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Post by bamos on Apr 14, 2005 13:17:59 GMT
I've just returned from a three-day 'business trip' to Cologne and its brilliant. If you haven't been, go. I truly recommend it. The Cathedral alone is one of the most breathtaking things I've ever seen, then there are museums galore if that's your thing, and the people are fantastic, and there are five Irish bars (I know it's a stereotypically Englishman abroad thing to do, but they were then only places selling cider and I had a craving) and a great little venue club thing called Underground which has bands on and table-football and a German chap called Felix who says 'bad boy' in a comedy German accent when he scores and it's clean and the Rhein looks ace in the sunshine and a cool tram system and it's the most 'alternative' city in Germany and it's ACE. Go to Cologne. I fucking love the place.
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Post by Monpot on Apr 14, 2005 13:23:47 GMT
I once spent an hour in Cologne train station, waiting for a connection between Milan and Amsterdam. I never ventured outside, we didn't have the time nor the Deutch Marks.
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Post by i_deserve... on Apr 14, 2005 13:44:30 GMT
don't forget Kompakt Records raves! ;D
i want to go to Koln, Berlin and Munich and get viciously drunk whilst listening to minimal techno.
Ja, das ist zo minimal supercool! Minimal ist superfantastiche, ja?
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Post by Fellalady on Apr 14, 2005 13:53:48 GMT
I am going at the end of this month.  My housemate is from Cologne and has completely sold it to me. Its got a really good music scene apparantly. Alot of the music he plays me that has come out of Cologne I really like. When I get my computer set up I'd be happy to share it. A trip incorporating Cologne, Berlin and Hamburg would be really good fun I reakon. |
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Post by Monpot on Apr 14, 2005 13:58:53 GMT
On the downside, the toilets in the station charge you! Not good when your without any local currency and busting for a wee.
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Post by Tom-From-Sparks on Apr 14, 2005 14:01:55 GMT
You can beg to get in the bogs at Birmingham New Street. You do have to sink a level or two so if you like your dignity then perhaps you should just pay.  |
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Post by Monpot on Apr 14, 2005 14:05:36 GMT
I hate places that charge for the toilet, the bloody nerve of it! There'll be a coin-slot on my lungs next! 1p per inhalation.
Since when has my 'rank' been Junior Masterchef? I thought I was Cannon Fodder?
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Post by bamos on Apr 14, 2005 14:06:41 GMT
That was probably before we realised you look like Jamie Oliver  I'm going to go to Koln again before the end of the year. Anyone wanna come with me? It's brillbags, man. |
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Post by Fellalady on Apr 14, 2005 14:08:48 GMT
I think that would be on account of your cullinary knowledge. You look nothing like Jamie Oliver. Don't listen to him. Tim from the Office, maybe. |
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Post by Tom-From-Sparks on Apr 14, 2005 14:12:26 GMT
I'm going to go to Koln again before the end of the year. Anyone wanna come with me? It's brillbags, man. I'll come, you can pay for me right? |
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Post by Monpot on Apr 14, 2005 14:12:39 GMT
Well I do know a thing or 2 about cullinating.
I don't mind the 'Jamie Oliver' tag anymore. Anything's better than Macauly Culking -the he-she-man-child whom Tom From Sparks kindly said I looked like. Cheers Buddy!
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Post by Tom-From-Sparks on Apr 14, 2005 14:13:40 GMT
Well I do know a thing or 2 about cullinating. I don't mind the 'Jamie Oliver' tag anymore. Anything's better than Macauly Culking -the he-she-man-child whom Tom From Sparks kindly said I looked like. Cheers Buddy! Always a pleasure ;D |
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Post by Monpot on Apr 14, 2005 14:17:48 GMT
Yeh well!! You look like.....ummm.....slightly like umm.......someone, someone bad. Really bad!  |
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Post by lyle on Apr 14, 2005 16:37:04 GMT
Stayed two months in Cologne some years ago.
Beautiful town with very interesting museums.
I thought it was time to go when i'd take white sausages and Kölsch ( local beer ) at breakfast.
And the nightclubs ere really cheap ( and were playing the Sisters of Mercy ! )
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