Travelog for: Billy

Two more hours in the car, then we were in Bruchsal again.

The weather is really nice, if you don't count the heavy clouds, so we decided to go on a drive to two of Bruchsal's suburbs: Untergrombach and Obergrombach. At first we wanted to visit the chapel on Michaelsberg, a small hill which belongs to Untergrombach. It was too crowded there, because there was a wedding.
So we only took a photo of the small hills of Kraichgau.

Then we drove to Obergrombach.
At first we enjoyed the nice view over the vineyards to Obergrombach.




Our plan was to take more photos, but it started raining again. So here's only one more photo of Obergrombach with a beautiful half timbered house.

Today we decided to bake a rhubarb cake. Our host allowed us to do it all alone without her help. So please take a look at the recipe. We explain it step by step:

At first we had to find a place - we are quite a few



Of course we aren't all traveling. Some of us are here as active toyvoyagers, but many of us are guests, who decided to stay here as long as the owners don't find time to get in contact with our host. And of course some of us live here, but we all have one thing in common - we are toyvoyagers.
At next we had to get the eggs. We need six eggs for the cake.




It was Sausi Karl's job to beat the eggs.






Then one of us - don't know who - added 50g sugar for each egg, so it was 300 g sugar. It's quite a lot, we know.




Madam Miff added one packet of vanilla sugar to the dough.






Of course we had to beat the dough again, but we couldn't handle the camera while beating the dough.
Matcha and Ted added 300g flour and one packet of baking powder.






Then we had to stir the dough again until it was fluffy.




Melek helped




and Nathalie




Then Matcha prepared the dish for the dough. We baked without bottom on a foil.




Nathalie was still busy stiring the dough.




And the she filled it in the dish.




Then we all were sitting there and waiting for the cake to get baken in the oven. Man it was boring at first. But we didn't expect, that half an hour can be such a short time, when so many tvs are together.






After this break we had to prepare the rhubarb, because we wanted to fill the cake with rhubarb cream.






Little Dragon helped to skin it.








And Matcha helped to cut it in pieces.




I helped Matcha to stay on the pot during cutting the rhubarb pieces.










Then we had to prepare some ingrediences for the cream. We needed two packets of vanilly pudding powder, one egg white and one yolk. We had to stir the egg white.




Before adding the stirred egg white, we had to add the pudding powder. We had added a little bit of water to it and shook it until it was smooth. Then we added the pudding powder to the cooked rhubarb. We also added the yolk.




Then Louis the Rat added the stirred egg white and gently folded it in.






Finally we cut the cake in two layers and filled the cream on the first and then on the second layer and put the last layer on top of it.

I had the chance to go to school today and learn more about the federal state Baden-Württemberg. Bruchsal is a town in Baden-Württemberg.

Parts of river Rhine flow through Baden-Württemberg. It is the longest river in Germany with about 1,232 kilometres (766 miles).




There are also parts of Limes. A limes was a border defence or delimiting system of Ancient Rome. It marked the boundaries of the Roman Empire.




There are many people in Baden-Württemberg, who love Sports. Some of them even took part in Olympic Games. On pupil told us more about them.

Today we drove to Rastatt to visit a concert in front of the palace. It was SWR1 lyrics. We had a lot of fun.




Have you ever had "salad to go"? It really looked funny.




We had to wait about 2 hours until the concert started. It had to be after sunset - and still it was really hot.