Cologne has got an interesting beer culture which I didn't know about until after I'd thrown money at the mighty Ryanair for the privilege of cramming myself into one of their fine pressurised metal tubes for just over an hour. If I'd have known about I'd have come sooner! Let's talk about the beer because [...]
Schloss Drachenburg is an easy train ride from Cologne so it'd be rude not to check it out. Well, I say a train ride, you get off at Königswinter then it's up to you whether your wallet or your calf muscles take the hit for the last little bit up to the castle. There's a [...]
I had a bit of time off work at the same time as a mate, Lydi, was back in Europe after a long absence which makes it sound like she was in prison. She wasn't, she was overseas. So I thought, "Why not fuck off to Germany for a bit for a catch up?" Why [...]
BMW Museum & BMW Welt Neither of us are particularly into cars but visiting the BMW Museum is kind of The Done Thing™ so we duly took the U-Bahn up to Olympiazentrum to put lots of vehicles into our eyeholes. BMW Welt is just kind of a showroom and is free to enter. If you [...]
Tarrant had had her little heart set on visiting some actual, proper German Christmas markets for bloody ages, so this year off we fucked to Munich in order to consume our body weight in Bratwurst. I wasn’t too keen on the idea of Christmas markets, I’ll be honest. Once I’ve shovelled a phallic-shaped dead pig [...]
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