Trip to Cologne

After a couple failed attempts to get some people together to go on a planned-out trip, I decided that if I was going to travel around while I was here, I would have to do it the Vladimyr way. That is, I went to the train station, bought a ticket, and just got on a train.

I went to Cologne because it is only an hour away from Aachen, and the return trains ran pretty often.
This is the first thing that I saw when I left the train station:



Which is pretty impressive. Here is a more detailed picture of one of the sides.



It is HUGE! I went inside it, and the height inside is quite impressive. With interruptions, it took some 600 years to complete, which is a couple times older than either Canada or the US. Though I don't really have a clue how old Canada is supposed to be considered (New France: 1600s, BNA: 1800s, Canada Act: 1982).

Anyway, I walked around a bunch looking at things until I wasn't really sure where I was, then figured out my way back to the train station.

Here are some things that I saw, and took pictures at (other than the Llama in the previous post.) :

The river Rhine:



The place where the original "Eau de Cologne" is from:



I was actually looking forward to finding this place, and maybe getting some of the "cologne" since I learned of it over half a year ago. I think that the scent actually is quite good. It has been used by Emperors/Kings/Princesses/Presidents/Famous People for some 300 years now...

Oh, and here is a close up of some wall/statue thing I saw.