Aachen/Koln - Day 1

Thursday morning, we woke up very early to meet in front of the hostel for our short walk to our bus stop.  We got on a train that took us from Berlin Ostbahnof to Cologne. From there we got on another train that took us to Aachen.  once we got there we went to a church where Charlimagne was crowned Holy Roman Emperor. The church was beautiful and we saw a place where the bones of the emperor were kept as well as some other religious relics. After this we walked into an area with several resteraunts and everyone got lunch.

Some of us had some bratwursts that were pretty good.

After our late lunch we went back to the main train station in Aachen and took another train to our destination, Cologne, where we will be for the next two days.

We could see the Cologne cathedral from the window of the train, it was very tall! After taking a tram from the Koln Hauptbahnoff, we got off the train at Neumarkt station and walked to our hostel. Mr. Mobini checked us in and we got ourselves situated. After about an hour we all met in the lobby of our hostel and went on a walking tour of the city of Cologne and also visited the outside of the cathedral and learned a few facts about the history of the town & church. We then continued to walk across the bridge over the rhein and the girls enjoyed seeing these locks locked on the gate on the bridge that had lovers names on them.

We kept walking and made it to our dinner destination, a traditional German pub where we had Shnitzel after which we got some ice cream on the way back to our hostel. As we began to walk towards the U-Bahn, Eleana was checked her bag for her phone and she realized that she had misplaced it! She stopped and told everyone we had to go back and find it, since it was her IPhone which she has her pictures on.  To which, we see Mr. Mobini, in front of us, holding up Eleana's phone, which he had taken for her.  She was soooo relieved!! We made it back to the hostel and went to sleep right away because it was such a long day!  Cologne is beautiful and we look forward in seeing more of it soon...      -Eleana & Jena