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  • TravelerSiebengebirge (D)
    Day 1

    Dollendorfer Hardt

    September 14, 2024 in Germany ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C

    5. Gipfel. Das Siebengebirge ist ein Naturschutzgebiet. Da es jedoch sehr stark bewandert wird, sperrt man zunehmend inoffizielle Wege. Auf manche Gipfel kommt man jedoch nur so. Beim Dollendorfer Hardt habe ich mich entschieden, dem Wink zu folgen.Read more

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  • TravelerPlanlos durch die Welt
    1
    Day 56

    Bad Breisig - Oberkassel

    September 4, 2024 in Germany ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C

    Den Morgen verbrachten wir in einem Kaffee , um dem Regen auszuweichen. ☕️Danach paddelten wir los. Es war windig und nass. 🌧️💨
    Für die Nacht haben wir ein gemütliches Zimmer in einer Pension gebucht. So können wir uns aufwärmen und unsere Sachen trocknen. 🛏️Read more

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  • The Rhine Getaway
    1
    Day 8

    Beer tour of Cologne

    September 4, 2024 in Germany ⋅ ☁️ 66 °F

    Tonight we signed up for a Brauhaus tour with dinner and sampling local beer from Cologne. None of us are real beer drinkers but our traditional German dinner at Peter's and the beer at the other establishments was tasty. Even had Schnapps at one!Read more

  • Traveler2024 Travels in Europe
    Day 43

    Wolfgang and Uli’s Village

    August 26, 2024 in Germany ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C

    Uli and Wolfgang live in a small village which is now part of Cologne. I think the old village name is Weiß. On Monday Uli walked us around it.

    There is a very old church; massive of the outside; simple on the inside.

    The village is in a bend on the Rhine which has a lot of barge traffic. Container barges go by all day and night.

    After touring the village, we stopped in the local bar for a drink.

    The whole scene was so different and so much calmer than downtown!    Read more

  • Traveler2024 Travels in Europe
    Day 41

    The Big Day

    August 24, 2024 in Germany ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C

    Saturday was the Big Day! And big it was!

    It all started with champagne at 11:00 at Uli and Wolfgang’s house. We walked the 3.8k (2.3 miles) along the Rhine. The house is spectacular. They largely rebuilt it on an existing site and both the inside and the outside are beautiful.

    After everyone had a glass of champagne, Edward and Lena spoke to the family and friends from the neighbor’s roof. Not sure what they said since it was in German, but it was well received by the crowd and Edward sounded very fluent.

    After a lavish lunch, the musical members of Lena’s family (which is pretty much all of them) sang, accompanied by Lena’s uncle, Christoff, on the flute. (He and Lena’s aunt, Heimi, are professional musicians who play for the Munich opera.) the song was an adaptation of a very popular song in the kölsch dislect the about Cologne, adapted by Uli (I think) to refer to Edward and Lena. (I’m working on getting a translation to post). Lena’s cousins, Billig and Jacob, dressed up as Lena and Edward. It was a great performance!

    Everyone then gathered for group photos.

    All this time lots of beverages were available; so many that Uli and Wolfgang brought in a refrigerator trailer to keep everything cold. Jacob tapped the keg of Kölsch.

    The party continued until the next event, cake at 4:00. Two huge cakes. We made short work of them.

    And the party continued until the final food event, reinekuchen, brought to the house by a food truck. Reinekuchen are potato pancakes similar to latkes. The guests ate them as fast as the truck could fry them up and they definitely filled up any empty spaces in our stomachs!

    By 9:30 or so we were all partied out and had to call it a day, although the party went on until the wee hours. Patsy and Steve walked back to our hotel with us. Since it looked like a thunder storm was brewing, we tried what was supposed to be a shortcut through the fields and woods but a wrong turn slowed us down. We hurried through the fields as the lightening and thunder began. The rain burst down just as we got in.

    We never thought that, on a trip which included crossing the alps, our most exciting walk would be in Cologne!    Read more

  • Traveler2024 Travels in Europe
    Day 40

    Chocolate and Kölsch

    August 23, 2024 in Germany ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C

    Friday was a day for chocolate and Kölsch! Apparently, Germany consumes more chocolate than any other country in Europe, both per capita and in total, and there is a large chocolate museum in Cologne. We met up with Karl R and Emma to visit it. The museum, which is run jointly by the city and the Swiss chocolate company, Lindt, has exhibits covering all aspects of chocolate (except for one my sister, Patsy, brought up later in the day) and had a complete production line for small chocolate bars. The visit was interesting, and, since they gave out samples, tasty!

    Later, my sister Patsy and her husband Steve arrived by train. We all had dinner at the oldest brewery in Cologne, the Früh. Karl and Leslie Ruth had kölsch, a Cologne beer which must be brewed within sight of the Dom (cathedral) to be called Kölsch, and comes in small, 0.2 liter (6.7 oz) glasses. Kölsch, like many German beers is available alcohol free (this comes in larger bottles)..

    We reported on our visit to the chocolate museum and Patsy asked whether the museum mentioned that chocolate had cadmium and lead in it! Who knew? We said the museum did not, but did have an extensive exhibit on other issues such as child labor, poverty, and how little the people at the bottom of the chocolate making process get out of chocolate, and what companies such as Lindt are doing to combat this. But, nothing about cadmium and lead.

    It looks like there are limits to how much social consciousness the museum felt it could exhibit. But, we still love chocolate and will continue to eat it in moderation!

    We then returned to our hotel to rest up for Saturday, the Big Day!    Read more

  • A Year of Living Awesomely
    3
    Day 221

    The Rhein

    August 18, 2024 in Germany ⋅ ☁️ 22 °C

    Today we strolled along the Rhein across from the Dom. Lovely gardens with a great many geese relaxing on the grass. We then took the Seilbahn across the river, and continued our journey by tram to the Dom. Coffee across from the Dom’s front entrance.Read more

  • Interrailing 2024
    Day 4

    🚞 Train 3 - Köln to Nürnberg

    August 14, 2024 in Germany ⋅ ☁️ 21 °C

    A nice breakfast at the hotel before heading over to Köln Hbf to start the journey to Nürnberg.

    I picked up a laugenbrezel from Kamps, got an S Bahn ticket (having annoyingly timed my Kölncard out by an hour) and jumped on the S Bahn to Köln Messe/Deutz Hbf. This station sits on the Köln Rhein high speed line for ICE trains.

    In hindsight I think I could have used my interrail pass for this short trip, but at least I got a paper ticket for the scrap book.

    A short wait before catching the 0943hrs Duetsche Bahn (DB) ICE bound for München, although I would be hopping off earlier!    Read more

  • TravelerRoadtrip
    11
    Day 14

    Dublin-Köln

    June 25, 2024 in Germany ⋅ ☀️ 30 °C

    Noch anera eher sportlicha Fahrt fu Dublin bis Köln hemrs den au mim einta odr andera Radar im Gepäck gshafft ka📸
    Üs letst Station bis es wiedr ind Schwiz goht.🇨🇭
    Sind am Tag ir Stadt gsi nd hend üs mol fu dera Stimmig fu da Engländer inspiriera loh📣💥⚽️
    Dia Stadt het brennt🔥
    Geg da spöter Obig simer ins Tram richtig Rheinenergiestadion fu Köln ds Spiel England vs. Slowenia gu luaga.
    Super Stimmig, ds Spiel selber ish etz ni grad ds spannendsta gsi abr het sich deffinitv glohnt🙌
    Sind nochm Spiel zum Bus nd sind grad direkt witr richtig Schwiz gfahra.
    Noch guat 1-2h fahra het den dr Alternator dr Geist ufgeh nd üs zwunga zum ima nochglegena Dorf pbernachta nd am negsta Morga en KFZ Mechanika aufzusuchen ne🪛🧰💸    Read more

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  • TravelerEurope 2024
    Day 21

    20 May: Rest Day?

    May 20, 2024 in Germany ⋅ ⛅ 19 °C

    Today dawned misty, humid (91% humidity and heavily overcast). We were tired after the big emotional high of our Rembrandt Run yesterday. But hey, this was our last day in Cologne, and we won’t be back anytime soon, so we headed off through the empty streets (today being a feast day holiday) down to the mighty River Rhine. (Cue Wagner🎶 Siegfried’s Rhine Journey).

    The Rhine had swollen overnight. The riverside promenade was flooded, with Warning High Water signs closing access.

    We found our cruise boat and sat on the upper deck watching the City go by, while eating sausage and chips with curry sauce.

    A panorama of cultural treasures carefully reconstructed after the Allied bombing, cheap boxy housing run up after the war to house what was left of the people, and modern luxury apartments in interesting designs.

    From time to time mega barges would shoulder their purposeful way past us.

    In NZ we have seagulls. On the Rhine, ravens. I kept looking about anxiously for an old man with a floppy hat and one eye.

    After the cruise we walked back through the Old Market and main shopping areas. Interesting to look at but saved from temptation as they were all shut!

    Our last port of call was the Roman-German Museum. The Roman Emperor Augustus founded a city here in the first century CE: Colonia Claudia Ara Aggippinensium. This strategic site was a major military and trade centre. Soldiers, traders, workers, craftsmen, families came from all over the world, telling their stories in inscriptions and the huge numbers of everyday things like the 1.6 million objects , from boathooks to nit combs, retrieved by archaelogists from the bottom of the Roman harbour.

    Wealthy citizens lived in city villas decorated with mosaic floors, wall paintings, fine tableware, exquisite glassware and jewellery.

    We were running out of legs after viewing these treasures, remarkable because they all came from the same place over hundreds of years. Luckily the helpful lady at the desk pointed out a taxi stand a few metres away, so we gratefully took our throbbing feet home!

    Time to pack up and prepare for our big rail journey tomorrow - four plus hours north to Hamburg.    Read more

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