Travelog for: Troot

Hello Mommy,

we did a little trip by car just to watch the countryside!









Troot

Hey Mommy,

no more updates for this week!
I'm sure you watched the news and noticed about the flood in East Germany! There's water everywhere. The village where I stay is safe, but lots of villages around us are full of water. No places where we could go!
But have a look at Crawfish's update of today! As she can swim she checked the water. We weren't allowed to go. Too dangerous!

Troot

Hello Mommy,

how are you?

We did a sightseeing tour in the capital of Germany: Berlin!
We started at the famous tv tower "Fernsehturm". It was constructed between 1965 and 1969 and with its height of 368 meters, it is the tallest structure in Germany. There is a visitor platform and a revolving restaurant in the middle of the sphere. The tower is part of the World Federation of Great Towers (WFGT).



This is the Red City Hall, the town hall of Berlin. It is located near Alexanderplatz and is the home to the governing mayor and the government (the Senate of Berlin) of the Federal state of Berlin. The name of the landmark building dates from the facade design with red clinker bricks. The City Hall was built between 1861 and 1869 in the style of the north Italian High Renaissance.


Then we visited the St. Nicholas' Church, the best-known building of the quarter Nicholas' Quarter which is the reconstructed historical heart of Berlin. It is the oldest church in town and it was built between 1220 and 1230.


The last place we visited was the Berlin Cathedral which is the colloquial name for the Evangelical Supreme Parish and Collegiate Church in Berlin. It was built in the 15th century.
The Berlin Cathedral has never been a cathedral in the actual sense of that term since it has never been the seat of a bishop.


That's all for now. See you soon!

Troot

Today it was really warm outside so me and the other toyvoyagers enjoyed the day at a small lake. Just relaxing...

Troot

Hello Mommy,

we did a little tour by car. Can you imagine that the people living in some of these houses have been evacuated just one week ago?!













Look, I show you a picture taken without me just one week ago...


...and this is the same street today!!!


Love you!
Troot

Hello Mommy,

today the weather was perfect for a tour on bike!
We visited the elevated dump of the village. It wasn't easy to go up that hill! But it was worth it!
First I just saw the high wind wheels!


Then I turned around and had a great view! It was better than you can see on the picture. We could see the next city which is about 50 kilometers away! Amazing!


On our way back home we also found a geocache!
This box was big enough for a toyvoyager!


Troot

It's sunny.
It's warm.
Time to chill.

Troot

Hello Mom,

we did another tiny biking tour.
First we stopped on a tiny river. On the other side there were some interesting birds...


After biking for some more minutes we found this cute tiny waterfall.


From there we crossed a lovely wooden bridge...


...and reached a nice lake. Here we relaxed for a while.


Yours
Troot

Hello Mommy,

today I visited the park of Wörlitz, which is a part of the Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm.
While my host was taking part on a bike tour we Toyvoyagers decided to visit the park.
The central Wörlitzer Park lies adjacent to the small town of Wörlitz at an anabranch of the Elbe river. It was laid out between 1769 and 1773 as one of the first English gardens on the continent. According to the ideals of Duke Leopold III the park would also serve as an educational institution in architecture, gardening and agriculture, therefore large parts were open to the public from the beginning. Most buildings were designed by Erdmannsdorff, while the gardens were laid out by Johann Friedrich Eyserbeck. The gardens are protected from floods of the Elbe river in the north by a dam which is also a belt-walk offering numerous views along the park's sight lines. 
Wörlitz Palace finished in 1773, residence of Duke Leopold and his wife Louise of Brandenburg-Schwedt, was the first Neoclassical building in present-day Germany. The palace and its interior with valuable cabinets from the studio of Abraham and David Roentgen as well as a large collection of Wedgwood porcelain were publicly accessible. Louise had her private home in the adjacent Graues Haus (Grey House). At the eastern rim of the palace's garden stands the Wörlitz Synagogue built in 1790 as a rotunda modelled after the ancient "Temple of Vesta in Tivoli, Italy. The Neo-Gothic St Peter's Church in the west with its 66 m (217 ft) tall steeple was finished in 1809. 
The philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the aesthetic of Johann Joachim Winckelmann underlie the design of the park. Wörlitz Lake featured an island atop which was a model of Mount Vesuvius. The duke would stage fireworks that seemed to issue from an erupting volcano to entertain his guests. At the foot of the mountain on the island was a building intended to suggest William Hamilton's home at Pompeii. 
Few years ago my host worked as a tour guide in the castle and the park.

This is the most famous building, the palace.


We walked along the beautiful lake...







We found old stones.


This is the church. You can already see it when you're still 10km away from the city!


There are lots of flowers, trees, stones...






This stone is a volcano and it is called "Vesuv" like the famous one in Itlay!


It was a really nice day.

Troot

Hello Mommy,

the weather was beautiful so we decided to walk around a bit.
First we found a nice square with some flowers.


Then we walked to the famous Tiergarten. It is, with its 210 hectares (520 acres), the largest urban park of Berlin.




After a while we found the Victory Column. It is a major tourist attraction to the city of Berlin. Berliners, with their fondness for giving nicknames to buildings, call the statue Goldelse, meaning something like "Golden Lizzy".


I killed a lion!!! NO!!! I didn't! I just found the sleepy kitty near the Victory Column. He was purring the whole time.


Troot

Hello Mommy,

we did a tour by bike.
First we went through the garden of a castle and found a really nice building.




Then we found the river Spree.





Berlin has also lots of channels so we decided to follow one of them to go home.



Your little
Troot

Hello Mommy,

today the bell rang. We opened the door and welcomed 2 new toyvoyagers called Nathalie and Big foot.


We all cuddled them.


Then both showed us their souvenirs.


Yours
Troot

Today Tsukumo left us.

Hello Mommy,

today we visited the most famous lake of Berlin: Greater Wannsee. Its size is 2,732 km² and it is about 2,53km in length.
Nobody was there in the morning, just some little Toyvoyagers.



Your little Troot

Hello Mom,

today we drove through Teltow, a small town near Berlin. It looks very nice.







On the place where Teltow ends Berlin starts. There's no space left between both cities.


In Berlin we drove through the shortest avenue of the whole city: Tusnelda Allee. There's just one house number. It's number 1 for the church. There's nothing else in this street.


Troot