Europe 2007

Hanged about in cologne/koln for another day, with some guidance from david managed to get some authentic local schnitzel, here is a pic of me riding infront of a local brau haus where we got the schnitzel in cologne

I wanted to stay awake as long as i could after the flight to try and push my bodyblock forwards to avoid jetlag, so we went out for a bit of a walk and a drink around town, was very interesting for the first time catching the city underground train and doing things the way the locals in Nippes/Cologne do it, interesting that around here drinking is no problem and quite a lot of people buy long necks of beer to drink on the train as a traveller, but it is no issue and everyone has a good time, after a while my vision started to look like the following picture from the lack of sleep so after a

Finally! After a month or two of reading my lonely planet guide to germany and quite a few stalled attempts at learning german I found myself standing infront of the cologne cathedral


Emirates did not mention a stop over in Singapore, but turned out to be a good one to break the first leg of the flight up for half an hour.