This last weekend, Thomas and I went to Köln (Cologne), Germany (only two hours by train). I loved it there. We mostly stayed in the toursity part, but we did venture further out to explore the Friedhof Melaten. It is a beautiful, naturey cemetery and a great birding site, where we saw several new birds and these cute little squirrels. (Mom, be sure to show this to Clover. I took it specifically for her.)
Red Squirrel
While we were there, we also climbed to the top of the Dom Cathedral, toured the Lindt Chocolate Museum (best hot chocolate ever!), and visited the Ludwig Modern Art Museum. And we ate! I loved the German food – sausages, schnitzel, streuselschnecke (my favorite!), pretzels, and a very tasty drink called apfelsaftschorle - apple juice and sparkling mineral water.
This little town felt very different from Brussels, but in a good way. People dressed a lot more casually, there were tons of bicycles and very few cars, and there were people enjoying themselves along the Rhine river – dancing, rollerblading, and picnicing. I would definately enjoy another trip out to this area.
Thomas is editing the photos from this trip, so I will have no excuse to not get our Rome photos (from February) posted. Until then, you can see the bird photos I took at the cemetery on Flickr.
- Birding at Friedhof Melaten Cemetery (14 photos)
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It sounds like an amazing trip! What is streuselschnecke? Is that a type of dessert?
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I’m not sure what it was, but it tasted like a giant sugar cookie with icing. It was textured like streusel (clumpy), but held together by melted, mixed-in fondant. It was so tasty…
How flipping adorable!! It may have been taken for Clover but I love it too!
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Sounds like we’d better plan to visit Koln when we visit this summer.
Dallas, I found the recipe for streuselschnecke on the web. It even has pictures. Now, if we can get Derelys to translate it, we can both make it sometime. Looks delicious.
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so glad you had such a terrific trip. good inspiration for us to get out to Koln too!!! hope the hotel with the pool was fun also :)
The biggest Christmas Market in the world (from what I hear) is in Koln and we were planning on going to see it this winter. Now I’m even more excited!
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the people here are also very much into cloth napkins. although they mae them a bit easier.
they have sergers that they use to do the edges. makes it much faster and easier. but you have a front and back side showing
your napkins are very pretty!
More evidence that we are going to enjoy our brief time in Germany.