelmutBluepant
I love the autum colours of the leafs
A really nice small house again
And here I am in front of the \"Haus Cleff\", a part of the Historical Centre
Near to the point from we started, we reach our last station, the church of Hasten, the "Pauluskirche"
What a nice walk for today
Love and kiss You mummy
Yours
*Nick*
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Oct 30, 2013, 9:35 pm
today only a few pictures from a wondeful colourful heaven in the early evening.
Look at the wonderful rainbow
Monday was very stormy, but the evening-mood was great
Good night and sleep well
Yours
*Nick*
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Oct 31, 2013, 11:53 am
Helmut gave him some yummy chocolate for his journey
And we all gave him a long and intensive hug and were sad that he had to leave us now
Then he jumped into his envelope and we wish him a good journey and waved him good bye
Good bye little Elmar, we´ll see us again, someday, somewhere
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Oct 31, 2013, 9:37 pm
today we had fun by reading the newest "Asterix"
when suddenly somebody threw Lotte and Helmut towels over their heads...
Hey Hey, it is UrselHH who arrived and surprised us with her visit
How lovely to see You again after the weeks You´ve been here taking part in the big tv-meeting here
Hase embraced Ursel with her long ears
Then she showed us her gifts, a huge bag full of yummy licorice
And the funny postcard with the dog who´s not allowed anything he does
After such a nice welcome we all sat together and continued reading the comic
That´s for today, my dear mum
love and hug You
Yours
*Nick*
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Nov 1, 2013, 7:46 am
today I informed me about strunkis work at her office
One of her longest collegues, a snake called "Bong" I met there
He´s friendly, but often totally in another world....
Some old newspaper-article about a cow that disappeared some years ago..
...even strunki wasn´t able to tell me why they still hang there...
A lot of funny postcards I saw on the wall
And a nice picture of a young dog
See me studying a large map of the Dolomites
And us having a meeting with other important clerks here
Then it was noon, time for lunch
And having a little chill-out-break inbetween the old Christmas cactus [Schlumbergera]
But at work, especially in an office, You are not allowed to be lazy
See me creating the newest sports: Office-punch-jumping
Perfect: My landing in the famous ear-stand
My next task: checking the copier...
Yes, functions satisfying...
Woow, now it´s home time!
Working at the office is very thrilling, exciting and I love it
That´s it from the office, now lets hurry up home for the most incredible halloween-party the plushie world has ever seen
Love You, Mum
Yours
*Nick*
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Nov 2, 2013, 12:59 pm
in the evening we were invited by olgamaus and her guests to take part in a spooky Halloween party
Here we are with Dutchy the Lion, Kirin, Rocky Raccoon, Nosyblue, Tsukumo, KoalaMimi and Frederik
They welcomed us very warmly
I´ve choosen "the-ghost-with-measles-pox"-costume
And look, how much nasty looking meals they have prepared for us
fly agaric made out of tomatoes and little mozzarella balls
Eyeballs in matterpudding... yuck
See us all around the horrible fruit-brain-salad
And here we have the terrible hot chillie-devils
What do You think about the mice with their brains next to them?
I love them
The ilumination was soo nice terrible
Best costume of this Halloween eve: Frederik, the living skull
What a spooky party
the pure horror
Just me with Rocky Raccoon
Glad that the fruitbrain was out
Burbs....
Really nobody, not even Helmut, had a sensible declaration for this....
Spooky halloween...
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Nov 12, 2013, 7:38 pm
today we made a short trip around Burg Castle again, because Helmut wanted to test his new cam, so thats the reason why he isn´t seen on the most pictures actually and why we don´t have so many photos as usually, because he didn´t manage the cam very well
I´ve been there already some time ago
And I remember that I liked it
Look, the statue of Count Engelbert
Really huge and impressive, the complete Castle
We all like the ropeway very much
And the view on the landscape
Look, there is a machine, where You can mint souvernier-coins
Strunki does it for me
Ready, there is the coin, nice
We continue our walk around the castle
And reach our main aim for today, a small nice temple-formed viewpoint
And inside, look at the ceiling, where You see a lot of city coat of arms from Bergisch-Land-towns
A last nice view on Unterburg
And a last farewell to the proud castle of Schloss Burg
Love
Yours
*Nick*
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Nov 12, 2013, 8:25 pm
today we did a great new fun with our friends: having a bath
And we all need a bath, look at my dirty feet....
Everybody of us gets his personal own bathingtowel
But first we have to undress...
My scarf is dirty, too
Ready for the bathtube with a nice bathingtowel
So now we boys fill the tube with warm water
And add some shower foam
Carefully Hase tests with her ear
Ladies first, of course
Whopp, UrselHH the brave, enjoys at first
A great experience, even to see, how Hase falls into the bathtube
And now lt´s start the shower
See the clean and happy girls
The next is Helmut and he loves it
He invites me to get into the tube.... Should I really???
#
Yes
Ahhhh, that´s much more better
We like the warm shower as well
Being proper and clean is very pleasant
Every time with pleasure again
That´s for today, my dear mum
love and hug You
Yours
*Nick*
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Nov 17, 2013, 6:11 pm
today was a great event at the pond: Störte, my "brother in law by marriage between my mum and his dad", has landed and he survived a long, long and dangerous sailing trip (so he told us later)
Lotte found him first and we plushies supported him to reach the pond banks
So we pulled
and pulled
Then, after a while, we did it: His first steps on the ground
He spoke to me: " I know Your face"
"Yes", I told him, I´m *Nick* my mum is together with Your dad"
"Hoho, it´s always good to meet relatives in the wide world", he answered.
What a overhelming warm welcome we gave each other
Welcome Störte
Helmut also was happy to meet him
And Lotte? You can imagine how she melted...
a rose, clever, Störte...
Lotte returned the favour immediately
Here´s her fur for wintertime
And something more to heat him up: A honeydrink
We think, he likes it
That was it for today, mum,
see You soon and love You
Yours
*Nick*
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Nov 18, 2013, 8:19 pm
today it was almost sunny in the morning so we decided to drive to Wuppertal and visited the "Northern Park" Nordpark there
The foothpaths are very comfortable there
Before we went into the forest, we enjoyed the view on Barmen
And found a nice monument, used as a spring in the summer
Look at the carved stone, a frog perhaps?
We also passed a popular restaurant destination, but the renovations take some years, strunki told us
O.K., instead of having a stop there, we discovered the forest
and found nice autum colours
Along our way we saw lots of beeches and yews
And found some nice treestumps where we played a little bit
See me with my best pal Helmut
and Hase
even Störte has fun
and little UrselHH comes on top
At last, who else? Lotte...
I like playing in the trees
(good camouflage, hihi)
so we continued our walk and wanted to visit the fallow deer in the game enclosure
We had to go deeper into the forest
And found first?
some last blooming daisy
Will we watch the deer from here?
Yes, here they are
What a nice sunday noon walk
That was is for today
Love and kisses for You Mum
Yours
*Nick*
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Nov 19, 2013, 6:37 pm
Look how peacefully he sleeps, with the bottle in his arms
But now Helmut and me have to wake him up
Hap-py Birth-day to You
Hap-py Birth-day to You
Hap-py Birth-day, dear Stööööööörte,
Hap-py Birth----day to Youuuuuu
Before he was able to check the situation and perhaps become more angry, we promised him his first birthday suprise and lead him to the secret spirituousal supplies.
Therefore we have to wander
through the kitchen
through the hall
and reached the pantry
Störtes next step to heaven: A pirates breakfast
It followed a funny stairwayparty
After a while, Störte missed the ladies... No girls tonight, I told him
Look at my foot, Helmut informed him
Woooow, a map was our second gift for him
and of course Störte is a pirate who understands his job, he identifies it as a treasure map
and nominated Helmut and me to members of his crew
From now on we are pirates and partners to lift the treasure as well *giggle*
Our great adventure begins from now on...
tbc...
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Nov 24, 2013, 7:51 pm
today we made a short trip to the Wuppervorsperre
But before we came to the water, we had to walk trough a forest
Some last fruits we saw, perhaps red elderberry [Sambucus racemosa]?
Look at the wonderful autum colours
A woodshelter formed as a fungus, that´s nice
An alley of larch [Larix]
Even the ground is yellow because the larch is the only coniferous species that looses its needle-leafs in autum
See us having a rest
and playing between the nice coloured leafs
Finally, we reached the river banks
a little bit foggy
looks very interesting, the bank on the other side
And finally it was a very nice trip with our friends
That´s it for today,
dear mum
Yours
*Nick*
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Nov 24, 2013, 10:59 pm
"By mistake" I must have been hiked into olgamaus bag and on occasion my brother Frederik invited me to a beer
It was very nice sitting on the warm heater and talk to the guests of olgamaus
See me with RSG Leo, Frederik, Tsukumo, Rocky Raccoon and Dutchy the Lion
I felt sooo cold that I wrapped myself into the next woolen cloth Frederik gave me
Frederik showed me also the hobby of olgamaus: knitting wool
And suddenly I had a yummy beer... and? somebody wrapped a measuring tape around me...
I must have fallen into sleep
When Frederik waked me up, I felt a beautiful pullover on my body
Look, what olgamaus knitted for me: My first own custom garment
A dream in white, blue and bordeaux-red
Exactly the colours of my neckerchief
I love it
Thanks a lot, dear olgamaus
(all photos of this update by friendly courtesy of olgamaus)
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Nov 29, 2013, 7:44 pm
today we went into the city and enjoyed the Festival of Lights in the Hindenburgstreet
We saw a lot of lightchains and flames in the street, all looked very comfortable und welcoming
Look at the wonderful star of the Hutterites
And the shops in this street are a refreshing alternative to the overloaded malls and shopping centers
Here is a hatterer-shop with handcrafted hats
An antique shop
And an organic grocery store
Then we found a nice place where we enjoyed deep fried almond pastry for us and a spiked hot orange punch for our eternal thirsty Störte
That´s all for today,
see and love You, Mum
until soon
Yours
*Nick*
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Nov 30, 2013, 6:34 pm
today we did something for our feathered friends, the birds staying outside in wintertime
See me with the raisins, HelmutBluepant and Charlotte with the vegetable fat, UrselHH with the oat flakes, Hase and Störte with the grain feed
These are old plantingpots with a stick in the middle and we want to melt the fat and mix all our ingriediences together to fill them.
So let´s start with Helmut and Lotte melting the fat in a huge panpot
That takes some time to heat the fat, but see how disciplined I am Mum, I don´t nibble my raisins
After a while the fat began to melt
See Helmut stiring in the pot
Lotte and me supervise Ursel stiring the oat flakes into the fat
She´s a tough mouse girl and doesn´t need any support she ensures to us
Now it´s time for adding the raisins
I have to ensure myself that there isn´t one raisin missing
After mixing the raisins, the seed and the oat flakes and stiring the mixture, the feeding is ready for the old little pots
See me filling the pot
Ready
When the fat cools out and becomes hard, You can turn around the pots and hang them into the trees so the birds can pick out the seeds, the oat flakes and the raisins in wintertime
That´s it for today
Yours
*Nick*
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Dec 3, 2013, 6:10 pm
today we went to the Botanical Garden Solingen
Altough the autum is almost all over and only a few plants are still blooming, we had some nice views on the scenery there
Here we are in the Alpinum
Have You ever seen such a huge butterfly?
Some last blooming rosebushes
And a lot of impressive trees are here, too
Here we are at the lake that is situated in the lower part of the botanical Garden
This is a bookcrossing board situated in the middle of the garden: Some people bring their old books there and let them free and some other interested take them for reading
From here You have a wonderful view onto the lower part of the garden
Then we left the park for a while and followed the Korkenziehertrasse that´s a combined foot- and cyclepath that connects the parts of the city besides the streets mainly used by cars
Uuuhh, this tunnel was a little bit spooky
Then it was time to turn around and walk back trough the garden.
When we left, we saw the huge sign with lots of donators helping that the botanical garden in Solingen can be still open
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Dec 3, 2013, 6:33 pm
Have a nice first Advent
Love
Yours
*Nick*
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Dec 7, 2013, 8:36 am
*Snow * Snow * Snow*
My secret birthday wish comes true
All my friends congratulate me
Then we met St. Nicholas, he almost has the same name as I have
Look what I got, I´m sooo happy
And my friends gave me a present, too
A golden bear, woooow
See us playing in the snow, what a great day
What a nice birthday
See You soon Mum
Yours *Nick*
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Dec 8, 2013, 5:36 pm
Happy second sunday in Advent
wish You *Nick* and friends
We have a lot of fun swinging in the Advent wreath
Yours
*Nick*
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Dec 12, 2013, 7:14 am
today were a lot of surprises waiting for us:-)
At first an envelope from Dr. Kröbner arrived
Hase was totally upset...
and crawled into the envelope....
After a looong while we only saw a red cap...
Tadaaahhh
Oh, her Mum, sent her pullover and the nice winter-cap she got from jasper in Switzerland, what a nice idea
We all admired the nice postcard Dr. Kröbner wrote
and love the angel that was sent by
The next happy surprise was the nice postcard OleOrangescarf sent us
Look at the iluminated windmill standing in the open-air-museum in Detmold, thanks a lot, dear Ole
At last a huge parcel from RikeH
What would be in there??
See Charlotte and Störte creating a new sports: Parceldiving...
A christmas present for Lotte....
Will she be brave enough to wait until christmas??
But what about the envelope??
Lotte isn´t able to wait any longer, she MUST open anything NOW....
What a suprise... it´s Soeren, another of my brothers
Lotte passes out
UrselHH gives Soeren a warm welcome
Hase is very happy to welcome him as well
Störte and Soeren: family members reunited
My brother as well, so happy to see You here
What an eventful evening
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Dec 15, 2013, 5:07 pm
today is the day we will meet You in Dortmund, brother Soeren is sooo happy spending the last days here and had a great time together with störte, UrselHH, HelmutBluepant, Hase, Charlotte and me
And now I´m totally upset and we are ready to start having a nice time togther at the christmas fair in Dortmund
Here we are in Dortmund now in front of the supposedly biggest christmas tree of the world: built from about 1.500 single conifers
See Helmut and me with my little brother Mefito
After this first Hello we went into a café and welcomed the other plushies each other
From the left: GustavHH, Charlotte, Hase, HelmutBluepant, Kirin, OleOrangescarf, DottyCroc, Dutchy the Lion, Mefito, Soeren, Josie, UrselHH, SunnyHH, störte,Sargent Froggo and me
And here we are together with our best friends, talking about our latest adventures
Who else with who else??
Then, when it became darker, we started our trip around the christmas market
Nice and wonderful iluminations everywhere
See the lamps changing their colours
This shop with the paper stars and buildings we loved most
What a wonderful day in Dortmund with You Mum and our friends
Bye Mum, hope You came home safely and enjoyed our afternoon in Dortmund as well
Love
Yours *Nick*
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Dec 19, 2013, 2:34 pm
this afternoon we went on the little christmas market in Barmen
Helmut and me liked this train a lot, but we didn´t find nice gifts there
Strunki told us not to worry about, there a a few days left and so we played in the colourful little christmas tree in her office
In the evening we went to a christmas party of the aquarist society gatw Wuppertal
Lots of yummy eating we had there
Here we check the prizes donated by the members for the tombola
Next to us the members have already bought their lottery tickets
The rules are easy and very fair: There are two identical sheet calendars, one sheet for each day. From the one calendar You buy day-sheets, each one costs one EUR. From the second calender the same days You bought were sampled in the lottery wheel. That means that there aren´t any blanks and each lottery ticket has the chance to win. the first winner is allowed to chose one of the winnings on the table what he wants to have and so on until all prizes are raffled
So we bought some tickets as well to take part in the tombola
These are our tickets
And guess what? We won something! Look , the 8th of June was taken out of the lottery wheel and we have this sheet
The next winnings came a few moments later
Hmmm, blackberry liqueur, I can´t belive it
Seems to me we´ll lose this to störte....
And we won a third time: home made elderberry jelly
What a nice and lucky evening, we have a lot of fun there
That´s all for today,
See and love You, Mum
Yours *Nick*
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Dec 20, 2013, 1:47 pm
today we celebrate Charlotte´s birthday and had a lot of fun
See me congratulating her
All of us have a lot of fun with Lotte
...but now she misses her presents...
You stand on them, look under the red cloth and under the bowl You sit on... Hihi, we hided them...
My present was a nose flute and Lotte was very pleased about this extravagant instrument
... of course she didn´t get any tone out of it, but her looking was too funny
Then it was time to drink some sparkling elderberry secco
and eat some yummy homemade birthday cakes togehter
But before we started drinking and eating, UrselHH reminded Lotte on the birthday card sent by RikeH
And now lets start having fun with eating and drinking
Oh yes, Hase has fun
...me, too
What a party
That´s all for today
Yours
*Nick*
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Dec 22, 2013, 5:46 pm
today we made a short trip around the Müngsten Bridge again, because the weather ist quite open and the temperatures are still o.k.
We start at the confluence of the stream Morsbach and the river Wupper
from the right You see the Morsbach and behind me the bigger one is the Wupper
From the bridge over the Wupper You have a first view to the so called Diederichstemple
This place we want to visit first
But first we wanted to ask the puddle-oracle
O.K., the oracle says that it isn´t frosty, not dry, but not too wet for a little hiking trip
So we started hiking. It was a little bit tedious uphill, but we did it
See me starting now
After a while we came to this nice Siepen and rested there a few minutes
Then we arrived our first target: The Diederichstemple
Look at this huge Müngsten Brigde from there
After a while hiking downhill, we came to this strange sculptures...
And we asked us, what this could be? Some of us voted for some birdhouses and some think, it could be a special ToyVoyager playground...
Finally, we decided, that it must be a playground
Then we passed a little river-island in the Wupper
And learned some interesting details about the fauna and flora in and around the Wupper here
Finally we reached our last target: The Müngsten Brigde
See me with my brother störte
And here our tour ended
Love You, Mum,
Yours
*Nick*
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Dec 25, 2013, 7:20 pm
today is Christmas Eve and we wait for Father Christmas. But before, we have to decorate the christmastree. Strunki gave us a huge box
Let´s have a look inside
It´s full of christmastreedecoration
Look, Mum, what nice figurines I found
A bear in a balloon
I´ll hang it into the tree
Here´s the next one
A pengiun pulling a sleigh
I love it
And I found another one for the tree
A bear holding three balloons
Look at the star with the rendeer on (or could be an elk, like my brother Soeren )
Finally a purple bow of ribbon for the top of the tree
Now our christmastree is fully decorated and we have to be patient and wait for Father Christmas bringing the presents for us this night
What will we get?
A few hours later, when we woke up, the sensation happened:
I got a present for christmas!!! What can it be??
Look Mummy
a funny dolphin-waterpistol
There is one last present still to be opened, it is from RikeH for strunki and she allowed us alltogether to open it for her
I cut the ribbons with the scissor
Look at the wonderful christmas card
UrselHH reads it to us
All of us, especially strunki, are very moved by the warm and friendly christmas greetings of RikeH
So, let´s open the box, what is inside?
We open the box alltogether
and the first we see is Kleine Fee with Charlotte
Wooow, it is a mug with two pictures on
the other picture shows Dicker Kumpel with HelmutBluepant
What a wonderful idea, the nicest christmas present at all strunki said
What a nice handing out of presents
We all are sooo happy with the wonderful gifts this eve
Now let us have our christmas dinner
Yummy homemade cookies
And for good old störte a bottle full of jubilee-akvavit
To all of You
Merry Christmas
Love You
Yours
*Nick*
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Dec 30, 2013, 8:34 pm
the last days we were very verly lazy, enjoyed the christmas mood, hanged around, ate too much and so on
But this sunday afternoon the weather was already good enough meeting olgamaus and her crew to show them some nice views on Wuppertal
Here we stand on the south side and have a view over Barmen to the North
And here I am again in the Nordpark, wich we have visited a few weeks ago
Very happy, that the sun already shines for a moment
And here we have the view over Barmen from the other side to the south hills
It is not as clear as it seems to be
At least we had a rest on this fresh logged beech, perhaps it felt down by the last storm here a fortnight ago?
A very huge tree this was before it fell down...
That was it for today, I am looking forward of the last day of the year when we want to celebrate a sylvester-party
Love
Yours
*Nick*
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Jan 1, 2014, 12:00 pm
today we made a little trip to the part of the Eschbachtal, where the
Lobach
confluences into the Eschbach
The area is called Hammertal , because a lot of old hammer mills were placed at this streams
Here You see the Lobach
After crossing the street we are now at the entrace to this part of the Eschbachtal, situated between Lobach and Ehringhauser Bach
In the last days a lot of water floated into the streams and rivers, look
Here the Eschbach is placed about 10 to 15 metres below our path
Look at this old bridge over the stream, unfortunately is´s not allowed to cross it, because its in danger of collapsing
Here we see an old hammermillbuilding, it is the Johanneskotten
And there You can see a hibernation shelter for bats
After passing it, we reach the official [url=Barbecue area Altenhammer]
http://www.remscheid.de/leben/umwelt-und-natur/wald/Grillplatz_Altenhammer.php[/url] . But before You light a fire, You have to get the permission first
There we played a while and had some fun at the stream
If it would be summer, we could hang our feet into it...
...or my hands perhaps?
Behind and over this place the is an old small lake
On our way back to the point we started, we admired this colourful tree fungus
That´s our tour of today, tomorrow we want to celebrate Sylvester, the lst day of the Year 2013
Love You
*Nick*
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Jan 1, 2014, 5:12 pm
today it is Sylvester, the very last day of the year. A reason to have a plushie-party the world never ever seen
So let´s watch the clock: only one hour left for the year 2013
Time enough for our special-sylvester-plushie-meal: chocolate hearts
Look, I´m very disciplined in the difficult balloon-balance-dance
Then we have our next game: fishing for fortune cookies
What for a paper slip-sentence will I fish?
Can You read it, Mum?
"Dont´t give up. You can be quite insisting"
O.K., lets watch the clock again
Uiii, almost time for a sparkling plushie wine
*HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU ALL* LOVE AND PEACE FOR EVERYONE
So let´s go on the roof and watch the fireworks
See You soon and love You
Yours
*Nick*
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Jan 4, 2014, 11:22 pm
today we visited Benrath Palace in Düsseldorf
Here is a scheme, how the buildings are situated
First we had a view above the big lake in front of the palace
And like to watch the waterbirds there
Some swans, a lot of ducks and crowds of seagulls
Let´s have a view to the front of the main building
It looks as it would be made only for the girls, I think...
In front of the main palace two impressive lions are placed
They were gentle enough to allow us playing on them
We walked upstairs to have a look inside...
Woow, very nice inside
Even a large swimming pool it has
What a nice place
That´s our tour of today,
love and see You soon
Yours
*Nick*
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Jan 9, 2014, 7:56 pm
today we made a very long trip on the Sambatrasse almost 10 Kilometers long.
After a short while walking we reach a point, where a bridge leads over the tiger-area in the zoo
Look at the funny sign there
Only Hase and me were able to watch the tigers
We had luck with the weather and enjoyed our walk
Here we pass the point where Burgholztunnel starts, the tunnel connects the west of Wuppertal with the south and is almost 1.900 Meters long
Here störte and me learned about the history of the Burgholz
The way further on we passed the point in the near of the Kaisereiche , but we didn´t visit the oak, because later in the afternoon the light became darker and our way was still long
See me and Hase studying the sign about the place
And here finally we pass the small old trainstop Burgholz, now there is a little tavern
That was only a part of our tour today, but the later the afternoon was, the darker it became and we were glad to reach the car again
See You soon and love You
Yours
*Nick*
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Jan 13, 2014, 12:54 am
today we visited the Flora and Botanical Garden in Cologne
The weather was very sunny and fine there, with temperatures almost usual in springtime
Look at the nice terrace-spring, but in wintertime there´s no water floating
The German emperess Augusta was patroness of the Flora
First I found a huge solitaire sequoia tree
Next we talked to this nice, friendly lady and her deer
Then I saw a first suprise: a blooming tree at middle january!
It´s a snowball-tree (viburnum)
And here a nice example for a small garden and a still smaller garden house
And look at the rare green-yellow striped moundlily yucca (Yucca gloriosa)
There we played for some time enjoying the warm sun
And see me here in front of the pampas grass
in the near of a nice lake
Here another two impressions of the park-landscape of the Botanical Garden
This is very unique in Germany
An allèe only with palms
This was the second suprise for us
See me with a nice christmas rose (helleborus niger)
But this was the main reason for us visiting the Flora in this January
The camellia-show in one warmhouse
Some of the early camellia (Camellia japonica) are blooming yet
This nice statue we like, but it has a sad name: dying amazone
It remembers us, that all beauty has to go sometime...
And more beautiful blossoms, but sorry Mum, I wasn´t able to remember them all in detail
Inbetween all this camellia-blossoms I found a very interesting other plant that I hope to meet in a few weeks on Tenerife
Can You read the sign? It is the Canary (Island) bellflower
Here we made a first rest and enjoyed the beautiful varieties of the camellia flowers
But we also found other nice flowers
See me with störte
And see the giant groundsel (Senecio grandiflorus)
And here we have the Chilean bellflower (Lapageria rosea)
Another nice station with other camellia-varieties
What a wonderful place
This blossom I like most
And even outside the warmhouse we find some blooming and frostresistant camellias
What a wonderful nice day we had
See and Love You all
Yours
*Nick*
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Jan 18, 2014, 9:18 pm
today the weather was so fine and sunny altough it is mid-january, we decided to play a little bit in the garden
We started in the flower box and enjoyed the violet primeroses
See me with UrselHH and Charlotte
After a while I wanted to see what´s going on in the garden
Well, the garden looks very messy...
So I decided to help strunki a little bit with cleaning up the most with old leafs covered spots that the earth gets more light and is able to respire much better
First I cut down the old faded twigs from the last year with the gardenshears
Next step was raking the foliage
Really hard work but it must be when You want to have it tidy
And look what grows under all these leafs: first stems of snowbells
and the first little rosettes of the sedum
Finally I had to put the foliage into the barrel for bringing it to the composter
... had to be a peaceful, silent and harmonic afternoon until we heard a yell...
of course... who else?? Lotte fell into the barrel...
graceful she shins up to the edge
What a nice and funny end of the afternoon
That´s all for today
See and love You
Yours
*Nick*
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Jan 19, 2014, 10:01 pm
because last week we felt so nice in Cologne , we wanted to come back to the city again for visiting the huge Dome today.
See the imposant skyline from the other side of the rhine
So we started and went over the Hohenzollernbridge
In the middle of the bridge a huge rhine-freighter passed under us
On the fence that separates the footpath from the railway I found a lot of padlocks, fixed by couples who carved their names on it, close it and throw the key into the river hoping of everlasting love
Here, from the end of the bridge, we have a first close look on the huge Cologne Cathedral
Such an impressive building
See the two migthy towers
and the huge main portals
the bronce lions are estimated some hundered years old and could tell lots of interesting stories
And they invited us to have a look inside
Just now a liturgy service was celebrated there, so we didn´t want to disturbe the attendants and stayed only a short moment
Before we left the cathredral, we admired the colourful crib, wich is part of the "cologne route of cribs"
Some last impressions of the Cathedral from outside
In the near we found this nice spring, it is the so called Heinzelmännchenbrunnen
Here we are in the oldtown now and see one of the Roman Churches of Cologne
This is Great St. Martin
And here we see St. Kunibert
Here is an old tower inbetween modern buildings
On our way by foot to the Flora we pass the Cologne Sculpture Park
This sculpture I like most
And here we reach the main entrance of the Flora You already know from the last week ago
We know the place but I wanted to visit the tropical greenhouses we weren´t able to visit last week
Here we hve fun between the cacti in the Succulent house
And this is a flower we are very happy to see today, the nice yellow winter aconite [Eranthis hyemalis]
This was our great walk in Cologne
See and love You
Yours
*Nick*
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Jan 25, 2014, 7:28 pm
do You remember the map HelmutBluepant and me gave störte as a birthday present some months ago?
today störte needs our help, he said...
"Until now I wasn´t able to find out yet, wich island this map shows", he told us
So would You help me to identify an island that has got the same shape or silhouette?
On the first map we didn´t find any island that comes into question...
The second one was also a failure...
This third one was a similar triangle shape, but it wasn´t störtes island...
But suddenly, after a mount of maps... THIS was the island we are looking for
Hey, that is tenerife, the island we will travel to in a few days, oh what luck we have
So let´s pack our things we need there to go on holiday and for the treasure hunt
what a lot of stuff...
I will take (with Helmuts permission) his shovel and his diving goggles
So we pack our bunch and are glad that our great adventure will start
Tenerife, we are coming
...tbc
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Jan 27, 2014, 10:57 pm
today too early in the morning, at three o´clock we started our big tour to Tenerife
Here we are at the departure gate and discover the area while we waiting that the boarding will start
First palm impressions
And we met the camel, Charlotte told the others about a few days ago
This is our jumbo that will bring us to the island. The flight will take about four and a half hour
Boarding completed
After a hour the stewardesses served us a small breakfast
The beginning of the sunrising after one and half our in the air
...Who else needed "the bag"??
Poor Lotte...
Time went fast by watching the latest smurf-movie
We had very nice weather for the flight
And then, suddenly, after four hours, the first impressions from the island of tenerife
...tbc
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Jan 27, 2014, 11:20 pm
And here we reach our hotel
A first meeting with the big sleeping-Orca ad the Manatee, the had to travel as cargo-luggage...
And first views from the balcony
That was our first day here on tenerife and a lot more nice days will follow
Love and see You soon
Yours
*Nick*
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Jan 28, 2014, 9:39 pm
today we visited the oldtown of La Orotava
Here we start with a view over the oldtown from the top of the Gardens of Marquesado de la Quinta Roja
Here a view over this nice terraced garden
This building was planned being a tomb, but it never used to be one
When we went the steps down, we found this nice huge vase
Some blooming orange daylilies [hemerocallis]
The view on the garden from the base
A first coffee with milk, in spain we order "una café con leche, por favour"
After this small break we went on and visited the small but fine botanical garden of La Orotava, a dependance of the bigger Botanical Garden of Puerto de la Cruz
The first very huge "tree" we see is a Canarian dragontree, [dracaena draco], it is the typical plant, but not a real tree, it belongs to the botanical familiy of Asparagaceae
This is a Abyssinian or red banana [Ensete ventricosum], it looks nice with its red leafstalk, but it doesn´t have any fruit
And here we have a bird of paradise [Strelitzia reginae]
An anthuria
A final view into the park before we leave this peaceful green place in the middle of this buzzy town
Our next point of interest is the church Nuestra Senora de la Concepcion with its nice orange dome and two imposant towers
Let´s have a short view inside
Our final visit in La Orotava belonged to the houses with typical canarian wooden balconies, the so called "Casas del los balcones"
The balconies there are carved in a very nice manner
The patio of one house we were able to visit
What a nice and full day in La Orotava
This was it for today,
love and see you soon
Yours
*Nick*
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Jan 29, 2014, 9:41 pm
today we visited the beautyful smalltown of Garachico in the North-West of Tenerife
Here the views from the top
And here we are in front of the oldtown
Some first impressions of the oldtown
Inbetween a very small park the old gate of the haven is situated now. It´s called "Puerta de las tierras", that means "gate of earth"
Some nice hibiscus there
The next sight is the curch of Santa Ana with its typical tower
And here we are in the centre of the oldtown, even the typial canarian balconies we found there
Let´s have a break with a short very sweet coffee, called "cortado leche leche". A shot of very sweet condensated milk is added in
Because of the rough sea, the natural swimming pools are closed, what a pity
Finally we saw Castillo de San Miguel and störte inspected the cannon there with a lot of interest
That was our tour of today and we hope that many nice days will follow
Love You
*Nick*
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Jan 30, 2014, 9:26 pm
today we drove to Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Here You see a very imposant building, it is the Auditorio de Tenerife , a Congress-and Concerthall, planned by the famous architect Santiago Calatrava
And the tower there is from the church Nuestra Señora de la Conception
This nice building is called Fábrica „La Lucha", it was a formerly tobaccofactory
And here we are at the "Plaza del Príncipe de Asturias"
Me in front of the fish-statue and a drago tree at the "Plaza del Chicharro"
Over this impressive bridge we walked and came to the famous market "Mercado Nuestra Señora de Africa"
Let´s go inside and see what groceries we will find there
Woow, soo much sorts of potatoes
A variety of a more than fifty different sorts
So we discussed at the central spring what we wanted to buy here
The decision fell on the cookies
Delicious with a good cup of coffee
After this short break we left the market and met these friendly guys with their fishingboat
Our last visitors highlight for today in Santa Cruz was the Parque García Sanabria
Look at the nice pink bougainvilla
On these park benches we watched some scenes on ceramic tiles
A bamboo avenue
So nice views there
This nice lady is the darling of the citizens here
So that was our tour of today
Love and see You soon
Yours
*Nick*
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Jan 31, 2014, 10:56 pm
today the weather was fine enough to start our Tour to the Teide-Mountain.
But before, we visited Mirador Humboldt to have a beautiful view over the valley of Orotava
Look at this impressive scenery
Teide, we are coming
...tbc
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Feb 1, 2014, 12:02 am
The higher we came, the more the vegetation changes
We drove through laurel forest
and later the trees changed into Canary pine [Pinus canariensis]
On our way to the Canadas, we found this so called \"Rose of stone\"
Here we are on an altitude of about 2.100 m over Sea Level and there were no trees anymore, but only small bushes can survive there
From this point I had the nearest view on the Pico
When we drove high, we mostly have a look to the snowy northern side, but from here You see the south side of the mountain always free from snow
Here we are at the so called Roques del García
And here the views into the giant caldera
Nice are the various colours of the different volcanic stones
A very impressive plant here is the Red Mount Teide bugloss [Echium wildpretii], but it only has full flowers in Summer and all we saw were the faded pedicels
(Please click on the link above to get an impression how beautiful the flower of this plant can be)
We had a great day here and hope to come back for seeing more
That was our trip of today
Love and see You soon
Yours
*Nick*
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Feb 1, 2014, 8:03 pm
So he asked us to substitute him and taste the drink of today for him
This is a bananaliqueur and I like it
Good night and sleep well
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Feb 1, 2014, 8:58 pm
today on saturday we visited the nice farmersmarket with local products
So many delicious groceries, what should we buy for our plushie-picknick?
I decided to buy some cookies
In the afternoon we will hold our plushie-picknick
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Feb 1, 2014, 9:35 pm
our next stop we made at Punta de Hidalgo with an impressive view on the mountains of anaga
Unfortunately the weather was not very nice, it rained and so we decided not to hold our plushie-picknick at the beach of Bajamar
instead of we visited the very nice Café Melita
and had a delicious "Tarta de Manzana" (Applepie) and a coffee with milk
Afterwards we made a little walk and found HelmutBluepants favourite flowers, the Plumerias
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Feb 1, 2014, 10:06 pm
Here are the cookies i bought and the round thing on the right is a piece of Gofio with almonds
Everything is ready for our plushie-picknick
¡Buen provecho!
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Feb 2, 2014, 9:53 pm
today for the first time the weather was fine enough to spend the day on the beach and so we drove to the West, to Los Silos, where a very wild beach expected us
What´s there in the background?? A whale skeleton?
Lotte told us that this whale stranded here some years ago and the people decided to prepare the bones of this impressive marine mammal
And störte informed us that he found an advice on his treasure map
What adventures will we find at this wild and lonely beach??
The landscape here is incredible
But the path is so heavy that only 4X4-Cars can drive there, so we had to hike...
...through deep canyons...
and we had to climb up high and rough hills
After a while we came to a strange place
Here is a whole in the stones and when some heavy waves breake here, You hear (and sometimes see) a fountain coming out.
A noise like from hell
Lotte was sooo afraid here that we had to hold her
Later we found nice yellow flowers blooming and Lotte remembered that she saw them last year as well
Here was the place they spent many nice hours and Helmut hided here something useful, Lotte remembers as well...
But first we took out our clothes and opened the naturist-beach-season 2014 here
After this first recreatable chilling, I found something in a deep cave
Woow, the boats of HelmutBluepant from the last year
Since here the treasure map is all right
...tbc
That was our adventure for today and we hope that many nice experiences will follow
See You soon
Yours
*Nick*
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Feb 3, 2014, 11:41 pm
today we went to the southside of Tenerife, where we found some mysterious pyramids. Yes, You read right, they even have pyramids here in Güimar .
Not as huge as in Egypt or as well known as the ancient buildings in South-America, but here are some monuments that You can identify as pyramids.
We were welcomed by two impressive figureheads formerly ornated two vessels of the Olsen shipping company, that has sponsored this museum in cooperation with the norwegian anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl who rediscovered the pyramids here in the 80ties
störte said, the people here have so much luck that we found Helmuts boats yesterday, otherwise he had to enter this ship here, a replica in perfect plushie-size of the "Santa Maria", one of the three ships Christopher Columbus discovered the New World...
The next impressive exhibition piece was a huge long drum shaped as a crocodile from Papua-New Guinea
Then we went into the first building
and found at the entrance a rebuilded relief stele of "Kon-Tiki" a god of the Inkas and eponym for T. Heyerdahls first raft in 1947
This nice guy is a rebuilded statue of a south-indian native who is fishing
Look at this fierce Moche-man
Here we have a scene, how the native canarians, the Guanches looked
In this room we learned where in the world reedboats are used
And here we learned where in the world pyramids were built
The ancient canarians built pyramids as well...
Here we met huge, but friendly wooden Komodo dragons
The landscape to the seaside is also very nice
And some more views on pyramids again
And other nice scenes again
We are sooo astonished about this secret place
In another area of the museum we learned something about the canarian flora
Here is the sweet tabaiba (Euphorbia balsamifera)
And here Echium decaisnei
Euphorbia canarensis I found here
This plant also was nice but I forgot the name... sorry
In this bush we played a little bit
And here we see a blooming Aloe vera
Not very often You see the aeonium blooming
This tree we already know from the Canadas del Teide
The opuntia is an emigrant from america but very common here because until last century the conchenille louse was breeded on this plant for cropping the red karmesin pigment
Sugarcane, a very important ingriedience for störtes fave holiday drink
A violet nymphea
And what do the canaries produce today?
And here we have another last good reason for enjoying the stay in this magnificent museum: To test Thor´s rafts and boats
Kon Tiki
Ra and Tigris-Boats
Woow, what a full and nice day, but now we are tired enough to fall in sleep
Good night and sleep as well
Yours
*Nick*
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Feb 5, 2014, 12:05 am
today we went to the famous Loro Parque in Puerto de la Cruz.
The entrance is a rebuilt Thai-Village
First we saw a nice waterfall
and went into the Aquarium
meeting a shark
and some little lionfish
A huge tank with a school of fish
We went on and saw Gorillas. The group here is very special: males only from other Zoos, where boys were born in captivity, because without some females the bachellors are peaceful among themselves. And they had to be taken out their gropus when they grow up, because the main male wouldn´t accept them any longer.
A view into the palmgarden
Then we came to "Planet Penguine"
Again we found Helmuts favourite flowers, today in pink. Helmut knows this tree here very well from last year and we know that he loves it
One of the oldest buildings in the park in moorish architecture, where the Loro Show takes place
We wanted to visit the Dolphin Show, but the dolphin pools are under construction at the moment so the show is cancelled for a few months...
Instead of the Dolphins we had fun to see the Otters
And enjoyed the hibiscus
Next station: Giant turtles
Now we are in the area called "Orchids Paradise"
See the flamingoes
And now we are entering the "Katandra TreeTops", a giant voliere where birds are able to fly almost free
At the next station we saw white tigers
At the gambia market we ate a chocolate banana in memory of Helmut
The last highlight was the Orca Ocean
That was a very full day with lots of impressions
Love and see You soon
Yours
*Nick*
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Feb 5, 2014, 10:30 pm
today we spent a lazy day at the coast, enjoying the cloudless blue heaven and the warm sun with a beautiful view on Mount Pico del Teide
See us naturist-style-tanning in the sun on our nice plushie-towels
The day was sunny, but the sea is still very, very heavy, so we decided to postpone our plushie-boat trip
But in addition to that we found some very nice plushie-surf-boards
How cool is that??
Instead of going surfing we built a column of friendship
Everybody of us found a stone and we stacked up stone on stone together
That´s for today,
Love and see You
Yours
*Nick*
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Feb 7, 2014, 10:08 pm
today we visited our "hometown" for this holiday, Puerto de la Cruz and I want to show You the Promenade, the Old Town with some nice historical buildings and some places here
Let´s start our tour at the small old harbour
Here we met a nice lady, a fishseller
The next building was a formely tradinghouse and now You find the Tourist Office there
The street along I found a banana-shrub with fruits on the one and a blossom on the other plant
Remember, we are in a town
Now we are on Plaza Europa and in the backround You see the old walls of the harbour
From there You have a first view on the complete seaside and the promenades
The white fountain You see in the backround is the Fountain of Lago Martianez
A nice old red building with a typical canarian balcony
And here we are at the promenade San Telmo with a little old hermitage
From there we walk along and come to the next promenade Martianez
Here You see the fountain again
Let´s have a first rest and take some cocktails
Now we are at the beach of Martianez
This was the outest point and now we walk back on the promenade
Now we see some nice buildings of the old town of Puerto de la Cruz
Hotel Monopol, the oldest Hotel here in town in typical canarian style
The church Nuestra Señora de la Peña de Francia on the Plaza de la Iglesia with a nice swan in the middle of the fountain there
And finally we come to Plaza del Charco (Place of the puddle) where we found a playground and a second rest with a huge cup of ice cream
What a nice but long walk for us plushies, now we are happy and the ice-cream was delicious
That´s for the day, love and see You
Yours
*Nick*
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Feb 7, 2014, 11:11 pm
today the weather wasn´t as good as yesterday in the north so we decided to drive to the south again for trying out Helmuts boats in the small harbour of Güimar
But first we wanted to have some lunch and chose typical canarian dish: in saltwater boild potatoes with green and red canarian sauce
"Papas arrugadas con mojo" and "camarones", some boild crabs
After our meal everybody of us held a short rest and strunki used this time to test some different optical system on the cam
So, let´s go to the beach now
And here we are live reporting from the canarian plushie boat regatta 2014
Next discipline was to test our surf board
Yeah, that´s great, I like it
But at the end we all had great fun at the beach here
That´s all for today, love and see You soon
Yours
*Nick*
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Feb 8, 2014, 8:28 pm
today in the morning we visited San Cristóbal de La Laguna, a very old town with a long history.
Here we see the "Leal Theatre"
La Laguna has a lot of historic buildings, but the streets in the pedestrian zone are quite narrow and photos with us plushies are not so easy
Here we come to the "Iglesia Cathedral" or "Iglesia Santa María de los Remedios"
And here are some last impressions of the town
But the weather was too fine for wasting the complete day in town and so we decided to drive into the mountains of Anaga
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Feb 8, 2014, 9:26 pm
we left La Laguna and made a short stop at Las Mercedes to have a first impression of the Mountain range of Anaga in the very north-east of the island
Our next stop we had at a point called "La Jardinera" (the garden)
Look, now we are more than 900m high
The view from here at "Cruz del Carmen" is almost similar, but not even less stunningly beautiful
The last stop we made at the "Mirador Pico del Ingles"
Only from this point You have the chance to see left on Santa Cruz in the south
and right the complete northern coast
What a great view on the Teide Mountain
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Feb 8, 2014, 10:22 pm
After so much mountains we decided to spent the afternoon at the wild coast of Bajamar enjoying the warm sun
Everybody of us has fun at the coast here
That was also a full day
Love and see You soon
Yours
*Nick*
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Feb 9, 2014, 10:08 pm
today we made a big trip to the Northern West Mountains called "Teno"
But first we visited Mirador "El Lance" in Realejos, from wich You have a wonderful view onto the the Valley of Orotava from the North-West.
... And Charlotte highly recommended the Mirador as unmissable especially for the girls, but I didn´t understand exactly why
Then we came to the entrance of the Teno-Mountains
and are estimated about 900m over Sea-Level
Even in this altitude Oranges grow here
But have You ever seen a sunflower blooming in February??
Our next stop we held in Santiago del Teide
From there we made a short trip to the direction to Masca, but on the saddle on est. 1.100 m it was too windy and the narrow street was too full, so we turned around and drove further to the south coast
But again we had free sight on the great looking Mount Teide
On our way to Puerto de Santiago we found a valley where the almond trees were blooming just at this time from end of January until estimated end of February
A wonderful landscape
with nice flowers like the common asphodel [Asphodelus aestivus]
The next attraction of today were the cliffs of Los Gigantes
and the view on the neighbour island La Gomera
The table promised that You sometimes can watch whales there
But what we found in the harbour of Puerto de Santiago let störtes heart beaten higher
A pirate ship
What a pity that time was too short to sail with this nice ship
Before we went back to our hotel, we had the chance to see the famous dragon tree of Icod de los Vinos
What a full day this was
love and see You soon
Yours
*Nick*
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Feb 10, 2014, 10:04 pm
today we made only a short trip and visited the Taoro Park in Puerto de la Cruz.
A few years ago they renovated this park and now a lot of citizens use it in the afternoon to go jogging
A lot of different palms we found here
And also nice flowers
Some lizards between the vulcanic stones
White strelitzia nicolai with flowers
And violet lavender
A very lovely place to spend some quiet hours
That´s for today,
love and see You soon
Yours *Nick*
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Feb 11, 2014, 8:42 pm
today we spent a wonderful sunny day at the beach of San Marcos. This is a village near by Icod de los Vinos.
But before I was able to lay in the sun, Charlotte had to put on some lotion on me and I did the same for her
See us enjoying the wonderful canarian sun the whole day
But at 6 o´clock we left the beach when the sun went down behind the cliffs
And the best: Nobody of us got a sunburn
That´s for today, love and see You soon, Mum
Yours
*Nick*
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Feb 12, 2014, 10:24 pm
today I want to show You our nice "home-beach" called "Playa Jardin" here in Puerto de la Cruz
Before we come to the black lava beach, we make a small trip through the nice looking garden part
All sorts of tropical green plants we find here
Will we reach the beach soon?
Yeah, must be coming nearer
I hear the sea all the time and finally now I can see the first black sand
Yes! Here we want to stay for this day, playing and sailing and laying in the warm sun
Sailing?? Did I say something about sailing?
Wooow, strunkis husband handcrafted a very handsome sailingboat only for us plushies
See me sailing with my fearless pirate-brother störte
Here we landed at unknown shores...
störte estimates, that here is the place, where the treasure perhaps is buried...
No treasure hunting without a shovel
Digging
Digging deeper
Suddenly.. a red cloth in the sandhole
Good ol störte needs our help to pull
Ooooouuups
The hoard is yielded!!!
What will be in the treasure chest??
YES, STRIKE!!!! Pearls, Diamonds and all the classic treasure stuff
Who is that??
"Hello, I am Ali Gator and You set me free when You found the treasure I was captivated in"
"Welcome, Ali Gator, we are ToyVoyager-Plushies, would You accompany störte and us from now on?"
Our hottest holiday adventure
Love and see You soon
Yours *Nick*
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Feb 14, 2014, 12:27 am
today is our last full day here on Tenerife and because the weather was still fine enough, we drove to Playa las Teresitas , wich is the only white sandbeach on Tenerife. Usually all the beaches here are black because of the lavasand, but here the people carried fine white sand from the Sahara and wanted to have a white beach.
Unfortnatuly strunkis cam didn´t make one single picture today and so we only have this one photo of us plushies made by strunkis husband
We all are very sad about this, because we had a lot of fun here, even with the boats, but now we are not able to show You all the fun we had.
So sorry
*Nick*
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Feb 15, 2014, 7:44 pm
so this is our very last day here on Tenerife and we decided to celebrate a little farewell-party and enjoying the sundown
And we remembered, laughed and had fun when we talked about our adentures on this lovely island
Goodbye Tenerife amabile
And even the moon waved a goodbye to us
Love and see You
Yours
*Nick*
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Feb 16, 2014, 9:18 pm
we are back in Germany and visited the greenhouses of the Botanical Garden Solingen , because today they are open for a few hours
Let´s start at the tropical greenhouse with lots of plants we saw only a few days ago outside on Tenerife
Strelizia
and Bananaplants
Some nice orchids You find there
Here we are in the succulent-hall and see many cacti
And here we have a short look into the hall of bromeliads
Worth to see this small greenhouses and a nice memory to what we enjoyed a few days ago
And even outside we found some very early flowers: small crocuses
That was our sunday-tour
Love and see You soon
Yours
*Nick*
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Feb 17, 2014, 10:25 pm
today UrselHH and Charlotte will leave Remscheid for travelling to RikeH
and Hase will travel home to Dr. Kröbner
Dear Hase, I will miss You
Charlotte, give my best regards to Helmut, when You see him in Sülfeld
Goodbye You ToyVoyagers, see the World and enjoy Your adventures, we will see us again, someday, somtime
Love and see You soon
Yours
*Nick*
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Feb 19, 2014, 10:02 pm
today Sean arrived
Here we gave him a warm welcome
He showed what he brought, a nice postcard of Bad Salzdetfurth and some yummy gumbears, Thanks a lot, HoBi
Sean and me became friends while störte studied the postcard
and I had a nice conversation with him
Then Sean talked with störte, they became friends and I studied the postcard
We all have a nice evening and will have a great time together
That´s it for today,
love and see You soon
Yours
*Nick*
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Feb 23, 2014, 9:55 pm
You never guess where I have been today: we visited a nice little town called Weert (Limburg) in the near of Roermond, in the South of the Netherlands
Everywhere You see the typical brick buildings, almost in red, sometimes overpainted with white paint
Here we are at the market and because it is Saturday, the grocery market with lots of different booths are there
This friendly guy with his bell stands in front of the Church of St. Martin (Martinuskerk), with its huge belfried dominating the skyline of weert
Here is the entrance
And here is a short view into the church, we didn´t want to tisturb anybody here and respected that they don´t like taking pictures inside the church
Weert has a very attractive pedestrian zone and we found a lot of nice and funny things, even for us tv´s
Look at this huge air-giraffe
Another reasons I like being here are the drinks and the food
the coffee with milk here is called "koffie verkeert"
And the region is famous for its Bitterbollen
On our way back we made a short stop at the nice looking Aurorawindmill
That was it for today, love and see You soon
Yours
*Nick*
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Mar 1, 2014, 6:34 pm
today a parcel arrived, we found it in the garden
We opened it to help HelmutBluepant coming out of the box
Here he is, the lost son and we gave him a warm welcome
Helmut, old pal, I´m happy to see You here again
He showed us the gifts from RikeH and Dicker Kumpel: Nice Magnets from Hamburg and a cardplay
See us playing with the cards and having fun
That´s for today,
love and see You
Yours
*Nick*
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Mar 2, 2014, 9:16 pm
today we made a short trip to the municipal park Remscheid with its little lake
Here is something written about the legend of the so called "Stinthengst", a fish, the king of the stints, who promised the people who caught him sometimes ago, that they will have always enough fish if they set him free again. This saga has its origins in the town of Nikolaiken, a twin town of Remscheid and since 1962 every Year in Mai a huge wooden fish with a crown on his head will be released on this pond.
Last Year the wooden fish has been kidnapped, here are some articles to read about his mysterious disappearence
Here I show You the Bismarcktower with its astronomical observatory on the top
And here You see some impressions of the park and its nice tree population, even when they are without leafs now at the end of wintertime
See me playing in the witch hazel
From one point we had a nice view over the district of Hasten
and we decided to walk there
Here we found some nice buildings
and came to the House Cleff, an impressive example of a patrician half timbered house in the so called "Bergisch Baroque"
See me with the lion head doorknocker
Here You see us in front of the backside of the house
We had a nice afternoon walk, but now we like to rest here, enjoy sitting on the bench for a while
That´s the tour of today,
love and see You soon
Yours
*Nick*
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Mar 4, 2014, 10:09 pm
today we visited the deer-park in Grafenberg
At first we met some of Helmuts wild relatives there
A friendly wooden boar allowed us to sit on him
Our next station was the huge free-area of the fallow deer
Although it was very sunny and a little bit warm, the deer laid under the trees and snoozed
But the area they have is really nice
Here we met a friendly wooden pixie
... wasn´t easy for us solving störte from this appealing lady
This was luck: the wildcat was not sleeping, but outside, that´s very seldom
And another wooden guy
But we were also were here for learning a little bit about the forest here in the "Forest-School"
Whaaat?? learning?? Us?? TV´s?? On Sunday??
But strunki promised us it would be fun for us
O.K., lets have a look inside
A book... with nice pictures
This box looks very interesting
What would we find inside?
Soeren knows this box as well, he´s been there a year ago
I feel sand
This mouflon and the badger are impressive
a boar and a roe deer
this lizard was also interesting ..and very colourful ...and lives
At the end it became sunnier again and we saw a small herd of red deer
This was our sunday-trip
Love and see You soon
Yours
*Nick*
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Mar 9, 2014, 9:51 am
today we had a nice hike around the Sengbachdam, situated inbetween Höhrath, Glüder and the castle Schloss Burg
We started in Höhrath and found some nice green shuttered houses there and nice blooming bushes
And we met a grass frog in his first trip in the warm sunshine
Here the path to the dam started and after about one kilometre we saw the first water through the trees
The forest here looks very nice and interesting, although there are no leafs
A sign reminded us to be mindful with the forest and its habitants
Here we are in the near of the dam again
Some landscapes here look similar as the alps
And here we are on the barrage of the dam itself. It is a reservoire of drinkable water for the town Solingen
The path is part of the so called Bergischer Weg and we found the sign for it here
Here we rested a little while for playing on the huge roots of this old beech
Almost one last hill more upwards
And we had an incredible panorama view on Remscheid and Schloss Burg
At the end we discovered, that we hiked a distance of about 10 Kilometres. Not bad
That was our trip of today, love and see You soon
Yours
*Nick*
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Mar 10, 2014, 11:42 pm
You never guess where I have been today:
The first Photo gives You the impression of a spa park
But we are in the Bayer-Park in Leverkusen, one of the hugest chemical regions in Germany
The weather this weekend was very warm with about 20°C for the beginning of march and very sunny, so the vegetation looks like in spring now.
Look at the almost open magnolia-blossoms
Some modern architecture of the Bayer AG
And a open view into the park
We rested on a bench with interesting lionheads
And saw a nice looking white lady standing in a temple
Of course we wanted to visit her
She gave us the hint to visit a huge red lion
The lion told us to visit the famous Japanese Garden here
Then we followed his hint and visited the Japanese Garden
It was wonderful there, the exotic architecture and the asian style of this garden donated us peaceful feelings of harmony
See me under the helleborus
And the crocuses
Look at the nice red camellia
Enjoy the colours and the springtime with us here
You can call me cherry-blossom
The garden is rather small, but very various with a lot of lovely details
We all had a lot of fun here
and chilled out the rest of the sunday at home in Helmuts poppy-blossom
That was our tour of today, love and see You soon
Yours
*Nick*
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Mar 16, 2014, 9:14 pm
today we visited the German Tool-Museum in Remscheid-Hasten
Our tour started at the very first times of tools, at the stone-age
Look at me working with the stone-axe
Here we are at the bronce-age. The first tools made of metal instead of stone
And here we see antique tools
And finally tools of the middle age
A small smithy in old manner, nothing changed for a very long time
Here are other examples for old craftsmen workshops manufacturing tools and use tools therefore itsself
Here You see the three areas of tool industry in Germany: Remscheid, Schmalkalden and Stuttgart
The work of a filemaker was very hard
The discovery of transmission made many hard works much more easier for the people
Here You see the huge wheel of a steam engine
And here we see some examples of different tools made in Remscheid and the Bergisch Land
Lots of boy-toys there
There we sit on a time stamp clock, so the workers were controlled that they are at work in time
Here You see a part of a metalfoundry and one product: A bell
A lot of fun we had in the section where the metaltubes were made
The next stations were also interesting: World trade of tools. They shipped them all over the world
Nice examples of older tools and a view around the museum from the first floor down to the ground floor
Here we can anticipate, how it was to live in the neighbourhood of the work
And even outside we found some nice examples of courious machines
What´s this? A Plushie-pressing-machine?? I don´t know...
This was our tip of today,
love and see You soon
Yours
*Nick*
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Mar 18, 2014, 9:14 pm
today we visited another technical highlight here in the Bergisch Country: The suspension railway, called Wuppertaler Schwebebahn is a real landmark of the town
At Alter Markt we took one of the trains and drove above the river Wupper
Here we are in the wagon
and looking out of the window
Here we are at the station "District Court" (Landgericht) and we see a station in old renovated manner
Hurry upstairs, the next wagon is coming
And back again on the railway
That was a great fun and we hope to drive perhaps again the next sector futher on
Love and See You
Yours
*Nick*
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Mar 22, 2014, 8:58 am
You remember this terrible 13th in February, when strunki thought, she had extinguished all our nice pictures made at the Beach of Playa las Teresitas?
Now Helmut found exactly this files deep in his camera space and so we are able to show You our fun there now
First we thought of a second visit of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, but the weather was too cloudy and so we decided to drive a few miles more spending the day at the one and only white beach on Tenerife
See my footprints in the sand
So what funny things can we start next?
Shall we sail with our boats again?
See us racing against the other Team
UrselHH organized the paddles from the boat of our competitors and joined our crew
störte and Hase tried to win with hoisting their sail
After the boat race we had fun by doing sanddiving
Finally, everybody dived into the sand
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In the evening we celebrated one of the hottest plushie partys Tenerife ever has seen (and survived)
We had a great time here
Yours
*Nick*
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Mar 24, 2014, 6:23 pm
today I helped strunki working in the office
This is our view out of the office-window
Here are some funny postcards on the wall
as well as a map of the Dolomites, nobody knows, why, perhaps they like having maps and looking on them?
a photo of a dog-puppy, it´s not strunkis dog, but her goddog and an asian topee
I met a pair of nice magnetic snow-people, they are doing funny things together in the office-palmtree
So let´s start working with an important telephone call
and it wasn´t only interesting but really funny
My next task was rubber-stamping
Lunchtime
...only half an our, but the coffee and the meal was all right
Next topic was counting the paperclips
Yes, all complete in there
Then I had to calculate electronically
In the afternoon we had a very important meeting with other plushie-colleagues working here
After this almost endless meeting it was time for some sports
Office punch-jump
Yipppiiieee
The eagle has landed
Time for another mug of coffee
At last we had to check the Safety of the sensitive copy-machinery
strunki told me, that this is a work only for professional plushies like me
Yes, the copier works perfect
Then it was office closing time and I was allowed to call it a day
This was my 9-5 for today, love and see You soon
Yours
*Nick*
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Mar 30, 2014, 11:01 pm
today we walked the Fruitpath in Leichlingen
Although the weather was not the finest (it rained at the beginning), we decided to continue, because we hoped to see the fruittrees blooming
It´s a nice landscape with hills full of gras and a lot of appletrees, peachtrees, cherrytrees and else fruit trees. The region here is famous in the Bergisch Land for the good fruit growing, because even its in a hign altitude, the mild climate of the valley of the river rhine supports the growing here.
But not only fruitflowers we found, look at this nice "forget-me-not" [Myosotis arvensis]
Here are some of the fruitblossoms we came for
There we met a flock of sheep and look at the lamb, isn´t it nice?
Here are some farmhouses
See us playing and having fun in the chaff
Passing Leysiefen
What a nice walk we had
This was it for today, love and see You soon
Yours
*Nick*
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Apr 7, 2014, 11:48 pm
You remember our tour with the suspension railway in Wuppertal a few weeks ago?
Today we discovered one district called Barmen
Behind me You can see one station of the railway in old style, called "Werther Brücke"
Here is the main road, a part of the A-road B7, called "Höhne"
Here between the houses we start our tour through the pedestrian zone
A lot of houses were destroyed in WWII, but some survived the bombing
See this funny and colourful statues
This is the formerly "Hall of fame" , built at the end of the 19th. century. Now its "the house of the youth" and sometimes bands playing there.
Here we play with 3 huge bronce turtles. They have their home in the pedestrian zone and are very popular, almost by the kids who want to sit on them.
This is the town-hall of barmen, built in the late 20ths of the 20th century
And bronce-animals again, but much older, here as colums of large lanterns
A bronce spring with lots of typical elements of the textile-industry of Wuppertal some hundred years ago. The valley formerly was called "Manchester of the north"
And we met "Tuffi"
He is very famous here, in the 50ths he jumped out of the suspension railway and fell into the Wupper. Nothing seriously happend to him
This huge place is called "Alter Markt" (Old Market)
A last view into the pedestrian zone, the street is called "Werth"
This sign shows the distances between Wuppertal and its twintowns
A lion, the heraldic animal of the Bergisch Land
There our little tour ended and we had a lot of fun
This was it for today, love and see You soon
Yours
*Nick*
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Apr 10, 2014, 11:22 pm
today we went to Old Palais Grevenbroich
for visiting an artisans market there
It is an old building, but in a nice renovated condition
Here is an old charter of Grevenbroich
The halls inside are very impressive
and we saw a lot of nice handcrafted artisanal objects
After so much to look inside we need a rest
And outside the weather became better and better so we decided to discover the rest of the area and the nice park there
An impressive wooden door
The park with a wonderful nice pond
See us having fun in the bears garlic
Enjoy the golden afternoon light in the colourful planting
This was it for today, love and see You soon
Yours
*Nick*
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Apr 14, 2014, 1:48 pm
today we´ll leave Remscheid for spending the weekend at Bad Driburg, enjoying the nice hotel and meet You and Dad on Sunday
Packing is very difficult after such a long time away from home, have we all our luggage and the souvenirs we want to bring back home safely?
Good bye to the garden
and good bye, Helmuts poppy blossom, I hope to chill here once again, sometimes
We swear we´ll meet again here
Ensuring, that we all have a safe seat
bad Driburg, we´re coooooooming!
Love and see You soon
Yours
*Nick*
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Apr 14, 2014, 3:22 pm
Behind the main entrance
Our house, the so called "Droste-Haus"
This will be our room for the next days
very nice and quiet here
Our view out of the window
But before discovering the area, we have to check the bathroom and eat some fruit
So let´s start our tour through the spa park at the main alley
The drinking hall
See us sitting on a bench in the so called "Hölderin-Hain
daffodils everywhere
The hugest bench we ever saw
We met geese at the park Pond
and sat on the wooden Bridge
See me sitting in front of the enclosure of the fallow deer
The fountain of the Pond
Helmut loves this place, we found bear garlic
Lots of various bulb plants
That was our first day here, see us later again
strunki1259@web.de
Posted Apr 15, 2014, 1:58 pm
HelmutBluepant and me had to decide wich drink we should choose
Sean assisted us
But of course, störte has the most experience in choosing Drinks, he managed to order ...rum...
very delicious... hicks
...the rest of the night I can´t remember, sorry...
Posted Apr 16, 2014, 9:38 pm
And the litter which we liked very much. Unfortunately nobody wanted to carry us...
And then it was time to say goodbye to Strunki and to Ole who drove back home with his mum. Thank you, hostmum, for all the great experiences, I'm sure we'll see again! Great that Helmut accompanied us home to Paderborn
Back home we showed our souvenirs we had collected on our long journey...it was a great evening
Yours *Nick*
Posted Apr 18, 2014, 11:43 am
Yours *Nick*
Posted Apr 19, 2014, 6:58 pm
I would say at the moment we have the yellow time in Germany: rape and dandelion are blooming...
On the way back home we saw a black sheep with a white and a black lamb, very cute!
Yours *Nick*
Posted Apr 20, 2014, 12:07 pm
The bunnies in the car got less and less...nobody caught us...it was a very funny but also exciting tour!
Yours *Nick*
Posted Apr 20, 2014, 12:59 pm
Then we went into the garden for searching chocolate eggs and bunnies mum had hidden for us
We searched and searched and found many eggs
Look!
And then HelmutBluepant had to search his birthday present we had hidden in the garden. He searched and searched and we said "warmer" or "colder" and after a loooong time he found it on a tree!
We all helped him climbing up and then he transported it down very carefully. He was very pleased with our present: an outdoor microscope!
HAPPY EASTER!!!
Yours *Nick*
Posted Apr 26, 2014, 2:37 pm
We drove through a nice landscape and reached Altenbeken with it's landmark, the big viaduct.
On our way back suddenly a rabbit came towards us. It was Hanna Hops on her way back from her relatives she had visited at Easter. Bernie and Monsti who had got to know her in Jever were very happy to see her again and hugged her.
Then we sat together in the bike basket and at river Beke and Hanna told us how happy she was to have a lift back home.
Seems to be a nice girl
Yours *Nick*
Posted Apr 28, 2014, 3:57 pm
We all hugged him and then he crawled into the envelope together with his yoga-mat (the orange one cause it reminds him of his love Paris...)
Have a good journey my brother and come back home safely!
Yours *Nick*
Posted Apr 30, 2014, 5:48 pm
I'm so happy that we'll travel to Rome together!!!
He showed us the little things he brought with him from Sülfeld and then we all hugged him.
We were just sitting there talking about this and that when mum showed us a letter from the German customs house: PinkyHH is being stuck in there after her long journey from China
But on Friday morning we'll set her free, I promise!
Yours *Nick*
Posted May 1, 2014, 5:04 pm
It was a great ceremony and Monsti and Mefito were the witnesses.
On Sunday they'll go on their honeymoon in Rome and the best is: we'll accompany them
Yours *Nick*
Posted May 2, 2014, 5:29 pm
We all were very happy to see her. She showed us her nice postcard and the sweets she's brought with her from China and then we sat together talking about this and that and our holiday plans.
Yours *Nick*
Posted May 3, 2014, 8:16 pm
Posted May 18, 2014, 11:28 am
A nice town if you asked me.
Suddenly somebody said: "Look, the Peter's place! We've arrived Rome!" But unfortunately in Munich there's such a place as well
The Peter's church has got a tower that you're allowed to climb up and of course we did. Great view!
After a while we entered the next train, the night train to Rome!
The sleeping car invited us to play a bit before having a night meal and then sleeping. Good night, when we'll awake we'll be in Italy
Yours *Nick*
Posted May 18, 2014, 7:07 pm
In Rome we were very happy to arrive our nice little holiday flat near the Vaticanian wall. After a short time we walked to the city for the first time and were very impressed with the Engelsburg (castle of angels), the Engelsbrücke, the bridge across the river Tiber, the famous Piazza Navona and the very very old Pantheon.
Back home we needed some chocolate and felt into bed.
That was our first day in the great town Rome.
Yours *Nick*
Posted May 19, 2014, 7:44 pm
After these impressions we needed a refreshment: Ice cream in Rome! It was so yummy...you can't imagine! Unfortunately it was so warm outside that mum took a photo of Mefito only cause it was his life mission. But there'll be another chance of taking an ice-photo I'm sure.
Then we visited the famous Trevi fountain. You have to throw a coin over your shoulder into the fountain, that brings luck and let you come back to Rome some time. In the course of a year there are thousands of Euros, Dollars etc. on the ground of the fountain which are for a good cause.
Back home we sat on the steps in front of our house. The small street is only for pedestrians, very good!
That's it for today, good night
yours *Nick*
Posted May 19, 2014, 9:07 pm
Then we started to the church St. Giovanni in Laterano with it's very nice inner courtyard.
On our way to the famous Colosseum we saw Oranges!
The Colosseum was very impressive just as the Forum Romanum we visited next.
Back home we had no questions any more...
Yours *Nick*
Posted May 20, 2014, 9:39 pm
Posted May 21, 2014, 10:39 am
Back home we sat together in front of our house and enjoyed the sunny evening.
Yours *Nick*
Posted May 22, 2014, 8:49 pm
The Spanish steps looked great but there were so many people that you couldn't see much of it.
In the afternoon we went to the basilica St. Peter for entering the tower. Wow! What a sight!!!
After this long day we were very happy but tired and glad to be back in our street Cliva delle muro Vaticano.
Yours *Nick*
Posted May 22, 2014, 9:29 pm
Next to the piramide there is the old graveyard of the non-catholic people behind a very tall wall.
That's for today.
Posted May 26, 2014, 5:51 pm
We saw some typical houses, some lemon trees, climbed some old steps and saw an observatory from a long way away. Through the trees we could throw a glance at Rome.
Back on the St. Peter's place we enjoyed the basilica in the evening light.
Yours *Nick*
Posted May 26, 2014, 8:17 pm
Next to the entrance there was a nice fountain. In the park there was a lake with little rowing boats and of course we rowed
Look at the turtels in the background! After rowing we discovered a nice bike but unfortunately hostparents wanted to walk through the park. We saw many old trees, a fountain and we met Goethe We visited a nice garden, a Sphinx and a sculpture of a very sweet girl...I don't know why Bernie and PinkyHH were enthusiastic about the other sculpture...
On the way back home we saw a typical 'refreshment-car'.
Good night!
Posted May 27, 2014, 6:40 pm
We walked uphills to the Piazzale Giuseppe Garibaldi and had a fantastic view of the city!
And on the way back we discovered a funny cake
Yours *Nick*
Posted May 27, 2014, 8:46 pm
Then we visited the Isola Tiberina (the island in the middle of river Tevere) and walked back home along the river.
Yours *Nick*
Posted May 29, 2014, 8:11 pm
What a garden!!! We visited the palms, the garden for blind people, the rose garden, wild orchids, the ferns, the bamboos, the Japanese garden, the mediterranean wood, the gymnosperms, mediterranean plants, monumental trees, the medicinical plants and a house full of cactusses. Can you find out what is what?
It was a great day!
Yours *Nick*
Posted May 31, 2014, 2:51 pm
In the morning we visited our last church (Maria Maggiore) and then mum had a surprise for us: Wavy-Gravy-birthday-icecream! Yummy
Before we went to the train station we met hundreds of Pinocchios...nice to meet you!
And then we got on train. A last look to Rome...it was a great holiday! Byebye and good night!
Yours *Nick*
Posted May 31, 2014, 7:24 pm
Posted May 31, 2014, 8:18 pm
Posted May 31, 2014, 8:20 pm
When my sister Lille came into light we were very happy
and hugged her. She showed us the small presents she brought with her from Stuttgart and her phenomenal hat.
Posted Jun 3, 2014, 5:38 pm
Yours *Nick*
Posted Jun 4, 2014, 3:45 pm
I had to search first. I counted to 100 and the others looked for good hiding places. Have a look!
Then I started to search...and after a long time I found one after the other apart from Frederik. Though Frederik hadn't a real hiding place he wasn't found cause he's so small nobody can see him when he sits somewhere...
We played and played cause everybody had to search alternately.
It was a great morning!!!
Yours *Nick*
Posted Feb 8, 2015, 4:43 pm
And thank you olgamaus for knitting me such a great BVB-football outfit
Posted Feb 8, 2015, 4:53 pm
Lucky Lion will travel to Kuschi in Austria, Bernie wants to introduce her husband Wavy Gravy to her mother fleursmum in Australia and Soeren will visit Susie's.
Of course we had one of our famous and notorious farewell parties...
Posted Sep 2, 2015, 8:55 pm
As soon as mum had left home we started our baking-party: First we collected all the ingredients we needed. Frederik read the recipe for us. And for the next five hours we occupied ourselves with baking 92 red wine-muffins (and with stopping Störte drinking the whole bottle of wine
)
Okay, of course we all had to try the muffins so we had 86 at last
I'm sure it'll be a great surprise for mum!!
Yours *Nick*
Posted Feb 2, 2016, 7:27 pm
We've been at Amrum island and now I'll show you some impressions...it's been great!
Yours *Nick*