Germany

I'm on holiday in Germany to recover from my stressful life in Edinburgh and to warm up. What I'm doing to spend my time:

• sleeping
• napping
• reading
• complaining about the heat
• eating wurst

Other than that, I have been shopping in Lüneburg with my mum, studying statistics for another job interview (my current job, but permanent), and I saw most of my friends from university at a wedding in Köln.

What I noticed was that I find Germany stranger and stranger the longer I have been away. What's the story with all the pharmacies and bakeries? And why always so serious?

Anyway, I had a lovely time catching up with friends, and it's always also a bit sad that I don't see them more often. But then I brought that on myself.

Here are a few pictures of Köln. (My colleagues asked me whether Köln and Cologne was the same place):

Breakfast after the wedding.

 

Walnuss-Ahornsirup-Schnecke

Martinswinkel

Currywurst on the Rhein

Queue for the soup kitchen next to the Dom. Tourists wondering what people are queuing for.

Park near Aachener Weiher, pretty boy, and Rundfunkturm in the background.