Travelog for: Ted

Hey!!!

My name is Ted and I'd like to travel all world...

My hosts:
1º - fam-united - Germany
2º - ChristinaB - Austria
3º - Fleurdunord - France
4º - sararingham - Australia
5º - gingermuggins - Australia
6º - Kira1997 - Australia         
7º - Mosuha - India
8º -

look at me !

Hi!!!

Last weekend I went to travel with my mom... is so nice meet other places =]... Now I can't wait to travel around the world..

This city São João Batista do Glória is a small city at state Minas Gerais... there are beautiful landscapes and wonderful waterfalls! Unfortunately  we couldn't go at waterfall because the weather wasn't good...

in front of the church


Look at the view!!


I and some horses

Hi!!!

Oh today I watched tv and rest a lot... tomorrow will be a big day!! I will travel to Germany!!!



I also stood at computer

Hey!!! Oh today is the time to say bye... It's everthing right to my travel start!!

I and my sister Mila...


My mom did a delicious chocolate's cake to me... hmmm
it was wonderful!


Bye bye my friends!

Hi Mila! Hi mummy!

I arrived at my first host family today. I already had been in fear to not arrive there, because my travel took such a long time. I feel still very dizzy and have to go to bed at once. I will come back tomorrw.

Bye, bye Ted

Today was one of the rare sunny days. Petra came home from school and packed her rucksack to show us some places in Bruchsal. She didn't have so much time for it, because she had to go back to school for a teachers' meeting.

Here you see the backfront of the palace.



This is the Feldkirchle (field chapel)


Next to the Feldkirchle (field chapel) you see this cross

and these beautiful flowers

Today it's time for baking cakes for my host's mum's birthday. She is 70 years now and Petra was asked to bake two cakes: Donauwellenkuchen (Danube waves cake) and Zebrakuchen (zebra cake). Petra decided to bake a surprise cake too, with a part of the Happy Birthday song.

We sat all together watching and helping Petra with preparing the dough.



So here are the photos with me. If you are interested in recipes, I can try to ask Petra to write them here or send them to you.






















Finally the cakes are ready

The nougat cream cake:

only the words "Happy birthday" have to be put on the cake now.

The Zebra-cake



Somehow we miss the last photo of the Danube waves cake, the one with the cherries.

Today Kari arrived at home again and he told us a lot about Australia. Now I know, that Kira1997 send him to my host family as a present for their daughter some years ago. He wanted to see them again, so he decided to go to Australia as a toyvoyager.

Petra, Curly and I went to school today. We visited the second grade, in which Petra is teaching right now. She is a substitute teacher this year and since a while teaching in this class. I can tell you, that the pupils are very nice. They had been so happy to see us and to take a few photos with us.

Petra, Curly and I went to school today. We visited the second grade, in which Petra is teaching right now. She is a substitute teacher this year and since a while teaching in this class. I can tell you, that the pupils are very nice. They had been so happy to see us and to take a few photos with us.

After I completed my first life mission and visited the second graders, Petra asked Snegovik, Curly, FoxForce and me, whether we would like to join her again and visit the third graders. She told us, that she teaches them, how to weave. They try to make a pincushion shaped like a ladybug - ladybird, when it is ready.

I think, I forgot to tell something about the history of Bruchsal.
Bruchsal was first named in 976 A.D., but since a few weeks we know, that it must be even older than this. They found something next to a church and realized that this is really old. I had been very curious to get to know more about this, but the weather was so terrible, that we had no chance to go there.
So you only see the most interesting places here. Petra was in a hurry, so the photos aren't that great she says.
Here you see the backsite of the palace and a part of the palace garden. The palace was nearly completely destroyed during the Second World War and rebuilt around 1973.

Because the weather was much better than the days before, we drove to Untergrombach, which is one of the suburbs of Bruchsal. The Michaelsberg, a small hill - only 296m high, belongs to Untergrombach. You have a wonderful view over the Rhine valley and if the weather is very very good, you can see the Palatine Mountains in the far.
3500 - 2600 BC first signs of humans had been found on this place, the "Michelsberg culture".

This view shows a part of Bruchsal, which is at the border between Rhine Valley and Kraichgau.




The quarry pond belongs to Untergrombach, which you see on this photo. This is the best view to see the Palatine Mountains on the horizon, but today we had no luck.




You see another part of Untergrombach. You see, that it is also to the border of the Kraichgau.





This nice chapel is called Michaelskapelle and it is on top of the Michaelsberg. Petra told me, that there are many couples, that want to marry in this chapel.




Here you see so-called "Steinriegel" (field clearance cairn), made by people working on their fields a long long time ago. They threw the big stones from their fields to the border of the neighbour's field, so that in the middle all stones were accumulated. Many animals and flowers love this gaunt places and that's why a few weeks ago, people cleaned the Steinriegel from all the earth, that came between the stone during the many many years and from all the other plants, that love to grow in earth.




Another word I learned is "Magerrasen" (neglected grassland), which is typical for the Michaelsberg. The town you see is Untergrombach.




The Michaelsberg is nature reserve area, I'm sure, you already realized this too. There are beautiful rare flowers and animals.

Maybe you heard about the Buran arriving in Speyer? The new home will be the technical museum in Speyer: http://www.museumspeyer.de/index.html

The Buran ( the only space shuttle of the Soviet Buran program)was only on one unmanned spaceflight in 1988. The shuttle program was cancelled in 1993. It was destroyed by a hangar collapse in 2003.
The Buran is the world's first genuine space shuttle to be exhibited to the general public.

Petra wanted to go there to watch the arrival, but the weather was too bad, so we only got the chance to read the newspaper

I had a really great day today. The sun was shining and it was really warm. Now I believe, that it is springtime.
Petra woke up early and told us to get ready to for a walk. We were very curious and excited of course. First we bought some bread rolls for breakfast (only a few bakeries or open on Sundays) and then we brought Ralf to work (normally he doesn't work on Sundays).

And then we drove in the car for about 15 minutes. We sat in the rucksack and you can believe me, it wasn't the best way to travel.

After we walked a little bit, we found this sign:



It told us the rules, how we had to behave at this place.

Oh, you surely want to know, where we were. There is a small Japanese Garden not far away from Bruchsal in Münzesheim, which Petra was told, that it is really pretty. She never had been there before, but now she wanted to go there together with us.

So now look at the photos and enjoy!

















I saw a part of the Berlin Wall:






This building was very interesting, especielly the ceiling, which was made of white and blue bottles.