Europe Adventure ~ Cologne anyone?

After spending a night in Heidelberg, we made our way to Cologne, a transit before we spend a night in Amsterdam. Cologne is another district in Germany and what I was told it's the originator of cologne, as in the perfume. In fact, we saw the first shop selling Cologne in this city.

There's nothing much I can share about this place. We were there for about 3 hours and just walked around the city. I noticed almost all cities in Europe, it will be by a river. And yes, the rivers in Europe are super clean. The water is so clear, at times the colour is clear green, blue or very light brown. And you can see the bottom end of the rivers, that's how clean it is.

One attraction is this bridge crossing the river where people can buy locks and embossed the couples names on it. They locked it at the bridge and throw away the keys in the river. It was believe this is a sign where the couples will be together forever. There were thousands of locks, I wonder how many actually stayed together forever.

While we were walking around, you can see some people giving out flowers. Don't be fooled, it's not for free. The moment you take the flowers from them, they'll as for money, as if you are buying it. We observed this so when this kind of people approached us, we quickly told them no thanks.

Food wise, not easy. Actually, based on our research, halal food in small cities in German is a great challenge. So, like in Colmar, we had vegetarian pizza to satisfy our hunger. And if you are into shopping, there's a lot of designer boutiques in Cologne. LV, Prada, Ferragamo, you just name it. Almost every stores in this city carries exclusive brands. And of course, I did not get any for myself. Was saving shopping when we reached our final destination, Paris.

A new unplanned discover was when we found Hard Rock Cafe by accident. We were checking in via FB in Cologne and stumbled across HRC as one of the check in location. We quickly finish our lunch and walked towards HRC. Such a good and pleasant discovery that was :)

I would strongly recommend Cologne if you are into shopping. Other than that, there's nothing much to see, at least nothing much that interest me.

Wanna know a city where almost everything is legal? Next change, Amsterdam!

Signing off,

liza365.blogspot.com

Europe Adventure ~ Gutentag from Black Forest, Germany

The next half of the European adventure is a bit tricky. All the travelling was done via land transportation hence we engaged a tour company to provide all of our transport. I have done my math and it's cheaper that was considering transport in Europe is super freaking expensive. However, no way we wanna throw away our freedom so  what we do is still what we choose to do.

We took a flight from Barcelona to Zurich. Again, we got to go to the airport using a posh car, something we will never experience in Malaysia, not until we reach certain level of financial status. We went to airport via taxi, read Peugeot. Don't ask me which model, all I know I don't think I can get similar opportunity ever.

So, we arrived at the airport close to midnight. Our transport will only arrive around 8am in the morning so the most sensible thing to do would be to sleep at the airport. FYI, before we decide to sleep in any airport, we would do our homework first. Yes, there's a website for this, http://www.sleepinginairports.net/. It will tells you whether it's safe to do so to even recommend you which spot you can get some zzzzs.

Once we are awake, we grab some breakfast as it will be a long journey from Zurich to Germany. First stop was Black Forest, Germany. It's about 2 hours from Zurich. It's famous for the clock making apart from their food which almost everything is non halal. When we arrived there, you won't believe what we saw. It was SNOWING! In SUMMER! Yes, in SUMMER! I guess my better half's prayers were answered, he has always wanted to see snow and snow he gets! Even the locals were surprised seeing this. They told us, we brought the snow with us. It was so cold that we have to find gloves. Did not bring any cause it's summer and it's not supposed to be this cold.

Enjoy some photos here, it's simply amazing.

Black Forest is not the only German city we went to. Later, we will also visit a city called Cologne. For now, we will be making our way to Rhine Falls, Switzerland. And you won't believe how clear the water in the river is.

Signing off,

liza365.blogspot.com