Travelog for: Mr. Quakedi

Hello Mum!

Today we celebrated Baerle s and Maeusle s birthday.

We sang "Happy Birthday"  to them. Later we were invited for coffee and chocolate cake!

It´s great to have a party with so much TVs!

I gave them a big hug!

Hej Mummy!

Today we were in the Legoland. Did you know that the Lego bricks cme from Denmark? I was in the park with the miniature cities and sights!

First stop: Kopenhagen, second stop: Ribe, oldest city of Denmark , third stop: Castle Amalienborg, fourth stop: village in Sweden,  fifth stop: castle in Denmark, sixth stop: boat in Norway and last stop: Spare ribs in big size 

Hey Mummy!

Tomorrow we have to leave Denmark. See you soon!

Love, Mr.Quakedi

Time to say goodbye!

Today I will leave Lichtenfels and my new TV friends. I gave them all a warm huggie and we posed for a last group photo.

Byebye dear Wolley, I always loved your adveturous stories about Africa!

Byebye Cheerio, your shiny colour made always a good mood!

Byebye smart Wavy Gravy, I liked to have good conversation!

Byebye Baerle and maeusle, your dialect made me smile 

Byebye Khaled and Günther, remeber the fun we had together!

Byebye hostmum, thank you for everything!

Time for new adventures, Hamburg, I am comiiiiiiiiiiing!

Mr.Quakedi

Hello!
I arrived safely in Hamburg at my new host's house. When my envelope was opened there were some little guys waiting for me.
This is BER, another Toyvoyager and he is in Hamburg already for a few weeks. He told me much about the city and I am very excited to see it with my own eyes!

Then there were these two guys, they are not TVs but also very friendly to me. Pikachu, the yellow one, told me that he sometimes travels with my host but never with foreign people.

I was very hungry and thirsty after my travels and so we had a little snack together!

I was also very tired, so I decided to go to sleep early and be fit on the next moring!

Bye,
Mr. Quakedi

Hello!
Today we went camping for visiting a medieval market. Somehow we did not manage to make many photos but my host told me, that perhaps we will visit another market and be able to take more pictures there!
Anyway, here are the few pictures we took!
We had beautiful weather for camping, this is the view from our tent.

And here we are already at the market, this is the main stage as also many bands are playing on this market.

Many people come to the medieval markets and live for a few days like the people did in the medieval age. As they can't build houses for that time, they use tents.

A view over a very small part of the market.

And here is another stage, it is a bit smaller than the one I showed you first!

This is already all I can show you, there was so much to see and so we forgot the pictures... Perhaps the next time, I hope we will get the chance!

Bye,
Mr. Quakedi

Hello!
Today we were shopping and we met this amazing family and they were so friendly to take a photo with me!


Bye,
Mr. Quakedi

Hello Mum!
Today we had a walk through Hamburg. Finally I got to see all the sights of this city. We startet our tour at the lake "Alster". It is located in the middle of Hamburg and it is also a small river going to and from the lake.

You can go over the lake and through the river with these boats.


In the middle is the "Alster fountain".


On the one side of the Alter is the "Jungfernstieg". It is popular for good shopping and nice walking.


In the distance you can see one of Hamburg's main churches, the St. Petri-church.

Here is a part of the river Alster, going into direction of the townhall.


And here is the beautiful townhall. I like it very much!

Here we were in the arcades along the river. Somehow it doesn't look like Germany...



Directly next to the townhall is the "Rathaus-Schleuse", in translation "Townhall-lock".



On the place in front of the townhall was a wine festival.


And here is the church again.

On our way back home we came along the St. Jacobi-church, another main church of Hamburg.


After our lang walk, we were really tired and decided to go home.

Bye,
Mr. Quakedi

Hello Mum!
And here I am again on a mediaval market!

This time we were in Hohenlockstedt, it is a small village in North Germany. The market ground was an old airport.

This is the small stage of the Scottish band "Saor Patrol". They have mostly drums, a bagpipe and an elctric guitar.



We had a little snack here.

Ah, these are not "Saor Patrol" but another Scottish band called "The Dolmen".

The sun was shining really hot and so we needed to care for our sun protection.

This is a cup of mead, a drink similar to wine but made of honey. My host really likes it and it is a popular drink on mediaval markets.

This is the food and drink box in our tent. We put all the things in there to keep some kind of order.

And this is were I slept in the night.

And some morning ritual.

This was our tent, small but nice.

The next day on the market, some morning impression.


This knight was so friendly to hold me for some time.

A special highlight for all the kids were the stray-playgrounds. And also little Toyvoyagers had lots of fun there.



I have also met some strange guy. He is called "Slayer Pika" and not a Toyvoyager but he is often on tour with his father. They both like metal music very much.


After so much fun I was very thirsty but my host had thought of me.

We then had to pack our tent and things and then we were already on our way home. It was really funny and I enjoyed my second mediaval market!

Bye,
Mr. Quakedi

Hello Mum!
Today I visited something very special here in Hamburg. We were in the "Miniauturwunderland". It is similar to a museum but everything is very small.
The Miniaturwunderland is located in the harbour and we had a nice sunset.

This is the "Elpphilharmonie", the new opera building in Hamburg. The people here are not sure if they think it is beautiful or not.

The beginning made some glas cubes with the same scene in different times, starting in the very early mediaval times.




And here we are in the Suiss part.

They built the Red Bull-flying challenge in small.




They also had a festival.

And this mediaval market beyond the ruin of a castle.

This train station was hidden in the wall.


Some more impressions...



Did you see the ghosts on the second picture?
And here we arrived at the airport from Knuffingen. Knuffingen is the name of the town they had built.

Next to the airport were some gardens with a birthday party.

And a model of the castle Neuschwanstein, the probably most popular castle in Germany.


But then we went back to the airport.

They also have day and night there, here it is getting night over the airport.


The airplanes were really starting and landing on the airport. But as we never really got when it happend, we just have these pictures after the airplane has landed.


But on the second photo you can see the exit in the wall through which the airplanes flew.
Then we walked on...


Here we are in Knuffingen.






They have also a fair.

And here is a christmas village. Perhaps Father Christmas is also living there.

In the background you can see the TV-tower of Hamburg. In front they are pulling down an old company building.


We were a little bit jumping between the areas, here we have some Wild West!


Here they have built a part of the harbour from Hamburg and in the next picture you can see the St. Michaelis-church, also a min church in Hamburg.


And some Grand Canyon.



Ah, and we also found some aliens! The USA have some secret alien-bases, this is the clue!


And we arrived in Los Angeles at night. See all the lights!


And back to Hamburg...

The main station from Hamburg...

...and the Köhlbrandbrücke.

Here you can see a typical zone of the German North Sea Cost!

And here is a little bit of "Hagenbeck's Tierpark", the zoo of Hamburg.


The last part of the Miniaturwunderland is Scandinavia. There they have also moving ships!




Here you see a Swedish mine.



I really liked all the snow here!

Do you recognise these guys?

It is a bit small but this is Pippi Longstockings and her friends!


The ship in the back is the Flying Dutchman, beware!

With this experience our trip to the Miniaturwunderland ended and we went very tired but with many great pictures in the heads back home!

Bye,
Mr. Quakedi

Hello!
Today I am writing from Bochum in Northrhine-Westphalia. My host stays here to visit some relatives but we found also time to have a look around the city. But first we had some chocolate in the hotel. It was birthday chocolate with a cool cow on it.



Oh, it was so delicous!

Oops, now I have eaten half of it...

I was so full of chocolate that I had to go to bed afterwards. But I was fit again the next day and so we started our trip at the mainstation of Bochum.

There was some kind of party in the inner city going on and we found this funny car.

We saw a lot of churches this day but we don't now the names of all of them... This one is located right in the city centre!

It has a spring in front of it.


This dog we found in front of a shop.

Here you have a look up and down the Kortumstrasse, the main shopping street in Bochum.


This guy is from the musical "Starlight Express", the most successful musical in the world and he was standing in our hotel.

In the city we also found some art in the city. It was really colourful.



Ah, this is the St. Peter and Paul-church.

We also saw this statue.

This is the town hall of Bochum.

And this church is located in front of the town hall. It was made in 1867 for the world exhibition in Paris.

This church is called "Christuskirche".

Then we came to one of the main sights of Bochum, the "Bergbaumuseum", a museum about coal mining.

We hadn't the time to go inside but we could take some photos around the museum. Can you see me on the next?


From the Bergbaumuseum we took the underground to the Rewirpower-stadium, the home of the football club VfL Bochum.


From there it was not far to the building of Starlight Express. We could only look from the outside but there was a train standing in front of it.




On our way back we came across this beautiful church.

And finally we saw the planetarium. In front of it is some sign that still tells, that Bochum was one of the stadiums of the Women Football World Championchips 2011.



We were really happy about the sunny weather and had a lot of fun in Bochum.

Bye,
Mr. Quakedi

Hello!
Today we saw some more of Hamburg and finally I got to see the harbour! We had great weather, sunny with some clouds and good for taking photos.

Hamburg is located at the river Elbe and the old buildings are called "Landungsbrücken".

Here you have some view over the public part of the harbour. The ship to the right is a ferry and used for public transport as well as bus and underground.

There were also a lot of seagulls sitting there.


A view over the Elbe to the more industrial part of the harbour.

The musical "The Lion King" is located in the yellow tent.

If you have some spare money you can go through the harbour with this ship.


Sitting in the sun.

The clock tower of the Landungsbrücken. In the small window it also shows the water-level of the Elbe.

This is the perhaps most popular ship of Hamburg and called "Rickmer Rickmers".

On the harbour are also located the scandinavian churches of the sailors, here the Swedish one.

And here are pictures of the Finnish, the Norwegian and the Danish church.



After the scandinavian churches we came to the main church of Hamburg, the St. Michaelis-church. The people from Hamburg just call it "Michel".

Next to the Michel are some old houses, called the "Krameramtsstuben".


After our visit to the Krameramtsstuben we went home and had a nice evening together.

Bye,
Mr. Quakedi

Hello!
Today we had a some surprising visit from another Toyvoyager called Strawberry Girl.

Then we decided spontaneously that she will stay with us until the Postcrossing-Meeting in Bielefeld in the middle of October. I am really happy about that!

Bye,
Mr. Quakedi

Hello!
Today we are going to bake a cake. A very special one, as it is with some liqueur called Amarula und an elefant on the top. I am really curious how we get the elefant on the cake.

First we read the instructions on the back of the package.

We had to weigh some of the ingredients and I took the chance to weigh myself... 30 gramms, perhaps I should eat less sweets...

First we put the margarine in the bowl.

Then we needed three eggs...


Now we had a look at the content of the package.

And here we have the form for the elefant, we could almost hide below it.

We put it all in the bowl and mixed it to get the dough.

We prepared the form with some baking paper and filled the dough in.


Now we had to bake the cake and afterwards wait until it was cold. Then we took a thread to cut it into two halfs.

We should put the liquer on one of the halfs with a spoon.


Now it was time to prepare the cream.


First we put some of the cream on the lower halb of cake, then added the second half and put the rest of the cream on top.



The cake needed to go to the freezer now for some hours. Afterwards we could put the form on it and make the elefant.




The ready cake tasted to delicious that we completely forgot about taking pictures while eating.

Bye,
Mr. Quakedi

Hello!
Today a new Toyvoyager arrived! We welcomed him very friendly, this is his first trip and he was a bit excited. His name was NicePeter.




He brought some sweets with him and shared them with us. Also he has a mesage from his Mum.



Bye,
Mr. Quakedi