Travelog for: Scoop

Hello everybody

Today I visited St. Gallen.

St. Gallen (St.Gall) is the capital of the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland. It evolved from the hermitage of Saint Gall, founded in the 7th century. Today, it is a large urban agglomeration (with around 160,000 inhabitants) and represents the center of eastern Switzerland.
The main tourist attraction is the Abbey of Saint Gall, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Its renowned library contains books which date back to the 9th century.
The founding of St. Gallen is attributed to the Irish monk Gallus (ca 550–620 or 640), who built a hermitage by the river Steinach in 612 AD.

This is the Town Hall - located next to the train station.



From there we walked to the "City Lounge" or as people call it - Red Square.





Around the new building of Raiffeisen Bank, the outer region has been redesigned of two artists.
The lounge is a kind of public living room.







I thought for a long time on the pending eggs.



Now I know - these are just lights.

Through the old town with its beautiful half-timbered houses,





we arrived at the Cathedral Square.













The whole abbey precinct was included in the list of UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1983.



The monastery courtyard,





the Cathedral,





























the entrance to the episcopal ordinariate.



The door to the Gallus chapel.



In this house the Abbey Library is housed.



The Abbey Library of Saint Gall was founded by Saint Othmar, the founder of the Abbey of St. Gall.

The library collection is the oldest in Switzerland, and is one of earliest and most important monastic libraries in the world. It holds 2,100 manuscripts dating back to the 8th through the 15th centuries, 1,650 incunabula (printed before 1500), and old printed books. The library holds almost 160,000 volumes. The manuscript B of the Nibelungenlied is kept here.

The library books are available for public use, but the books printed before 1900 must be read in the Reading Room.

Taking pics is stricktly prohibidet.

One of over a hundred bay windows in the old town.





The colorful roof of the church St.Laurenz.



Here you can see the remains of the old monastery wall.



Small houses -





and large hotels.



It's named what it looks like - Schlösschen (Castle).

St.Gallen streets on Sunday afternoon - extinct.





On the way home we still passed the city park.





Jasper bought us a pretzel with pumpkin seeds to strengthen.







Hope you like my sunday trip.
Scoop

Hi mom
here you see me and my friends with a diaper cake.





A gift to our newest family member.



Born: Today, Friday the 13th century.
We are all very proud - he's so sweet.

Love
Scoop

Hey mom,
Today I made a trip with Jasper to the river Thur.
Spring has not yet really arrived.





But I still saw popular things and places.



A Bee House - I was a bit cautious.



I bathed in wild garlic and smelled accordingly.



The bridge of the ring road.



Romantic places









and strange plants.



Huge roots of trees, clinging to the rock.







This cliff was uncanny to me.









I flew to a tree to look at a fungus.



Was sitting in soft moss



and enjoyed the sun





and the view.











Love you
Scoop

Hi mommy
today was something very special.
A solar eclipse - well, a partial eclipse.
We all wanted to watch
Unfortunately, Jasper could not get goggles. All sold out.
So we looked at the spectacle on the computer.



Not really the same but still very impressive.







We saw the smile of the sun.









Have a nice weekend
Scoop

Hello
overnight winter has come back.
Snow and cold wind made us stay at home.
We decided to play cards.
For an international group like us poker was the most obvious.





Of course, we did not play for money.



Sweets are worth more than money for a Toyvoyager.







Unfortunately I did not have the best cards.





I hope the winner will share with me.

Until next time
Scoop

Hi mommy
today was a coming and going.
First, we said goodbye to the little wolf Hemming. He travels to Mexico.
Bye my friend, have a good and safe trip.









A short time later reached us a new friend - Crabs.





Group hug and welcome to Switzerland!



see you
Scoop

Hello mommy
next day and again leaves us a friend - Stripes.
The United States are his goal.





Have also a good trip, maybe we'll meet again.



Love
Scoop

Day after day, after day, after day



Scoop

Hello
We surprised Jasper when she made dough.
Of course we also wanted to bake something for Easter.
Everyone got a piece of the dough and could form what he wanted.





We kneaded, rolled (round and long), cuted and pressed.







Look what came out.



a Mouse

Jasper used the rest of the dough for a braid.





Also looks good.





If you could smell it!





Bye mom
Scoop

Happy Easter to all!
As you can see, I am ready to look for the Easter Bunny.



Jasper did her best to prepare us a nice Easter.





And now: Search





Ooh, looks like many sweets.











Special encounters included.







Mom look what I found.







Sweet Greetings from Switzerland



Scoop

Hi
spring comes - at least at home.



Our cherry branches bloom.



Scoop

Hello everyone,
Today reached us a new Toyvoyager.





We need a lot of patience until we were able to welcome the turtle.



Her pace was breathtaking.



Some of us fell asleep.





With some help from the front and top she has finally made it.





The joy was great.



We welcomed: Cassiopeia from Germany



Scoop

Hi mom
today Yuma made on his trip to Poland.



We wished him a quick and safe trip.



Bye for now
Scoop

Hello Mom
Yesterday we took a walk along our river Thur and looked at the waterfall.
The waterfall itself is not very big and not very spectacular. But the way ...



Looks like jungle.





We followed narrow, very narrow paths (the path is good, but there is a risk of falling beside it).



We squeezed through narrow gorges











and crawled through under huge boulders.





Then follows a long jump (via the effluent water)
and there it was, the little waterfall.







We were amazed that such a small waterfall can wash out such a large pool.









Jasper told us, waterfall and Thur are unpredictable.

Normally, everything looks very romantic.





But two days heavy rain, and every path and every place you see here is several meters under water.









We followed the river,











running through fields of wild garlic,









played with stones



and sat on roots









or in the warm sand.



Several times we were happy to sit in Jaspers pocket.



She had to overcome dangerous places and we were chattering in the bag with our teeth.



But Toyvoyager are adventurers and we spent a exciting afternoon.

Bye for now
Scoop

Hi mom
Today there is not much to tell.
Jasper is very busy and I help where I can.
For example, with the laundry.



As a reward I was allowed to bathe in chocolate bars.



Marvelous

Scoop