Etap Hotel Koeln Porz Airport
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...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 entry on Belinda's laptop. Bucking our trends thus far on the trip we managed to leave the hotel …
Rhine Time
Hey y'all, we're still in Cologne with wireless internet but are finding that there are not enough hours in the day to log on and do the updates and thus this is another direct to you from my phone. Yesterday started with the S Bahn EMU into Koln Hbf to buy a breakfast of Koln Bretzel and then a separate Starbucks orange juice and hot chocolate. …
Smells like Cologne
... the nights we were there.
When we arrived in Cologne 4 hours later there was a ton of snow, and it just kept snowing very hard until about 9:00pm that night. A ton of people were using umbrellas for the snow, which Lisa and I thought was strange; as soon as we got out in the snow and realised how wet it was and how hard the wind was blowing we understood why. We took a cab from the train station to our hotel, Barcelo City Centre, where we unpacked, ...
Snow , rain & 0 below
Welcome to Cologne the receptionist said.. the forecast is for rain, snow and -1 degree...guess that is what German winters are about.
Rugged up we venture out of doors and find it suprisly crisp cool but not bitterly cold or unpleasant. Umbrellas are up, and we join the groups wandering around the Cologne Cathedral. Being a Monday it allows us the room and less crowds to view this gigantic church that towers above all ...
Düsseldorfer Doofen
... cynic like me can feel the spirit of Christmas percolating in the air as I sip mulled wine in the frosty evening whilst choirs singing carols echo in the distance and children skate in the ice rink.
This year I'm in Düsseldorf, the metropolis on the Rhein that is home to 600,000 (including the largest Japanese population – 11,000 – in Germany. Why they have chosen here rather than, say, Frankfurt or Munich is still unsolved ...