Blogs from North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe - page 71

to Germany มาถึงเมือง Cologne ตอนวันดีซะด้วย มีการจัดประชุมคาทอลิกเยาวชนที่นี่พอดี เด็กเล็กเด็กโตจากนานาประเทศทั่วโลก มาประชุมกันที่นี่หมด คนเป็นล้าน แรกๆก้อดีอยู่หรอกมองเด็กเพลินดี แต่พอนานๆไปเริ่มคิดได้ว่า เดินไปไหนมาไหนก้อไม่สะดวก จะกินไรก้อยาก คิวยาว คนเยอะ จะถ่ายรูปก้อไม่งาม คนแม่งเดินบังวิว เลยแอบเคืองโป๊ปเล็กๆ ทำไมต้องเลือกมาที่นี่ตอนช่วงที่เรามาเยอรมันด้วยวะ ปล. บิ๊กแมคสัญชาติเยอรมันราคา 4.59 ยูโร ... read more

One last trip was in order before departure, so I packed a few things and train-trekked over to Köln (Cologne). Yeah, yeah, I know I was there right after I arrived, but I still hadn’t seen the Haasterts, so Cologne gets the distinct honor of appearing in my travelblog twice! I know the Haasterts because the youngest of their 3 kids, Neta, decided to be an exchange student to the states ‘way, way back’ in 1998, and ended up in my family (actually living in my bedroom) for 10 months, during the same time that I was on my exchange year to Switzerland. I met Tom Haastert (kid number 2) in the train on Friday, and together we stashed our stuff in the train station luggage lockers and took off for a couple hours of hanging ... read more

Been there, done that, got the T-Shirt! That’s right, friends. I went to the U2 concert in Gelsenkirchen. Ever heard of it? Me either, but apparently 60, 000 other people know where it is cuz they were all there too. I’ve never been in a stadium that big in my life. That in itself was an experience. One thing that was different from the stadium shows I’ve been to back home was all the people who go out to the stadium early to hang around the grounds for what seemed like a big tailgate party. I thought that was neat. The other thing I noticed is that when the show started, the entire crowd stood, and stayed standing for the entire show. Even up in the rafters where I was sitting. The concert was super! For ... read more

Ja das goed, ja. Germany is great. Love it. Love the people (suprisingly), the food, the culture, making fun of their awful language, the parties - the germans really know how to party and well pretty much everything about it. I have met some wonderful people from Germany and one of those people is my great friend Christian Hirschen. We met at UCD where he joined Delta Sigma Phi, we had an absolute fantastic time that year. We then met up in Amsterdam for a couple of days and after a botched attempt to fly to Poland I ended up going to Mallorca and then to Germany to see Christian. Getting off that train and seeing Christian standing there in his Canadian Tuxedo made the whole trip worth it. "So Lloyd, wat za fuck man" haha, ... read more

Date: 07.02.2005 Destination: Cologne, Germany Day: 1 Rosenmontag was celebrated this time of the year and with big Carnival. We went to one of the biggest in Germany, in Cologne. Basically the whole city was closed down for parades and parties. We went there from Duisburg and supposedly the journey will take just one hour but because the train was so packed, we reached there late. The most interesting part was that people were in festive mood all around, drinking, eating, wearing funny custome and weird-looking hats. The moment we reached Cologne main bus station, the Carnival started. It was hard even to move around. People laughing, screaming.... We walked to the Cologne Cathedral just outside of the main station. This is really one of the crepiest great cathedral in the world, the dark structure and ... read more