Europe tour diary-Germany-Cologne

24 April Wednesday Yin sunny

Last night, we live in the Dutch-German border Netherlands side of airport hotels: Mercure Hotel.

This hotel is the cheapest, the disadvantage is that night no place to go for a walk, sleep also, from time to time came the sound of the aircraft take-off and landing, but the end is in the Netherlands, the surrounding environment is very good, blooming flowers, so leave took several photos (Figure 1 and 2).

After breakfast, bus transfer us to Cologne, Germany.

The Rhine in Cologne, Germany in large cities is not only an important river port and commercial centre and is also a city of culture. Cologne Cathedral is a symbol of Cologne. It is the world's highest Church is one of the most magnificent GFZ, perfect Gothic Cathedral, medieval European Gothic architecture. The Cathedral with its famous lightness and elegance. Cathedral-161 m high tower, direct plug in the sky, stand with numerous small minaret (Figure 3). This tranquil, straight spines Sky Tower, soul Heaven ever since. This pan-European highest steeple Church, 600 years before and after completion. It and the Notre Dame de Paris, Rome St. Peter's Cathedral and is known as the three religious buildings in Europe. The Church has an eleventh century wood of the cross of Christ "with believability person: Jesus thin face

Demonstrate the struggle, he lives on the brink of failure, chest and abdomen hanging heavy feeling, the more stressed the suspended crucified of unbearable pain (figures 4, 5).

This masterpiece from Cologne Cathedral and famous of surviving. The Church has many colorful window (Figure 6), should also be originals and not copies, notes here fell a total of ten thousand bombs! glass is not shaking? original, was the city's only sick leave window glass working, as like in your own talked in the basement, and get it out after the war returned to the country. In the Cathedral I also took the birth of Christ above the altar paintings (Figure 7), wax light above the Christ Statue (Figure 8), wax light above the Virgin (Figure 9) in addition, Rob photographed won't be intake lens Cardinal, look at him that expression! (Figure 10). Rough-rough finished Cathedral, unfortunately we haven't crawled 509 step, view of the Rhine on the lookout. Out of the Cathedral, I took up the Church in front of the wonderful local Gothic architectural style, the Virgin and child in arms and countless statues, really is scared da (Figure 11).

After leaving the Cologne Cathedral, the guide takes us to the Rhine River.

Rhine River famous loud, is my response to the long-awaited spots, but see to it that I am disappointed, maybe a lot wrong, we have not been able to see its most beautiful side. The guide is primarily for us from the Rhine view of Cologne Cathedral (Figure 12), because the Church is too big, the macro must be taken not to shoot at a distance, there must have been the best angle. In the Rhine, the guide just give us a quarter of the time of photography. I addition to the Cathedral, also took the Cathedral near a castle-like building (Figure 13) and is located in the Cathedral behind the Rhine bridge (Figure 14). Unfortunately, at this point my old classmates of the camera suddenly broke, she asked me to use my camera to shoot two tickets for her, this is the delay time, back to the bus, sit down, got out of the comment that a car is waiting for us, and a waste of everyone's time. I have to admit my luck.

The tour took us to a China shop in shop, said here buy knives, small scissors for good.

Travellers who are bought, I think Switzerland sword like more famous, really don't want to buy. My old classmates here bought brooch (Austria production), although I am a bit like a price 20 euros with small pendant little shoulder bags, understand that is produced in Belgium, is considered better than in Belgium. Total in the shop for a good 40 minutes, I got nothing.

In Cologne, a restaurant with lunch, we left Germany, bus to Luxembourg.