Blogs from Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe - page 9

Hello everybody! After threatening a travel blog for weeks we finally got round to doing something about it! As I write Anja is busy loading her iPod (I'll check there is no Hoff!) and we are generally just ticking of the hours until we leave. We still have a few things left to do - last minute haircut, check all our documentation, double check the train time to the airport, oh and erm, pack our bags of course! Trial packing went well, after a dodgy start where nothing seemed to fit, but fingers crossed by 6pm tonight we will be ready to go! We leave Cologne at 7am tomorrow, heading to Frankfurt Airport, then onwards and upwards to Beijing, via Abu Dhabi! Not sure when we will next be able to update this blog, maybe from ... read more

Hallo! Meg here! Today is the last day of Karneval! I must say, I am looking forward to retiring my costume to the bottom of my backpack. We haven't gone balls to the wall by any means, and we haven't dressed up every single day. Six full days and nights of partying is just not for us. I remember when I was underage partying for four or five days during St. Patty's Day in Savannah, and it was sooo much fun, I never got tired of it....but you grow up, and you know your limits. Add 100 different songs in German about Cologne that you hear in every single bar and only one thing to drink (Kölsch), and it can get a bit repetitive. We did have a ton of fun on the first day of ... read more

Greetings from Cologne!! We have been here a little over 48 hours now.. As we checked into Ohare, we found out our flight to Toronto was delayed, which would cause us to miss our flight from Toronto to Frankfurt, but luckily there was a flight to Montreal that we could get on right away. We ended up with about a 3 hr layover there. Had a Weiss beer to wash down a cheese plate and frites and mayo with fleur de sel...while listening to club music in the only bar we could find. Surprisingly, I (Meg) was not that nervous to be on a plane for 7 hrs, especially after a gigantic jolt of turbulence as we were landing in Montreal...which scared the crap outta me! The flight to Frankfurt was pretty painless. We watched The ... read more

Wow, 2.5 years without leaving the country, it doesn't seem that long. A member from Diamond Valley reminded me about this blog, I completely forgot about it, I may use it if I have time when I'm abroad. Anyway 2 years of uni (Physical Education @ Victoria University) done and I'm off again thanks to uni!! They're giving me $4000 to boot!! How could I refuse?!? I'm heading to the German Sports University in url=http://maps.google.com.au/maps?oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF8&q=dshs+cologne&fb=1&gl=au&hq=dshs&hnear=Cologne,+Germany&cid=0,0,577651751356189434&ll=50.933118,6.868386&spn=0.013496,0.038581&t=h&z=15Cologne for a semester. Subjects I'll be doing are: soccer, football/cricket (weekend course), Mental coaching, Teaching Values through Sport (Football 4 Peace project based in Israel), International School Project (teaching sports in schools from my culture) I'll ... read more

Sorry. Not only have I been really busy but I managed to lose the last post. So, I'll try again. I broke off in mid sentence on the freezing platform of the station at Frankfurt Airport, waiting for trains that never came, However, eventually one came and i made it to Cologne, where, on the advice of my brother Chris, I had booked into the Ibis hotel at the station. He wasn't joking. I was accessed through a door in the station right next to the ticket vending machine! With only two hours to go before the opera started at 6pm I needed to eat. Almost everything was closed except a super posh 5+ star hotel near the Dom. Asked the bounce guy where I could have lunch at 4pm. He directed me to the piano ... read more