Travelog for: Jennifer

Hello - my name is Jennifer, and I am a small fluffy lion. My mum Eilidh named me after her best friend (twennifer on this site) and thinks that I will love travelling the world.



I like the same things as the real Jennifer does - running, listening to the band 'Superchick', France & the French language and many other things.

At my house today a new TV came to stay with us today, it's always exciting when newbies come as they have so many stories to tell.Here we all are in a group photo. From left to right here we are MrCoolHH, Chance, Ronnie, Meleca, Rocky & Jennifer.



However I'm soon leaving to go to Germany - I can't wait to get my travels on the go!

Here I am with the doggy of the house Archie, my Jennifer loves Archie, so I guess I do too!



So until later,

Jennifer x

Yesterday was so very exciting here in Scotland. It rained all day but that did not put a dampner on things. First we had to hop on to the bus and travel to Edinburgh. Here are all us TVs being looked after by Eilidh's friend.



We were going to Edinburgh (the capitol city of Scotland, and a really lovely city - Eilidh's birthplace!) to see the African Children's Choir perform. I was pretty excited about seeing them as I'd heard they were good and very inspiring.



Unfortunately cameras were not permitted in the show - but it was wonderful, if you want to find out more about the choir be sure to look them up on google.



After seeing the choir it was time for a quick snack, so we headed to Starbucks where drinks and cookies were enjoyed by all.



Now we had been fed it was time for a little sightseeing - Eilidh did photo us with Edinburgh castle, however the weather was so gross that it's hard to make out. She says if you really want to see the picture or have a thing for castles then to let her know and she'll post them.









Because the festival is on in Edinburgh at the moment there are lots of funny signs posted around the city - apparently it's art? We found this one funny and fitting, seeing as we TVs are all tourists!



It was soon time to head home, so we walked to the bus station and waited for a bit. On the bus on the way home as we were crossing the Forth Road Bridge we got a lovely view of the rail bridge - so of course we could not resist a few photos!





What a lovely day out it was!
Jennifer x

Today I started my adventure around the world - I'm off to Germany. I hope to update you when I arrive!



Jennifer x

Hi Mum,

I just wanted to let you know, that I arrived at Bruchsal. The weather is grey, but it is warm enough for me. I just arrived in time, when my hosts booked a house for a holiday in end of October. I'm not sure, but maybe I can take part?!?!

I will go to bed now, my host says, that it is rather late.

Good night
Jennifer

Today we had a thunderstorm and my host decided to read a book. She just read one of the "city of..." books. She said, that she prefers the Twighlight books. I'm not sure about it.

It is such a beautiful day, that we decided to go on a walk to the little field chapel. On the way we passed the seven sorrows of Maria, the holy mother.
They started to built the chapel in 1903 and consecrated it in 1905. In year 1908 the seven stations were finished. The first four stations were destroyed by environmental impact and war and so they were recreated in 1957 and consecrated in 1958.

The Seven Sorrows (or Dolors) are events in the life of the Blessed Virgin Mary which are a popular devotion and are frequently depicted in art.

It is a common devotion for Catholics to say daily a Hail Mary for each.

1. The Prophecy of Simeon over the Infant Jesus. (Gospel of Luke 2:34)





2. The Flight into Egypt of the Holy Family. (Gospel of Matthew 2:13)





3. The Loss of the Child Jesus for Three Days. (Luke 2:43)





4. The Meeting of Jesus and Mary along the Way of the Cross. (Luke 23:26)





5. The Crucifixion, where Mary stands at the foot of the cross. (Gospel of John 19:25)


Here is the field chapel, Feldkirchle.






6. The Descent from the Cross, where Mary receives the dead body of Jesus in her arms. (Matthew 27:57)





7. The Burial of Jesus. (John 19:40)

Hi Mum

I'm so sorry, that you haven't heard a word from me earlier. I had a good time here already and a lot of fun with the other toyvoyager guests. I promiss to be more online from now on.

Here you see me and my friends waiting for the start of our travel to Oelsnitz, Vogtland, where we want to stay for one week.

We made a rest at the DB museum in Nürnberg.

I read a letter about locomotives.







Then I saw many locomotives and waggons.
I read about the train of Ludwig II.




















Here is the first locomotive from Siemens.




A long time ago people sat on the bank just like we did before.




We were allowed to play at the signal tower - of course it was out of work, but at first we didn't know that.

Oelsnitz is a town in the Vogtlandkreis district, in the Free State of Saxony, Germany. It is situated on the river Weiße Elster, 9 km south of Plauen. We stay in a beautiful house called Finsterbusch's Häusl.

Klingenthal is a town in the Vogtlandkreis district, in the Free State of Saxony, Germany. It is situated directly on the border with the Czech Republic opposite the Czech town of Kraslice, 29 km southeast of Plauen, and 33 km northwest of Karlovy Vary.

The Aschberg ("cinder mountain") towers above the town at 936 m. The extremely elongated town, 10.5 km from end to end, is surrounded by numerous woods of firs.

The town is bisected by the Döbra and Zwota rivers. These two rivers unite at the Czech-German border to form the Svatava river, which in turn flows into the Ohře river at Sokolov.

Klingenthal's inhabitants number 8,996 (September 30, 2005). The town is famed for its manufacture of musical instruments and is a well-known ski resort.

We visited the Vogtland-Arena, a wellknown ski jump in Germany. The first ski jump was opened in 1959, the new Vogtland-Arena was opened in 2006. 

I was really impressed by the altitude of it.







With this train we drove up the hill.




Wow, isn't it high?





I would love to meet some of those ski flyers, but unhappily there is no training today.

In the evening my host and one of her sons took as on a walk along the Pirk river dam. Maybe just enjoy the photos as we and our hosts did it in reality.

Göltzschtalbrücke (Göltzsch valley bridge) is the largest brick bridge in the world. The railway bridge is 574m long and was built between 1846 and 1851 using more than 26 million bricks. When it was finished, it was also the highest railway bridge in the world. It is currently part of the high-speed Dresden-Plauen line, close to stop Netzschkau.wikipedia

For lunch we drove to the Kuhberg, the highest point in northern Saxony. Our lunch wasn't that great and also watching the play train wasn't fun. We only saw some crashs. We wanted to go to the top of the tower, but it was too expensive. So all in all this place was annoying.

The Elstertalbrücke is the second largest brick bridge in the world after the Göltzschtalbrücke. The railway bridge is 279 m long and was built between 1846 and 1851 using more than 12 million bricks.

By the way: Please don't be angry with me, that Homer is at my side all the time. We are just best friends and it isn't easy to take photos of only one of us.

Today we visited the Exhibition of German Astronautics
 
The main request of this exhibition, wich is unique in Germany, is to show to lot of people the use of space travel and space research for mankind. It starts with the history of space travel. That means visitors can get information about the knowledge and development of astronomy and the dream of mankind to leave our home planet earth. More-over, there are presented first flight and rocket experi-ments. But you can see much more; as there are first artifical probes, the first Soviet and American men in space, the programme of landing on the moon or different space stations. As you will be informed about satellites and probes which are near our planet and those which are sent to other galaxies. At the end of our exhibition you will come to documents about the space station MIR and future projects like an international space station and manned mission to mars.