Remscheid, Germany - 29th November 2012
By: olgamaus
Hi Mummy,
I arrived in Remscheid today! Unfortunately my host Katja was very busy today, but at least we took a welcome photo with all the other ToyVoyagers here. They are Luc Zeke, Voi Nam, 3*Euro, Kevin Kiwi, Little T.B., Arimbi and Lady Katherine, who also arrived today.
The weather outside is not great, the weather forecast promised snow for the weekend. Let's see!
Bye
Suny
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Posted Nov 29, 2012, 8:34 pm
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Remscheid, at home, Germany - 2nd December 2012
By: olgamaus
Hi Mummy,
it snowed during the night!
Katja promised that we would go out later.
Suny
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Posted Dec 2, 2012, 9:07 pm
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Remscheid, at home, Germany - 7th December 2012
By: olgamaus
Hi Mummy,
on Friday usually two or three friends are visiting us, Katja's knitting friends. Today I also met one of Katja's pets - she is keeping three ferrets. Ferrets are cute little predators, really playful, curious and cheeky pets. This one is Zaehnchen, sitting on the lap of Katja's friend, enjoying liver sausage paste.
Later Katja prepared eggnogg for her friends.
Eggnogg is a popular winter drink in Germany, you can often get it on Christmas markets. To make it you need milk, cream, egg liqueur, rum, triple sec and amaretto.
First you have to mix and heat milk, cream and egg liqueur - it must not boil!
Than you add the spirits and fill it into glasses. Served hot with whipped cream on top it is perfect
Bye
Suny
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Posted Dec 7, 2012, 9:49 pm
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Duesseldorf, Germany - 15th December 2012
By: olgamaus
Hi Mummy,
today we made a fantastic trip to Duesseldorf, the capital city of the German state North-Rhine-Westphalia. We went there by train and walked from the station towards the old town with all the Christmas markets.
Ah, this is already looking like a larger city. And they do not have snow here.
We reached the shopping streets than.
A few minutes later we reached the old town. Christmas markets everywhere!
You can buy all sorts of Christmas decorations, arts and crafts items, socks, herbs and spices and of course all the traditional food like potatoe pancakes, battered fish, sweets like sugarroasted almonds and nuts, candied fruits, gingerbread hearts, candyfloss and all those hot winter drinks like hot wine punch and eggnogg.
We went into a shop in this quarter and spend some minutes there.
When we came out a miracle had happened - the sun was shining and we had only a few steps to take to reach the river Rhine.
We went along the Rhine promenade with lots of bars and restaurants. In the background you can see the Burgplatz with a Ferris wheel.
We walked closer to the Burgplatz.
We decided to take a walk into the opposite direction, towards the parliament which is situated close to the Rhine.
We reached the parliament building soon, a fantastic complex situated close to the Rhine promenade.
Here you can see an overview photo of it.
This is what you see when you look to the North, towards the old town. In the foreground you can see the "Rheinkniebrücke", one of three bridges crossing the Rhine in the city area.
We took a group photo on the lawn in front of the parliament building.
We walked around the building than.
This is the entrance area.
Later we went back to the old town to have lunch. Because it is getting dark so early we decided to have lots of fun with eggnogg, beer and mead without taking any more photos
Bye
Suny
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Posted Dec 16, 2012, 10:34 am
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Remscheid, at home, Germany - 24th December 2012
By: olgamaus
Hi Mummy,
today we are celebrating Christmas. Katja's kids will visit us later, we will have dinner together.
We helped Katja to wrap some presents. These are handmade socks for her daughter's boyfriend - he already asked for warm socks in reggae colors. Katja knitted socks like a maniac this week
I wish you a Merry Christmas!
Love
Suny
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Posted Dec 31, 2012, 5:03 pm
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Remscheid, Germany - 31st December 2012
By: olgamaus
Hi Mummy,
we went to Katja's sister-in-law's family today to celebrate the last day of the year. When we arrived, there already was everything prepared for Raclette.
There were lots of vegetables like sweet pepper, carrots, mushrooms, tomatoes, than there was beef and chicken meat, prawn, bread, potatoes and much more. Of course there was a lot of cheese
Later we called a tile-based game called "Rummikub". Do you know it?
At midnight we all had a glass of sparkling wine when we went outside for the fireworks.
Happy New Year!
Iit was raining the whole time, so the fireworks did not show up as nice as they could have had.
Love
Suny
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Posted Jan 16, 2013, 5:57 pm
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Wuppertal, Germany - 2nd January 2013
By: olgamaus
Hi Mummy,
today we made a trip to the neighbour city Wuppertal.
One of the city’s greatest attractions is the suspended monorail (Schwebebahn), which was established in 1901. The tracks are 8 m above the streets and 12 m above the Wupper River. The Schwebebahn is crossing some streets and even a motorway!
Here you can see one of 20 stations along the 13,3 km long route. This one is nearby the local court and district court.It was rebuilt last year in its original historic style. It is the one we just had left.
Katja told us that we would make a side trip, outside the city centre, just for ME! We went to the Botanical Garden.
The Botanical garden is situated high upon a hill called "Hardt" and we had to climb stairs after stairs for what felt like an eternity.
You can find the former country house of a textile manufacturers named Eller, which contained a villa (built 1820), orangery, residential and farm buildings, and the Elise Tower (built 1838) which provides the garden's focal point.
Katja took me into one of the greenhouses. Fighting with fog on the camera we found a banana plant!
Okay, it was green and looked like a banana plant, but where were the bananas? I would have liked a banana than. Katja told me that there were bananas in summer, they probably would have been harvested in the meantime. And indeed, we found a photo which was taken with Alberto this summer.
Katja showed us a special tree in the garden, this one.
It looks more or less like a dangerous animal, but not like a tree. It is a monkey puzzle tree, (Araucaria araucana). It originally came from South America, from Chile and Western Argentinia. Due to similar climate conditions it can grow here.
Because a Botanical garden is not so exciting in winter we walked back to the city centre because we had only about 90 minutes until it would get dark.
Walking stairs downhill was much more fun
In the city centre we saw that Wuppertal is much larger than Remscheid. The pretty city hall was hidden behind a scaffolding.
We saw the Schwebebahn again, next to a bank and a car park.
Here you can see one of the other stations, a modern one this time.
Later we met Katja's daughter here and we spend some hours in the shopping streets.
Love
Suny
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Posted Jan 3, 2013, 4:39 pm
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Remscheid, at home, Germany - 9th January 2013
By: olgamaus
Hi Mummy,
the weather is still ugly, nobody wants to go outside. Instead we helped Katja to prepare a veggie dinner.
First we fried zucchini and dryed tomatoes in a pan and added tomatoe sauce. Than we prepared feta to scallop the vegetables with it.
We cut the remaining feta into pieces and fillend them into a jar with garlic, herbs, spices and dried tomatoes.
We filled the jar with olive oil than to preserve the cheese.
Bye
Suny
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Posted Jan 16, 2013, 5:26 pm
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Remscheid, Muengsten Bridge, Germany - 13th January 2013
By: olgamaus
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Posted Jan 16, 2013, 5:19 pm Last edited Jan 16, 2013, 5:23 pm by olgamaus
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