Renaissance Cologne

Cologne & Heidelberg Thursday 31/7/08 - Friday 1/8/08 Tour: "31/7: At Cologne, you will visit the awesome twin-spired gothic CATHEDRAL. Then the afternoon's highlight: a romantic RHINE CRUISE past castle-crested cliffs, terraced vineyards, and ...

... becoming a bit weary.  We were more interested in sleeping in than being adventurous.  After exploring a small portion of Cologne and doing a thorough tour of the Dom we headed out for Amsterdam.  Amsterdam is the last destination of our ...

... It also gave me very good insight into why it was considered to be an aphrodisiac and it's controversial appearances in 18th century renaissance painting. You see, chocolate was highly looked down upon to drink at public cafes, even though it was cool to ...

... town somehow managed to avoid being flattened by Allied bombs in WWII and offers an old town center filled with beautiful Renaissance and middle age buildings. The town is also perched on a river, giving Bamberg a Venice-esque feel, ...

... how this was allowed to happen only 80 years ago. Around the corner I saw the Romerturm (Roman Tower). Then I went to see the Praetorium, an old Roman governor's palace which is below the Renaissance town hall. Then caught the train back to ...

... .  We saw the Roman Praetorium, the medieval church of St Maria im Kapitol, some ruins of governmental buildings in the Renaissance Town Hall, an old Roman water sewage system, walked the streets and found lots of modern shops and did some shopping, ...

... dibawa oleh arsitek-arsitek Islam jauh hari sebelumnya kepada para bangsa Eropa yang saat itu masih percaya tahayul. Hingga zaman Renaissance tiba. Di kota ini juga adikku hampir saja tersesat, hingga baru 10 menit kemudian ketemu dalam keadaan nangis ...

... at the pictures (I did see them off later; GQ was moderately diverting but the only good thing is Esquire was the peel and sniff cologne sample – made me smell nice all the way to LA. I also learnt that Jimmy Choo now makes cheap shoes for H&M ...

Now I've been in Vienna for a week.  Flew here from Cologne, Germany on Air Berlin.  Air Berlin was an excellent and kind of cheap airline, I would suggest it for easy travel around Europe and you can check a bag for free. I don't have a ton of ...

... my way back, the food market is shut for the day. I can't feel too bad, though, wandering through the charming Renaissance streets. I enter the churchyard at San Lorenzo. The cloisters center around a splendid orange tree, and I relax for a few ...

... buildings. Copenhagen is a very compact city but at the same time it's not very tall. Several buildings are built in the Renaissance style and many others look like Canal houses from Brussels or The Netherlands. Above the 5 or 6 story houses, there is ...

... and really takes you back into time.  The square is surrounded by many well preserved half-timbered houses as well as the Renaissance city hall built in 1608. Especially well-known is the very small and narrow so-called "Spitzhäuschen" (the "Pointed ...

... mouthpiece like a trumpet, but is made of wood and has finger stops like a flute. The a recital by a harp of the renaissance period, and finally a concert by a quartet of singers - a countertenor (male alto singing the soprano line), a tenor, ...

... door. Each room was as extravagant and opulent as any room in the Louvre. Even the guest rooms were of remarkable Renaissance architectural genius with unbelievable paintings on the walls and ceilings, rugs half the size of Mom & Dad's backyard, ...

... walk around the city. First, I snapped a picture of the Train Station, which features a facade constructed in Neo-Renaissance style. This was a style popular with the Industrial Revolution era architects. This classic late 19th-century glass-and-iron ...

... canals running thoroughout the old part of the city). Half-timbered, midevil buildings and beautiful neo-classical and French renaissance architecture, all decked out in lights for Christmas. Strasbourg had the best Christmas markets yet, and an ...

... , but the Gardens were actually pretty damn cool -- they had a section of themed gardens with some really interesting Chinese, Indian, Renaissance and so on sculptures). Scott the local took me out with his girlfriend (he's got a four-year old son, but ...

... the capital of Italy back when it was one of the mightiest cities in the world. Florence is of course the home of the renaissance and its most famous monument is the Statue of David. Supposedly the perfect man. Our first stop was the hills of Florence ...

... on the outside - just big. The inside is an entirely different matter. Among the rooms I visited were the Antiquarium, a renaissance room with "ancient busts" (about 2/3 are fakes) of Roman emperors and paintings of 120 Bavarian villages as they appeared ...