More Rhineland prettyness
Mar. 27th, 2010 08:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenakA long day in the train makes for a weekly retrospective of various pleasant places I stopped by these last few days. You've already see my photos of Trier; below are pictures of Mayen, a small town in the Eiffel area, and of the Cologne cathedral. (Because you can't stop by Cologne, even if it's just to switch trains at one of the biggest central stations, without allowing yourself a glimpse of the cathedral. Well, you can't if you're me. :)
You enter the town centre of Mayen through this gate:
A very sympathetic town, where bookstores and city halls alike are in timber buildings, reminding me of my hometown, Bamberg:
Of course, they also have churches:
And a castle:
From there, I went to a place called Engelskirchen, of which there shall be no photos because as luck would have it, the weather changed. However, before it did, I had to switch trains at Cologne. The Cologne central station - still bathed in sunshine - is directly next to one of the most famous cathedrals in the world. Which meant this traveller raced outside, looked, and raced back, resulting in this:
Totally worth it, no matter how often I visit that city. Even if Heine had ideological issues with it, resulting in some memorable verses. Incidentally, today's newspapers are full of the news that the Rhine is a hundred kilometres shorter than all the geography books say it is. Considering one of the most hilarious bits in Heine's Deutschland: Ein Wintermärchen is his chat with Father Rhine, I wish someone would write a follow-up conversation on this particular revelation....
You enter the town centre of Mayen through this gate:
A very sympathetic town, where bookstores and city halls alike are in timber buildings, reminding me of my hometown, Bamberg:
Of course, they also have churches:
And a castle:
From there, I went to a place called Engelskirchen, of which there shall be no photos because as luck would have it, the weather changed. However, before it did, I had to switch trains at Cologne. The Cologne central station - still bathed in sunshine - is directly next to one of the most famous cathedrals in the world. Which meant this traveller raced outside, looked, and raced back, resulting in this:
Totally worth it, no matter how often I visit that city. Even if Heine had ideological issues with it, resulting in some memorable verses. Incidentally, today's newspapers are full of the news that the Rhine is a hundred kilometres shorter than all the geography books say it is. Considering one of the most hilarious bits in Heine's Deutschland: Ein Wintermärchen is his chat with Father Rhine, I wish someone would write a follow-up conversation on this particular revelation....
