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Don't be fooled, Germans loooooove big plates! 😂 I'm always disappointed when it's tiny portions. Can't deal with it 😂 But also: Needs to be good food of course, haha.
Interesting for you, perhaps, if you haven't done it already: If you look up Cologne after WWII, you'll see that it was absolutely flattened… Except the Cologne Dome.
Also, the supposed remains of the Three Biblical Kings that visited Jesus just after birth, have their tombs in the Cathedral.
The "Cologne" parfume… Well, originates in Cologne and is still sold. "Kölnisch Wasser" or "4711" I think we call it.
Also, Cologne was occupier by France under Napoleon rule… When Cologners saw the French coming close to the city, they send a rider witu the city key. A la: Look, we don't care to which country we belong to, we are Cologners and don't wanna fight but enjoy life. That is SO Cologne to me 😂😂😂
You should have tried the pepperoni gums in that shop. That is fun! 🌶🌶🌶
Fun fact: the locks actually threaten the structural integrity of the bridge and the city has to regularly cut them down.
Also as a resident of the larger Cologne area I can say: Cologne is one of the ugliest and pedestrian unfriendly cities in the area and Germany in general.
I came home with a small bottle of river water, ie eau de cologne
At first I was confused how you said that the cathedral was in walking distance of the station and I thought "Duh, you almost run into it leaving the station." But then I saw that you actually arrived at the "Köln Deutz" station at the other side of the river (Or as they say in Cologne the "Schäl Sick" The wrong/bad side). It was probably one of the weekends when the central station was closed, due to construction.
The city of Cologne was completely destroyed through Allied bombing during WW II. It was a miracle that the cathedral survived, despite being heavily bombed. I spend most of my adolescence in Cologne. That was during the late 1960s to the late 1970s, when I graduate from Cologne university and moved away. In those days, Cologne was still drab looking and not as vibrant and young as it is today. Unfortunately, much of the grand architecture has been lost and was replaced with ugly, utilitarian looking buildings.
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I always sail under that bridge, from the Netherlands.
That cathedral was build on a roman legion preatorium head quartes of roman army of rhein. And it have no cross on it because it is church of tree wise men from east.
I also think it's amazing in the year that construction started!!
The cologne cathedral is always under construction somewhere. There is a legend that if the cathedral is ever finished the world will go down.
I visited St. Paul's in London.
What was amazing was that a service started while we were appreciating the architecture and history of the building.
I think the same thing might have happened at Canterbury.
It made me appreciate that these are living, working buildings.
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The cologne cathedral holds the bones of the three wise men from the bible. They were brought there in the 12th century. They're obviously in all likelyhood not really the bones of them, but I guess people from the early middle ages were a bit gullible when it came to religion lol
Both cities, Frankfurt and Köln were burnt to the ground after WW2.
I found the lack of historical buildings (beside the dome which was spared from the bombs because the pilots needed it for orientation) in Köln remarkable when I visited.
Big portions but I'll bet the quality of ingredients would be night and day from Germany to USA.
Plus, if you're having beers then a decent meal to soak it up always helps. 😊
And now you understand why there is a fee for the toilets as in a free one you won't have a self cleaning seat 😅
I don't get the detour about the alcohol. You know alcohol plays a big role in Christianity.
there's a great commercial for the self-cleaning toilet: https://youtu.be/_DL1vgRfZwQ?si=OXypen-m1C1ZoXEU
Hello from Switzerland, regarding the renovation I can only tell you that the maintenance of such buildings is very time-consuming and cost-intensive, even more so with such complex decorations/figures. In plain language, these are practically permanent construction sites.
Dom liqueur, aha… I always wondered how angels share (the evaporated alcohol) remained, now I know 🤣. Priests/monks etc. were not averse to wine/beer (and probably other things) before, and the fact that it is an original recipe actually underlines it. Unfortunately for you, it wasn't made 1,000 or 600 years ago, otherwise it would be worth more than its weight in gold. Of course you have to try it, it would be a shame to just look at the bottle, but if the bottle runs out at some point, keep it, the bottle, the label (if it's a little aged), just looks great.
Regarding the food, well, if you want nice weather, you travel in the summer, if the dishes you want to try are winter dishes, then what the heck, that's the way it is. Don't worry about it, we see that here too in the summer, you can recognize tourists by the fact that they eat fondue in the summer and drink cola or beer with it 🤣.
I don't remember ever paying for the toilet in a mall. But the thing about cleaning the ring is great, I've never seen it like that before. There were once some with a plastic coating that was somehow tightened, but that hasn't caught on yet.
Imagine: To build something that takes 600 years to finish and then some asshole drops a bomb on it and destroys it within seconds. That's the reality of war.
It‘s really, really impressive to walk outside the train central station and you see this massive, huge building. Even for me who was born close to Cologne, it is still so impressive.
I also can warmly recommend visiting Aachen. Much smaller and cuter but it also has historic buildings like Aachen Cathedral, Town hall, the so called Elisenbrunnen, Ponttor.
Glad you liked it in Cologne. You Americans make us Germans really love our country again. So thanks for that. 🙏🏻
Just a quick tip concerning bathrooms in germany : usually if you can buy something to eat/drink somewhere and can sit down at the place, you can use the bathroom for free .)
Well, unless you go in a mall or train station etc.
Tja the Cathedral is since finshed under, construktion, permand!! It got harder since there are cars in town, so the polution got more and more and they had too repair more and more on the cathedral!!
Are there any love lock bridges in the UK?
The Love Lock Bridge
Lock locks started to appear on the Wye Bridge in 2012 and were the first to appear in Derbyshire, presently there are many hundreds now attached to the bridge.
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