Saturday, November 30, 2013

No more, being number 1


I had heard that this marriage thing might lead to strange situations, but this?
All my friends at parapluesch and at home are very excited, dreaming up stories of how my new job might turn out to be. That makes me think ...

No more being the "raving reporter" and handling dangerous situations? I hope those days are not gone forever, though, thinking about it, having a real buddy, to explain the world to. That sure sounds tough but very exciting and fun too.
Well, now you all know, I have a second job, most teddy bears have never had anothe job and didn´t survive even that one. I heard nursery care is supposed to be very demanding but a safe job in these demanding and rough times.
Still, I bet those travelling assignments will surely return and continue!

Sunday, July 21, 2013

I went Paragliding ...

I went Paragliding all on my own, when i got back from the trip,


cause I didn't get a chance when I went along. It was real flying that the others did, well, they got a first time lesson and got to practice flying most of the time.



par·a·glid·ing

A sport in which a wide canopy resembling a parachute is attached to a person's body by a harness in order to allow them to glide through the air after jumping from or being lifted to a height.

Sunday, July 14, 2013

they call it "Torte"

It was such a nice day and I decided to drive to the countryside in Bavary, out of the hot and stuffy Munich city to eat some gloriously tasty cake.

Oh boy, decisions, decisions.
I´ll just eat both!

If you ever pass by: Café Winklstüberl, Leitzachtalstraße, Fischbachau, Germany
Nuff´ "Torte" for all.

Saturday, July 06, 2013

A summer road trip



I decided to go on a road trip to bella Itala, by convertible obviousy, cause I definitely have to work on my tan.





In my very italian style hotel room in Firenze.


And this hotel had an old voice "telefone" for the elevator, but they don't have a lift boy anymore.



And this old stone bathtub in the entrance hall of the hotel.



Wow, what a carriage, seen in Pisa. Looks like the carriage from Cinderella.




Sundays are not very busy in all Italian towns, as I found out and you can see above.



And grand clocks they have, though they are quite old but pretty.



Oh, and ice cream of course! I had to have more than my size. Well, I had some help with eatin' it.



This is a view in Florence towards the Ponte Vecchio bridge, very colorfull from the outside and all golden on it, due to the gold shops which are passed on from generation to generation.



Now this is a festive lunch in Tuscany, in the Chianti region in the town of Greve.



Sitting down to take a break in Sant Gimigiano. San Gimignano is a small walled medieval hill town in the province of Siena, Tuscany, north-central Italy. Known as the Town of Fine Towers, San Gimignano is famous for its medieval architecture, unique in the preservation of about a dozen of its tower houses, which, with its hilltop setting and encircling walls form "an unforgettable skyline".



I swear, it wasn't me!


Ahh, Italian sun and mediterranean sea.



My friend the busy bee bear, working in his market 



Another very tasty dinner on our way back towards the alps.



Boy, I am soo tired, got to take a rest.



Nearly home, at lake Garda, which is the southern most lake "close" to Bavaria. ;-)



And here we go, nearlz home again, passing Tirol.

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Meanwhile, my business colleague "Mr. Butlers" Bear was busy working on a racetrack somewhere, I can imagine how he passed the time, by seeing this picture.


Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Some time in spring 2013 ...

a little bear decided to hitch a ride to Praha.

Having arrived at “my” hotel,
as you can see here, it is a “bears” hotel, so it was an “have to go to” choice.


For starters I had a drink at the hotel pub with the local beer.

Right across my room door, I realised that some bears who arrived here, obviously arrived at the wrong time,
not necessarily at the wrong place, as you can see in the following picture.

I figure thy must have been very naughty, for being tied to a tree, they probably ate all the honey.


The charles bridge was very nice, but bitterly cold and windy. A few souls are trapped here, so I payed them a visit. 



In the castle (Pražský hrad) above the old town, I found an interesting collection from the armoury.

The houses here are  nearly my size, maybe they had a few trolls or midgets employed here?

After all that sightseeing I needed a break and went to the Cafe Imperial with it's splendid Art Deco,

People would call this "pigging out" but I am just having a large snack or a long tea time, really! OK, my tummy is full but I am a bear and the next winter will come for sure.

As I was really hungry, I paid the cafe Louvre a visit too. The chocolate cake was huge, it reached up to my shoulders and was very tasty!

For dinner I traipsed across town and got hungry again, so I followed a good advice and visited the pub of "The Good Soldier Švejk"

The beer and food was excellent and the place quite fun.

While looking around town, I found a couple of extremely pretty houses, like the art nouveau hotel.




Obviously I visited the old marketplace and 

was quite stunned by the beautiful surrounding. 

As I was getting a little thirsty I decided to have a short beer at, where else?

On my way back to the hotel in the newer part of town, 

having a last view from the Charles Bridge towards the national theatre.

The windows where quite different from what I have see until here, old but quite pretty.

Sunday, March 03, 2013

Visiting a watercity and being trapped in a sweet prison.


This happened just recently but let me start at the beginning. I originally had to get some tea from my Chinese merchant,

to get some of my own bear tea.
My little trip to the area of the Bodensee and Freiburg continued after this tea stock taking event, hoping all the tea I bought will last me for the rest of this year.

Having arrived at Friedrichshafen,
I tried to glance across the Lake Constance to Switzerland, hoping to see a few chocolate cows, but the fog was still hanging over the sea, ahm, sorry, lake, it´s just soo huge.


To get a good view of the old town of Freiburg and its Münster, I hiked up to the Schloss Berg .


 But alas, I was too hungry and got trapped in the cookie jar, after I had a big munch and ate all the cookies and crumbs. Being so cute helped as the kind bakery sales ladies freed me and I was able to continue my trip, full of energy and eager to see more.

A short visit to the rubberduckys was obligatory.


 At the Pfahlbauten I enjoyed the sun, which managed to get past the fog and had an interesting time in the bronze time, during which houses like this where built right here.


 Looks a bit like a European Waterworld, dosen´t it?