Travelog for: Snape

Yippie, I arrived in Germany.

Right on my first day we drove to a horse ranch, because Sabrina had a lesson there. I took a look at some horses and saw, that they are really nice. What a pity, that the photo stopped working.

I met a couple of other toyvoyagers here and we have a lot of fun together.

We had nice weather and so our host told us to get ready for a sightseeing tour. I hope, you will enjoy the photos.

Here you see some views over Bruchsal. The big tower behind me is the tower of the old castle. Right behind me you see the tower of the Stadtkirche (City Church).



Here you see the two towers of the baroque church St. Peter and not far away from it the house St. Maria. Both are close to the house, where my hosts live.



On this photo you see the new and old part of the older people house just behind me and on the left. Far behind on the left side you see a grey building. This is the catholic grammar school St. Paulusheim. All children of my hosts are there next year.



When we turned around, we saw a nice park and went there. In this park is a Belvedere, a baroque hunting lodge.



I loved the beautiful trees.





Not far from this Belvedere is a big grammar school. You see a part of this building on the photo.



I met a black cat in the park, but it wasn't interested in me.

Then we went to the baroque palace and palace garden.

This is a view to the court house, which you see in the middle of the photo and a photo I'm in front of the court house.





The Damiantor is a gate to the palace area.



This is the mainbuilding of the palace



This part of the palace is the catholic church, in which my hosts go to join the service on Sundays. The tower is behind the building.



On the wall of one building we found a sundial



I saw many chestnuts in the palace garden.



Here you see a view into a street close to the palace garden



In the palace garden are many statues and Petra told us, that there are four statues for each season spring, summer, autumn and winter and four statues for each element water, fire, air and earth (ground). Here you see the fire statue.



Children love to feed the ducks in the pond



Another part of the palace garden is the rose garden



Here you see an allee with many chestnut trees

We drove to Untergrombach, on of the suburbs of Bruchsal. Bruchsal has about 27 000 inhabitants and with its suburbs there are about 42 000. Untergrombach is the biggest suburb.

Here we are on the Michaelsberg. Berg means mountain, but it is more like a hill and not a mountain. You have a nice view over the Rhine valley and far behind you see the Palatinate mountain. On the first photo you see a part of Bruchsal on the right side.



The town you see next to us is Untergrombach and then you see Büchenau.
My hosts parents live in Bruchsal, but close to the wood you see on the photo. Petra herself swam in the quarry pond, when she was a young girl.



The Michaelsberg is a nature reserve area and there are very special flowers and other plants.



We didn't take a photo of the nice chappel on the hill, because they put up a scaffolding.

Bruchsal is at the edge to the Kraichgau hill country. It's not so easy to take a photo of that, but maybe you can imagine, how it look like, when you see this one.





The small town you see here is Obergrombach.


We found some grapes, but Petra told me, that I can't eat them, because they aren't ripe.

We saw an old castle in Obergrombach, but we didn't go closer, we had been too tired.
Obergrombach is another suburb of Bruchsal. Büchenau, Heidelsheim and Helmsheim also belong to Bruchsal.

Today we took photos of the grammar school St. Paulusheim



the baroque church St. Peter
St. Peter is the church that is next to the graveyard and Petra told me, that normally she saw a lot of squirells there, but not this time


 


and the house Sancta Maria ( but she forgot to take one with me, so she will go again, when the weather is better, today -2nd August - it rains again)

And we took some more photos with views over Bruchsal. I hope you like it.







This is the street next to the house of my hosts. Their garden is behind that tree you can see here. You see that tree also on the photo of their (rent) house. You can see also the garage and a part of their car.





Then we said fairwell to Ballet Cindy and HolidayHarry. They will travel to Farminton, USA now. We hope they will arrive soon.

Today I sat at the little home fountain together with C.K. and Nuada. We talked about our travel plans and that Nuada wanted to leave us now to travel to Spain to my mum Belessita.

Later Petra wanted to show me, how to knit a pullover, but I prefered using the pullover as a bed

Here are photos of the views from the balcony and from a room of my host's house. Maybe you detect the baroque church St. Peter and the house St. Maria?

We were in Heidelberg today, but only visited the zoo for one hour. Then we had to go back to the car, because everyone was wet from the heavy rain. My hosts promissed us, that they would go back again next week.

Back at home I learned to sew a curtain. You see, I will be a big help for you, when I come home again.

Finally we are back at Heidelberg to visit the zoo and the castle. The weather is fine, sunny and warm and so I believe, that we will come home dry today

Good bye, Snape. You are really cute and we hope to read many updates on your travelog.

I have safely arrived in Munich. I'm a bit tired and therefore I'll show my photos later.

Bye,
Snape

The past weeks have been a bit slow, partly because it was raining a lot, partly because my host was very busy. Today we have a new TV here to visit - Florence who has arrived from Prague, just in time for the Oktoberfest. Oktoberfest started today and there were already lots of people dressed in traditional clothes in the subway. My host promised to show me around at the Oktoberfest - wow, I look forward to it.