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Final farewells Köln and Aachen you sneaky city

Europe » Germany » North Rhine-Westphalia » Aachen June 19th 2014

I stopped by the Gestapo Museum in Köln today and it was really fascinating, the holding cells were covered in writings still from the immates, some really fascinating and one mom will really like. Today was "Corpis Christi" (sorry Catholics if I slaughtered that spelling) so things were a little closed down and slow. Getting to Aachen was super easy, only 16 € and made me realize how nice one of these trains would be from Cle - Col - Cin, such a road clearer. I still find it hysterical how Germans lay on the horn immediatly if someone in front of them does not go right away. I learned the hard way about foreign food in Germany, even if owned by authentic people, so far Turkish is the only one that makes the okay list ... read more

mein letzter Tag in Köln

Europe » Germany » North Rhine-Westphalia » Cologne June 19th 2014

Frühstück

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Today I decided to shoot directly to the Rhine from my hotel and walk to the city from there. Sad to leave here tomorrow but Aachen will be easy to get to tomorrow. I finally have all my laundry done and need to pack up for tomorrow. I found a couple Americans today that oddly enough were dressed in Indians attire, turned out they were from Parma working for UPS and just came even more oddly "India". They told me about a Gestapo Museum I am going to check out today, should be cool. I saw the chocolate and german olympic museum as well, I was suprised they did not have anything there from Jürgen Schulz who is discus world record holder. The chocolate museum was cool and had tons of free chocolate. The woman working ... read more

Köln - Day 2

Europe » Germany » North Rhine-Westphalia » Cologne June 18th 2014

Frühstück

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Today I walked along the Rhine and got a better understanding of the city, I still love the fact I can navagate without a map and base where I am off of the cathedral. Today I check out the Römisch-Germanisches Museum (Roman-German). Lots of cool stuff there and some very ancient as well, therer was a lot of really cool glass there and it turns out Köln was the largest class producer in Europe and was a Roman city. They have a piece there that was worht over 40.000.000 € and is one of 5 pieces. The Germans are till psyched up on the victory over portugal yesterday. I ended up eating breakfast by an old city gate entrance built in the 13th century. I cannot tell if my tiredness is from walking around all day ... read more

Köln - Was für eine Stadt!

Europe » Germany » North Rhine-Westphalia » Cologne June 16th 2014

Dom from Hohenzollern Bridge

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Köln is such a wonderful city, a quick ICE train got me here. Today has been wonderful seeing the beautiful Dom, a Stadtrundfahrt and the Germans beat Portugal 4-0 at a Public Viewing with some friendly Germans I met on the street. I am about 90% adjusted to the time change here. Going through Germany reminded me a lot of the Ohio country side from Frankfurt to Köln. I did find something eye opening outside my hostel today though, we talked about these in German class at Kent, but I found 4 copper/bass (?) bricks in the road listing the names of the four people who previously resided here and were killed in Auschwitz. It also seems Germans like to honk at people who do not go right when the light turns green, in their defence ... read more

Ich bin endlich in Deutschland angekommen!

Europe » Germany » Hesse » Frankfurt am Main June 16th 2014

Anchorman 2

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Finally reached Germany after a nice long trip! Everything went well for my group, sadly the group we met up with their Begleitslehrers plane ticket was non-existant so he was not able to make it, but I managed to get all 9 kids here in one piece and meet up with their families. Arriving at the hostel was just as easy as I thought it would be luckily. Today I wandered the city, took a walk in the park and checked out the architecture museum (which had some cool buildings in it), the Frankfurter Dom and Goethehaus. I even climbed the Frankfurter Doms Tower, really narrow steps and only one way up and down. More pictures to come!... read more

Pittsburgh

North America » United States » Pennsylvania » Allegheny County June 14th 2014

Pittsburgh hotel ˆˆ

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Getting ready to leave for airport, excited to get there but not for this flight! I will land tomorrow in Frankfurt Germany at 7.45, just after a couple hour layover in Phillidelphia and meeting up with the other group, we will be off on a large Airbus with Lufthansa. bis später... read more