Start of the Mega Photo Update Cologne and Brule

Inside Cologne Cathedrale

View from the top of the longest spiral staircase without a break ever!!!

Just outside of Cologne, Brule, Castle Augustusburg

the gardens there.

Our morning tea

Why back to Germany...

Well in answer to a question from mum "Why back to Germany"

there are lots of answers.

1) it was only 2 hours away by train

2) it cost 80 euro for the both of us both ways

3) Cologne cathedral is the tallest (and in my opinon the best in Europe)

4)"i felt like it"

5) Beer

6) It's another place that we have been scratched off the list

Today we went to a small museum of Cologne. It was tiny and only 2 euro. My hopes were not high. we got in and it was "ok" but not brilliant. Until i saw the most fascinating medieval collection i have seen so far i think. everyone has armor and swords and tapestries and so on, but none have had a collection of items taken off a condemed Patrician in 1389! Yes 1389. Pretty good year. All the items were taken and stored and forgotten about. they are just normal items. like a needle case, about 10 little tiny bags that fell off his belt. Folding spoon in a case, another case, a belt and blah blah blah.... The bags were the biggest eye opener yet. They were very well preserved, one made out of soft leather, but it had little pockets sewn all over it. Another had a cover for the bag made out of mesh!! It also had little ROUND seed pearls the size of normal beads crossing over the seam lines around the two side seams. it was the size of a match box. (see photos below)

As you can see this was pretty cool.

But back to normallity!!

we went out for dinner last night to a really nice place that was about 300 years old.
as you can see they had beer at this place!! we had a really delicious meal of beef covered in a balsamic vinegar and herb sauce with red cabbage and potato dumplings and salad.

(I love this photo!!! Sorry Chris i HAD to put it in...)

byyeee

I know I said I was in Brussels...

I know I said I was in Brussels, however, we decided yesterday to spend three days in Cologne, Yes Germany again.

It was a two hour train ride and our passports were never checked!!!

Chris is typing this for me. That is why it is so legible!!! (and short)

(Bastard)

Dinner good.

Hostel good.

Cathedral good...(ed. freakin huge!!!!)

Beer good (ed. Hic).

Weather shit (we are covered in fog...apparently???)

Company...normal (surrounded by drunk Australians...suprise suprise).

Can't think of anything else...we go back to Brussels on Friday to Stay with Claire and Christophe till Monday then stay the night in London before heading to Doncaster on Tuesday to stay with Auntie Anne and then Auntie Janet.

If you want to know more you are nosey bastards. (tough shit we might send you a postcard...MIGHT!)

Byeeee....