Cologne

 

Last weekend we went to Cologne, in Germany. The first day was quite nice, but it rained pretty hard the second day. We stayed at a Couch surfer's place, and they showed us around a bit the next day. Our general impression of Colgne was that it was a very nice city to live in. It wasn't so much of a tourist city, but still very nice to walk through, especially along the river.  Here's the pics!

German. beer. is. nasty. I don't know how people can drink enough of this stuff to get drunk, but on our way home while we were waiting for our train (of course we missed it, so had to wait an extra hour) we just watched all the drunk people go by. I'm not sure if it's just a Saturday evening thing for everyone to be drunk, but it sure was amazing how many people could hardly walk!

The famous Dom tower, which is Cologne's biggest attraction.

We visited the 'stadhuis' museum (town house). This is a candle inside a car light. I guess it's pretty ingenious!

A real star, worn by a real Jew only 70 years ago.

A copy of the Torah

Dom Tower

Again here's all the 'lover locks'

A beautiful evening!

We found a playground. 'nuff said :)

The next morning we visited an Ancient Roman museum. I always thought I didn't like museums, but these two were amazing! I think I was the only one in our group that really thought that though. The first museum I found Kaia sleeping on a bench upstairs, and the second one the other two were mostly standing in one place looking only at eachother...

This is the statue of Appolion. I recognized the name from the Bible as well, an ancient Greek god from Paul's time.

 

The river god of the Romans. It is unreal to think that people used to pray to and worship these hunks of stone, now chipped and worn with time and sitting lame in a museum.

More gods. The one on the left I believe is a coffin for a famous military general or something. Most of the coffins had altars on top.

Even though it is blurry make sure you take a second and appreciate this :) It took a very long time to take this shot!

Hope you all are having a good week!

Kim