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Wuppertal Ronsdorf, Germany - 31st July 2010
By: olgamaus
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Posted Aug 1, 2010, 10:18 am Last edited Aug 1, 2010, 10:19 am by olgamaus
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Remscheid, Germany - 6th August 2010
By: olgamaus
Hi Mummy,
we met Katja's friend Erika today to take a walk together. We picked up Erika at her house. Erika is living in the district "Hasten", one of the oldest districts in the municipal area. You can find lots of typical "Bergische Häuser" here, usually half-timbered houses or those which are covered with slate.
We walked through a garden area, I saw blackberries here, not ripe yet.
I have a new furry friend now, his name is "Lumpi".
We walked towards the forest than.
In the garden of this house I found parts of historic machines.
We reached the forest than.
I saw some trail markings here. Katja explained that the encircled "R" and "W" mean hiking routes around the cities of Remscheid and Wuppertal, about 59 and 110 km long. The other marks are marking shorter hiking trails, usually between 5 and 15 km long.
This is a fish pond.
We rested on this pile of tree trunks for a while.
We decided to walk back home than. This did not mean that we would be home within a few minutes. First we had to walk back to the bottom of the valley and than walk back uphill to the city centre, we would still need at least 45 minutes to get home.
We saw old factory buildings when we crossed the road in the valley.
We walked through a hamlet where I found beautiful flowers.
What a lovely old house!
When we walked towards the city centre we had to walk uphill for ages, like it seemed to me.
This is a small park, situated in front of the police headquarter.
This column in the park is dedicated to the town twinning with Quimper in France.
When we walked home Katja told me that she will visit the ferret shelter tomorrow and maybe she will bring a third ferret home. I will show you the ferrets soon although I am a little bit afraid of them. I know that ferrets love to eat small prey animals.
Bye
Bussi
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Posted Aug 11, 2010, 11:28 pm
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Wuppertal, Germany - 24th August 2010
By: olgamaus
Hi Mummy,
we visited an arboretum today. An arboretum is a collection of trees, sort of a botanical garden containing living collections of woody plants intended at least partly for scientific study. We went to "Staatsforst Burgholz", a woodland area which is situated in both urban area of Wuppertal and also the urban area of Solingen, but only a small part of it. When World War II was over, there were nearly all trees felled for rebuilding of destroyed city areas and also as firewood.
Searching for fast-growing forest species trees from foreign counties were planted than in this area to study their growth in local weather conditions. Plants from North America, South America, Asia and Europe were planted.
There are several walking paths through the arboretum, of course we chose the longest of them, about 6 km long, displaying a variety of trees from Europe, America and Asia.
We went to Wuppertal by bus and had to walk for about 15 minutes to reach the starting point of today's walk. I saw this lovely painted house.
We saw an information board, showing some facts about this district of Wuppertal, Cronenberg.
We reached the forest than and also the starting point of our walking-tour.
We had to follow the yellow marking, showing a pine cone.
We saw lots of interesting trees, this one showing cork tissue instead of the usual bark.
From here you can see the L 74, a highway, feeder road to the motorway A 46.
We rested here for a while.
Due to the really bad weather during the last week we also saw lots of mushroom. Katja said that these were looking really funny. I don't know why, I t hink they look they an average mushroom.
This tree is a coast Douglas fir, usually growing at the West coast of North America ...
... and its cone.
We walked to a section of the forest where trees from Asia were growing. This "false cypress" is originally growing in Japan.
This is a beech, usually growing in South America.
You can see this tree growin in German gardens sometimes, it is called "Monkey-Puzzle", growing in Chile and Argentina.
We were sitting in the middle of our walking path here, it is completely covered with grass.
Do you know Katsura trees? They are called "Kuchenbäume" in German (cake trees), because in autumn their withering leafes smell like gingerbread.
This was a really interesting trip today
Bye
Bussi
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Posted Aug 25, 2010, 9:57 pm
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Remscheid, Germany - 28th August 2010
By: olgamaus
Hi Mummy,
it is raining cats and dogs outside - for several days now.
Bye
Bussi
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Posted Sep 3, 2010, 8:25 pm
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Milton, Australia - 21st September 2010
By: emo_kid
Hi Mummy
After much bumping and jumping, everything went quiet... And then i heard people talking funny... I started to get scared, as i thought pirates had kidnapped me...
Then the envelope started getting cut into and i said "be careful" but i dont think they heard me... When i realised i wasn't being cut up, i looked up and there were all these faces looking at me...
I thought, for sure ive been kidnapped by pirates, But then this human hand reached in and gently pulled me out, and i knew i was ok.
I got introduced to Bruno Synapse Lenny Nursy and Rosario who are all staying with emo_kid
So i guess im ok, here is Australia - Where it's raining...
The other tv's have some awesome stories to tell, like how they saw a giant snail last night, but were too scared to go near him... They said he was bigger than ME!!!
Bye for now Mummy, talk soon,
Love Bussi xox
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Posted Sep 21, 2010, 12:40 am
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