And we're off... meeting Tim in Cologne as he is at a trade show there.
Nice seat on Lufthansa.
The Camel Smoking Lounge in their airport. Interesting. Here's a breakfast on the plane. A chocolate bar and coffee....YUM.
We met everyone at an outside cafe in Cologne for dinner. Tim and a couple of the guys had this piece of meat that looked like Fred Flintstone would eat!
Walking back from dinner, we saw the Cologne Cathedral. It is absolutely HUGE!
The cathedral is such a massive sight that I just had to take a picture as I walked around and got all different views of it.
Another building in Cologne.
Yes, a steak BUFFET. The Germans love their meat.
A sight that made me laugh....I don't know why but all these people were wearing the traditional German clothing. A whole group of them.
In my head, when I picture Germans, this is what they all look like!
Went to dinner in Cologne and this is what the waiters carry the glasses of beer in.
He just kept bringing them! It would be a cool thing to own.
The morning before we left, Tim and I had to take a walk to the Bridge of Locks, to see if we could find ours that Tim put there three years ago. On the way, more beautiful sights.
Flying buttresses
The blue structure is a theatre. They were playing The Bodyguard the musical.
Our first view up the stairs of the bridge, and here are all the LOCKS! Tens of thousands of them.
Cute piece of art on a post over the water.
See if you can find our lock!
On the way back, we ran into a children's festival with lots of families.
It's a beer museum!
It's so interesting to see the art work along the streets in other cities.
We stopped into a little pub restaurant. This is a look at the bar which had jugs of different liquers like Jaegermeister and a hazelnut one that I tried.
I tried a cheese and meat platter, along with a big pretzel.
The beer mugs were washed in another room and put on a travelling conveyor above our heads for the bartender to just pick up and fill.
Before we left I wanted to go and walk around the cathedral and take some photos inside. It is so black from soot, you can see where they are trying to clean it.
The Cologne Cathedral is the tallest twin spired church at 515 ft. tall.
It was built starting in the year 1248, stopped in 1473 then finished in the 19th century.
It has the largest facade of a church in the world.
The main entrance.
Cleaning is underway.
The immense nave.
Priests getting ready. One has a basket for donations around his neck.
Stained glass from 1509
The organ
Door knocker
A view from a block away is still very cool. One interesting thing to note: Germans OBEY traffic signals when they are walking. Even if nobody is coming, you stop and wait for the light.
I tried to cross because nobody was coming and a policeman wagged his finger at me. The people on the street corner laughed when I said I was American. One woman hooked her arm in mine and said, "I will help you cross."
Emperor Willhelm II
Heading out to Vienna. As we were leaving, we had the hotel call a taxi. One arrived and we assumed it was ours. We jumped in and another arrived. The man driving the taxi got irate at the first driver, accusing him of stealing his fare. We didn't know so we got in the second car and the man explained his anger, saying under his breath (about the first driver) "Muslims".
A sign in the hotel lobby
Pretty fall flower arrangements at a little stand in Vienna
Feeling heavy? Weigh yourself along the street in Vienna
Took a walk to see the Vienna State Opera Building
Ducks around a lamp post
Facade of the opera building
A costume on display in the lobby while waiting for the tour
The stage inside the opera. The theatre is in repertory showing a different production every night
so they are able to rotate out each set.
You can watch the captions during the opera on this little screen in front of your seat
The tech crew working on a fire effect on stage
The entrance and staircase, Most of the building was bombed during WWII
Intermission hall
A modern tapestry of a production in the hall
Padded velvet doors to the boxes in the audience. Gustav Mahler was a conductor who made many changes with the symphony.
Other conductors over the 147 year history include Strauss, Stravinsky, Toscanini, Hindemith, and many more
A meeting room inside the opera
Numbered clothes hangers
A tapestry inside another intermission hall
NO SMOKING
Another look at the exterior of the opera
An ad for BK on the way back
Natural History museum in Vienna
Kids on a field trip where yellow vests
Views of the Stadtpark
Bridge over Wien River
Views of Vienna
A model of the cathedral in Vienna
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