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Bruchsal, Germany - 24th December 2012
By: fam-united
Our hosts received a present: An Anastatica. Anastatica is found in arid areas in the Middle East and Sahara Desert, including parts of North Africa and regions of Iran, Egypt, Palestine, Israel, Iraq, Jordan, and Pakistan .
After the rainy season, the plant dries up, dropping leaves and curling branches into a tight ball, and "hibernates". Within the ball, the fruits remain attached and closed, protecting the seeds and preventing them from being dispersed prematurely. The seeds are very hardy and can remain dormant for years. Wetted again in a later rainy season, the ball uncurls and the plant wakes up from its dormant state, which causes the capsular fruits open (dehisce) to disperse the seeds.
Then we finished some other cookies called Staenglein. They are very yummy.
On Holy Eve we had the family's traditional dinner: chicken fricassee in pasty with lamb's lettuce.
Later we sat around the plate with cookies and sang Christmas carols under the Christmas tree.
sorry, it was so dark, so the photos aren't that good and somehow the flashlight didn't work.
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Posted Jan 31, 2013, 2:59 pm
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Bruchsal, Germany - 31st December 2012
By: fam-united
We have our Silvester Dinner now. It's fondue with minced meat and different sauces and some other little food like cornichons and more. It way yummy.
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Posted Feb 17, 2013, 4:29 pm
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Bruchsal, Germany - 1st January 2013
By: fam-united
Finally it is time to welcome the New Year 2013. We watched the fireworks and our host's children made a special firework with sparklers for us. Then we went to bed, really tired.
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Posted Feb 17, 2013, 6:10 pm
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Bruchsal, Germany - 5th January 2013
By: fam-united
On January 6th is Epiphany. Children go out as the three kings and collect money for church and special needs. Many people offer them sweets. That's why they also carry bags with them to put the sweets, chocolate and other things like apricots and appels in it. Here you see some of the sweets the sons and daughter of our host brought home on 5th January. (This year they went on 4th and 5th). Maybe they will share them with us, who knows.
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Posted Feb 17, 2013, 6:33 pm
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Bruchsal, Germany - 9th February 2013
By: fam-united
The weather was so grey, that we had not really a chance to go out and see other places. It had snowed during the night - everything is white now. At least it isn't so dark outside now.
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Posted Mar 29, 2013, 4:18 pm
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Blaustein, Germany - 10th February 2013
By: fam-united
Today I joined my host on a trip to Blaustein. Her son studies at the university of Ulm and she visited him over the weekend. He has a nice view out of the window and today we had been really lucky, because the sun was shining.
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Posted Mar 29, 2013, 4:39 pm
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Blaustein, Germany - 10th February 2013
By: fam-united
Blaustein is a municipality in the district of Alb-Donau Baden-Württemberg in Germany. It is situated on the Blau River, 6 km west of Ulm and has about 15,000 inhabitants.
It was created in 1968 after the union of Ehrenstein and Klingenstein and some more municipalities joined.
It is home to one or more prehistoric pile-dwelling (or stilt house) settlements that are part of the Prehistoric Pile dwellings around the Alps UNESCO World Heritage Site.
View to Löwenfelsen in Ehrenstein
The river Blau really shimmers blue sometimes. The name comes from the celtic name Blava. The blue colour comes from light scattering due to the high chalky spring water. River Blau is a left tributary to the Danube.
It was so so cold, that we hurried home again after these two photos.
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Posted Mar 29, 2013, 5:17 pm
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Bruchsal, Germany - 28th February 2013
By: fam-united
Today I watched tv, because it was a special day. We followed the flight of former Pope Benedict XVI. out of the Vatican.
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Posted Jun 2, 2013, 9:27 am
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Bruchsal, Germany - 25th April 2013
By: fam-united
Wow! We have another sunny day! I really had no chance to see the flowers in the garden behind the house until now, because the weather was that bad. I can't remember, that we had springweather like this before. All flowers are blooming at the same time and the trees got leaves within minutes it seems.
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Posted Jun 2, 2013, 2:49 pm
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Bruchsal, Germany - 29th May 2014
By: fam-united
There will be a big event in this family this year: the wedding of one of the sons. Petra is happy, that she is allowed to bake the wedding cake. It will be a cake with strawberries and maybe some marzipan. She still doesn't know the other ingredients, so she has to try some cakes and find out the best version. And of course we are part of this.
Here's the first cake - I can't remember the ingredients anymore, I'm sorry.
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Posted Feb 20, 2015, 6:59 pm
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