Cologne

Trip Start May 20, 2008

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Trip End Sep 15, 2008

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Warsteiner Hof Hotel Cologne

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Friday, August 15, 2008

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1792-formula for miracle water, later cologne	90% of Cologne was destroyed on March 2,1945	About the ugliest looking opera house	Allotment huts&gardens common along right of way
Augustusburg a beauty w/reflection in fountain	Augustusburg had trumpet plants just like mine	Augustusburg paths great for runners&walkers	Augustusburg&Falkenlust UNESCO world heritage site
Beer houses are super popular	Biggest free-swinging bell in the world	Bruhl home of 20th c. painter Max Ernst	Bruhl is only 30 minutes from Cologne by train
Cable car across Rhine is more than 50 yrs old	Cable car definitely most scenic Rhine crossing	Cathedral is signature sight in Cologne	Cathedral is the biggest Gothic building in world
Cathedral started 1248, finished 632 years later!	Cathedral towers over other old town buildings	Cathedral-most visited tourist attraction in Germ	Cathedral-tallest bldg in world til Eiffel Tower
City Hall combo of buildings from different eras	City museum not as popular as chocolate museum	Cologne & Houston are both 4th largest cities	Cologne has just over a million people
Cologne is collage of old, new & in-between	Cologne nice but no Stockholm or Copenhagen	Cologne was born in 33 BC by Romans	Comical sculpture brings smile crossing Rhine
Downtown Bruhl was pretty sleepy on a Sunday	Facade of the less than impressive City Hall	Falkenlust built for hunting&falconry lodge	Farina House-home of worlds oldest cologne factory
Finally had one day of nice weather!	Found 2 new PowerBar flavors!	Found it odd that palace is not symmetrical	Futurist-looking new shopping center
Gardens in their original 18th c. parterre design	Great view after 509 steps to top of cathedral	Half-timbered buildings give Bruhl some charm	Largest theme park in Germany also in Bruhl
Long walk from Augustusburg to Falkenlust	Lots of pedestrian streets like Hohestrasse	Magnificent Augustusburg Palace in Bruhl	Many Germans still smoke like chimneys
Many train routes are in tree-lined esplanades	Max Ernst Museum houses huge collection in Bruhl	Modern Cologne spread out but transit good	More than half a million books in this superstore
Much of Cologne consists of uninspired design	My favorite name for a bar in Cologne	My hotel is OK but not close to city center	My hotel rooms is right above restaurant sign
Nice concert venue just a walk across Rhine	Not that many sights of interest in Cologne	Not very easy to find a Coke walking around	Once outside of Bruhl, mainly farmland
Original walk to Falkenlust cut by train&autobahn	Palace begin in 1725 & finished in 1769	Palace has amazing 1740 marble staircase	Palace was built for archbishop of Cologne
People here need no reminder to eat ice cream	REI looks like KMart compared to this store	Rheinpark has great venues for concerts&festivals	Rheinpark is largest park in Cologne&gorgeous
Rheinpark is most beautiful urban park	Saturn bldg-tallest skyscraper in Europe in 1920s	Spaceship-like building is a sports arena	Still amazed at how expensive everything is here
Tallest residential building in Germany	Theater in front of huge main train station	These buildings have incredible designs!	This is the first wreck I've seen since Turkey
This scene has been an extremely frequent one

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