This is Dusseldorf and the Rhine River.
Dusseldorf is known for a type of beer called alt. It tastes similar to a pale ale, which is very different from the type of beer we have here in Munich. The other noticable difference is the size of serving! The beers in Dusseldorf were served in .25L glasses (basically a glorified juice glass), whereas it is almost impossible to order a beer in Munich any smaller than .5L (pint) or the big 1L mug.
Interesting buildings...
This is the new EY building in Dusseldorf (yes, only 2 nerdy accountants take pictures of their workplaces). It's all glass, so the views from the top floor were really good.
Me and Kinsey at O'Reilly's Irish Pub in Dusseldorf.
This is a cathedral in Cologne. They started building it around 1250 and didn't finish until almost 1900. It is one of the biggest in Europe and is supposed to have the largest height-to-width ratio of any chuch of its kind. The two spires are over 500 feet tall. It's so big that it was hard to get any good pictures. The inside was even more impressive than the outside.
This is supposed to contain the cloaks and remains of the three wise men.
Coincidence! I am reading a WWII book right now and on the flight back to Munich, this was on one of the pages I read. It was really neat knowing that I had just been there a few hours ago and even crossed that bridge that got bombed and fell into the Rhine. The church actually was untouched somehow, but everything around it is just rubble. Cologne was one of the most heavily bombed cities in Germany. One of the quotes in the book is from a newspaper article and says, "Cologne is finished, literally erased from the map forever." Another line was that Eisenhower's Chief of Staff said it was a "picture of absolute destruction greater than I had seen anywhere".
This is supposed to contain the cloaks and remains of the three wise men. Coincidence! I am reading a WWII book right now and on the flight back to Munich, this was on one of the pages I read. It was really neat knowing that I had just been there a few hours ago and even crossed that bridge that got bombed and fell into the Rhine. The church actually was untouched somehow, but everything around it is just rubble. Cologne was one of the most heavily bombed cities in Germany. One of the quotes in the book is from a newspaper article and says, "Cologne is finished, literally erased from the map forever." Another line was that Eisenhower's Chief of Staff said it was a "picture of absolute destruction greater than I had seen anywhere".
