Kellinghusen, Germany - 9th August 2010
By: babyamy
Today this brown envelope arrived and when Katrin read the letter, she started to scream and jumped around her room.
What the letter said? Katrin got a positive answer from the university in Leipzig where she is going to study the next two years to get her master degree.
The letter also brought bad news: Since Katrin will move to Leipzig in September, she can't take care of more than two TVs anymore because the next weeks will be very busy.
I was the first one who jumped in to my box to travel back home to Austria.
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Posted Aug 10, 2010, 9:15 pm
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Graz, Austria - 15th August 2010
By: marcie08
Hello World!
I'm back home in Austria now and met my mom's toyvoyager guests. There was also another new guest, Truska, a pink bunny!
The others showed me their souvenirs from the vacation and then we looked at the pictures.
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Posted Aug 30, 2010, 8:53 pm
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Graz, Austria - 30th August 2010
By: marcie08
Good day, world!
I'm off to Australia now!
Next update will follow from Down Under!
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Posted Aug 30, 2010, 8:58 pm
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Melbourne , Australia - 25th October 2010
By: allison
Here I am in Australia. I have been taking the time to relax and do some fun things with my new friends.
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Posted Oct 25, 2010, 11:39 am
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Melbourne , Australia - 25th October 2010
By: allison
When I arrived in Melbourne, it was grand final weekend and everyone was very excited about Aussie Rules Football. Sadly the match ended in a draw and had to be played again the next weekend.
People come from all over Australia to see the football in Melbourne. It is an amazing cultural event. Everyone gets involved, as you can see from this newspaper front page.
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Posted Oct 25, 2010, 11:54 am
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Melbourne , Australia - 25th October 2010
By: allison
Here I am at a cafe drinking coffee. They made the coffee in my size. How kind. Don't you think it's clever to put pictures on top of the froth.
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Posted Oct 25, 2010, 12:03 pm
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My hosts front garden, Australia - 25th October 2010
By: allison
Today I am taking the time to smell the flowers and soak up some sun.
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Posted Oct 25, 2010, 12:09 pm
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Sülfeld, Germany - 19th April 2011
By: RikeH
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Posted Apr 19, 2011, 9:10 pm Last edited Apr 22, 2011, 7:46 pm by RikeH
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Remscheid, Germany - 23rd April 2011
By: olgamaus
Hi Mummy,
I arrived in Remscheid today.
When my new host Katja found me sitting on the stairs, she took me with her immediately, visiting a friend for the evening (Katja's daughter was celebrating her birthday this evening - no parents allowed ).
Bye
Lupus-Tigger
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Posted Apr 26, 2011, 2:14 pm
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Remscheid, at home, Germany - 28th April 2011
By: olgamaus
Hi Mummy,
yesterday it started raining. Usually nobody likes rain, but Katja told us that everyone was waiting for rain after some sunny and warm weeks. She said if we wanted our lakes filled and the nature green, we would need rain.
It's my host's birthday and she had to prepare dinner for her friends who visited us in the evening. Our host is a (almost ) veggie, so we had to make lots of delicious vegetable dishes - not perfect for a tiger!
First I helped to fill mushroom heads with cream cheese.
This was quite easy. The mushrooms will be baked later.
Than Katja took meatballs out of the fridge - yummy!
I wanted nothing more than to eat them immediately!
Katja bought tons of different cheese.
This looks like a good party!
In the meantime the cheese tray was nearly ready. We had cheese from Spain, France, Switzerland, the Netherlands and of course Germany.
Katja's daughter is a cook in a restaurant (not yet, her final examination will be in May and June). She prepared gravlax, the half of a salmon. Although I am not a bear, I like salmon.
Finally everything was ready and the guest were here. Now it's time to celebrate, not for taking photos
A friend brought this plate with antipasti - delicious!
Bye
Lupus-Tigger
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Posted Apr 29, 2011, 4:19 pm
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Wuppertal, Germany - 1st May 2011
By: olgamaus
Hi Mummy,
today we visited Wuppertal. Wuppertal is the neighbour town of Remscheid, famous for the Monorail Suspension Railway (Schwebebahn). The suspension railway travels along a route about 13 kilometres long, about 12 metres above the surface of the river Wupper and approximately 8 m above the city streets. At one point the railway even crosses the A46 motorway. The entire trip takes about 30 minutes.
Two thirds of the total municipal area is green belt: Woods, meadows, gardens and fields. From any part of the city it is only a ten-minute walk to one of the public parks or shady woodland paths.
When we got out of the bus we immediately saw the Schwebebahn.
Katja told us that we would visit the botanical garden and the city centre. On the next photo you can see one of the stops of the Schwebebahn in the background.
A train passed by!
Wuppertal is situated in the valley of the river Wupper, the city centre is in the bottom of the valley, the botanical garden is on top of the slope of the valley, on a hill called "Hardt". On our way there we walked along the local court and the district court.
There is also a Schwebebahn stop at the district court, it is rebuilt at the the moment in it's original historic style.
There is a sign showing the way to the botanical garden. Katja told us that more than 400 stairs are built into the slopes of the valley, so pedestrians can get easily uphill. She also told us that we would have to walk some of them today Here is the first one ...
...and another one.
We needed about 15 minutes to reach the botanical garden. There are large greenhouses in the entrance area. The botanical garden was founded in 1890 as a school garden.
You can find the former country house of textile manufacturers named Eller, which contained a villa (built 1820), orangery, residential and farm buildings, and the Elise Tower (built 1838) which provides the garden's focal point.
Here you can see the Elise Tower once more.
I saw this funny looking Handkerchief-tree, also known as Dove tree.
Than we walked through the large Hardt park, back to the city.
Flowers like a carpet
We rested here near this fountain.
Than it was time to walk downhill, back to the city centre.
We walked through a lovely housing area.
Soon we reached the city centre with the city hall, the building with the tower.
In front of the city hall you can find this historic fountain.
We walked along the pedestrian area.
What a funny statue! It is called "A new day at work".
We went back to the river Wupper. Here you can see another Schwebebahn stop. Every stop is built in a completely different style. This one is a very modern one.
Next to the modern stop you can find this old bridge.
This stop is the central stop in the city centre Elberfeld, it is built like a station with shops and bars in the basement.
Here is another historical bridge.
This distinctive building is the company building of a savings bank. Its skywalk is leading to another building, crossing two different streets.
Here is the other building, the tower is mirroring in the reflective frontage.
I love this work of art
Here is another stair to climb.
From here we had a good overview across the city.
Here you can see the historical concert hall.
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We had actually planned to take the bus home, but because the weather was so great we decided to walk towards home and take the bus later. We had to walk uphill for some time than, Katja knew a short cut across the university area.
Here were not only stairs to walk uphill, but also a large bridge, enabling you to cross one or two streets. In the background you can already see the university buildings.
More stairs to walk on the university ground ...
The university was built in the early 1970s years.
When we walked further uphill, we could see the university in it's whole monstrosity.
When we reached the top of the hill we had missed the bus for only three minutes, so we decided to walk a bit further. Here on the communication-road to Remscheid I liked it much more.
Here we finally waited for our bus. In the background you can see the city centre of Remscheid, also situated on a hill, about 10 km apart.
I will also show you a zoomed photo. One of the two characteristic towers belong to the city hall, the other one is a water tower.
This was an exciting trip!
Bye
Lupus-Tigger
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Posted May 2, 2011, 4:31 pm
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