Aach, Germany - 4th June 2009
By: Sissi
I made a trip with Silke and her baby Julian through the landscape. We sat down onto a bench, Julian was sleeping and Silke and I were reading.
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Posted Jun 5, 2009, 8:19 am
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Aach, Germany - 12th June 2009
By: Sissi
I finally took a ride on my crocodile, ate some Gummibärchen (yumm-yumm) and then I got packed and sent for the very first time in my life.
I'm soooo excited how my adventures will start!!
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Posted Jun 12, 2009, 11:25 am
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at home in Remscheid, Germany - 16th June 2009
By: olgamaus
Hi Mummy,
today a new Toyvoyager arrived, it's Carlisle from the USA, a horse like me
The weather is rather bad today, so Katja had the idea to bake a cake. She talked to another member of ToyVyoagers about rhubarb cake with meringue topping, so she decided to bake such a cake. She bought rhubarb on her way home.
After washing it she began to cut it into pieces. It was obvious than that the rhubarb was of a really bad quality, completely dry and lingneous inside. What to do now? I saw an ananas and asked "What about the ananas?" Katja thought this was a great idea. We decided immediately to bake a
Ananas cake with meringue topping.
For the dough you need
750 g rhubarb 500 g prepared ananas
125 g butter
125 g sugar
1 pinch salt
1 package vanilla sugar
3 eggs
200 g flour
2 tsp. baking powder
3 tbspn. cream
butter for the baking pan
For the topping:
3 egg white
150 g sugar
Prepare the ananas and cut it into small pieces. Stirr butter with sugarm vanilla sugar and salt, add the eggs. Stirr it foamy. Mix flour and baking powder, stirr it under the butter-egg-mixture, add cream.
Put the dough into a greased baking pan (28 cm diameter, 26 cm are also ok). Put the ananas on top of the dough.
Baking: 175°C, about 30 minutes
Beat egg white and sugar to a stiff foam, put it on top of the cake after 30 minutes baking, put it back into the oven and bake it for 15 more minutes.
Enough ananas for the cake!
Here the dough is ready.
We put it into the springform pan and added the ananas pieces.
After baking for half an hour we had to put the meringe on top of the cake.
This meringue stuff is really sticky.
After baking for another 15 minutes the cake was ready.
We will taste it tomorrow, it's already too late.
Bye
Penny-Bo
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Posted Jun 17, 2009, 6:32 pm
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at home, Germany - 5th July 2009
By: olgamaus
Hi Mummy,
Katja told us that we will travel to Spain tomorrow, to Barcelona.
I would really like to go there and see all the wonderful Gaudi buildings, but when I asked her how we will get there she told me that we will fly to Barcelona.
Oh no! I am afraid of flying!
I was hiding behind the pillow than and hoped to hear nothing more about planes and flying.
Carlisle tried to becalm me and told me that it would be fun to fly. Carlisle came to Europe by plane. He said it was fun to see the world from above. I don't think he is right. Maybe I'll stay here.
Bye
Penny-Bo
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Posted Jul 5, 2009, 10:55 am
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Remscheid, Germany - 6th July 2009
By: olgamaus
Hi Mummy,
we went to the railway station to go to Düsseldorf airport. As I already told you, I'm not sure if I want to enter a plane.
When we left the house, we found an envelope on the stairs with cute little mouse UrselHH inside. She arrived just in time to accompany us to Spain.
At the railway station we climbed out of Katja's bag to get a bit of fresh air.
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Posted Jul 11, 2009, 3:28 pm
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Barcelona, Spain - 6th July 2009
By: olgamaus
I'm pretty sure I am no longer afraid of flying. Everything looks so beautiful from high above ...
This was my first look to Barcelona ...
Our hotel is approximately where the green arrow is pointing.
It was late evening when we had reached Barcelona, went to our hotel by bus and went out to the promenade. We walked to the harbour and had dinner.
Bye
Penny-Bo
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Posted Jul 11, 2009, 3:57 pm
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Barcelona, Spain - 7th July 2009
By: olgamaus
Hi Mummy,
today I went out with Katja and her friend Kerstin, Misty Mouse, Migui+Gui, Herbie and Nijntje. We had planned to watch some of the touristic highlights. First we went to the promenade again and walked to the old town along the coastline.
These highrisers were built as the olympic village for the 1992 summer olympics. The left one is cointaining a famous hotel nowadays, the right one is an office building. In the background you can see the fish fixation, created by the architekt Frank Gehry, manifested by a 35 metre x 54 metre fish made of steel lattice. The fish marks the start of the Olympic Port area and is placed at the base of the two landmark towers.
Barcelona has about 7 km coastline with several beaches.
We reached the old harbour, called "Port Vell" than, situated opposite of the old town.
Here you can see the statue "El Cap de Barcelona" by the American pop artist Roy Lichtenstein.
We walked to the beginning of "Las Ramblas" than. Underneath is path a two-lane motorway is running, you don't see it nor can you hear it.
I took a look to the newer part of the harbour.
We walked through the wonderful old town than. It was built in medieval times.
These are the famous "Ramblas".
Next to "Las Ramblas" we found one of the Gaudi buildings - Palau Güell. It was not easy to take photos because this building is crammed between others in a narrow street.
It is the building with the colourful chimneys on the roof.
We also had a look at the old market "La Boqueria", coverd with a cast-iron construction.
Here I am standing in front of the cathedral, which is under construction at the moment, hidden under a scaffolding.
Here I am at Placa de Catalunya, the central traffic point of Barcelona, where the old town and the newer parts of the city meet. The plaza is surrounded by walls, statues and fountains to keep the traffic noise away.
We went along "Passeig de Gràcia" than, a famous shopping street.
Here we saw one of the famous buildings, designed by Antoni Gaudi, "Casa Milà", also called "La Pedrera". This building was built during the years 1906 - 1910.
We took a bus than and went to Park Güell.
Park Güell is a garden complex with architectural elements situated on the hill of el Carmel in the Gràcia district of Barcelona. It was designed by the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí. It was built in the years 1900 to 1914. It is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site "Works of Antoni Gaudí". We did not use the main entrance, but the entrance at the top height of the park.
You have a fantastic overview across the city from here.
We reached the central part of the park than, the main terrace, surrounded by a long bench in the form of a sea serpent.
You can find this fountain in the main entrance area. Nearly effery surface is tiled with colourful fragments of tiles.
This is the probably most famous statue in this park is this mosaic dragon.
This is one of the entrance buildings, decorated very original and remarkable with fantastically shaped roofs with unusual pinnacles.
Here you can see the "heart" of Park Güell.
We left the park than and walked to another masterpiece of Antoni Gaudi, Sagrada Família (its original name is Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família), a massive, privately-funded Roman Catholic church that has been under construction in Barcelona since 1882. It is supposed to be completed not before 2026.
This is the Passion faccade, facing to the West.
Here you can see the Navity faccade, pointing to the East.
In the late evening we returned to our hotel, after having dinner and a few drinks in a nearby beach bar.
Bye
Penny-Bo
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Posted Jul 12, 2009, 7:43 pm
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Barcelona, Spain - 9th July 2009
By: olgamaus
Hi Mummy,
today it was our last day in Barcelona - what a pity! An even worse case was the weather today. It was raining cats and dogs, to make it even worse nearly the whole city centre were closed today because of the Tour de France, which will arrive here today. So Katja and Kerstin had to look how to get to the airport.
We went to the city centre despite of the rain to see one more Gaudi building, "Casa Batlló", also situated at Passeig de Graciá. This house was built in 1877 and remodelled from 1905 - 1907.
Have a look at the shapes of the balconies and pillars - they look like masks and bones. The local name of this building is Casa dels ossos (House of Bones).
We all became completely wet and had to drive to the airport with a taxi, because nearly all the traffic in the city centre was stopped.
I had a great time here in Barcelona.
Bye
Penny-Bo
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Posted Jul 12, 2009, 8:51 pm
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Wuppertal, Germany - 15th July 2009
By: olgamaus
Hi Mummy,
we went to Wuppertal today. Katja had to buy a few things at Hornbach, her favourite DIY-store. She had to make a new interior for her large rat cage.
Afterwards we went to the Botanical Garden. Wuppertal is situated, like the name already says, at the river Wupper, along a deep valley with the city centre in the valley itself, large parts on the steep slopes of the valley.
You can find the Botanical Garden on a very high point, overlooking the city centre in the valley. In 1890 it was a school garden first. Later, in 1908 a textile industrialist built his country house here, the "Eller'sche Villa". Later the Elisenturm Elisen Tower) was also built here, which is now the focal point of the garden. Since 1929 it is a municipal garden, open daily.
This is the Elisenturm.
First we entered the tower and enjoyed the fantastic overview.
Here you can see the new greenhouses, they were built in 2006.
We went to the greenhouses than. Here you can see plants from the warmer parts of the world, like palms.
We went into the garden than. I saw lots of pretty flowers and interesting trees, also the former country house.
This bed is showing typical plants of a moor area, also insect-eating plants.
I also saw a plant with vast leafs. The leafs were swinging with the wind
Back home we helped to install the new things to the rat cage. I will show it to you soon.
Bye
Penny-Bo
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Posted Jul 16, 2009, 11:55 am
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