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Tempelstrasse 6, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, 50679, Germany
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Hi all,
what is the easiest and chipiest way to go from Cologne to Amsterdam?
Easiest:
One of the direct ICE trains.
Travel time 2:34. Normal (fully flexible) ticket is EUR 48,20.
The ICE-3M train sets used on this route are among the most comfortable and technically advanced trains ever put on tracks.
http://www.railfaneurope.net/pix/de/electric/emu/ICE/ICE-3M/cab%2Binterior/pix.html
Cheaper:
One of the direct ICE trains if you can get an Europe-Special Ticket for EUR 19,00.
DB timetable
http://reiseauskunft.bahn.de/bin/query.exe/en
From: Cologne
To: Amsterdam Centraal
The timetable will show you if special tickets are (still) available for a connection.
Rockpalast is the best known concert hall in Cologne but also, famous in whole of Germany and abroad. It is situated right next to the Hauptbanhof and a foot of the Dom. You can't miss it, easy to find and recognizable for its tent-shape rooftop seen from the far distance.
The most popular rock stars and bands, from all over the world, held their concerts here. If lucky, you may watch some of them in live concert during your stay in Cologne.
At this German institution, by all accounts, there have been over 10,000 live music performances over the past 25 years in what claims to be the country's oldest jazz house.
It's tiny, full of smoke and serves up expensive beer but it's well worth stopping in to see who is playing (it was Appalachian bluegrass when we went in, sung in flawless English but with German patter between the tunes).
There is live music daily. The bar is open 8pm-3am every day, whilst there are special Sunday jam sessions starting at 4pm.
There is a larger Papa Joe's, Klimperkasten, at Alter Markt 50-52 where I gather the focus is more on beer and food than on music. Dress code? You're kidding.
Cologne Railway station is reputedly the largest in Germany, and indeed it is a very confusing place. Once you have worked it out, though, trains seem to depart at all hours to most big cities. I went to Munster by train...a two hour trip costing 70DM with a Twenticket (ho ho ho (sarcastic laughter)...love the play-on-words!) which is specifically for those in their twenties. The high speed trains (ICE I think) cost extra.
I think you have to know where you are going to be able to get most use out of the tram/underground service. It is extremely difficult to find out where the stops are and which line they are on...then tickets are just as confusing. Having said that, my friend never buys a ticket and has only been caught by an inspector once (he pretended to be an ignorant Spanish tourist saying 'aeropuerto, aeropuerto!' and escaped a fine!) You cna buy tickets at the stations, or on the trains themselves, so if you really are strapped for cash, you can buy a ticket only when you see the conductor coming towards you.....I can't believe I'm recommending fare dodging....Damn me to Hell!!!!
Very near the train station and the Dom or Cathedral (go around the Dom Hotel and you'll see it) is the Fruh Koelsch Haus. Stop for a beer or some food. This is a true flavor of Cologne! Koelsch beer -- of course!
Kölsch is the local beer speciality. It is a clear beer with a bright straw yellow hue, and it has a prominent, but not extreme, hoppiness. It is less bitter than the standard German lager beer, Pils. Having one is a must do thing in Cologne.
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