Blogs from Bergisch Gladbach, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Big day planned today so was up and ready. Had coffee and a lovely smoothie Tonz made. He has been living in Germany for such a long time that he sometimes has trouble remembering the English word for something. He was explaining all the items that were in the smoothie - banana, avocado, berries and then he says with mince. I'm like "what..... wait a minute...." until we worked out he was saying Mint but the German words is minze. Haha - all good, there was no raw meat in the smoothie. Tonz went and picked up Vince & Alison and then we all walked to the Strassenbahn Linie 1 (this is the tram). We changed over to the train at Deutz and then got the regional train to Linz. Tonz & Susi had been on ... read more

Up early to have breakfast and finish packing. There is a bus that leaves from very near to my hotel so I planned to get the one that left at 9:15. All good - you just pay the driver €2.80 and you're off. The bus arrived at the Central Train station about 15 minutes later so I had plenty of time to find my platform and where I needed to be standing before the train departed at 9:59. The train journey took 5 hours but it was very pleasant and a good way to see some more of the countryside. I arrived at Köln station just after 3pm and followed the instructions my cousin Tony (or Tonz as he is known to us!) to the platform for a train to Bergisch Gladbach. I missed one step ... read more