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Cologne Slideshow
Cologne
Travel Blogs from Cologne, Germany
Europe, Finally Here
This is an amazing city - being Australian I can not get over how old everything is! And how on earth did they build that Cathederal. It was a busy few days as the World Youth Forum was taking place here and the new Pope Benedict was visiting. Also had ...
Not a planned day....
... our day rail pass and just hop the train to some town nearby. That city ended up being Aachen, germany. it's about 45-50 minutes from cologne by train. i had done absolutely research on the place and only knew that it was the capital of ...
Random tid bit
I'll add more to this blog, I swear. But I'm about to go out to a diskotek...the night is still young. But, I'm just adding pictures of Cologne after the allied bombing raids in WWII. 95% of the city was destroyed, as you will ...
Week 3
... . I was a little hung over, so I took my time eating breakfast today. Earlier in the week, I heard about the Cologne Art Show, the largest art show in Germany. Its last day was today, so I decided to check it out. I rode my bike there today, taking full ...
Frohe Weihnachten from Koln !
... delights of a street bakery for breakfast, discovering an immense array of delicious and tempting pastries – clearly we are in Germany – yum ! Fortified, we strike out for the Christmas markets, and are delighted to see they very much meet our ...
Week 9
Friday: Since I hadn't actually spent a weekend in Cologne for a good month, I decided that It was time to just hang out. School was normal today; we even got out a bit early. I used this extra time to work out and relax before hitting up the free beer ...
Cologne - not the smelly kind
... and two hours later we arrived at the Cologne Cathedral and the faculty set us free to do what we wanted all day. The Cologne Cathedral was pretty impressive--I don't think that the pictures even come close to showing how ornate the outside of it was. And ...
...and Repeat
This morning I spent some time on an internet terminal at the foyer of the Travelodge in London fixing up my 2 previous entries, which I had typed on and submitted from my mobile. I'm now back in the land of wireless internet and am thus typing this ...
Stand up, For the Socceroos
... I stayed in Cologne to watch the match between Australia and Croatia. I was suprised at home many Aussies were still in Cologne. I thought they would have moved on elsewhere. There were enough there to get the atmosphere going and some of the English ...
Night Train to Germany and Cologne
Well, we are out of Scandinavia and back into Western Europe. We took the night train from Copenhagen to Duisburg, Germany. It was a double sleeper cabin and quite the novelty. I got absolutely no sleep, but Matt spent the whole night snoring away. It was ...
The Train Fiasco...
... that stage I was fed up and started giving him a lesson in Aussie swearing to show my disliking of him. I pulled out my ticket from Cologne that allows me to get off at Dusseldorf for free. Much to his distaste, he didn't get to fine me and with a ...
Getting going
This was a first. I got dropped off at the gate, with only a carry-on, and there was NO, none, zip, zero, security line. I was the ONLY one in line. It was very strange. My SeV Jacket and New bag worked great. Enough gear for a week and easy to go ...
Cologne
... and Mike's brother, Jason, joined us there. On July 22nd we woke up at 7:15AM and took the train to Cologne, Germany. We arrived at 6PM and met up with Jason. We checked into Jegendgastehaus. We had 6 beds in our ...
The Intrepid Battle of Jen vs. the Volcano
... held (Chris seems to carry it with him) and we had an extraordinary few days. A perfect storm was created in Cologne, consisting of a combination of the World Hockey Championships being hosted there, Christiehimmelfahrt, a religious holiday, Father's Day, ...
Cologne
The briefest of stops here (1.5 hrs in between trains!). Just time to see the cathedral and eat some sausages... ...
The Chocolate Factory and the Great Cologne Dom
... Just some quick size information about the Dom. Height of both towers: 518 feet; Length 476 feet; Width 283 feet; and will hold 4000 people for a service. If you ever make it to Germany, you must see the Cologne Dom. You will never forget it. ...
Wat fott es, es fott ! Abschiedsgelage in Weiden..
Ich guck mir die Welt mal von der anderen Seite an… Aber vorher wird gefeiert bis der Hüftknochen aus der Pfanne springt !! ...
The heart of Cologne
At first, it seemed like an ugly place, with the weather and difficulties earlier that day. It took a while for us to settle down, things to look better, and so on. Once it did, I went into the towncenter right away: direction Kölnerdom, the stunning ...
My last day at the company
... . We discovered interesting things such as a lonely fridge or an inner tube dispenser (take a look at the photographs). Walking around Cologne, there's always something new to discover. I love this city, even though most houses are ugly and the weather is ...
Germany
... most of us walked the 4 miles or so, along the Rhine, into the city centre. My first impressions of Cologne, which is Germany's fourth biggest city, is that it is very industrial. There is nothing outstanding or remarkable about the place other ...
Stumbling around Cologne
... to be! After the chaos of Cairo airport which was dirty, sweaty and full of pushing, shoving, shouting Egyptians, Cologne's pristine, calm arrival lounge and equally uncomplicated quiet train into the centre of the city felt like landing on different ...
Fun time in Koln
Getting ready to head out to our next destination; Koblnez at the confluence of the Rhein and Mosel Rivers. Hoping we have internet access there in the apartment but if not I may not post anything new for awhile. We enjoyed Koln yesterday; ...
My first day
... not here for comfort. You are here for learning." Since I have only about six days to get everything done, I took a bus tour over Cologne. I saw the medieval part of the city. Not all of it, but still some interesting things. They took us near the City ...
Back in Germany
Hallo zusammen, bin um 1:20 morgens in Koeln gelandet, Reise auf den Balkan beendet. Habe jetzt noch ein Wochenende hier im Rheinland bevor es zurueck nach Neuseeland und wieder an die Arbeit geht. Wetter war hervorragend, zu meinem Abflug hat es ...
First week of classes/weekend
Monday: Exciting, first day of class. Class technically started at 9:30, but only for those students who had taken German language classes before. Jessica and I, being the only people who had not taken any proper classes just hung out and surfed the ...