Travelog for: Spooky

Hello,
My name is Spooky. I'm a little dog in search of the truth! I know its out there... I've watched all the X-Files episodes and there's definitely something going on!




I'd love to visit any areas of paranormal activity, whether it be aliens, creatures, or ghosts! I need to find out which are real and which are fake. I hope I have better luck coming up with evidence than Mulder and Scully!

I also would love to visit any government buildings to see if I can sniff out a conspiracy in the making! You know you can't trust them.

Of course I'm still a young doggy so I'm sure it'll be okay if I take a break sometime to try out the local food or see any neat local sites. It'll all help me learn, right?

I'm home! I don't know how exactly I got here. I remember heading towards Roswell... then its all just black. I suppose the aliens got me! I remember bright lights, and some one kept saying something about this place called eBay...then suddenly I was waking up on this shelf, near all my old DVDs. Maybe it was all just a dream?

I barked and I barked until someone heard me and suddenly some other toys came over to investigate. One of them, Kari, invited me to come home with him to have a real adventure since he thought I was making up all of this. Maybe it really was a dream, but then if it was where did my tag go? Hmm... I must investigate further... But Germany seems as good a place to start investigating as anywhere!

First though I need some time to stretch out at home...
Spooky

Dear Mommy,
This rain just won't let up! Yesh. We decided to have some fun inside the house, since we couldn't really go out. We started calmly enough reading a book

But that wasn't really energetic enough, too much energy! We need to get out soon. So we decided to go for a drive.

After we ran over the 3rd little people we gave up on that though and decided another nice calm activity would be better. So we sat in and decided to try to do a puzzle. Geez these pieces are tiny.

No luck... so we went investigating to find another example of a puzzle and found this finished one waiting to be hung up

Much more interesting than the halfway completed one we tried. Hm.. Maybe there'll be less rain when I get to my next host. I hope so. Its time for me to get in an envelope and be on my way!
Spooky

Hi Mum,

I'm happy to tell you, that Kari and I arrived safely. I already met some other toyvoyagers. Petra is very busy with school, but she promisses to go to some interesting places as soon as possible.

Pawshakes, Spooky

Today is a big flea market in front of the palace of Bruchsal. Petra's husband and her son were "very happy" to take me and the other toyvoyagers with them and take photos with us 

It is raining cats and dogs and the thunder is very loud. Petra says, that the thunderstorm is just over Bruchsal. Later we read in the newspapers, that one house burnt. Thank Godness, nobody got hurt.

Here you see two views out of Petra's bedroom.

Petra's daughter is on the way to Stockholm, Sweden. It is her first flight and she is very nervous and so is Petra. She took three toyvoyager with her: Precious, Kari and Hasi. So of course we are excited too. Here I watch the flight and the airplanes arrival in Stockholm.





Petra's daughter sings in a choir, which takes part at the big Pueri Cantores Festival in Stockholm.





There is a very long list of choirs from all over the world.

Ralf and Petra read in the newspapers, that there are Scottish Highland Games in Angelbachtal. Both are big Scotland fans, although they never had been there already - but they surely will go there one day, that's what they told us. So today they decided to go to the festival and watch the games and listen to the Pipes and Drums Bands.




(sorry for being not in this photo, Petra said, that she has to zoom it)


There were several shops and Petra bought a Scottish Teddy Bear and some hair bands and Ralf bought two Scottish flags.

Wow, I can tell you, Petra had some crazy last weeks at her school. She is so happy, that there are only 2 more days and then summer break starts.
I'm sure, you aren't really surprised, that it is raining once more and very windy.

Today we visited the Unimog Museum in Gaggenau. It is located between Rastatt and Freudenstadt in the beautiful Murg River Valley.
There is an exhibition of various alternating Unimog of six decades from the beginning until now, giving hints about technology, love stories between drivers and vehicles and lots of models.
We also took part in off-road driving on the Unimog Museum premises, climbing various hills and tackling other obstacles on the Unimog parcours. It was so so great!

Another thunderstorm! It is unbelievable, how often we have lightning and thunder.

Today we drove to the Michaelsberg in Untergrombach. Untergrombach is one of Bruchsal's suburbs with about 6000 inhabitants.
3500 to 2600 BC there were frist human signs on the Michaelsberg, which gave this culture the name "Michaelsberger Kulturkreis"
1502 AD Joss Fritz from Untergrombach planned the "Bundschuhaufstand" during the time of Peasant's Wars.









The chapel is on top of the Michaelsberg.







In the far (right side) you see some houses, which belong to Bruchsal.





Bruchsal and also Untergrombach are located at the edge to the Kraichgau. Here you see the Rhine Valley. If the weather is sunny, you can see the Palatinate Forest in the far.







I learned something about "Magerrasen" (neglected grassland), which is typical for the Michaelsberg. Behind the sign you see so-called "Steinriegel" (field clearance cairn), made by people working on their fields a long long time ago. They threw the big stones from their fields to the border of the neighbour's field, so that in the middle all stones were accumulated. Many animals and flowers love this gaunt places and that's why a few weeks ago, people cleaned the Steinriegel from all the earth, that came between the stone during the many many years and from all the other plants, that love to grow in earth.






The nature reserve sign, they shortly added some rules.

Then it was time for Tito, Tilla Mook, Galo, Nanu the cub, Coco, Kari, Tasmanian Devil, Scotty and Friendship Bear and me to say good bye to Precious.

Once more we are in Eichtersheim. This time there is a big medieval market and a joust.







Two zoomed photos without me:

Today we drove to Enzklösterle. At first we played Adventure Golf and had a lot of fun.




Then we had lunch at a restaurant, where the Krippena is located. We saw the world largest wood carved Christmas crib (sorry, somehow I hid in the backpack) and a Christmas tree.