Travelog for: BarryO

After a one and a half hour drive we arrived at Randers. There is a rainforest - I only believed it after I've seen it. There are three big big domes with three different rainforest themes: Asia, Africa and South America. Click on the link, if you want to know more about it. You will find more information, if you go to THE EXPERIENCE. I can tell you, it was hard for the camera - so sticky hot and humid. Not only the camera had problems, but I too. It was so hard to breath and you know, I have a fur, so it was even more hot to me than to the others maybe except the other toyvoyagers, of course.












Of course rainforest means a lot of forest




But we also saw many beautiful fishes.






I also met a really big crocodile. I had been safe - there was glass between me and the crocodile.




Here we are in the South American part.






By the way: I know, I wore my jacket the wrong way. Somehow Petra only saw it much too late.


From here we drove to Graceland. Yes, you've read it right. But I mean Graceland Randers, which of course isn't the real Graceland, where Elvis lived. Nevertheless I enjoyed to be here. Petra told me, that it maybe is the only chance for many people in Europe to see something similiar like the real Graceland. So I tried my best to understand it and I really liked the exhibition there.






This is an original phone, which was down in the jungle room.









There's also a cinema, where the show Elvis movies. This one maybe was "Elvis by the Presley's".



After the movie we've left the building.

At 6 pm we were back at our house in Nørre Vorupør. We were really tired.

This is our last day at Nørre Vorupør. We visited the local museum with exhibitions about the town and fishing tradition.













We sat down in a ship and hoped, that someone would come and take us fishing, but Petra told us, that we'd chosen the wrong ship.








We had some fun, when we took the group photo in the steering wheel.






This is the last photo of Nørre Vorupør: the really nice church.

We are back in the car again - for another more than 7 hours trip back to the motel in Hannover. Of course it is raining again.

Once more we stayed at the Motel one in Hannover. Petra said, that she had a really really bad night. The bed was much too hard for her to sleep. Thank God, we toyvoyagers had a nice place to rest.

Now we are in the car again and guess what? It is raining.




Here we are on our way to Bad Pyrmont. I guess it was Bingen, where we took this photo.




I can't remember, where this photo was taken.

After we had breakfast in a nice coffee shop, we went on a little walk. We saw some really beautiful old houses.




Fountain Place with Hylligen Born




Here we passed Frankfurt a.M. and we tried to catch a photo with us and the skyline - it was too far away and really small. So it is hard to understand, why they call the skyline of Frankfurt a.M. "Mainhatten".

At home again, we found two big packages on the kitchen table. Cassiopeia and some long missed toyvoyagers had arrived during our stay in Denmark. We have to talk now - tell stories of our travels.

Petra's camera had been at the shop to get rid of the amount of sand in it. So we had no chance to take photos in the meantime.

Today it was warm and now there are heavy clouds at the sky. We wait for more rain.

This early evening we were in Ötigheim to watch "Peter Pan". I really enjoyed it. See a few photos of it here:

I and a few other toyvoyagers were allowed to join Petra and her class on the trip to Luisenpark in Mannheim. We had some fun there. Did I solve a mission by sitting on a cactus - to tell the truth I was set there by Petra and didn't climb on it myself. Nevertheless it was kind of itchy and spiky and I don't know, if it was really my idea to climb there as it surely wasn't my idea to sit there today.




Do storks eat toyvoyagers like me? I seem to be small enough.




There is a television tower in the park too, but we've only seen it from far.

Summer break started, so Petra and two of her kids are off from school for 6 and a half weeks. To celebrate the day we went on a short walk to a restaurant, which is located at the edge of Bruchsal area. A part of the way led us on the way of the seven sorrows of Jesus' mother Maria.

This is the first station: Simeon's prophecy.




Before we reached the fifth station we passed this cross.




The chapel called "Feldkirchle" is the fifth station.




We also passed this vineyard.

Today we took a photo of nearly all tvs, which stay here right now. There are several tvs of our host: Aaron, Robinson, Schnuffi, Scotty, Cassiopeia and Simba Leon. Then there are the regular guests: me, Bubo, Henry, Sanji, Tuffy, NiliHH, Jack, Chuckle, WillyW. All the others are tvs, which stayed with hosts, who had some problems and no chance to send them on to their owners or the next host. It is the biggest amount of toyvoyagers I ever had around me

Today the weather is nice - finally. So we had a chance to go out and take a look at the sightseeing places of Bruchsal. Bruchsal was first named in 976, but there are places even older than that. Bruchsal is famous for its beautiful baroque palace, for asparagus and for traffic jams on the autobahn.

Here you see the Damian Gate, which is the entrance to the palace area. You can see art exhibitions there every now and then.




We crossed the street and walked to the fountain in front of the county court. Such a pity, that my host forgot to take a photo of the county court, but you can see it on another photo.




Here you can read a about the fountain:




We crossed the street again and walked into the palace front garden. At first we took a photo of a sign:






The big part of the building is the main building of the palace. On the left side you see the catholic church St. Damian and Hugo, where my hosts go to Sunday service.




Here you can see from left to right: the building with the chamber music hall, the tower of Damian Gate, the little piece of the tower of the jailhouse, then the tree. At next there are two more buildings, which belong to the palace area, between both is the street, which we crossed before. Then the higher building on the right side is the county court. And you can see the little gate, through which we walked into the front garden.




We walked into the church to take a look at old photos. You can see, that the palace was destroyed during World War II. They rebuilt the area, but the church inside is modern nowadays.




In the second last photo you can see a little gate, which leads from the front part to the back part of the palace. We walked through it and took a photo of the backside of the church and the church tower.




There are some fountains on the backside of the palace. Each year there are open air concerts and it's a place for nice wedding photos. Around Christmas there is a second Christmas market at that place, too.




Four guards with halberts are at the line between the fountain part and the palace garden.




We walked to the little pond, where usually you can find many ducks.




At two crossings of the main way you can find a statue at each corner. This crossing shows the four elements water, fire, earth, air. Here you see the fire statue. You maybe remember, that I've shown you the water statue a while ago.




This crossing shows the four seasons winter, spring, summer, autumn. This statue is summer.




There are several ways lined with chestnut trees.




We left the palace area and drove to the backside of the hospital. There is a parking place and we stopped to take two photos: one shows the old hospital building with its nice little tower and the other shows the jailhouse.






Then we drove to the Belvedere, which was built as a hunting lodge for Prince Bishop Franz Christoph von Hutten.




Next to the Belvedere and Stadtgarten there is a place, where you have a great view over Bruchsal.




You can see the two towers of the baroque church St. Peter, which is close to my host's house. In the street right in front of me you can see some of the oldest houses of Bruchsal. 80 % of Bruchsal was destroyed during the war, so mostly you only see houses built from 1945 to today.




The buildings in front of me and the white one on the left side belong to the older people's house. Then there is the private catholic grammer school called St. Paulusheim - the big grey building in the far left side.




This nice house also is next to the Belvedere. Nowadays it belongs to a hotel.

Updating map.

BarryO has arrived in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.  He spent his first night at a Ramadan Iftar at the Dubai International Financial Centre - photo's to follow soon.  He looks forward to his stay in Dubai and to seeing what this fascinating city has to offer.