Travelog for: Gozer

Hi Mum,

safely together with HelmutBluepant, Charlotte, Mefito and the little Oink I reached Remscheid yesterday evening.

Today, after a huge rain-shower, Helmut showed me the first impressions of his garden.

At first we sat in his favourite flower, the potted poppy-blossom

Then we walked through the garden

Here he showed me the ox-eye (daisy) [Buphthalmum salicifolium]

Lots of blooming at the moment

At another place stand the Hemerocallis (in German Taglilien)

Very dark red, I think


Then we made a little stop at the bank in front of the gardenpond

A lot of waterplants are there

The main plant at the moment is the water soldier [Stratiotes aloides], Helmut told me, that the larvas of the dragonfly use it for coming out of the water after some years of growing and hang themselfs at the leaf tips to hatch out

The next station was at the summer lilac [Buddleja davidii]

Woow, the fragrance is..wooow

Even a rare yellow one I find here


Helmut is also very proud about his Agapanthus

He told me that this plant would not bloom every year without the right hibernation


He also showed me the nice rose-bushes

this one has even a nice fragrance


Here we sit in one of the appletrees

Helmut likes plants with eatable fruit ...me, too

This is the reason why we find a lot of red raspberry bushes [Rubus idaeus]

We nibbled a lot of them


That was my day in the garden here
See and hug You, Mum
Yours
Gozer

today we made a little walk through the pedestrian zone of Wuppertal-Barmen

Here we start at the beginning. Behind me You can see a station in old style of the suspension railway (Schwebebahn), but in the holidays it doesn´t drive, because of the huge renovation that lasts almost 10 years for the whole railway...


One of the nicer pre-war buildings there. A lot of houses were destroyed in WWII and the houses they built up after it, are only functional, but not very nice...


This is the formerly "Hall of fame" , built at the end of the 19th. century. Now its "the house of the youth" and sometimes bands playing there.


Here we play with 3 huge bronce turtles. They have their home in the pedestrian zone and are very popular, almost by the kids who want to sit on them.


This is the town-hall of barmen, built in the late 20ths of the 20th century


And bronce-animals again, but much older, here as colums of large lanterns


Here we sit on the basic of one of them


And we met "Tuffi"

He is very famous here, in the 50ths he jumped out of the suspension railway and fell into the Wupper. Nothing seriously happend to him


That was our little walk

Love and hugs to You, Mum
Yours
Gozer

Hi Mum,

today we were witness of a very rare spactacle: Another selenicereus grandiflorus opens his blossom tonight and we watched it in the garden

This is the half open blossom at about 21:00



And here half an hour later



The blossom is almost open at about 22:00





Now at about 23:00 the blossom is fully open


What a great event



And this is the closed and faded blossom in the next morning.


See and love You mum,
bye for now
Yours
Gozer

Hi Mum,

today it was soo hot and we were glad when a parcel with wonderful contents arrived us. O.K., it was Strunkis parcel, with beautiful gifts from RikeH, but she allowed us to open it

What would be in there??

Helmut got a small package, a magic towel wth a piglet on

Then the main suprise followed: A bathtube in Plushiesize!!!




And even for us were enough lollipops


Everybody of us marvelled about the nice presents



Then it was time for trying the bathtube. My first bath in my life

Woooow....great feeling
I wash my left foot

And my right foot

Bathing is a great and funny feeling

Then it was time to come out and to dry me up with some towels


Bye Mum, see You soon
Yours
Gozer

Hi Mum,

today we had to say good bye to the little Oink

She told us that she had to leave and will travel on to Uchte

I said good bye to her and gave her some yummy chocolate for her journey

Then we hugged each other


A postcard from all of us plushies


Finally she jumped into her envelope and we all waved her a last good bye

Have a nice trip, Oink

That was it for today, Mum
See You,
Yours Gozer

Hi Mum,

today we made a contest who of us is able to do the ballet split with the most elegance

I can tell You, Lotte didn´t win the contest

Helmut did brave his best, but his legs are too short for doing it elegantly...

I was surprised, the plushies choosed me as the winner, I would do it in a very accurate manner


Then suddenly an envelope arrived us


We expect Laika, who was sent by mcdaniels

Helmut cut the envelope very carefully with his garden shears

We heard a thin voice tellling us, that her name is Laika


What a cute and friendly looking doggie


Then she came out of her envelope


And we gave her a warm welcome and hugged her


And she showed us the postcard Mefitos Mum wrote


Then we sat together, enjoying the yummy gumbears mcdaniels gave Laika with her for us

And we had a nice evening with listening to Laikas adventures

Mefito was asking her a lot about his home and she told him that almost is all right at home


What a wonderful meeting with the little Laika
See You soon, Mum
Yours
Gozer (new as a ballet-star) ...

Wow, Gozer, who would have known you are such a talented ballet dancer! Such a macho man as you are! Well, ballet is not for softies, as you know. It is a heavy sport. So you don't need to be embarressed 

I'm proud of you! Your mum Emjay

Hello Mum,

You never guess where we have been today: We went to Weert in Limburg


They have some very old canons standing there


And we liked playing in and on them

Nice houses I saw in the pedestrian area


And a tavern called „De oude Munt“ in the passage


Nice shops like a shoemaker

They even have shoes in plushie-size

A water pump for horses perhaps and nice old buildings again


Here is even a purveyor to the Royal Household


Later on we had fun on a slide




And like this little Fiat Bambino very much



Then we looked for something to drink

And to eat


French fries perhaps?

O.K., we looked for something other, much more typical for the region


A trappist beer and the famous bitterbollen with mustard
It was very yummy

And I liked the beer very much

Ouups


What a nice town, Weert


On our way back we visited the old Windmill „Aurora Molen" near Baexem

Very nice, built in 1845 and restored a few years ago

But there was no beer or something to eat and we went back to Remscheid


That´s for today, Mum,
Love and hug You
Yours
Gozer

Hello Mum,

great news today: Hase has arrived

But before we were able to give her a warm welcome, Mefito, Laika, Charlotte and me played a round "Man, don´t worry" and drank some refreshable Hugo with Mintleaf

I had the green stones

And it run good for me

Well, I did not loose like a well known hare bunny-lady

Suddenly Helmut appeared very upset an brought an envelope

We all heard her insinde the envelope

Hase, friend of the famous Dr.Kröbner, visits us, what honour

Carefully we opened the envelope together


And had a first look inside

All of us plushies gave her a warm welcome and a first group-hug


Then she turned around to her envelope and brought us her gifts from home

Hi, I am Hase, You must be Gozer, the handsome looking bear?

Uiiiii, thanks for the sweety

Yes, I´m Gozer and You are a very nice bunny

After the welcome Hase shows the postcard where her home is: It´s Delligsen


Then we drank our first drink together: Hugo with mint


Sitting around the candle and listening to ToyVoyagers-Stories and adventures


Had a yummy meal, small special-plushie-cookies on a wafel

And singing songs the whole night

What a wonderful welcome

That´s for today, Mum
Love, hugs and greeting to You at home,
Yours
Gozer

Hi Mum,

today we went to Wuppertal and visited the Botanical Garden there


Today and on Sunday they celebrate a colourful summer fair around the Elisentower


And this is the Elisentower itsself

Formerly built as a windmill in the 18th century, a rich industrial magnate bought the area around the mill and built up his villa there in the 19th century. And he upsized the windmill tower to have a better view on the landscape of the valley of the river Wupper.

First we started our tour and looked at the booths with handcrafted objects


Then we visited the botanical garden itself

Here parts of the old villa used as orangerie


Look at the wonderful Lotos flower


Here are some more impressions of the garden


One of the two ponds with nice water lilies




Even bananas they have in the warmhouse


Here You can see the tower again


And here I am on the tower


O.K. this is not the real tower, but a good size for us plushies



Now we are in the real tower


What a nice wooden ornament on the floor


Look at the nice ornaments under the ceiling



Today this room is used for marriage ceremonies


So let´s see what us expect outside



Now we are on the top of the Elisentower, enjoying the landscape of Wuppertal and the fair in the garden







On our way downstairs we learned some more about the 200 year old area of the Hardt


What a fine day here we spent


That´s it for today, Mum, see You soon
Yours
Gozer

Hello Mum,

today we visited a big event in Wermelskirchen, the neighbourtown of Remscheid. There was a nice funfair and we wanted to go on the giant wheel


We also found a nice carousel


But we decided to take a ride on the ferris wheel

Woow, it´s  a huge one


Now let´s start







Great views on the landscape around us

After this amazing adventure we were hungry and I was happy to get a huge chocolate banana


That was it for today, see You soon and hug You, Mum
Thousand kisses
Yours
Gozer

Hi Mum,
here is Your Gozer again

Today we drove to Lindlar, thats a nice place in the Bergisch Land


There we visited the local outdoor museum and enjoyed the agricultural and handcrafted market


Most of the houses here stood at another place and were brought to here for rebuilding them

This is an old house half-timbered house with a Pub inside from Wuppertal

Really dark inside there

But about a hundered years old


We were very happy to see such a lot of farm animals having a good live outside like these cows with their calfs


or these geese

and turkeys


We met relatives of HelmutBluepant



Some hard working, but not unhappy looking horses


They pull the historic mail coach there



We liked it sitting so high above the ground


And we saw some more horses working, they pulled a plough on the field


Found some friendly sheep in the stables


And outside rackas, or wallachian sheep


After so much sheep we rested and found a nice place between some blooming artichokes and some nice pumpkins



Helmut found his favourite vehicle: an old Unimog



And some funny things on the market



Later we saw Charlotte´s brother.. he´s the black sheep of the family and has to stay in jail... She didn´t want to talk about, what he has done...


After this dark episode we enjoyed the flowers



Finally we met some very friendly Lamas

You can book them for guided Lama-Trekking-Tours in Bergisch Land


Ok, this is not a lama... but a perfect goat in plushie-size



The last I remember was this delicious beer and the yummy cake...

...but I don´t know how I came back to Strunkis home...

That was it for this weekend, Mum
See and hug You
Yours
Gozer

Hi Gozer!

Cherry Lola, Orkku Orava, Emil and me are following your adventures. Seems you had a great weekend! Strunki organizes nice outings for all her TV-guests!

Big hug,
your mum Emjay

Hi Mum,

today I played in the sunflower when Hase and Laika invited us plushies for sharing the raspberries they had sampled





Suddenly I heard an elephant trumpeting the song "Down Under"

It is Elmar, he came from his journey to Australia

All of us gave him a very first warm welcome and a group hug


Welcome, we are very happy that You did it


Then Elmar showed us his gifts from Australia, yummy sweets, a nice card and a colourful bookmark

Thanks a lot for the nice souvenirs, fleursmum

After his arrival we all together shared the raspberries


Finally we all sat around our special-plushie-campfire, heard stories from Down Under and singing songs the whole night


That´s it for today, see You soon
Yours
Gozer

Hello Mum,

today we made a trip into prehistoric times and went to a famous place near Düsseldorf called Neandertal. There for about more than 150 years Dr. Carl Fuhlrott found relicts of a prehistoric human and he called him "Neanderthaler"


Here he welcomes us very friendly


A small scene how they perhaps lived?


But let´s see what we can learn from the prehistoric humans outside

Here a reconstruction of an oven from the late stone age

Interesting tools for hunting


and fishing

The huge skull of a prehistoric aurochs


Small talk between plushie to plushie


Interesting, how a prehistoric drill works


And what for nice artefacts the prehistoric people had


And small talk with an impressive felt-mammoth


An instrument called "atlatl", or spear thrower


It helps to throw the spear about a longer distance

What an informative and interesting day but now we all are tired


That´s it for today
See You soon
Yours Gozer