Barcelona, Spain - 8th September 2012
By: SiniS
Hello mommy!!!
Today we’re going to a mini postcrossing meeting!!!! As it is celebrated in the city center, we will visit the place before the meeting. Although I have visited it some weeks ago, I come with them.
First, we stop in Passeig de Gràcia. This two buildings are so famous!!! On the right you can see Casa Batlló by Gaudí, and on the left, Casa Amatller by Josep Puig i Cadafalch. And I didn’t visit them before!!
We arrive at Plaça Catalunya. Here will be the meeting, but we have some time to visit the city center!!
Les Rambles and La Font de Canaletes. Rico the Tiger and Doña Felisa drink to fall in love with my city!!!
El Mercat de la Boqueria
El Liceu
Our old friend is still here!!!! He lets us to take a photo with him again, but is not place enough for all, so Zero it’s not in the photo.
Colón
Museu de Cera
Plaça Reial
And now, we come back to Plaça Catalunya to meet the postcrossing people!!! Then, we go to have something to drink and write a lot of postcards!!!!
We have had so much fun in the meeting, but now is time to come back home. After this, we go to Portal de l’Àngel, a very famous street due its big thermometer.
Bye mom!!!!
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Posted Sep 11, 2012, 3:58 pm
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HOME in Jyväskylä, Finland - 15th November 2012
By: mmm105
Hello!
I arrived back home. It's so nice to tell mommy all my adventures. I had such a great time abroud with my hosts there. Thank you for them!
I gave some candies and chocolate from Switzerland. Everyone here liked them. Thanks melik90!
Now I'm ready for new adventures, so if you want to show me your hometown and country, just tell my mommy mmm105 about it...
Love,
Ape Apina
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Rothenburg o.d. Tauber, Germany - 8th December 2012
By: EuroMaus
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Posted Dec 9, 2012, 7:23 am Last edited Dec 9, 2012, 7:24 am by EuroMaus
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Bamberg, Germany - 10th December 2012
By: EuroMaus
Hi Mom, yesterday we went to Bamberg by train as you can see on the picture. It was a nice comfortable train.
It was snowing so much. Actually Bamberg old city is unseco world heritage, but we had no chance to make photos because of the snow. Here is one with St. Martin´s Church.
And a last picture with "Christmas Tree of Hope". Everycone can donate money for a some project and get a christmas bulb to hang on the tree.
One can hardly see the christmas bulbs because of the snow.
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Posted Dec 10, 2012, 5:50 am Last edited Dec 10, 2012, 5:51 am by EuroMaus
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Nuremberg, Germany - 13th December 2012
By: EuroMaus
Today we have done a short visit on the Christkindlesmarket.
I am sure we will go again there.
We saw the Frauenkirche ( Our Lady´s Church). Emperor Charles IV had the Church of Our Lady's (Frauenkirche) built here between 1355 and 1358 on the site of the destroyed synagogue of the former Jewish quarter (pogrom in 1349). It was the first Gothic hall church in Franconia, constructed as an Imperial court chapel with three aisles. Its builder was presumably Peter Parler, the master builder of the Prague St Vitus' Cathedral. In 1361, on the occasion of the baptism of the heir to the throne, the Imperial Crown Jewels
were displayed here for the first time. The "Männleinlaufen" ("Running Men" clockwork at noon), created in 1509 by Sebastian Lindenast and Georg Heuß, is reminiscent of the proclamation of the Golden Bull of 1356: seven electors pay homage to Emperor Charles IV sitting on the throne. The main altar is the "Tucher Altar" which was the high altar in the Augustine Church up until 1487. The epitaphs, most of which are from the Dominican's and the Augustine's churches, include works by Adam Kraft (Peringsdörfer epitaph) and by Michael Wolgemut.In 1816, the Church of Our Lady's was given to Nuremberg's Catholic congregation.
and then we saw Schöner Brunner ( Beautiful Fountain ).
Erected between 1389 and 1396 by the builder and stonemason, Heinrich Beheim, the 19-metre stone pyramid rises from the octagonal basin like a Gothic steeple top, narrowing in three steps, right to the top finial. Forty stone figures are arranged in three rows, all of them important 14th century sculptures representing the world-view of the Holy Roman Empire: in the bottom row allegorical figures symbolising Philosophy and the Free Arts, in the middle row the evangelists and Latin Church Fathers, in the third row the seven electors and nine heroes, at the very top Moses and the seven prophets.
The protective railing surrounding the fountain's basin was forged in 1587 by Paulus Kühn from Augsburg. In 1902, it was repaired by Albert Leipold and then furnished with the well-known ring that may be turned. Only fragments remain of the soft sandstone figures of the original fountain, and they are kept in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum. Between 1897 and 1902 the sandstone figures were replaced by shell lime ones.
At host´s home we got the ginger bread heart to eat which we bought on the Christkindles market.
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Löbnitz / Host Mums Parents House, Germany - 24th December 2012
By: EuroMaus
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