Remscheid-Lennep, Germany - 8th June 2008
By: olgamaus
Hi Mummy,
today we visited Katja's parents. Her father was celebrating his 78th birthday today. Katja's parents are living in Remscheid-Lennep, that's one of the oldest districts of Remscheid. The historic city centre is really old, some houses are built in 18th century. Origininally it was far older, but the city centre burnt down almost completely several times during the last centuries. On the photos you can see that the houses are built in small distances to the next houses. When one house caught fire usually the neighbour houses also caught fire, then the next houses and so on.
Katja's parents are living in a flat in the seventh storey. From the balcony you have a stunning view over the old town.
Percy was very happy. He met a lot of owl friends. Katja's mum is collecting owls. She has owls made of glass, of ceramics, wood, stone, plush and many other materials.
Later we walked to a restaurant for dinner. On our way we walked through the old town.
Here the farmer's market is helt twice a week.
This is one of two churches.
We walked through some quite, narrow lanes.
We saw this beautiful old front door. The brass hand is a knocker.
Here you can see an old water pump. Percy almost fell into the water underneath the pump.
Now we are standing in front of the restaurant.
We were all very hungry. We were waiting for our dinner quite long.
I tasted a beer. It was very refreshing.
Later we drove home by bus. Now we are playing with the pet rats.
Bye
Bertie
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Posted Jun 8, 2008, 10:20 pm
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Remscheid, Germany - 13th June 2008
By: olgamaus
Hi Mummy,
the weather has gone really bad. It’s raining sometimes, but that’s not the worst thing. It became cold, 7°C (44°F) in the morning. I did not want to leave my warm bed today. In the afternoon the weather became better and in the early evening we took a little walk along the route of tools. Katja wanted to convince us that Remscheid is not only consisting nice flowers in the muncipal park, forrests and cam side roads but it is also an idustrial town.
The route of tools is made on a closed railway track, I already told you. Along this route you can find many industrial companies and also abandoned factory buildings.
These are two old railway cars. On one of them a funny picture is drawn, it is an advertise for a company that peeled potatoes and sold them to restaurants and canteens.
This is one of the abandoned buildings.
Here they are still working, but large parts of this complex of buildings were torn down in the last months. A big smoke stack is still standing, it will be blown up some day. We hope we can be as close as possible to it when it will happen.
This complex of buildungs formerly contained the local slaughterhouse. Now there are offices and other companies in the buildings wich are now under monumental protecion.
Here we are sitting on a bench that is made of really old parts. One of them is the axis of a historic water wheel.
Oh yes, we saw a completely different town today. No more trees and flowers but factories like that.
And this,
We went back home then, into the district with trees, flowers and nice old houses. We had to hurry because it started raining again. But we reached our home save and dry. Later we will watch TV.
Bye
Bertie
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Posted Jun 13, 2008, 8:09 pm
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Gelpetal between Wuppertal and, Remscheid, Germany - 15th June 2008
By: olgamaus
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Posted Jun 15, 2008, 7:40 pm Last edited Jun 15, 2008, 8:31 pm by olgamaus
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Remscheid, Germany - 16th June 2008
By: olgamaus
Hi Mummy,
we are watching the UEFA European (Football) Championship on TV just now. Germany is playing against Austria. For Germany it's neck or nothing.
Bye
Bertie
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Posted Jun 16, 2008, 8:50 pm
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Wuppertal, Germany - 21st June 2008
By: olgamaus
Hi Mummy,
today we made a wonderful trip. First we went to Wuppertal by bus. We did not stay in Wuppertal but we had to change from bus to train there to get further to Essen, our real destination.
Here you can see me in front of the concert hall.
The penguin is one of about 200 penguins that were designed in 2006 A.D. for a campain because of the125-year existance of the Wuppertal zoo.They could be bought by companies for benefit of the zoo. They were designed and painted. You can find many of them in the town now. This is one of them.
From here we went to Essen by train. Essen is a town in Ruhr District.
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Posted Jun 21, 2008, 9:12 pm
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Gruga Park, Essen, Germany - 21st June 2008
By: olgamaus
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Posted Jun 21, 2008, 9:23 pm Last edited Jun 22, 2008, 10:08 pm by olgamaus
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Remscheid, Germany - 25th June 2008
By: olgamaus
Hi Mummy,
we are prepared to watch the first semi final of the UEFA European (Football) Championship between Germany and Turkey.
It will begin in a few minutes.
Bye
Bertie
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Posted Jun 25, 2008, 7:29 pm
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