Well I have been here a week already. time does fly.
So today i got up early (7ish) ate breakfast and went down to the train station and got on a bus took an hour trip then onto a train and did an other hour trip to get to a town in Germany called Cologne. My friend Teresa said it would make a good day trip, which it did. When you walk out of the train station you look up and there is this amazing cathedreal called the Dom (look it up). its truly anmazing and really very beautiful. I then got an ice cream cone and walked around. there is this really wonderful shopping district in Cologne. there are so many shops. there were 6 H&M's in the area, i was rather amazed that there were that many needed. I didn't buy anything, but i looked in a bunch of stores. OOOOO there was a LEGO store. it made me rather happy inside. :D I then went over to this bridge, on the one side it has thousands and thousands of locks. its amazing and beautiful. i spent about 30 mintute walking one way and then back, looking and taking photos of all these locks. there were so many different kinds. after that i got another ice cream cone and watched a bunch of german boys skateboard. then came back to maasricht. I went out to a pub tonight and had a drink with some very nice people. it was a fun day.
i am going to cut this short. i am really tired. its like 12:15 here. so i am off to bed. will try to make tomorrows blog a little more interesting. with some random facts and thoughts :D
sounds like a great day--ice cream very good!!!!
ReplyDeleteGoogled the Kolner Dom. Wow what a beautiful church. Learned it was started in 1248 AD and took over 600 years to complete. Also learned that Cologne Germany's namesake is "Eau do Cologne". The perfumed water was created there in the 18th century by an Italian merchant who had moved there... as a cure-all for everything. Today it is just known as cologne. Hmmmm.
ReplyDeleteWhere are we going next???????????????? :)
Wow - you sure don't sit still over there! London, France, Holland and Germany in 7 days - that's travellin'. Sounds like you had a good day in Cologne, that is a very popular place also know for fine wine. How do you like the pubs over there? Quite a bit different than here I would think. Your camera card must be getting pretty full. Glad you were able to spend some time with English freinds (just so you don't forget the language- LoL). Can hardly wait for the next update.. love ya.
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