There is a monument to Kaiser Wilhelm here, which served as a symbol of German unity from 1900 to 1915. See the legendary statue of William I. The gardens around the German Corner are beautiful, and I especially like this old tree with branches that have drooped to the ground. Peeping people in the tree. Ehrenbreitstein Fortress.
Also known as the Stone Fortress, it is 1,000 meters high and stands on the Rhine, facing the corner of Germany. Around the year AD, a small castle building appeared here. In the following centuries, the electors of Trier converted it into a fortress. Later, it was destroyed by the French, and the Kingdom of Prussia also sent people to repair the Ehrenbreitstein Fortress.
This fortress is one of the most powerful fortresses built in Europe after 1860 and is still well preserved. Tickets: Adults/Students and Seniors �/Opening Hours: :-: The fortress opposite, you can take a cable car from here. There are cruise ships everywhere on the Rhine. The old castle, the Rhine, and the red DB train running slowly.
On this side of the river is the statue of William I. From the comparison, you can tell that this statue is very big. Climb up the tower. On the tower of the statue of William I, overlook the German Corner. In fact, you can feel the reign of William I here. The sense of history is as heavy as its tower. I was feeling depressed. If the weather was clear, it would be more beautiful, but it started to rain.
Before leaving, here's one more shot from behind. I met a newlywed couple taking wedding photos on the road, congratulations. The extended version of the Chrysler, under the ultra-wide angle, this Chrysler has also grown into a snake, hahahaha.
What did Yunluo say? It's the same everywhere! It was cloudy when I came, but it cleared up when I left! Koblenz is beautiful under the clear sky. The scenery along the coast is also beautiful on the Koblenz-Cologne train. The locations of German train stations are very user-friendly. At this central train station, you can see the Cologne Cathedral right in front of you before you even leave the station.
A huge building. I was not excited when I left the station, but I encountered a demonstration, which made me even more excited! According to the British newspaper The Guardian, anti-Islamic extremism demonstrations broke out in Cologne, Germany on July 1. The event then turned into a violent conflict. Football hooligans, German right-wingers and riot police clashed.
About 1,000 hardline fans and neo-Nazi groups held a rally and march, holding up banners that read "hooligans against Salafism". The demonstration was initiated by the right-wing political party of North Rhine-Westphalia. At the same time, anti-fascists organized a demonstration aimed at "standing shoulder to shoulder against racism and religious extremism", which attracted about 100 people to participate.
I saw this report on the domestic news the next day. I was completely confused that day. Although I didn't know what kind of demonstration it was, I thought it was very impressive. As a Chinese, I would be excited to see such a scene because I saw freedom of speech. It's okay to hold up a camera and take pictures of the police, just take pictures.
The unknown onlookers ended and saw many handsome policemen. I have felt the power of the city of Cologne since then, not just this church. Cologne Cathedral: It is a masterpiece of medieval European Gothic architectural art, and it can also be said to be the most perfect Gothic church building in the world.
It is one of the three major religious buildings in Europe, along with Notre Dame de Paris and St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. It was the only church in Germany that was not actually bombed during World War II. Legend has it that the Pope at the time wrote a letter to the US military, begging them to preserve the church, which saved it from being destroyed, while the area surrounding the church was bombed.
This huge Gothic church has been covered with grass for a long time. I was shocked at first sight. I encountered violent clashes outside. I also encountered worship inside the church. A magnificent building separates the inside and outside into two worlds. Tourists who are not worshippers can only stand around and visit. So far, this is the last church I visited in Germany.
It is also the largest church. It is the right choice to put Cologne Cathedral last. After seeing so many churches, I am still shocked when I come here. Of course, with its fame, it also has the most tourists. The main entrance. One was taking a selfie, and passerby A couldn't stand it anymore and offered to take a photo for Yunluo, so there were two photos like this. The parade exited the train station.
We moved to the other side of the church. However, no matter how noisy the surroundings were, people playing the piano and listening to music in the square outside the church were still content. There were also girls sketching. We wandered around the church for most of the day, and it was getting dark. The demonstrators also moved to other places, and those sitting on the steps outside were all romantic people waiting for the sunset.
I took a train to the opposite side of Cologne Central Station to take photos of the night view. I found that the crowd was demonstrating here again. The scene was chaotic and many train services were affected and delayed. The Hohenzollern Bridge on the right. Gradually I saw the sunset. It was so beautiful. I begged the train not to be delayed. I had to go to the opposite side of the Rhine River to take photos of the night view. I was already drunk with the beauty. I finally arrived at the other side of the river.
You can see the beautiful silhouette of the Cologne Church in the distance. When I got here, I realized that Yunluo was a fool. I could walk across the bridge, which is much faster than waiting for the train. Hohenzollern Bridge: The Hohenzollern Bridge and the Cologne Main Railway Station next to it are one of the most important hubs of the German and European railway networks. It is a very large building.
It is an indispensable part of the Cologne cityscape and the Cologne Cathedral. The slow Rhine River. There is a great location for taking pictures at the bridge head. Most of the postcards of Cologne are taken here. I didn't expect the weather to be so good on the last night in Germany. The author directly occupied a small piece of land at the bridge head and kept pressing the shutter. As a fool, I just waited for so long to take the train across the river.
I realized that it only takes a few minutes to walk back from the bridge. There are many love locks on the bridge. Back to Cologne Cathedral, it is still majestic at night. How can I not be fascinated by it? Frankfurt is the fifth largest city in Germany. It is an important industrial, commercial, financial and transportation center in Germany and even in Europe. It is located in the lower reaches of the Main River, a tributary of the middle Rhine River.
It is also the largest airport and railway hub in Germany. Frankfurt Airport has become one of the most important international airports and air transport hubs in the world, and the second largest airport in Europe after London. Almost all routes from places with direct flights to European countries transit through Frankfurt, so Frankfurt gathers airlines and hotels from all over the world.
Including tourists from all over the world. On the last day, a glimpse of Frankfurt. It was raining and cloudy when I was about to leave. I encountered a crazy candid photographer here. I was in a very gloomy mood, so I planned to record this city in black and white. Unlike the previous historical cities, Frankfurt has a calm and reserved temperament.
As the largest hub city in Germany, it is not chaotic at all. When you come out of the central train station, you will see a huge commercial district. On the way to the commercial district, I just thought it was calm and reserved, but I met a sneak photographer who followed Yunluo all over the street. Unlike the Cuban handsome guy who I followed and talked to last time, this one was a bald middle-aged man who looked like a German.
He didn't say anything, but just followed quietly, following two or three meters behind. When Yun Luo walked, he walked, and when Yun Luo stopped, he stopped. After testing him like this, he was sure that this guy was definitely following Yun Luo. Damn it! It's crazy that he dared to follow Yun Luo in such a busy place. After walking across a street, he immediately found a drugstore to hide in. Damn it again.
This guy followed her into the drugstore, so Yunluo pretended to look at cosmetics and walked around the store. She found him squatting next to her, with his phone under her skirt, but before he could reach out, Yunluo glared at him, picked up a bottle of cosmetics, paid the bill and left. The bald man who was exposed also left. Although she hated him, she also admired his spirit of taking candid photos.
I got rid of the sneak photographer and passed by a square. I saw elderly people holding hands. I was finally relieved. In the center of Frankfurt, because I was followed and secretly photographed before. My mind was a little distorted, and the photos I took also began to be distorted. Of course, Yunluo later liked this multiple exposure attempt that looked so sci-fi. The Main River runs through Frankfurt. Riverside.
The riverside trail is very beautiful, and the autumn leaves here have not yet turned yellow. Walking under it is like entering a time tunnel. Picking up a fallen leaf at the end can represent the end of the entire trip to Germany: an autumn full of fallen leaves, a thin dwarf dragging a suitcase, several historical cities, and countless bluestone roads. The first thing I did after getting off the plane was to go to Terminal E through the transfer channel.
To be safe, I asked the transfer counter to confirm that there was such a hotel. Confirming that there was such a hotel was half the battle. Yunluo confidently followed his memory (the structure of the terminal was very simple. You can remember it after reading it once) and went there - Hey! Hey? ? ? Why can't I see the hotel, upstairs? The upstairs is closed! I walked again, but still didn't see it!
Impossible, the counter person said yes! Calm down - calm down - Yun Luo had to calm down, and boldly inferred: it must be somewhere, but it's hard to find, so he immediately went to the Information counter to ask someone - Nima: All the Information counters are empty, brother, it's only a little after noon and everyone is off work? ? Forget it, I'll ask anyone I see today.
Ask until you are satisfied. So, Yunluo began to ask in coffee shops and restaurants one by one, but the handsome men and beautiful women working there either couldn't speak English or didn't understand it. After asking several shops, he came to a bakery, where a handsome man was chatting. Seeing Yunluo asking questions, he answered Yunluo enthusiastically, but unfortunately he couldn't speak English and he couldn't speak Russian.
Seeing that they couldn't communicate, the handsome guy waved his hand and said "Follow Yunluo". Yunluo thought that he was finally saved. After taking only three steps, the handsome guy stopped and pointed to a small corner next to the bathroom. With a "Duang" sound, Yunluo climaxed at that moment - isn't this the ATM machine where I passed by twice to withdraw money? When he looked closer, he found a small word "Hotel".
Well, I have no words to say. I can only blame myself for having a pair of titanium alloy eyes. It is the picture below. Do you see the hotel? If you can see it, it only means that you are much better than Yunluo. Yunluo thanked him with the Russian "sbaciba" and pushed the door open. The beautiful lady at the front desk said that there were no single rooms left, only double rooms, and they were all charged by the hour.
I have to wait for an hour. Is there any other choice? Never mind. I just spent over a hundred dollars. The room is pretty good. Very quiet. After everything was arranged, Yunluo was also very tired. After all, he didn't sleep for the hour-long flight. He should go to bed because he has to catch a flight to Berlin tomorrow morning.
I got up at 10:00 in the morning to catch the flight. I thought it would be noon when I arrived in Berlin, so I decided to have breakfast before leaving. I had a cup of cappuccino and two pancakes with cheese and meat rolls. While waiting for the flight, a Russian man named Egorov sat next to me. He spoke very good English with a pure American accent. It turned out that he had worked in the United States for several years.
Anyway, waiting for the flight was boring, so Yunluo and An Chuyu started chatting about everything under the sun. The uncle's son was only five years old, but the IQ test showed that he was a fifteen-year-old. He was not accepted into the first grade of elementary school and was asked to skip a grade. When talking about his son, the uncle's face was full of pride and happiness. Today, he got a window seat. Taxiing, it was time to take off on the runway.
The uncle said, Yunluo, there is no one next to you, come over and continue chatting - continue chatting about his son. The uncle said that his son has a lot of ideas, for example, he doubts the existence of dinosaurs. He raised a question that the uncle found difficult to explain: since dinosaurs exist, there has always been life on Earth after dinosaurs, so why did they dig up dinosaur fossils?
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
In the intervening years, nothing was found, but suddenly dinosaurs were found? In Yunluo's opinion, although the child's view has loopholes, it is indeed not easy for a five-year-old to think about things in this way. When Yunluo was five years old, he didn't even know what a dinosaur was. There are several real scenes in Moscow in "The Bourne Supremacy" that Yunluo couldn't find on Google Maps.
Even if a blanket search was carried out, it could not be found. Yunluo told Egorov about this confusion. He said he was very confused as to why the director filmed in Budapest, Hungary, and then used it to pretend to be Moscow—Holy mother f__king Jesus Christ! Do you think I have to go to Hungary? (). Forget it. I have chased so many real scenes of this series of movies.
That's enough. The food on Aeroflot is smaller than two years ago. Two years ago, the sandwiches were big when I flew from Moscow to St. Petersburg, but this time they were very small. The uncle said that the competition is very fierce now, and Aeroflot tickets are already very cheap, so the food is naturally smaller. The pattern of the wet wipes distributed on the plane is very unique. The uncle said that this is to commemorate the anniversary of the victory of the Great Patriotic War.
Time flies when someone is chatting. Two and a half hours later, we landed at Berlin's Schönefeld Airport. Next to it is the Brandenburg Airport, which is considered the largest unfinished project in Germany. Construction started in 2009 and it was expected to be completed and put into use in 2010, but it has not been delivered yet. The uncle said it was a "Gostterminal" (ghost building) because the facilities inside had been repaired.
But no one used it. Later, Yunluo was waiting for the airport light rail to Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, chatting with a German, who also said that this was a "total disaster" in their country. Schönefeld Airport is really small. It took less than two minutes to walk to customs after getting off the plane. The entire corridor is made of glass walls, and there is no toilet at all.
I have to be thankful that I didn't let Yunluo check in and wait for two or three hours here first, because there was no place to hide. The customs only had two counters and four windows. The bearded uncle at the customs asked Yunluo what he was doing. Yunluo said he was traveling, so he let Yunluo pass. After passing the customs, Uncle Egorov and his friends came to pick him up, and Yunluo and An Chuyu shook hands and said goodbye.
Originally, we should have arrived last night. Now that we had wasted half a day, Yunluo was too lazy to take the bus or light rail, so we took a taxi directly to Park Inn Radisson in Berlin. ZZ had already delayed Yunluo's check-in. When checking in, the lady at the front desk thought Yunluo was here to book a room, so she said directly, "Sorry, no more rooms."
Yunluo said that she was supposed to check in yesterday, but it was postponed to today. The auntie immediately asked, "Are you Mr. XXX?" Yunluo said yes, and she immediately gave Yunluo the room card without even looking at her passport. The hotel was booked on Hotelscom, Park Inn Radisson, a four-star hotel. It was probably on sale, only RMB per night. The moment Yunluo opened the door, she knew: I made a profit.
This room is only RMB per night, absolutely worth it. Another important reason for Yunluoding to choose this hotel is that this is the real-life filming location of "The Bourne Supremacy", AlexanderaPlaza, where Bourne captured a female CIA agent. The sky was cloudy, and although I wanted a sunny day, the scene was quite similar to the movie.
Just watch it. The one with a ball on it is the Berlin TV Tower, which can be seen from almost any location in Berlin. It is definitely a landmark of Berlin. In the movie, the female agent got on the yellow tram and was caught by Bourne. The next is where Bourne was shot when he was chased by the agents in Moss. It was actually filmed in Berlin.
Did you see the agent in the rearview mirror? He spotted Bourne on the riverside and immediately got out and shot him. Right here. It's exactly the same as in the movie - isn't this nonsense? After the killer fired the gun, he was found by the police. The lifebuoy in the previous picture is still there. I wonder if it is the same one as before.
Today, Berlin held a cycling marathon. Countless men, women, young and old rode on the road. The traffic was blocked for a long time. But no one honked the horn. What a quality! There were many creative children who rode bicycles and were dragged out by their fathers to participate in the event. Haha, there were also roller skating masters. The police rode big motorcycles to escort the riders. Yunluo made an appointment to visit the Reichstag in the afternoon, so he walked west.
We also visited the Victory Column and the Brandenburg Gate. We passed a building with a very German feel but didn't go in. The Spree River. The dome church in the distance is the Berlin Cathedral. We passed the Humboldt Box on the way to the Brandenburg Gate. Some tourists rode bicycles, and everyone could pedal, which was very interesting. This is the symbol of Germany: the Brandenburg Gate. (~^~)