Travelog for: Blou Beer

Moin from Bremen! 

Hey Mummy, I already arrived in Bremen!
There is another TV here: SammyFire. We became good friends already. He will leave soon to continue the Germany RR, but another RR TV arrives then.

Juls is invited to a big party tomorrow and we had to prepare cakes. We made small sponge cakes filled with custard cream and a soda cake. I helped! (Now my tummy hurts a little from eating too much dough, but that was definitely worth it!)
Anyway here are some of the scrumptous pics!

Delicious greetings!

Hey Mum!

Last week I helped Juls prepare decorations for the Easter holidays!
We used pieces of colorful paper and glued it onto small paper letters and huge plastic eggs.
"O-S-T-E-R-N" is german for "Easter". We had a lot of fun.
The weather was terrible so there wasn't much outside activity possible. But seems like the its improving and juls promised to take me into town one of these days to do some sightseeing!
Greetings!

Hey Mum!

We finally made into town 
So at last I got to see some of the famous sites of Bremen. The town musicians, the famous chocolaterie "Hachez", the cathedral.
Spring arrived at last and it was nice to go out for a bit. We had bubble Tea. THE drink that is currently en vogue. Little shops are popping up all over town. It was Juls first Bubble Tea too (she didn't like it - so we could have it all!)

Later that night we went to visit a friend. They own this huge fish tank! It some 2m wide! And it was so many colorful fish inside!
Finally I met "Socke" (engl. socks - yes the clothing). He is such an enormous cat. He looks a bit scary but he is a dear and would even hold still for a couple of pictures!

love
Blou Beer
xxx

Hey Mum!

We took a quick walk down to the river Weser, because Juls wanted to show us the gorgeous yacht that is currently being repaired in the docs on the other side. There are many shipyards lining the left side of the Weser. Some for repairing, some for constructing and some for interior design.
It was very posh. Roughly: 1m = 1 million euro. That is before taxes. And before interior design. Anyway it was a treat to see one of them. They frequent here a lot and are then forwarded to Dubai, America...
Hey, maybe I can make cruise one day....

More soon!
Blou Beer
xxx

Hey Mommy,

here is more news from Bremen. Spring has finally arrived and we took a walk around Knoops Park
It is a famous park close by.
They do some construction works there right now, but keep the old building facades for heritage reasons. Looks rather funny...
It was named after the merchant Ludwig Knoop who was born here, he bought the estate that stood in the area had a small castle added in the vicinty (The castle was demolished long ago, but the estate still exists and is now private property). He asked the garden architect Wilhelm Benque to design the park. Benque also created the Bürgerpark. The people's Park in the City centre. Knoops park is situated right next to the river Lesum an some 65 hectare large! We visited the Jünglingshöhe which offers a splendid view across the river and towards Oldenburg.
Unfortunately the park doesn't look too nice around this time of the year  Juls says it looks much nicer in summer.

More soon!
Love

Hey Mum,

the other day we went to a castle museum! It was so exciting. It has a lot of regional exhibits from Bremen, from all time periods.
We saw the femur of a mammoth!!!!!!! It was found near Bremen.
And then there was this funny bike which people used to cycle on. I can't imagine how that must have looked.
There was the original kitchen from back when the castle was built and exhibits on the man who built it, he was a real adventurer: he brought stuff back with him from all over the world. Peacocks from China, shrink heads from Africa....

Juls also took me on her holiday trip to Scotland.
More on that asap :-*
Blou Beer

***ADDENDUM***

Juls is a bit forgerful.
While roaming her picture folder for the Museum pictures she found a couple of pictures she had not posted so far.
She posted them for 10th March (so you will find the entry a bit further down)
It's pictures from when we went into the city centre to see some of the historical monuments of Bremen.
Apologies.

Greetings from ye olde Edinburgh, capital of Scotland.

For a long weekend I accompanied Juls on her holiday up north!
Sadly the weather was less then good. We had coast fog on a daily bases. That is why most of the pictures we took liked like this:

The 1st picture actually shows me some 20m in front of Edinburgh castle!
here's a link in case you want to see what it looks like: castle

Hey Mum,

look what I found: sunshine!
Once we left the city for a day trip around the country, the weather improved. So this is me at Glen Coe.
Nasty piece of scottish history took place here: The clan of Campbell slaughtered the clan of MacDonald.
Their graves can be found a on a wee island on Loch Leven. There is a even a song about the massacre. (Juls thinks it's too nice a song to describe this terrible event. But what do you think?)
The Corries - Massacre of Glencoe

Same day - new location!

Later that day we reached Loch Ness! I was looking out for Nessie- but it never showed itself.
This is me in front of Urquhart Castle. It is only a ruin, but it's nickname was Guardian of the Glen, so it used to be a mighty stronghold. It sits right at the shore of Loch Ness. It is pretty cool. It was built round about 1230 AD.
Here we went for a little hiking and we had a good view of the Glen.
Loch Ness is the second largest body of fresh water in all of Britain! The largest is in Scotland too: Loch Lomond. Anyway the Highlands are so cool!

Hey Mum,

tonight Juls took us to the bonfires! It was so amazing. It is traditional to light bonfires on the saturday before Easter. I believe it is some left over of the pagan rituals of the pre-christian era. (I ask Juls, and she is not entirely sure herself. So she looks it up for me so I can tell you what it really is about).
As it turns out: it is common tradition since the 15th century. Pre-christian roots are not verified. Since Easter is at the beginning of the spring season, the fires symbolise the chasing away (burning) of the winter.
Anyway I loved it so much! It was a real big event. There are many bonfires tonight all over the city. Maybe some 100 in all of Bremen, but maybe more...!!!!
We had a clear sky and the fire was huge and blazing.
Tomorrow we will hunt for easter eggs and start preparing the food for monday.

I'm on fire!
hugs and kisses
Blou Beer

HAPPY EASTER MUMMY!

This morning we we slept in and juls got up early to hide the eggs. Or rather: she instructed the Easter Bunny to hide some extra nests for us TVs!
Here is what I found. Chocolate eggs and golden bunnies! I ate some right away and shared one with Juls and Mandy Sheep but I will save the others for later

In the afternoon we prepared food for tomorrow. We helped cut the asparagus for the soup, mix the tuna and fry the chicken, make a salad, and roll the dough for the sweet bunnies. It was hard work.

I hope you had a great day too mummy and found some sweet easter eggs yourself!

Love
Blou
xxx

Moin Mummy!

Finally some more news from Bremen.
Yesterday we went into town again. This time we saw the famous "Schnoor". It is part of Bremen's old town. It goes back all the way to the 13th century when they built the convent which still exists today. Most of the houses aren't that old though. They are from the 18th century. The name derives from the old craftsman who lived here. "Snoor" is old low saxon for "string" or "cord". Bremen's ropes for ships were crafted here.
It was also a suitable name for the architecture. The small houses are so close together that some of the passages (streets) are only a 80cm wide!!
Some of it was destroyed during Word War II but then reconstructed to save the heritage. The passage way "Wüstestätte" (wasted ground) was where the most damage was done.

Afterwards we walked across the dutch flower market, passed Bremen's newspaper publishing company "Weser Kurier" and  had a coffee at Starbucks.

Lots of love
Blou beer