Jul 04

today we went to koblenz n boppard..both of which are towns along the rhine river..it was a whole lot fun..these 2 towns are nto packed with tourists nor locals..even tho we went on a ssturday..and the pace of life there is very slow n leisurely..it feels real comfortable..to top it up..it has great views of the rhine river..together with the buildings there really made everything really nice...we first went to koblenz which was an hr of train ride from Koln..when we reached we got a map from the tourist info counter n decided juz to proceed to the river n then walk from there...cos it was lunch time..we had lunch by the river..O my...nice feeling to be slacking by the river having lunch..it feels so good u wun wanna leave...then we decided to proceed and to start looking at other sites..incidentally we found the deutsches eck..n it turned out to be a major site of Koblenz..it is acutally a promontory built on a sandback right at the river confluence(of Rhine & Moselle). In the place now is a statue of Kaiser Willhelm II. we then walked around the city area and decided to make our way to Boppard..Boppard is 20km south of Koblenz..by train takes bout only 10 minutes which is super good..ahaha..when we got there we din noe where the tourist information booth was so had to do without a map..but lonely planet mentioned this chairlift..so we juz searched for it..and found it!! we took the ride up...it was a bit scary ar..for someone with vertigo.. but it was still manageable..after reaching we hafta walk a bit to Vierseenblick, a hill top site which gives very good view of the horse shoe shaped bend of the rhine river..supposedly the bendiest bend... after spending some tiem there of cos with some shots we descended the hill top...and made our way to the city area...in this town a lot of the roman remains are present in the streets n houses...and they even have an archaelogical park that has the original Roman camp walls..together with graves of the Frankish era..after this 2 places..the clouds came..and we decided to make our way back..it was in all a wonderful trip...for a nature lover!!!

went to Cologne today!!! ahahha..so exciting...first we went to the ever famous Dom...which is a cathedral n Mt Everest of all cathedrals..it was the highest building until Eiffel tower came to Europe.. =) we took a look at the interior and boy is it grand or what...all the pillars and stained glasses really make it look so beautiful...how i wish i can get married there..waahha...there was a tower that we cud climb but we decided to come back in the afternoon...then it was to the chocolate museum...we took a walk along the Rhein river...n found it..it's loads of fun if u're a choc fanatic..n i m!!! we even get to taste choc from this choc fountain..cool....there was a full account of the history of choc and collections of items from the past..next we were off to the cologne shop 4711..on the way we went to the rathaus..it was packed with people...n sales everywhere!!! we finally found it and well i bought a few bottles..ahaha...not forgetting the cologne fountain at the entrance of the shop...it was then we decided to make our way back to the Dom we climbed up the tower...and OMG issit tiring or issit tiring.. i almos dieded on the steps..ahaha..but at least it was worth it..what a view we then decided to walk around b4 heading back...cos we were juz too tired..ahaha..