Today marks 1 full week in Germany. I have 2 more weeks on my itinerary. I started my day with breakfast, as usual, but at a later time. I woke up around 8:30 not because I was ready to be awake, but because my room was 24C (75F) with the A/C blasting on full (as it had done most of the night). I stopped at the front desk after breakfast to request maintenance. Shortly after returning to my room I got a call from the front desk indicating the problem was hotel wide, but was fixed now and my room should be cool within an hour.
I spent the rest of my morning watching some US TV that I had downloaded to my iPad and snippets of the 24 Hours of Le Mans race on Eurosport 1...in German. It was interesting listening to the German announcers (dubbed over the English broadcast) when they got excited. German is such a harsh language...it always sounds like they're angry.
I fell back asleep mid-morning and was awoken by the phone ringing. A colleague from the US arrived in Cologne today and was calling to check in. I offered to help her navigate to the office in the morning since this is her first trip to Germany too.
I walked to the train station for lunch. It was very hot out. I definitely picked the right day to go to the museums. I would have been a puddle of goo walking around outside as much as I did yesterday with today's heat.
I returned to my room and watched some more TV. I'm pretty tired between all of the craziness of navigating a foreign country through the week and more full day of activity yesterday. I went back out for dinner and ice cream. Now I'm getting hockey updates from Peggy. She's with the boys this weekend...4 games over the course of 7 hours.
I forgot to post these photos earlier. This is a view of the train station from the main train bridge across the Rhein. This is where I walk to go to work every morning. My hotel is a block away on the far side.
This is the bridge I was just standing on. It has 6-8 rail lines in the middle and pedestrian paths on both sides.
The gates separating the pedestrians from the rail lines is covered with locks of love (this shot shows the amount of locks in one section...the sections from one end of the bridge to the other look the same). Many shops in town sell locks that they will engrave for you to then place on the bridge.
I spent the rest of my morning watching some US TV that I had downloaded to my iPad and snippets of the 24 Hours of Le Mans race on Eurosport 1...in German. It was interesting listening to the German announcers (dubbed over the English broadcast) when they got excited. German is such a harsh language...it always sounds like they're angry.
I fell back asleep mid-morning and was awoken by the phone ringing. A colleague from the US arrived in Cologne today and was calling to check in. I offered to help her navigate to the office in the morning since this is her first trip to Germany too.
I walked to the train station for lunch. It was very hot out. I definitely picked the right day to go to the museums. I would have been a puddle of goo walking around outside as much as I did yesterday with today's heat.
I returned to my room and watched some more TV. I'm pretty tired between all of the craziness of navigating a foreign country through the week and more full day of activity yesterday. I went back out for dinner and ice cream. Now I'm getting hockey updates from Peggy. She's with the boys this weekend...4 games over the course of 7 hours.
I forgot to post these photos earlier. This is a view of the train station from the main train bridge across the Rhein. This is where I walk to go to work every morning. My hotel is a block away on the far side.
This is the bridge I was just standing on. It has 6-8 rail lines in the middle and pedestrian paths on both sides.
The gates separating the pedestrians from the rail lines is covered with locks of love (this shot shows the amount of locks in one section...the sections from one end of the bridge to the other look the same). Many shops in town sell locks that they will engrave for you to then place on the bridge.
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