Trip report: Cologne
May. 26th, 2012 10:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
izardJust got back from Cologne.
Just behind the heron there is a hotel where I was staying for one night.
I was surprised that in S-Bahn in Cologne there are special areas for 1st class passengers. "Если в обществе нет цветовой дифференциации штанов..." So St.Petersburg officials who once planed to have a special VIP area in the metro trains were in fact not as silly as I thought, they must have seen this example.
Few more pics under cut.
Typical young inhabitants of Cologne:
Staircase to the Cathedral is a very busy place.
I only wonder why a man on the right looks annoyed.
These two gentlemen are working for Colognes Philharmonic, and are on an important mission:
Their job is to make sure a steady stream of tourists avoid stepping in on a roof when there is a concert going on.
Pigeons in Cologne are not like pigeons in Munich. Look completely different: size and color are not the same.
Same for crows btw. I only wonder what happens at the boundary where two species of pigeons meet, do they cross breed?
All pics are in picasa album
I have noticed that in Germany it is still a common practice to name companies, including IT after founders name. It was popular elsewhere 100 years ago (Ford, Procter&Gamble, Suzuki, Toyota, Mitsubishi:), but I think not any more.
Just behind the heron there is a hotel where I was staying for one night.
I was surprised that in S-Bahn in Cologne there are special areas for 1st class passengers. "Если в обществе нет цветовой дифференциации штанов..." So St.Petersburg officials who once planed to have a special VIP area in the metro trains were in fact not as silly as I thought, they must have seen this example.
Few more pics under cut.
Typical young inhabitants of Cologne:
Staircase to the Cathedral is a very busy place.
I only wonder why a man on the right looks annoyed.
These two gentlemen are working for Colognes Philharmonic, and are on an important mission:
Their job is to make sure a steady stream of tourists avoid stepping in on a roof when there is a concert going on.
Pigeons in Cologne are not like pigeons in Munich. Look completely different: size and color are not the same.
Same for crows btw. I only wonder what happens at the boundary where two species of pigeons meet, do they cross breed?
All pics are in picasa album
I have noticed that in Germany it is still a common practice to name companies, including IT after founders name. It was popular elsewhere 100 years ago (Ford, Procter&Gamble, Suzuki, Toyota, Mitsubishi:), but I think not any more.
