Toulouse, France - 21st October 2007
By: Mood
Well ... I'm a bit sad because today is one of my last day with Mood before I join Tess ...
So I wandered once again in Toulouse, and bought a small souvenir of the town (a medal of the Town by the Paris monnay):
We took some tea near the Dalbade church
in the quartier des Carmes
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Posted Oct 21, 2007, 5:56 pm
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On her way to Netherlands, France - 22nd October 2007
By: Mood
Well .. It's time to go .. I've just finished to write some notes in my travelbook
and say Good Bye to Mood ...
I'm on my way for new adventures !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
See you soon!!!
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Posted Oct 22, 2007, 3:50 pm
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Buitenpost (FRL), Netherlands - 2nd November 2007
By: Tess
Elle arrived
Today a sweet elephant arrived from France.
Her name is Elle and she is originally from Japan.
She was glad to get to meet
the welcoming committee meaning our youngest dog and a stuffed cat that
happened to be present.
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Posted Nov 2, 2007, 10:01 am
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Buitenpost (FRL), Netherlands - 2nd November 2007
By: Tess
Later on we made a group picture to make sure she met the strange but kind elephants in our house in the Netherlands.
Elle sends her love to Mood and Yumi and wanted to say she is well and exciting to be here.
{{Elle}} we welcome you Dutch Elephants A ssociation
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Posted Nov 2, 2007, 10:04 am
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Buitenpost (FRL), Netherlands - 2nd November 2007
By: Tess
Maybe this week Elle is able to meet a mini Miffy because we have a little visitor who happens to have a little Miffy with him...Elle is very excited to hear this .
Miffy is called Nijntje in our country , because the guy that originally created the books and cartoon with the pictures of Miffy is a Dutch artist .
He celebrated his 81 birthday this week
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Posted Nov 2, 2007, 10:09 am
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Bruchsal, Germany - 11th February 2008
By: fam-united
Hi mum, I'm here in Bruchsal now. The first one I met besides my hosts, of course, was Chocolate Moose. It is a funny moose, just jumped on my back and I was a little shocked at first. But I think, we two will have a lot of fun. Petra will take me to her school tomorrow and she will show me "her" room. She didn't tell me anything more about it. I think, Chocolate Moose will join us.
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Posted Feb 11, 2008, 7:34 pm
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Bruchsal, Germany - 12th February 2008
By: fam-united
Today we were in Petra's school. I saw the children cutting out princesses and robbers. They were very busy walking to the board, because in front of it, we had all the pieces of cloth. Look at their work, I like it.
I asked Petra to take a photo of the classroom too, while the pupils were in the longer break outside in the schoolyard.
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Posted Feb 23, 2008, 10:20 pm
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Bruchsal, Germany - 14th February 2008
By: fam-united
Two days later we were at her school again. We saw the room, where she stores the paper for paper handicrafts at her school. It is her job to order this paper and to buy new paper, before there is only too little of it here.
It is also a room for other stuff, that you need in a school, but I didn't look at that
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Posted Feb 23, 2008, 10:29 pm
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Bruchsal, Germany - 20th February 2008
By: fam-united
In the morning we were at school again. I don't know, but maybe Petra wants us to sign up at her school??? I'm not sure, if I like this, but right now it is ok. Here you see the teacher's room, which is much too small for so many teachers. That's what Petra says, because I didn't see another teacher except her.
When we arrived at home again, new guests had arrived too. Pandamao and Petra called it a group tour, because all three came in one package from Munich to Bruchsal: Amara Anthea, (Playmo)Bill and Fusco.
Let's see, what we will do together. I'm sure, we will have fun. Too sad, that Petra has no time to do something with us until it's weekend.
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Posted Feb 23, 2008, 10:41 pm
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Bruchsal, Germany - 21st February 2008
By: fam-united
Since our new friends are here, it is raining and so we were happy, that Petra found a new handicraft, that is called Kumihimo. She ordered it from a catalog and I asked her, whether I can try it. I'm not so sure, whether I will be great at Kumihimo, but the result looks great, if you know, how to do it.
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Posted Feb 23, 2008, 11:06 pm
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Bruchsal, Germany - 23rd February 2008
By: fam-united
Sabrina and her friend Cara wanted to spend some time with us today. Here you see me in house at a playground. Of course Chocolate Moose suddenly jumped on my back again. We are great friends now and I know, I will miss this little chocolate moose
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Posted Feb 28, 2008, 8:25 pm
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Mannheim, Germany - 24th February 2008
By: fam-united
Today was a wonderful day.
Petra told me, that we will drive to Mannheim to visit the Planetarium and see a show there. Unhappily she wasn't allowed to take photos in the hall, so you see me only with the Planetarium in my back.
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Posted Mar 1, 2008, 10:11 am
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Bruchsal, Germany - 25th February 2008
By: fam-united
The next day Petra thought, that it is a good idea to show us a part of the palace garden, but we only had a little time and we still hope for better weather. So you only see me with the backside of the palace.
The second photo shows the jailhouse ahead. It is a very interesting building, but hard to take photos of it, that's what Petra told me. There are "famous" murderers in this prison, what made me really feel unwell for a moment.
The last photo shows a private grammar school, which was founded by patres of the Pallotti order. In the far you see the baroque church St. Peter
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Posted Feb 29, 2008, 9:00 pm
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Bruchsal, Germany - 1st March 2008
By: fam-united
Tomorrow we will go to a birthday party. So I helped Petra to bake a biscuit cake. The whole family loves it, because it is easy to make and really tasty with the butter cream layers.
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Posted Mar 7, 2008, 2:20 pm
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Bruchsal, Germany - 5th March 2008
By: fam-united
I had a little sightseeing tour through Bruchsal today. Petra showed me the palace again and told me a little bit about the history of Bruchsal.
Bruchsal was first named in 976 A.D, although the oldest settlement was discovered dated back to 640 A.D.. located near to the St. Peterskirche. Since then Bruchsal had been a place for Kings to visit and for Prince Bishops to live.
In 1rst March 1945 during the second world war about 1000 people lost their lifes. The inner city and baroque palace were destroyed and the palace was rebuilt during the 70th.
palace backside
church tower of the catholic church St.Damian and Hugo, which was also baroque until 1945, but was rebuilt rather modestly. The part with the three dormers is the church.
On the left side you see the gate St. Damianstor, next to it you see the big red tower of the jailhouse. The building on the right side is the county court.
While the palace is in the flat area of Bruchsal, which belongs to the Rhine valley, the Belvedere is at the edge to the Kraichgau. It was a former hunting lodge and is now used as theatre platform during summer. Close to it a few clubs celebrate garten parties in summer too. My hosts like to go there, when there is a party of a choir, in which some members of their families are singing.
Next to the Belvedere is the oldest grammar school of Bruchsal, which uses the Stadtgarten, the park next to the Belvedere, as a school yard.
Only a few stairs down from the place before, Petra showed me some views over Bruchsal.
I just will try to remember the towers names, because I think, I forgot everything else.
The tower on the left side is the old tower of the old castle of Bruchsal, which is called Bergfried. I remember, that there is the Bügerzentrum, where citizens meet for cultural events and where also is a restaurant. Then you see the tower of the city church, which is in the inner city, where the market place is located. And at last you see the Lutherkirche, which is one of the two evangelic churches of Bruchsal.
On this photo you see the two towers of the baroque church St. Peter. And maybe you see a big building right under the crane. This building is called Sancta Maria and it is close to where I live right now.
Next to me you see the older people houses, a new one with the orange colour and the roof in the right corner and the white building behind it is the old part. Behind this white building you see the grey building of St. Paulusheim, which is a private catholic grammar school, only open for Christian pupils, because they do many religious things in their free time.
Now I'm in front of St. Peter. It is only a few metres from my hosts home to go. Petra told me, that this church is also baroque inside, but mostly it is closed.
Standing nearer to the church I had this view to the grey building of St. Paulusheim again.
Another view to St. Peter. I'm on the area of the graveyard right now. The graveyard is a very silent place with a wonderful view over Bruchsal, but it is hard for older people to walk there, because it always goes up and down.
Maybe you remember, that I mentioned Sancta Maria. This building with its nice garden is on the left side of the photo. The left tower is the City church tower and the other tower is the one of St. Damian and Hugo.
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Posted Mar 7, 2008, 3:54 pm
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