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Germany stopover

Gelnhausen

I decided to spend a couple of days in Germany on my way through to Antwerp so I could catch up with some of my family there and there happened to be a couple of bands playing on convenient days. This meant I didn’t see much of Germany itself in the three nights I was there.

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Cologne – Rhine

Today was fantastic – we caught a train from Koln Station down to St Goar to catch a ferry down the Rhine to Koblenz. This is the “Romantic Rhine” bit where it’s all ruined castles and picturesque towns. Gorgeous! I ran my camera out of batteries getting pics of all of it.
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Cologne Day 2

Today we checked out souvenirs and then caught the tour bus around the city. We saw some of the sights and bumped our way through the building site that is central Cologne for a whole until we came to the bank of the Rhine, where there’s a Chocolate Museum.

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Cologne Day 1 – Frankfurt to Cologne

Lina and I decided to stop in Germany for a few days before joining the rest of our gang in Turkey as we’d begged for a few extra days of leave. As it seemed as if it was going to be just me travelling solo for a while, I picked Germany since I know a bit of German, plus there are lots of plane connections between Germany and Turkey.

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