Travelog for: Eddy Bear

In the late afternoon, my two adult host drove with me to some other places in Bruchsal. They showed me a beautiful baroque church inside and outside, the Belvedere - a hunting lodge, the Damianstor. It is all so beautiful, especially with this blue of the sky and the sunshine.

I saw a lot of asparagus fields, but still I haven't eaten some, because they are too expensive at the moment. Then you see a street, which is on the east side of the house, where I'm at the moment. On the left side of the picture you can see the swing in the garden.

Later in the morning my host showed me some places I never would like to see from inside: the slaughterhouse, the jailhouse and one building - the oldest part- of the hospital . But my host told me, that she would like to show me the slaughterhouse, because she likes going there with her husband and older kids for listening to comedians -  a funny place for that things, that's my opinion. 

Then we visited the park of the palace of Bruchsal and we took a photo of me in front of one statue. I heard, that there is one statue for each season of the year and one statue for each of the four elements water, fire, earth, air. In another part of the park we took photos of me in front of a wisteria. You can't believe, how it tickled in my nose.

I visited a chapel in a suburb of Bruchsal called Untergrombach. The chapel "Michaelskapelle"  is on a hill called Michaelsberg. I had a wonderful view over the Rhine valley and in the back a view in the Kraichgau. I saw many quarry ponds and my host told me, that she swam in one of them, when she was younger. It's the see you can sea on the photo and this sea also belongs to Untergrombach. Next to the sea you see a wood, which is the border between Untergrombach and Bruchsal.

Good bye, Eddy Bear. We really love you and will miss you, especially Sabrina will do so. We hope to read many updates and meet you again some day.

Hello from Japan!

I arrived in Japan two days ago (on May 1st) safety.

We have Constitution Day today (on May 3rd).
It is one of national holidays.
In Japan people fly a national flag in front of their house on a national holiday.
I thought that the national flag of Japan is very simple.

We have a national holiday named Children's day today (May 5th)

The day was for celebrating boys growing up, but it has become a day to celebrate children in general at present.

Families with boys set out dolls for the Children's day which patterned after warriors and heros(samurai) and fly carp streamers. Carp have the strength to swim even up waterfalls and have long been taken as symbols of success in life.


1)The carp streamer
It means one family-the black carp(the biggest) means father, the red one means mother and the rest means chldren

2)Me and my toyvoyager friend Robby who came from Germany

3)Me and Robby and Yumi's new toyvoyager Tokio.
We all are male! We are good friends

4)I'm wearing the helmet for samurai that Yumi made with origami-a piece of square paper.

Yumi is going to travel Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka from May 10th to 18th.
She will leave for Tokyo tomorrow night (May 9th)!
Of course, she will take me many places. I can't wait!!

I'm reading a book for Kyoto with Robby and Tokio who travel with.
The picture on the page is Kiyomizudera (temple) where is very famouse in Kyoto. I hope I can visit there.

and I'm waiting in the bag. I'm ready now! I know it is a little early...

I was very surprised and happy to be elected Voyager of the Week!!
Thank you very much, Isobel&Neil!!!

Today, Tokio and Robby celebrated me!

I'm sorry but I haven't uploaded my travelog for a while.

May 10th.
I left Yumi's house in the evening on May 9th and took a night bus for Tokyo. I couldn't sleep very well on the bus because I was too excited.
In the morning, I arrived in Tokyo and took an express train for Narita airport to meet Yumi's friends from England.
Before I met them, I went to the obserbatory at the airport and watched some airplanes. I wished I could visit somewhere by the airplane.

Last night, I slept very well with Robby and Tokio.

In the morning, we went to Asakusa where is a very famous and popular place for tourists.

We found Asahi Beer conpany building pretending to be a beer glass with an adjacent golden object. It was very big!

Then, we went to Senso-ji temple and Asakusa-jingya shrine
Senso-ji temple- the oldest temple in Tokyo and it is said to have been built in 628.
Asakusa-jingya shrine- the shaden architecture donated by Iemitsu Tokugawa in 1649 and still remains in the shrine.

Then, we went to Sony Building in Ginza.
There were some stores, restaurants and showrooms.

We wached a big screen tv and used some walkmans/mp3 players at the showroom. I thought it was an interesting places there!

In the evening, we visited Tokyo tower.
The tower was built in 1958 and the height is 330m.

We went to the main observatory(150m) and the special one(250m) We could look across the entire city of Tokyo at a glance.
We watched the sunset and the night view there. It was really beautiful!!

The next day, the weather was very nice.

I visited Imperial Palace East Gardens with Robby and Tokio.
The garden was very big and had many kinds of trees and flowers.
I relaxed there and had forgotten that I was staying in the metropolis Tokyo.
The house was used as a guardhouse.

Good bye Tokyo!

We(Eddy Bear, Tokio and I) left Tokyo for Kyoto today.
We got on the bullet train (Shinkansen in Japanese). It was very fast and comfortable.