Travelog for: Hasi

Hi I'm Hasi and I joined my family in September 1999. 

We decided to make a trip to Frankfurt a.M., which is about one hour away from Bruchsal.
At first we thought, that we could visit the zoo, but then we decided to visit the airport. Everyone was really excited, but unhappily we had no chance to join the family while the had a bus sightseeing tour there.
Mister Snow took some photos of me.

Now I know, that Frankfurt a.M. has the third biggest airport in Europe after London and Paris. Nearly 70 000 people work at this airport. Due to more than 51 Mio passengers, nearly 480 000 flights and 1.75 mio tons of air cargo this airport belongs to the biggest international airports.

We all were hungry and of course we toyvoyagers wanted to talk about that airport, because Hasi and I had been allowed to go into the visitor bus. So we had a rest at a resting place of the freeway.

Petra told us, that there is a house created by Friedensreich Hundertwasser in Darmstadt. We still had some time, so we drove there and found this house. I just can tell you, that it is very very beautiful and interesting.
It is called "Waldspirale", what means something like wood spiral. It was created between 1998 and 2000 and seems to be like a fairy-tale castle. No window is like the other.
It has space for 105 appartments.
There are lime trees, beeches and maple trees on top of the roof. A playground and a similated river are part of the garden in the inner part of the spiral. In the tower on the southeast corner is a restaurant with cocktailbar and in the opposite tower a café.
Sadly Hundertwasser died in February 2000 short before the building was completed.

Today many toyvoyagers left my home. I surely will miss Mister Snow, because he belongs to my family since a long long time. I also will miss Yuri Gagarin and Ollie Marmot. We had so much fun together

Hurray!!! Hurray!!!

We had a little party today!!!


We had some snacks and water to drink and a lot to laugh about, of course. Dogs became friends with cats, a turtle with a kangaroo, a monkey with a moose and more.

We played with a big and a small ball and we learned how to play the card game "Mau Mau".



Didn't the table look nice?



Mingus Moose prefered to sit on the ballon.



(Playmo)Bill decided to not eat anything, because he was afraid to be too thick for his hobby.



Bullet wanted all the peanuts for himself.


Coco first had been a bit sad, because there was no honey on the table, but she liked the gouda then.



How did (Playmo)Bill come to that peanut? Maybe he asked Mingus Moose???



HolidayHarry had been really thirsty after eating a lot of sweets.



Florence is very hungry and wants to try a chocolate banana muffin.



Pebbels thought, that the Harry Potter muffin looked nice. It was a muffin with blueberries. Curly took the chocolate banana muffin too.



Amara Anthea tried a muffin american style, just on with chocolate drops.



AliG seemed to play the detective. What did he expect to find out today???



Do you see how happy Tortilla and Josh look with this dish filled with gummi bears?



Chokito, Davy and Schnuffi shared another Harry Potter muffin.



Only I prefered something healthy - I wanted to eat a carrot.



Tilda hadn't been sure, whether she should try a "nimm 2 " or whether it is better to eat a carrot too.



Then we started playing with balls. At first we choose the Australian ball, but it was so big, that the little toyvoyager among us had big problems.






Later we decided to use a table tennis ball, which of course is much easier to play with.










At last we learned how to play "Mau Mau".








Our first winner was: Chokito


Second place: Bullet


Third place: Meeeee!!!!!


Fourth place: Pebbels

Phewwwww! Finally we are here. Man I'm so tired and dizzy now, but Petra thinks, that it is a good idea to take a few photos with us

on a table in our home for two weeks




and in front of the house. Do you see us???




and now???




We are sitting on the bench, a really lovely place.

In the early evening we went to the beach.

Today my girlfriend and I took some of us toyvoyagers on a little walk into the inner city.

Here I'm climbing on a tree in the palace garden


I'm sitting between the balustrades with Burrimul Memu


Gina Giraffe


Here I am with Coco, Galaxy Bear and Gina Giraffe


Then they walked to the City Church to take some photos of the archaeological works there. They found some parts of the middle age palace there.

Petra, her family and we drove to Cologne today. We met olgamaus and several other toyvoyagers there and had a great day together.

First I want to tell you a bit about Cologne:
Cologne is the fourth-largest city of Germany with about 1 Million inhabitants. It had been founded by Romans in the year 38BC and became the status of a Roman city in 50AD.
Cologne lies on the Rhine River. It is famous for the Cologne Cathedral (Kölner Dom), which is the seat of the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Cologne. The University of Cologne is one of  Europe’s oldest universities. Cologne is also famous for the Cologne Carnival. Within Germany it is important as a media center, because many radio and television stations are based here.

It isn't easy to take a photo of the whole cathedral, because everywhere you go, you run against walls.
Here you see a side of the Cologne Cathedral. We were surprised, that there was only a small scaffold, because they always have to repair parts of the Cathedral.







We still had some time left, before we met Ralf, Petra's husband again, who had to go to the garden exhibition, so we decided to walk down to the River Rhine and take some photos there. Here you see the railway bridge and a cruise vessel.



Just turning around on our heels we saw a part of Cologne's historic city.



We tried to find a place for a group photo and found this dry fountain, which just seemed to be the right place. Katja, Petra and Sabrina helped us to sit at the right place.






Then we walked back to the Cologne Cathedral to meet Ralf and go to have lunch together.



We walked to a typical Cologne restaurant, which also has a small brewery (Brauerei).



Of course it was a must to order "Köllsch" and a Malzbier, both typical beers of Cologne.



After lunch we walked back to the cathedral, because we had no chance to go inside in the morning. There still had been church service in it. Now it was open and we went into this big church with its beautiful windows. I'm sorry, but the photos aren't that great.
The cathedral is a World Heritage Site. It is one of the world's largest churches, the largest Gothic church in Northern Europe. It has the scecond-tallest church spires and presents the largest facade of any church in the world. The construction began in 1248 and took until 1880 to complete. It is 144,5 metres long, 86,5 metres wide and its two towers are 157 metres tall.



The Cologne railway station is next to the cathedral. We went there to say "goodbye" to Katja, who got home by trail.

I'm back in Denmark again after three years. I'm really happy and also really sad, that I slept during the last three days. Somehow I didn't feel well, but it is getting better again. So I hope to get outside today or tomorrow.

Today we had rainy weather, so we only went outside to sit in the car and drive to go shopping at Aldi in Hanstholm.





We bought some pepper sauce there for dinner. Ralf cooked some red cabbage, meatballs and (not selfmade) spaetzle.

Hi Mum,

we just get ready for another trip. Some of us wait in the car already, but I wanted to show you the view from the front door of our small house.

Hi Mum,

after a rainy day inside, it seems to be fine today. We sat in the car for about one hour to drive to Thyborøn. There is a nice house decorated with millions of shells and snail shells. It is called sneglehuset in Danish - I love this word.






At next we drove to the coast centre exploratorium called Kystcentret. We had a lot of fun there and learnt many new things about the element water.

I also saw many furniture and other ship related things, which they found after a ship sunk many many years ago.

Here some more information: Since 1868 the Alexander Nevsky has been lying at the bottom of the sea. A couple of Russian diving vessels arrived and removed the cannons, a contractor bought the sea bed side and salvaged metals - first a lot of dynamite and the copper bolts, copper pipes and gunpowder boxes appeared in the wreck. This continued far into the 20th century. The metal was valuable.
The majority of the 724 men on board were brought safely to landin the frigate's own longboat, which could hold 25 - 30 men at a time.It's what you can read on the signs next to the ring.




Here I show you a few to the activity part - of course you can't see it good enough to imagine, how it looked like.




Then we drove to the aquarium of Thyborøn. I tried to tough a Starfish, crab or stroke a Plaice or shark, but I had no luck. So here you just can see me in front of one of the many bassins. At least I stayed safe.





For a part of our way home we took the ferry from Thyborøn.

On our way home we stopped at Vestervig Abbey, also known as Vestervig Church, which was established in about 1059 making it one of Denmark's most ancient religious houses. The abbey is located at Vestervig, Thisted, in extreme northern Jutland.