The last time I blogged here, it was about my trip to München, Germany. Now, continue with the next trip, me and Fravista's schedule is: Monday, March 7th 2016 23:55 PM from München ZOB (München) to Leverkusen Mitte (Köln)!
Köln is a 4th biggest city in Germany after Berlin, hamburg, and Munich/München. It's about 9 hours ride using FlixBus again (we love FlixBus!) and we slept all night in the bus. The bus is really comfortable, the heater works so well so you don't need to worry about freezing to death. The weather is really cold as always. What do you expect, man, it's winter!
We went from the South Germany to the North! I really remember when that time I opened my Snapchat (id: nuhapls) and the location detection told me that we were passing Frankfurt and Bonn. Lucky me, even though I didn't go exploring Frankfurt, at least I was there. On the bus. Bye.
Okay so we reached Köln at 09:00 AM in the morning. As usual, we looked for the ticket machine to buy the transportation ticket for 1 day. And as usual, we didn't know how to operate the machine because there are so many options to buy ticket. We ended up just looking at the couple in front us who were taking control of the machine.
Maybe because my face looked so pathetic, the man of the couple looked back on us and asked, "Do you want me to help you buying the ticket?"
I swear, my face brightened up so quick. People are so kind.
I told the man that me and Vista need all-day ticket for two persons and he nodded. He did something with the machine and told us to just put the money inside the machine. After that, the couple smiled and we thanked them. Finally, tickets: done.
We went to Köln Hauptbahnhof or you can call it as Köln Central Station because it provides us with luggage cabin. We went there and decided to take a rest, cleaning ourselves, and other things including eating. We basically ate breads everyday.
Before the project ended, we were planning to meet Franzi, my team leader, my mom from Germany! We decided to wait for Franzi near the central station. We decided to take a walk, and when we were going out from the central station, what did I find?
This!
It is so damn huge like reaaaally huge. There are so many cool buildings here in Germany, the historical ones. I was freezing so much, the weather was really bad at that time so I was lazy to take pictures of me in front of the building. And I didn't take many photos of this building because my fingers were frozen, I couldn't feel anything, my whole body was numb. By the way, the name of the building is Katedral Köln if I'm not mistaken................slap me.
We decided to take a sit in the bench near the katedral and wait for Franzi. I enjoyed my McDonald cheese burger and banana milk (BEST DRINK I'VE EVER TASTED) while staring at the birds. Sounds so emotional. Me and Vista played around with the birds, they tried to steal my burger!
We also entered Kölner Dom, it's so huge. Like I said before, everything is huge here. Finally we met Franzi and we hugged again! It had been 2 days since the last time I said goodbye to her back then in Prague. Okay, so She brought us to walk around this bridge where people usually put a padlock with their names written on it to the fence of the bridge. Like you can see at Namsan Tower, South Korea. It's really cute!
And then in the middle of talking, Franzi suddenly said, "Come on guys, I will show you the most amazing and coolest shop in Köln!"
I really don't have any idea what kind of shop did Franzi mean. We walked for around 20 minutes and we reached the area with so many shops along the street. Wow! The shop is really cool, it's literally the coolest shop I've ever seen.
Germany is popular with the festival, and Köln also has tradition to hold festivals every year. Unfortunately, the spring festival had been hold on February so I couldn't attend any festival there :c People will wear unique costumes and be whatever they want! So this shop sells all of the properties, accessories, costumes, basically everything you need for a festival.
There are so many cute stuffs and I tried them one by one, it was really fun. I don't want to leave :( I hope I can go there again someday and buy the dinosaur pajama-like costume.
You can ignore the last picture because I admit it myself that I look annoying enough to make you close this tab. Kidding, I'm swag. Horse power!
After so much fun trying every stuffs in the coolest shop, we went to Imhoff-Schokoladen Museum which is heaven for me as a chocolate addict. Like literally. It's a chocolate museum so there were so many students visitting it and also we can see how chocolates are made with our own eyes. This place is heaven, everything smells like chocolate.
There is a chocolate fountain and we can get a wafer with chocolate for free and it's really delicious. I want to ask for more but I have my pride. #Get #Out
There is also chocolate souvenir shop inside the museum so we can buy every type of chocolate, from milk chocolate, dark chocolate, they even have chocolate beer. I bought some German chocolates because my sisters are asking for it.
The next destination, Franzi brought us to one of her favourite restaurants named Früh, if I'm not mistaken, and I tried Pretzel for the first time in my entire life AND IT TASTED SO SALTY like you. Why you gotta be salty my dear food. I had to remove the big pieces of salt from it and then ate it happily. I give a score 9/10.
And also I tried the beer with 0% alcohol, because I want to know how does beer taste like but I can't drink alcohol. So that's fair enough. Honestly, I don't like it because it tasted so bitter, like not usual bitter beer, but really though it's so bitter I have to hold my breathe everytime I'm gulping down the drink. I need milk!
Damn, I want to eat Pretzel again.
After so much talking and chatting in the restaurant, I don't know but I think we spent 3 hours there, and after that we went to drink something in McCafe at 9 PM, and then we went to Central Station again to take my luggages and we said goodbye to Franzi because she had to catch a 10 PM train from Köln to Bochum, her hometown. I hope someday I can visit Bochum and give back the pink Bochum University pen Franzi left in the intern room :p
I was so tired but it's all worth it.
See you until the next post, buddies.
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