Travelog for: Weasley

Here I am in Switzeland!! Photos and adventures to follow

So here are my surroundings - this planet is nice. It`s hard work sightseeing so I decided to have a little sunbathe with a new friend of mine!

So here I am on a nice walk in Engleberg. The Swiss scenery is very nice I must say 

So here we are, all on holiday in France. It`s so exciting, I`m going to stand on my head, climb a tree, read a book and play with some other TVs. We really are the fortunate ones seeing the world and making friends 

Aaaaaahhhhh crocs!!!

Hello Mummy,

I arrived in Remscheid today. Photos will follow soon. My new host Katja has a lot to do today, so I will watch TV with four ToyVoyagers: Margarida, Moley, Hurley and Theodore.

Bye
Weasley

Hello Mummy,
on my first evening here I enjoyed the silence when the other TVs went to bed. This little bunny Margarida talked her head off about falling into a soup pot and about the weekend.



Bye
Weasley

Hello Mummy,
it's raining outside. Instead of going out we made something in the kitchen. Katja asked us to help her.

What is that? Maybe the speedo of a starship?



Margarida was laughing about me. It's only the kitchen scale.

HELP! Someone attacks me!



But no, Margarida and Theodore were playing tricks on me.



Now Katja became a little bit angry. She told them that I am new here and maybe I did not bake a cake until today. They should stop kidding me immediately.

So we finally were able to start baking a delicious apple cake.



First we had to weigh all the ingredients we needed, as there were

125 g butter
125 g sugar
1 vanilla sugar
3 eggs
200 g flour
3 tsp baking powder
3 soup spoons cream
50 ml light rum

4 apples, peeled and cut into quarters
200 g sour cream
75 g sugar
2 eggs
1 p. vanilla sauce powder
salt

Of course we had to weigh the ingredients, not the ToyVoyagers!



I found a cool helmet. Unfortunately it was not a helmet but a flour sifter. What a pity, it made me look like a  cool alien.



Now Katja was able to prepare the dough. She hat to use a baking tray and a cake setting ring because she confered her spring form to a friend last week. I used it as a mirror.



WOW! A galactic snowstorm!



No, it's only the flour. Katja is using my cool helmet.

Now the dough is ready for the oven. The apples have to be spread with lemon juice. It has to stay in the oven for 12 minutes.



In the meantime we prepared the pie topping. Katja was looking for the beaters of her hand mixer. They were here just a few minutes ago. Some funster must have taken them.



Of course she found them .... (making jokes is contagious  )

We poured the pie topping on the pre-baked cake.



It had to stay in the oven for another 50 minutes then.

It smelled delicious when it was ready. It also tasted great ...



Bye
Weasley

Hi Mummy,

we visited Venlo in the Netherlands today! We met BlackCat with six more ToyVoyagers and went to Venlo by train.

Venlo is situated close to the German border. Many peple from Germany like going shopping in Venlo because you can buy some food much cheaper there than in Germany, due to lower taxes. Venlo's history goes back to Roman times. It developed into an important trade post on the river Meuse.

Look, here we are with BlackCat's guests.



There were also Odette and Titch, they did not want to come out of BlackCats bag - they were a little bit shy. They did not know that they would have to come out later.

This is the local post office, decorated with the national coat of arms of the Netherlands.



We walked through the old town then. Here you can see typical dutch houses. They are often made of bricks with the galbes showing to the street side.





This is the town hall of Venlo.



We had a closer look at those steely cylinders. They looked really futuristically in front of the renaissance town hall. They are housing spot lights to illuminate the town hall in the evenings.

We went to the market then.



In a toy store we found this funny flabby ball.



We took a walk to the river Meuse then. We wrote a postcard to another ToyVoyagers host. We hope she will like the card.







Back in the old town ...





A fountain in the old town ...



This is a store for home decoration. They seem to be specialised on  halloween articles. The whole shop is looking like a great halloween party. At least something that looks familiar to me.



We saw a store which had a soap  bubbles machine installed at the front door. Soap bubbles without an end!



I tried to call one of my space cousins, especially Sputnik, who is also in the Netherlands at the moment,  but no one was at home.



Then it was already time to go back to the station. In Wuppertal we left the train and went home by bus.

Bye
Weasley

Hi Mummy,

today the weather was still great and we took a walk in the forrest.

We started our trip in Remscheid-Hasten, one of the oldest districts of Remscheid. Soon we reached the border of the muncipal area.





We planned to walk to Wuppertal-Cronenberg. Wuppertal is the neighbour town of Remscheid. To get there we had to cross a valley and walk up steep uphill through the forrest.

We rested on a bench and enjoyed the sun.



The next rest took place on a barrier.



We came along some small old houses and old factory buildings.





This little house is even situated alone in the middle of the forrest, like a whitchhouse in a fairy tale.



Later we had to cross a creek, there was no bridge, we had to climb and jump over stones.

When we reached Cronenberg we saw a lot of old houses and an old church in 1767 A.D. My God, that's really old. My calculation of times begins with the first manned moon landing in 1969. Was there life on earth before?

Well, I'd better show it to you.







When we came home it was nearly dark. We were all  tired then and fell into bed.

Bye
Weasley

Hello,
after some rainy days we took a walk through the muncipal park to an old district of Remscheid, Hasten. First I had a look at some nice old houses in the vicinity of my current home.



The next photo is showing the central police station. They have a lot of interesting antennas on their roof, certainly enough to get into contact with one of my cousins.



Here you can see the observatory, located at the entrance of the muncipal park.



This band-stand is also located in the muncipal park. In summer they have concerts and theatre here, Katja told me. We followed the paths through the park to Hasten.





In Hasten Katja showed us a cemetary. It belongs to an evangelic church.  The first photo is showing the cemetary chapel.







Here you can see a memorial for soldiers killed in World War I.



We then walked a little bit through the outskirts and returned to Hasten, where I saw a beautiful patrician house. This house contains a museum, maybe we will visit it next week.





On our way back home we bought some bread rolls for our belated breakfast.

Guten Morgen, Zachary!

(Good morning, Zachary)




We had breakfast with bread rolls, strawberry jam and ananas jam, honey, boiled eggs and some sorts of cheese.

Later I had a look out of the living room window. It looks great outside with a lot of forrests. If the sun were shining it would look even better.



In the evening we watched TV. We watched "Tatort", a very famous TV crime series. The first episode was broadcast in 1970. There are episodes from different towns, for example Munich, Cologne, Leipzig, Saarbruecken or Hamburg. I really enjoyed it.



Bye
Weasley

Hi,

Katja showed me the town hall of Remscheid in her lunch break. It was built in 1906 A.D., partly destroyed in World War II and rebuilt in a more modern style afterwards. The tower is 48 m high.





In front of the town hall you can find a large place where the farmers market is held twice a week. Here you can also find a large pillar with the heraldic animal of Remscheid, the lion.



This friendly guy was waiting on the floor to be installed. It is the symbol of a large German electronics retailer, Saturn.


Close to the town hall, on top of the hill where the town centre is located, we also have a water tower here. From here the town centre is supplied with drinking water.



The next photo is showing one of the streets in the vicinity of my current home. Here a lot of old houses remained.



Bye
Weasley

Hello,

today we took a walk along the "Route of Tools", a lane for pedestrians and cyclers which was built on a closed railway track. Close to my current home you can find this large intersection.



Here you can see today's gasoline prices. Quite expensive. 1 EURO = 1,295 USD.



We reached the route of tools then. Here some metal signs are installed, showing the crest of Remscheid and the company logos of some tool prducing companies. This lane was sponsered by local tool fabricants.





You can find distance data on the ground.



We rested on a bank which was made of a giant screw clamp.







Later we took a short walk through the forrest, it was already getting dark so we did not make many photos then. Here you can see the sign for a landscape conservation area.



I met this curious pony.





Bye
Weasley