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Deutzer Freiheit 99, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, D-50679, Germany
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1. Wallraf. The Museum.
1. People sitting by the river
Cannot remember the number of this Kölsch
Chocolate Museum.
Dear all,
i will be arriving cologne by the 16th of Feb. i was just wondering if sale will be still going on during this time?
Also i would like what is the wicked discount clothing stores offering savings on brand-name label fashions sell brands with reseanable price?
Also i would like to know what activity can be done by night?
Thanks
Hi,
for Cologne night life see:
http://www.koeln.de/en/whatson/clubs.html
Elena
> i was just wondering if sale will be still going on during this time?
The official sales have been abolished a few years ago. Most shops will stick however to the old dates: last week of January and first week of February
Can't help you much on clothing. The only clothes I ever bought in Cologne were dresses for carnival.
For nightlife and other see e.g. here
http://www.koeln.nicecity.de/english/index.htm
See the old part of the city, the 'Altstadt'.
Lots of bars terraces and restaurant there.
Good food and KÖLSCH, the local beer. It drinks so easy and you can have a lot of them in the small cilindric glasses. Eating in the restaurant you look at in the picture.
The rich German food is a bit heavy but freshly cooked and very quick on your table.
I was more attracted to see the building of the Museum for East Asian Art than the collection itself. The building was designed in by Kunio Maekawa (1905-1986) who was a pupil of Le Corbusier. Its pure lines, ingenious use of materials and overlapping of volumes draw sources both from old Japanese traditions and from modern architecture. The building is centred round a landscaped garden in the tradition of Japanese gardens of meditation created by the Japanese sculptor Masayuke Nagare (born 1923) and the whole complex is situated at the edge of the wide strip of parks and lakes.
The Museum itself houses Chinese, Korean and Japanese art. It was founded in 1913 and was the first museum of its kind in Germany. The core of the permanent collection is the Japanese collection of the founder of the museum Adolf Fischer (1857-1914) and his wife Frieda Bartdorff (1874-1945).
German trains are pretty reliable, and Cologne is right in the thick of it. So, taking a train is a perfectly hassle-free way of getting there. No traffic jams and other plesantries of the road.
The only drawback of it: the german railways are rather expensive, I mean, a car's certainly cheaper. However, if you get a railway pass you should be reasonably OK with your wallet.
So here we were, walking around Cologne and hungry for lunch when we came upon a sunny plaza with many restaurants with many tables outside. Sure, we saw the construction going on - how could we miss it? But we sat anyway and ordered lunch.
Sure, the noise wasn't too horrific and it's certainly not like we were the only ones sitting out there. But about halfway through our meal when the noise of the jackhammers, etc. got louder, we wondered why exactly we had chosen that spot! Oh well! Still, the sun was brilliant and it was warm and we were happy to be on vacation.
I guess Extrablatt is a franchise restaurant, kind of like a TGIF's. It's certainly evident in the menu layout and choices. Still, not a bad spot for a meal! We split a pizza that had mushrooms and prosciutto and a Greek salad. The pizza crust was a little too limp for my tastes but it tasted fine. The salad was yummy and the rather large wheat beer we each drank had a calming effect.... Almost drowned out the construction noise!
A visit to Cologne is not complete without a trip to the chocolate factory/museum. It is quite interesting and the smell is divine.
You can wander around and look at the machinery (where chocolate is actually produced), learn about the history of chocolate production, sample the gloopy liquid chocolate on wafers (which is what's happening in this photo) and finally, spend a small fortune in the chocolate shop, try to resist this as it really is expensive and you can buy the same stuff elsewhere. A few bars of chocolate and a couple of postcards came to 10.70E.
A tiny glass-enclosed *botanical* garden with pond, lillies and cocoa trees is also on the premises and it's extremely warm in there on a hot day!
At the end of your trip there is a small cafe with terrace overlooking the Rhein where you can have a lovely drink in the sunshine.
Please see the website for details of prices and opening times. Our visit was part of an organised group tour. Oh and it is closed on Mondays.
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