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Elliot´s Trackside Diner - October 2011
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<p>Good Morning Gang!</p> <p>This is day 4 of our tour throughout Germany. Today we stay in Cologne and explore the city. We will have to do a lot of walking, but also will enjoy the light rail system here. The walking will do us good, after the hearty meal and the many [B] we had at the Früh brewerey yesterday night.</p> <p>We will go back into the Roman times, as the city looks back onto a 2000 year history. Cologne was founded 50 AC by the Romans as Castra Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensis, a military installation to fend off us barbarians. Much of the city was destroyed following Allied bombings (in fact, about 90 %). Here are some before/after shots:</p> <p><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/Koeln_1945.jpg/751px-Koeln_1945.jpg" style="max-width: 550px;" border="0" /></p> <p><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Panorama_cologne_20050114.jpg/1200px-Panorama_cologne_20050114.jpg" style="max-width: 550px;" border="0" /></p> <p><img src="http://www.koelnturm.de/img/big/koeln2.jpg" style="max-width: 550px;" border="0" /></p> <p>I hope you folks don´t mind visiting a museum or two today!</p> <p>We will spend the night aboard a river cruise ship, as we will take a river cruise upstream in the next days. The cruise will take us to Königswinter, where we will take the cog railway up to the famous Dragon´s Rock, and further up the Rhine Valley.</p> <p><img src="http://www.fhr.fgan.de/~weiss/summerschool/bilder/location/Drachenfels.jpg" style="max-width: 550px;" border="0" /></p> <p>Enjoy the day!</p>
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