Temuco, Chile - 10th July 2010
By: Leslie
I'm leaving to Germany!!
I just can't wait to get there and explore around!! Im totally excited!
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Posted Jul 10, 2010, 8:30 pm Last edited Sep 22, 2010, 2:05 am by Leslie
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Essen, Germany - 22nd July 2010
By: Apperveilchen
I arrived savely in Germany, just when the weather turned not quite so hot and more stormy, but that's okay. I'll show you around later.
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Posted Jul 22, 2010, 9:25 am
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Essen, Germany - 26th July 2010
By: Apperveilchen
There was supposed to be a photo-tour of the city today, but as you can partially see in the picture it's been raining cats and dogsnearly all day today and big parts of the weekend. Hopefully we'll have some nicer days again soon. While I as a crocodile am not adverse to water, not all of my companions see it that way.
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Posted Jul 26, 2010, 3:17 pm
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Essen, Germany - 27th August 2010
By: Apperveilchen
TravelingTuffy and I are helping prepare the food for a birthday party tomorrow. We have a lot of cooking planned.
First we are preparing a big pan of veggies is red wine sauce.
I had TravelingTuffy cut the onions, after all we didnt want any crocodile tears. Those puppy eyes are bad enough.
We put them into pan with olive oil and added egg plants, zucchini, tomatoes, peppers dried tomatoes... and let them simmer in red wine
Then we added fresh finely cut garlic, fresh herbs from the garden, chili powder, salt and pepper...
Now let it rest over night.
Next we made pork in orange sauce.
We washed and prepared the meat, and quickly sautéed all sides.
Next we prepared some more onions with pepper salt, chicken fond and some orange juice.
We poured it over the meat and put all into the microwave oven.
We also prepared turkey roulades. We cut turkey into thin layers.
Mixed dried tomatoes, onions, garlic, ginger root and spices, spread that filling on the turkey meat and rolled it up.
We rolled them in spiced flour and put them into the pan to brown them from all sides.
In a casserole dish we added chicken fond, cream, coconut milk, red curry, a habanero pepper, lemon leaves and soy sauce.
Then it all went into the oven for half an hour.
For dessert we made tiramisu.
We spread out some Löffelbiskuit and dreanched it in espresso.
We prepared the cream with amaretto and raw eggs, spread it over the lower layer and put more Biskuit on top.
We added more espresso and put it all into the fridge over night.
Who wants to come for dinner tomorrow?
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Posted Aug 27, 2010, 9:31 pm Last edited Aug 27, 2010, 9:50 pm by Apperveilchen
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Essen, Germany - 2nd October 2010
By: Apperveilchen
We're still here and because TravelingTuffy likes to try out the candy of the world, out host unpacked some. Of course we other tvs were there at once and had to try some, too.
We started out with some swiss chocolate with 70% cacao, our host's current favourite. Jelle's favourite, too.
Personally, I prefered the sweeter kind. Here's a Butterkeks (butter cookie):
They come as regulars, whole wheat, with or without choclate cover and sometimes, as in this case, with a yoghurt cream. Yummy!
Swiss chocolate also come in variations, of course. Napolitains are small pieces, individually wrapped and often come in packs of different kinds:
Zartbitter/dark chocolate, Haselnuss/hazlenut, Milchschokolade/milk chocolate, and giandor(or a variation - a kind of chocolate/nut cream)
Here's Brause. It bubbles and prickles on the tongue. Ahoi is a favourite kind of that sweet here and these little bears come in coke, strawberry, banana or peach flavour.
There's also powder to dissolve in water, big chunks or other small forms with different flavours.
Maoam is another favourite brand. It's chewy candy in all kinds of forms now, regular or extra sour flavours (which should be "sauer" in German, but for some reason it says "sour" on the wrapper).
No list of favourite brands of candy would be complete without Haribo. Here we have their licorice mix, called Matador, but licorice is Lakritz in German.
There's salt licorice or other kinds in there. Here's the favourite licorice snail: Lakritzschnecke. It can be eaten like this or be unwound, or even separated into halfs before eating.
I'm stuffed!
I think I ate 10x my weight in candy today.
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Posted Oct 4, 2010, 10:18 pm Last edited Oct 4, 2010, 10:21 pm by Apperveilchen
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Essen, Germany - 6th October 2010
By: Apperveilchen
We were in the city center today after our host got off work but we had to hurry in order to complete our errand before closing time. Here you can see part of the main public library.
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Posted Oct 10, 2010, 3:18 pm
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Graz, Austria - 3rd November 2010
By: marcie08
Hi Mom!
I have arrived here in Austria and was greeted by many other toyvoyagers. They had just returned from a short holiday in Belgium!
They told me all about their adventures and even shared their chocolate with me! That was so really nice!
Bye for now!
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Posted Nov 14, 2010, 2:40 pm
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