Ipswich, Queensland , Australia - 27th December 2008
By: crizle
Hello everyone.
My name is Elston and I am an Australian Native Animal.
My main diet is ants and termites, so I have a very long nose.
My ID bracelet won't fit on me anywhere, so when I visit you, I will always have a photo with my ID on it.
I am hoping to travel all over the world after Christmas.
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Posted Dec 27, 2008, 7:26 am
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Remscheid, Germany - 13th January 2009
By: olgamaus
Hello Mummy,
I arrived at the home of my first host Katja today. She was delighted when she found me sitting in my envelope on the stair when she came home in her lunch break.
She immediately opened the envelope and I was welcomed by three other ToyVoyagers, Ninni from Finland, Theodore from the USA and Big Bird is an American who is living in Japan usually.
I have a nice ID-card because I am too knobbly for attaching a travel tag with a chain. I don't even have a neck ...
I brought a beautiful key holder for my host with me. She really loves it and attached it to her keys immediately.
Katja will have to learn much about my species. She thought I'd be an anteater! Anteaters are living in South America, Everyone knows that - at least in Australia.
When Katja had to return to her working place I went with her. On our way to the law firm we took a few photos.
Here you can see houses which are typical for this region. They are covered with slate.
This is part of the town hall, in the basement you can find a restaurant like in most town halls. These restaurants are usually names "Ratskeller", wich means "cellar of a town hall".
It was a little bit boring in the office. I was hungry but the only thing Katja had which was eatable was an apple.
After closing-time we went into an Asian store to buy some things. I asked for ants but they didn't have any. They have vegetables and fruit(ugh!), many sorts of deep frozen fish, Asian sweets, noodles and much more.
Here you can see what we've bought.
I tasted the coconut juice. It's good but I'd prefer squashed ants or termites. Katja told me that she does not know if there were any termites in Germany. Ants stay in their nests or hills during winter here in Germany. It's too cold for them to come out. Even worse, this is a veggie household!
Katja cooked a hot soup with red lentils. I tasted it because otherwise I would have to starve.
It's not so bad.
Bye
Elston
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Posted Jan 13, 2009, 9:15 pm
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Remscheid, Germany - 21st January 2009
By: olgamaus
Hi Mummy,
a new ToyVoyager arrived today, Fluffytail, a cute squirrel.
In the afternoon we took a walk to the muncipal park. Look, I am living in this nice house at the moment, in the attic storey.
This is a street in the vicinity of my current home. A friend of Katja is living here, they will meet in the evening. Katja is teaching her friend to knit socks.
We came along a playground, in the background you can see one of the churches in the town centre.
Here we are in the muncipal park. The duck pond is still covered with ice.
This is the observatory.
Here you can see more of the park.
This is a very special thing: A garden for blind people. All descriptions are made in braille and the flowers are planted at a convenient height. In summer they have flowers, herbs, sounds, stones and more.
Here you can see a memorial for citizens of Remscheid which died in several wars before World War I.
Theodore told us hat he met a chipmunk girl a few weeks ago. He wanted to look for her, we were helping him.
I had a look here in this rhododendron, but I did not see any chipmunk girl.
We left the muncipal park, walked downhill and walked back home along the Route of Tools. I'll tell you more about it later.
In the background you can see the outskirts of Wuppertal, the neighbour town.
Here we were back on the street. These slate covered houses with green shutters are typical for this region, they are called "Bergische Häuser".
This steep street is leading back to the muncipal park. You have to be in a good shape to take walks here.
I'll go sock knitting with Katja later.
Bye
Elston
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Posted Jan 21, 2009, 5:07 pm
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Remscheid, at home, Germany - 24th January 2009
By: olgamaus
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Posted Jan 27, 2009, 8:14 am Last edited Jan 27, 2009, 11:53 am by olgamaus
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Remscheid, Germany - 28th January 2009
By: olgamaus
Hi Mummy,
a new ToyVoyager from England arrived today. It's Kelly Bear.
Now we are already four ToyVoyagers here. I'm sure we'll have lots of fun.
Bye
Elston
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Posted Jan 31, 2009, 10:34 am
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Rat's home, Remscheid, Germany - 29th January 2009
By: olgamaus
Hi Mummy,
helped to feed the pet rats today. They are really funny animals. They are hoggish, playful, friendly and cuddly.
In the background you can see rat girl Jordan, she is a little bit overweighted. Katja is calling her lovingly "Mopsi". I'm afraid I cannot translate it for you. In any case it has something to do with Jordan's round shape.
This is Nicole. She was thrilled to meet someone with an even more acute nose than hers. The white one with the funny dumbo ears is Bella.
This is Karla, Nicole's sister. She also was delighted to meet me.
Bye
Elston
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Posted Jan 31, 2009, 5:48 pm
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Duesseldorf, Germany - 30th January 2009
By: olgamaus
Hi Mummy,
today we visited Düsseldorf, the capital city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The city is situated on the River Rhine and is renowned for its many events and also for its fashion and trade fairs.
We went there by train and walked to the town centre.
We saw this interesting pyramide, a fountain which is put out of service in winter,
this is a church, Johanneskirche.
This is an equestrian sculture showing Emperor Wilhelm I, one of the former German Emperors, who lived from 1797 until 1888 A.D.
We reached Königsalle, the most famous shopping street here. They have stores of the world famous designers here. Königsallee is called "KÖ" here.
The small river Duessel is running through the town.
From here we walked to Altstadt (old town). Here you can see the town hall.
From here it is not far to river Rhine.
This is the Landtag of the state North Rhine-Westphalia, the provincial government, also situated at the river Rhine.
Here you can see an information board regarding to Rhine tower.
In Germany they definitely have too many traffic signs, even on footways.
Now you can see Rhine Tower.
It was already getting dark than. The river lookes so beautiful with the sun going down that we made more pictures.
Sunset in the haven.
We walked along the backside of the Landtag, here a library is situated.
When we returned to Altstadt all the pubs at the waterfront were illuminated.
Katja and her friend had a few delicious beers later and an even more delicious mojito.
Oh, my feet were aching to badly that I won't make a move before Monday.
Bye
Elston
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Posted Jan 31, 2009, 6:12 pm
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Remscheid, Germany - 1st February 2009
By: olgamaus
Hello Mummy,
you won't believe what I did today. I made a cake. A very special cake, an ant cake.
Yes, really, I had a look at the dictionary: "Ameise" means "ant".
On the first picture you can see the ingredients margarine, eggs, sugar, flour, baking powder, vanilla sugar, rum and chocolate covered ants.
I made the dough with egg yolk, margarine, butter, flour, vanilla sugar, rum and beaten egg whites.
Than I added the most important ingredient: ants, covered with chocolate. I tasted them, they tasted a lot like chocolate, I missed the taste of ant legs, but I thought they will do for a cake.
Then everything had to be mixed and filled into a baking dish.
When the cake was ready I put some icing made of icing sugar, lemon juice and rum on top of the cake and decorated it with more legless chocolate ants.
Of course everyone wanted to taste it. Doesn't it look great?
Bye
Elston
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Posted Feb 2, 2009, 5:07 pm Last edited Feb 6, 2009, 10:07 pm by olgamaus
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Remscheid, Germany - 4th February 2009
By: olgamaus
Hi Mummy,
we have a new guest here: it's Womat, a fellow from Australia. I'm glad to meet him here.
Bye
Elston
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Posted Feb 5, 2009, 10:53 am
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Remscheid, Germany - 6th February 2009
By: olgamaus
Hi Mummy,
today a new ToyVoyagers arrived, Louis the rat.
Katja brought delicious cookies for us, they are called Nuss-Schiffchen (nut boats).
They are really delicious. Womat also liked them.
Bye
Elston
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Posted Feb 6, 2009, 5:01 pm Last edited Feb 6, 2009, 10:08 pm by olgamaus
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Remscheid, Germany - 12th February 2009
By: olgamaus
Hi Mummy,
today we went with Katja to her working place in the afternoon. She took one of the chocolate bars with her. Maybe she was afraid that the ToyVoyagers which stayed at home could eat them.
First we took a photo in front of the front door of our house.
Later we took a look out of the window. From here you are looking to the space in front of the town hall.
Than we helped to eat the delicious chocolate.
Bye
Elston
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Posted Feb 14, 2009, 10:12 am
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