Travelog for: Lucky Lion

Hello! This is Lucky Lion.
Here are a few photos from his home in Meißen, Germany.
Lucky Lion likes fragrant flowers and his friend Tiger, a cat.
Now he sit at the window and looking forward to you and the big wide world!

If you like you can send Lucky Lions mom a postcard from the location where Lucky Lion was. It would be very, very nice! 

Hello! And Happy Easter 

Today I was with my Mom in the garden and have found my easterpresent.
It was a chocolate bunny!
And then I saw many colorful eggs and beautiful Flowers 
This was a nice Day!

Lets go to my first Trip to Remscheid in Germany.
I´m a little bit nervous but I´m nevertheless happy. 

Bye mom, I will send you a message when I arrived in Remscheid.

Hello Mum,

I made it! My first hosting-place in my new life as a ToyVoyager


Some very strange coloured, but nice bunnys helped me crawling out of the envelope and gave me a first warm welcome here

Uuups, too much light after my journey in the dark envelope


I showed them the nice postcard of may hometown Meißen

The three are very impressed I think


Oh Mum, I´m soo happy to be here, I love You that You allowed me being a Toyvoyager from now on


Love and see You soon
Yours
Lucky Lion

Hello Mum,

today I went with strunki to her office and helped her a little bit 


This is the view out of the office window, it´s in the city of Wuppertal, but You see a lot of green



Some funny postcards I saw here



See me sitting on the tropical helmet

from there I saw a photo of a young dog

it´s not strunkis own dog, but her goddog

I like this map of the dolomites


and had a talk to a couple of snowpeople


But before I start to work, I got a nice breakfast

Hmmm, Yummy


My first lesson at the addition-machine


Next was stamping some papers


After this we had an important meeting with some other plushie-colleagues working here

the snake is called Bong!, he´s a friendly cool guy, but often in another world, strunki told me

and the keen pig behind me is always "employee of the month"...

See me sorting and counting the paper clips by colours

Uuuuuh, that was boring, but i did it very well, strunki praised me


Time for lunch at noon


and as a dessert I had another mug of coffee

Coffee is very important here, it´s the fuel of the office 

After lunch I did some fitness-exercises: office-punch-jump





Hey, I like this

In the afternoon I had to check the copier, if it works correct

strunki told me that only experts like me are able to check it

Yes, works


Suddenly the clock showed 17:00, time for going home after this full day


This was my day, love and see You soon
Yours
Lucky Lion

Hello Mum,

today I explored the garden


a lot of different flowers are blooming yet, although it is the End of April, some typical flowers and plants of Mai or June are blooming now


some apple blossoms




Look at these blue ones


and the first buds of the columbine


a pink catchfly


in the middle I saw a middle-sized pond


and found some orange poppies


see me between the strawberries


the raspberries need some time, perhaps I will be here when they are ready to harvest them?


strunki isn´t sure, what this kind of plant is called, perhaps it is a kind of
root?


and still some of the magnolias are blooming



Here I am in the area of the garden called "chicken park", because in old times the chicken were running around in this part


some more columbines




and blue forget-me-not


the blue lilac is very early this year, strunki told me


hmmm, I like this fragrance very much

And this is one part of HelmutBluepants famous bear garlic farm

some leafs are still ready for harvesting

These flowers are also very nice


But the nicest flower is the everlasting red poppy here. It´s the favourite chilling-place for all TV´s from spring to late autumn



When I came back to the garden table, a paket was brought by the postman

Who or what could be inside??

Carefully I opened it with the garden shear


What a surprise: Charlotte came back home and she´s in compagnion with NiliHH from Sülfeld



I gave them a warm welcome and we like each other from the first moment


Then they showed their souvenirs and the chocolate


After this great welcome we altogether chilled in the poppy blossom



And Mum, look at the Postcard RikeH sent: Don´t You think, the doggie could be my twin?


This was my day, love and see You soon
Yours
Lucky Lion

Hello Mum,


today we met SunnyHH and Zhia in the garden, olgamaus and her guests visited us


It was a big event for NiliHH, because SunnyHH is her brother, both have their home by RikeH at Sülfeld


We all love familiy and TV-Meetings very much

This was my day, love and see You soon

Yours

Lucky Lion

Hello Mum,


today we drove to a part of Cologne called Dellbrück



There is an old agricultural court Thurner Hof, where a swap meet for plants was held


This is the backside view of the garden with the nice old half timbered house that will be renovated actually




Look at the wonderful and colourful flowers in the garden. Some parts are really wild, but show a lot of biodiversity





I like this night-flowering catchfly very much


Even a pond we found here with lots of water-lilies


What a friendly and peaceful place here



This was my day, love and see You soon

Yours

Lucky Lion

Hello Mum,

today we visited a nice old park in Wuppertal, it´s called the Bamer Anlagen


It is situated in a little part of a valley and the differences in altitude are very impressive






Some very old trees we found here



In the park we saw nice sculptures of every-day-people


This woman I liked most, she was so friendly and peaceful


Here we found a Memorial of the old rack railway Barmen

It was the first railway of this kind in Germany

This was my day, love and see You soon

Yours
Lucky Lion

Hello Mum,

today we visited the small but fine Botanical garden of Solingen

Here at the map we had a first orientation


We were welcomed by this friendly angel


An everlasting copper rose

Here are a few first impressions of the park, it´s nice to see all the flowers






What a huge Butterfly...

but his wings are beautyful...


And see me together with the reading owl


Flowers everywhere at springtime








Let´s now have a look into the greenhouses

This is the main house





Here we admire the plants in the house of the bromelias


and found fruits: pineapple and bananas


orchids

agaphantus

and even... bromelia


This is the succulents warm house with lots of cacti



Actually there was a Show of Bonsai trees




Again Outside I played in this huge fig tree



And we had a Little chilling lesson in the sunclock


Before we left the park, we studied the table of donators for the Botanical garden


This was my day, love and see You soon

Yours

Lucky Lion

Hello Mum,

today we drove to Herdecke, that´s a nice small town at the river Ruhr. Here we visited a small but fine garden fair on the area at a local warm house Producer named Krieger



Stalls with plants and flowers are everywhere here



Let´s have a closer look to this here with the peonys



Lots of roses are blooming yet



Let´s have a look inside a middlesized warmhouse


Grapewine and tomatoes are growing faster inside here



Again outside, we admired the wonderful blue blossom of the agapanthus

and another blue nice bellflower

clematis



See me sitting under the fig tree


this could be Saxifraga



Here we rest in front of a huge and nice yellow euphorbium


Later we found bananas and again tomatoes



Some Orchids inside

and cacti outside


Finally we had a lot of fun with the friendly Bonsai-Club from Hagen








This was my day, love and see You soon

Yours

Lucky Lion

Hello Mum,

today I visited HelmutBluepant´s private warm house on the roof for watching some nice blossoms of epicacti wich are blooming now.




Now it´s the high time for these nice succulents





Look at this huge orange blossom, only made for a few days


This huge red one is also very nice


My favourite is the pink one



These flowers are faded, but sometimes the´ll get some nice fruits, the Pitaya, or Dragon fruit is a really near relative of these plants


Outside even the strelitzia has one blossom, two will follow in a few weeks


But the main reason I´m here in the evening is Helmuts famous flower "Queen of the night" (Selenicereus grandiflorus) that will open it´s blossom only for a few hours at one single night of the year


Amazing, isn´t it?


This was my day, love and see You soon

Yours

Lucky Lion

Hello Mum,

today we made a short trip through my host-town Remscheid


This is the town-hall, a very impressive building of the early 20th century

The tower is 58 m high and one of the landmarks of Remscheids skyline



On the right hand You see the [url=Lion of Berg]http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bergischer_L%C3%B6we[/url]

...Only to compare: The new so called "Ämterhaus", but lot of citizens here think, that it is only a memorial-building for one of our last mayors...

...very modern for a historic town...

Here I am in front of the Allee-Center, a middle-sized shopping mall

very lightful inside because of the huge glass-roofs

at the moment there´s an exhibition of colourful lions, painted by clubs, private people or some companies



also outside I saw such a lion


This is the Allee-Strasse, the main pedestrian zone



And here we are at the market, downhill from the upper centre coming You see the nice town-church


this is the view back to the upper part of the pedestrian zone


At this place we found a nice colourful spring

here our little tour ended and we recreated at the spring for a while


This was my day, love and see You soon
Yours
Lucky Lion

Hello Mum,

today we visited the outdoor-museum Lindlar


There was a huge market for plants, flowers, spices and other nice things on this sunday



Let´s have a short look inside one of this half timbered houses wich are very typical for the Bergisch Land

The kitchen

The living-room, mostly only used on sundays or for celebrations, a so called "state parlour"


The bed-room

The "toilet" was a chair with a hole and a chamber-pot

I have to admit that especially this house is very rich decorated and fullstaffed, not every building was as noble as this here... Most half timbered houses are much more smaller, narrow and even poorer in furniture and tapistery...

See me in front of other rural buildings here at Lindlar





In another building was an exibithion of old electrical stuff



And we saw a lot of farm animals

a cow with her calf

some goats

funny piglets, relatives of Helmut, I think

and even heavy horses pulling a plough


An example of a small farm-garden


Here we rested a while and drank some "Fassbrause"



This was my day, love and see You soon
Yours
Lucky Lion

Hello Mum,

look what strunki found after the reorganisation of the TV-Site: a few pictures with colourful cacti-flowers we shot in the warmhouse



This should be a test, if the links are still o.k.



And I remember that we enjoyed the colours of the succulents also as we liked the nice temperatures inside the warmhouse






strunki hopes to come on "a jour" as soon as possible in the next
time with the rest of the missing TL´s, is that oki for You, mum?

Love You
Yours Lucky Lion