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May 31, 2005

right, so, cologne

having travelled between helsinki and düsseldorf constantly for work for months, it turned out my last project ended and i still had an extra just-in-case flight ticket i didn't need. it was booked, by coincidence, on a german holiday (corpus christi or as the germans call it, something difficult) so it's not like it was going to be much of a work trip anyway. so i did the only responsible thing and took, in this order:
- the day off
- the flight (with the ill-advised meal choice)
- a train to cologne
- it easy.

because fate was all "it's on me" on me that day, it was the first day of no sunshine in helsinki for a week and in cologne, it was like 30°C in the shade and the sun was just blasting off. everyone was just chilling outside in parks and bars, the most strenuous thing i saw anyone do was fly a kite, a distant second being raise a finger and go something like "kölsch, bitte".

travel tip: when in cologne, go to terrarium ("snake bar") on mainzer strasse, of the wonderful waitstaff and the clientele with the most outlandish lifetime-as-interpol-fugitive life stories.

Posted by matti at May 31, 2005 04:44 PM

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