Travelog for: Germanya

Hello everybody!

My name is Germanya and mummy told my, that it's time to become a ToyVoyager. And of course I take the chance to explore my homeland Germany. I would like to see a lot of towns and places here in Germany and show them to mummy and all other users. Sadly I know only a hand full of places here and all the others I saw at pictures. And now I want to see them in real! Can you help me with this?

Of course I can go with you on holidays outside of Germany. But mostly I want to travel in my homeland. There are so many places I want to see and so many things I want to do. But sadly my life mission list is to short for all my wishes so I picked up five and maybe someday I can wrote more.

But I have one request. I would be pleased if you can take a picture with me and the town sign (Ortsschild) of your hometown and all the others we will visit. Mummy said that she will make a surprise for me, when I have a lot of them. So pleaseeee help me!  (unter the post you can see me in front of the shild of my hometown 

And now please feel free to contact mummy and invite me!

Kisses
Germanya

Hey everybody!

I'm so excited. Not I'm on my way to BlackCat. Mummy and I read some updates from TVs which allready have visited BlackCat and they saw so nice things. I can't await to arraiv at her home. But first I had to crawl into my envelope.

[img][/img]

So next time you will here from me when I'm in Essen! JUHEY! The first station at my big German-Tour.



See you!
Germanya

Hello !

Today I arrived in Essen. And as BlackCat planned a tour around her part of the town with the car for shopping, I was allowed to go with her.



And I found this ! So now you know, I am in Essen-Kray.

Love,
Germanya

Hey,

today we went to the Lake Baldeney and wanted to have a look at the flood. But it wasn't that high as we thought. But we had a look at the dam there.





Driftwood...a lot of driftwood...

















It was really nice, even though not all photos are good enough to show here as it was dark already. But BlackCat said that we maybe go there again. We'll see.

Love,
Germanya

Hey,

today BlackCat wanted to be creative and when I saw what she was doing, I wanted to help her.



We thought about where to put the animals and other things.



She was already ready with the bad part, so I only wanted to help to glue the things where they should go.







And then it was ready.



It was a lot of fun.

Later we decided to write a postcard to a friend of BlackCat. BlackCat loves writing postcards, so we took one where she had to thought of her friend (her friend visited the exhibition which was advertised on the postcard) and we wrote it.





It was a nice and long day. I went to sleep right after that.

Love,
Germanya

Hey !

Today Jumi arrived here. I welcomed him really warm and I hope we'll have a lot of fun together.



Love,
Germanya

First UNESCO WHS

Hey !

Today we decided that we will go to the UNESCO WHS Zollverein, which is in Essen. My life mission is to see 10 German UNESCO WHS and Zollverein is one, so BlackCat said we should go there.



There was a welcome sign behind this glass.





A 3D plan of the area. Look how small it looks.



And how big it really is...



Coming closer.



A pitman on a picture.



In this building you can find the ruhr museum.



The Christmas tree is still standing in front of it.





There is another museum - the red dot design museum.





It was a lot of fun walking around there. I hope you like the update as well.

Love,
Germanya

Hey ,

today we went in the botanical garden called "Grugapark" in Essen. BlackCat loves this park and we went with her.


That's the Grugahalle. There are concerts, comedy shows and other events.


A sign


That's before the entrance. (Some years ago the cash point was right under it, now it is behind it)


A statue !






The "Hundertwasser Haus". It is for parents when their children are in the hospital next to the Grugapark.


That's the hospital.
































Some garden decoration in the park !

The visit there was really nice and right after it we went to another place which I will show you in another update.

Love,
Germanya

Hey ,

right after the Grugapark we went to the Margarethenhöhe.

Wikipedia says about it: Founded by Margarethe Krupp in 1906, the garden city with its 3092 units in 935 buildings on an area of 115 ha (284.2 acres) (of which 50 ha are woodland) is considered the first of its kind in Germany. All buildings follow the same stylistic concept, with slight variations for each one. Although originally designed as an area for the lower classes with quite small flats, the old part Margarethenhöhe I has developed into a middle class residential area and housing space has become highly sought after. A new part, Margarehenhöhe II, was built in the 1960s and 1970s but is architecturally inferior and especially the multi-storey buildings are still considered social hot spots.

We don't know the history of the places we visited there, so no comments under the photos. But I still hope you'll like them.





















































It was a long day and we were really tired when we got home.

Love,
Germanya

Hey,

today we explored BlackCats neighbourhood.


That's her house.


And her street.


This bridge is new. It opened in 2011.


A school close to her home.


On the bridge.


Looking back to her house.


Oh, a train (under the bridge).






Other side of the bridge.


And walking back slowly.


The garden where BlackCat sits in summer.




A street sign !










We found a playground.



















Later that day we went to the river Ruhr for a short walk. Only one photo:


It was a nice day.

Love,
Germanya

Hello ,

today we went into the city of Essen. BlackCat wanted to go shopping and we joined her.




The post office !


The shopping street.


The main station of Essen.


A carillon.


A theatre.


Here you can see two things: The cathedral of Essen in the front and the city hall of Essen in the back (the black building).








The garden of the cathedral.











It was a nice day,
Germanya

Byebye Essen!



Byebye Jumi!

Hello Mum,

I arrived at my next host. I was welcomed by a very friendly bunny called Dicker Kumpel. He is on holiday at the moment - in the Island Amrum. This is so exciting.



Then he introduced me to his other guests.



Later we went out and sat in front of our holiday-house.





It looks great!



This is the view from our patio.



Tomorrow I will see more of Amrum!

Love
Germanya

Hello Mum, 

We made a nice walk through the dunes around Norddorf today. Look – we had wonderful views. But you can see, it was very windy.







It was a very long way – we had to walk a lot!







Can you see the shape of the little trees here? It is because of the wind.



This guy was so funny!



There were many beautiful houses in Norddorf.



Can you read the words on this gate?



Love
Germanya

Hello Mum, 

We went to a little harbor today. You can see it far behind me.



To the other side we saw a ferry in the big port of Wittdün.



Then we arrived at the small harbor. There were nice colorful houses.



And now you can see the little harbor.



Do you understand the words?

   

Love
Germanya