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Remscheid, Germany - 3rd February 2009
By: olgamaus
Hi Mummy,
Katja showed me the town hall and the vicinity in her lunch break.
The town hall was built in 1906, was nearly completely destroyed in World War II and rebuilt than in a more modern style.
On the space in front of the town hall you can see a pillar, showing a lion, the heraldic animal of Remscheid.
Opposite of the town hall you can see a water tower. From here the whole town centre is supplied with drinking water. It is pumped from a dam in a valley up to the hill, to the town centre.
This street is close to my current home. In the background you can see a grammar school. I asked Katja if I could learn to bake cookies here but she said I could learn about biology, chemistry, foreign languages, German, maths and things like that, but not baking cookies.
This street is also close to my home.
Katja bought ball shaped sweets and pineapple juice from an Asian store. I also tried it, it tasted good. Katja told me that those balls were made of yellow beans.
They have really funny sweets here, with ants and yellow beans.
I'm waiting for something sweet with nuts!
Bye
Sweetsy
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Posted Feb 3, 2009, 6:52 pm
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Remscheid, Germany - 13th February 2009
By: olgamaus
Hi Mummy,
today a cute little teddy bear from Hungary, Peti, arrived with Harold from Australia.
Elston will leave tomorrow so he had planned to bake lamingtons, the "Australian national cake" for us as his farewell dinner.
The other two ToyVoyagers from Australia helped hin. The kitchen was a mess afterwards, but they represented delicious lamingtons.
Lamingtons are squares of sponge cake, dipped into chocolate icing and covered with dessicated coconut.
While the sponge cake had to cool down for further treatment Katja offered us a glass of sparkling wine, also very delicious.
Have a look!
Bye
Sweetsy
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Posted Feb 14, 2009, 9:53 am
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Remscheid, Germany - 15th February 2009
By: olgamaus
Hi Mummy,
we took a walk today to the district Hasten and to the outskirts of Remscheid. Hasten is one of the oldest districts of the town, dwellings and mostly old factories close together. This district was not destroyed in World War II, so most of the old houses remained.
Hasten is surrounded by woodland. We saw a hedge of holly, covered with snow. I liked it very much, although it'l looking a little bit christmassy.
Isn't this house pretty?
We than went to pick up Katja's friend who wanted to walk with us. She is living in a district close to Hasten, it is called Rath, a housing area with mostly one-family-homes and terraced houses. From here you can see Hasten again, in the background.
From here we went into the forrest. First we had to cross a road in the valley, than we had to walk uphill again.
Katja told us that in summer many horses are grazing on these pastures. In the background you can see the hill with the town centre, unmistable the silhouette with the water tower and the tower of the town hall.
We were walking along the border of the neighbour town Wuppertal. Hidden in the forrest are a few more small hamlets like this.
We had so much fun in the snow!
On the way back it started to snow again. Can you see it?
Back home we all had to sit on the heating because our bums were wet
Bye
Sweetsy
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Posted Feb 16, 2009, 5:01 pm
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Remscheid, Germany - 23rd February 2009
By: olgamaus
Hi Mummy,
we visited the carnival procession in Lennep today. Lennep is one of the oldest districts of Remscheid. Katja's partens are living here and it's the only carnival processioin in town.
It is helt for about 30 years on Carnival Monday. There were about 25 floats and marching bands.
First we went to Katja's parents. They are living in the seventh floor, the top floor, of a multi-storey building in Lennep. From here you can overlook the whole old town. Many of those old houses are older than 250 years.
The carnival procession started on a fairground and made its way through the town. It came around the street where Katja's parents are living, so we only had to go down to the street to see it.
It was a rather small procession. In other regions of Germany, in Cologne, Duesseldorf and many parts more in the south of Germany, hell is breaking loose at carnival time, from Thursday, called „Altweiber“ (insuffiently translated to Woman's Carnival Day) until Tuesday. Almost nobody is working than, schools are closed and almost the complete population is celebrating and drinking gallons of beer (that's the part Katja also loves )
We were still waiting for the procession here.
It was coming than!
This is one of the marching bands.
These girls were the winners of the "Miss Shop"-Contests. There were "Miss Aldi", "Miss Fressnapf", "Miss Saturn" and so on. They were wearing fancy dresses made of plastic bags.
I know that you like cows
They were throwing sweets into the crowd, we also collected some of them. We had a lot of fun today.
Bye
Sweetsy
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Posted Feb 24, 2009, 8:08 pm
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Remscheid, Germany - 26th February 2009
By: olgamaus
Hi Mummy,
we visited Katja's friend today. She broke one of the bones in the metatarsus about four weeks ago and she had to undergo an operation last week. She still cannot leave the house so we visited her. Katja and Karin are knitting socks when they meet. Katja bought a cheesecake at her favourite bakery.
It was really delicious.
Bye
Sweetsy
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Posted Feb 27, 2009, 7:58 pm
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Remscheid, Germany - 1st March 2009
By: olgamaus
Hi Mummy,
today it was much warmer than this week and the sun was shining. So Katja took me, Louis, Womat, Fluffytail and Kelly out for a walk. When the weather is good Katja seems to be unstoppable
She decided to show us Germany's highest railway bridge, Muengsten Bridge. Of course we walked there through the forrest.
Here you can see allotment gardens in a district called "Gueldenwerth".
We walked through a really pastoral area. Doesn't it look nice here? Only a few kilometres apart from the town centre.
We went into the forrest than.
On the next photo you can see how steep it's going downhill here.
We saw a collection of nest boxes for several sorts of birds.
This is an information board which is showing local plants, mostly herbs.
We reached a viewpoint and saw Muengsten Bridge for the first time, at least a little piece of it.
We rested here on a bench, enjoying the sun.
At the next viewpoint we could see the bridge.
Muengsten Bridge is made of steel. It is 107 m high and spans the valley of river Wupper, which is marking the border between Remscheid and the neighbour town Solingen.
The bridge is 465 m long and was completed in 1897 A.D.
Katja knows a not very common path which is leading through the bricked pillars . From here you have an fantastic view.
... and here the other side.
Just above my heads were the railway tracks.
We walked downhill than, heading for the valley. We walked under the bridge, this time clearly lower than before.
Here you can see the River Wupper, running underneath the bridge, which is almost invisible because of back light.
We reached the valley than and took the following photo on a small bridge.
Half an hour ago we walked along the cute pavilion you can see in the background.
Underneath the bridge a leisure park was established. You can find restaurants here, lawns for relaxing, playgrounds for the kids and more.
After more than two and a half hour walking we decided to go home by bus. Otherwise we would have had to walk uphill for rmore than an hour.
The bus stop is really close to Katja's home.
I was so hungry that I had to eat a large piece of our chocolate cake than.
Bye
Sweetsy
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Posted Mar 1, 2009, 8:59 pm
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