München, Germany - 11th August 2008
By: Pandamao
Today I had to say good-bye to Munich because fam-united is my next host.
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Posted Aug 11, 2008, 5:20 pm
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Bruchsal, Germany - 12th August 2008
By: fam-united
Today I arrived in Bruchsal. The weather isn't that great - it is raining heavily.
Let's see, what we will do tomorrow.
Bye, Bestik
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Posted Aug 12, 2008, 5:00 pm
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Giengen an der Brenz, Germany - 13th August 2008
By: fam-united
Today is Petra's and Ralf's 20th wedding anniversary. The decided to go on a trip with us. This trip is also my fairwell trip, because then I will travel to my next host.
Here we are:
At first I felt very scared, when I read this about the "Button in ear". I shouted out loud: Oh no! I don't want a button in my ear. Please call my mum, please!!!
But then Petra told us, that nothing would happen to us. We just would walk through this museum.
"Okay, I said. A museum. How exciting"
But later I realized, that it is a really great museum, just like toyvoyagers' paradise. We visited the Steiff-Museum.
At first we listened to the story about Margarete Steiff's life. Then we had to help a girl and a toy to search for 3000 bears, which got lost on the way to the USA.
First we searched in the ocean.
Then we saw ice bears and penguins.
In this room we found the 3000 bears:
When we came out of this room, we walked through an exhibition of different Steiff toys.
Then we walked through another sort of exhibition, where the toys are behind glasses. Petra wasn't that happy about it, because the photos were worse than before and also then the photos weren't really great because of the dark light in the rooms.
At last Petra wrote something into the guest book and also mentioned, that we had been part of the family
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Posted Aug 17, 2008, 8:57 pm
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Göppingen, Germany - 13th August 2008
By: fam-united
Later in the afternoon we drove to Göppingen. Everyone was rather tired already, but nevertheless we wanted to see this other museum: the Maerklin museum.
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Posted Aug 17, 2008, 8:59 pm
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on our way to Bruchsal, Germany - 13th August 2008
By: fam-united
Next to the Stuttgart airport you see this parking block built like a bridge over the autobahn
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Posted Aug 24, 2008, 3:26 pm
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Münzesheim, Germany - 22nd August 2008
By: fam-united
The weather is rather nice this morning. So Petra asked her son Fabian and us, whether we would like to go to a place for a little walk.
When we arrived there, we first had to read the rules, how to behave in the park:
- parents are liable for their children (Are we children???? - No!)
- entry at your own's risk (Okay.)
- walk a dog on a lead (We have no dogs with us, have we?)
- cycling and scooters forbidden (Okay, we will let our car on the parking place, because we think, that's forbidden too, isn't it?)
- don't cut plants - poisonous ( )
- no alcohol (Okay, we know and we never drink alcohol anyway. Petra told us, that there is a clinic for those, who are addicted to alcohol, so of course nobody should drink there)
Petra, will you really translate everything at first before we can go into the park??? Don't you know, that we all will behave like always? Ok, we will behave even better than we do normally. So please let us walk into the park now. We know, that we are in an Asian Garden, so you don't have to explain anything, okay?
This ceiling is built with blue bottles.
Petra, do you think, that's funny?!?!
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Posted Aug 25, 2008, 7:37 pm
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Bruchsal, Germany - 25th August 2008
By: fam-united
Today Petra thought, it was time to take a look at the palace of Bruchsal. The weather wasn't that great and it started to rain later, so we only took a few photos.
Here you see the county court of Bruchsal
Here is the entrance of the palace
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Posted Sep 22, 2008, 5:30 pm
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Cologne, Germany - 31st August 2008
By: fam-united
Petra, her family and we drove to Cologne today. We met olgamaus and several other toyvoyagers there and had a great day together.
First I want to tell you a bit about Cologne:
Cologne is the fourth-largest city of Germany with about 1 Million inhabitants. It had been founded by Romans in the year 38BC and became the status of a Roman city in 50AD.
Cologne lies on the Rhine River. It is famous for the Cologne Cathedral (Kölner Dom), which is the seat of the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Cologne. The University of Cologne is one of Europe’s oldest universities. Cologne is also famous for the Cologne Carnival. Within Germany it is important as a media center, because many radio and television stations are based here.
I'm in front of the cathedral. Do you see the nice ornaments?
It isn't easy to take a photo of the whole cathedral, because everywhere you go, you run against walls.
Here you see a side of the Cologne Cathedral. We were surprised, that there was only a small scaffold, because they always have to repair parts of the Cathedral.
We still had some time left, before we met Ralf, Petra's husband again, who had to go to the garden exhibition, so we decided to walk down to the River Rhine and take some photos there. Here you see the railway bridge and a cruise vessel.
Just turning around on our heels we saw a part of Cologne's historic city.
We tried to find a place for a group photo and found this dry fountain, which just seemed to be the right place. Katja, Petra and Sabrina helped us to sit at the right place.
Then we walked back to the Cologne Cathedral to meet Ralf and go to have lunch together.
We walked to a typical Cologne restaurant, which also has a small brewery (Brauerei).
Of course it was a must to order "Köllsch" and a Malzbier, both typical beers of Cologne.
After lunch we walked back to the cathedral, because we had no chance to go inside in the morning. There still had been church service in it. Now it was open and we went into this big church with its beautiful windows. I'm sorry, but the photos aren't that great.
The cathedral is a World Heritage Site. It is one of the world's largest churches, the largest Gothic church in Northern Europe. It has the scecond-tallest church spires and presents the largest facade of any church in the world. The construction began in 1248 and took until 1880 to complete. It is 144,5 metres long, 86,5 metres wide and its two towers are 157 metres tall.
Finally Katja and Petra were in need of a cup of coffee and the kids needed something to drink too. So we decided to walk to one of the nice cafes in Cologne and sit down there. We asked Katja and Petra for another group photos- - this time they should be on the photo too. After a short discussion they said "Yes".
On our way back to the cathedral we took another photo, this time with both towers.
The Cologne railway station is next to the cathedral. We went there to say "goodbye" to Katja, who got home by trail.
Then we walked back to the car and drove home too. We needed about 3 hours to arrive at Bruchsal again.
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Posted Sep 1, 2008, 1:18 pm
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Bruchsal, Germany - 18th September 2008
By: fam-united
This morning Petra asked us, whether we would like to go to school with her and of course we said yes.
She showed us the classroom, where she teaches maths for the first graders. The pupils learnt to write an I and i with their classteacher (hedgehog is IGEL in German) and with Petra they learned to count the girls and boys in the class. Maybe you see the small paintings on the board?
Here you see a board, which they need for German lessons.
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Posted Oct 4, 2008, 5:41 pm
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Bruchsal, Germany - 21st September 2008
By: fam-united
It's a busy Sunday morning, because Petra has to prepare the batter for many many buttermilk waffles.
Each year they celebrate a feast at their church. It is the feast of the patrons St.Damian and Hugo. Since many years it is tradition for the family club, in which Petra and her family are members, to bake and sell waffles. Each family brings batter for about 70 waffles.
This morning we helped her to get ready with everything, before she had to run to the parish hall, where they always sell the waffles in a tent. We asked, whether we could join her, but this time she had to say no
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Posted Sep 27, 2008, 11:31 pm
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Bruchsal, Germany - 27th September 2008
By: fam-united
I left Bruchsal today and now I'm on my way to Deborah in London. I'm so excited. Maybe I will complete one mission soon.
I'm sure, that Petra and her family will miss me. They always said, that I'm such a funny toyvoyager, who really brings joy to the hosts.
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Posted Sep 27, 2008, 12:14 pm
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London, England - 2nd October 2008
By: Deborah
At last I arrived in London where I will be staying with Travel Ted for a while. I think I gave him rather a surprise when I popped out of my travel box but he soon recovered. I also had the unexpected pleasure of meeting Mousy Mouse. It was a good job I arrived when I did as he will be leaving for Germany tomorrow. We all posed for a group picture to help us remember what a nice evening we had.
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Posted Oct 11, 2008, 5:33 pm Last edited Oct 11, 2008, 5:34 pm by Deborah
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