Bonn, birthplace of Beethoven

Nov 14, 2017 | Articles

Bonn, a small city on the Rhine,

The Federal City of Bonn (German pronunciation:[ˈbɔn] ( listen)) is a city on the banks of the Rhine in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, with a population of over 300,000. About 24 km (15 mi) south-southeast of Cologne, Bonn is in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ruhr region, Germany’s largest metropolitan area, with over 11 million inhabitants.

Among many museums  other things Beethoven House,

Last spring I also when to Drachenburg Castle in the Siebengebirge south of Bonn.

I’m getting pretty good on the buses and trains around Cologne

Also going on is

COP 23 – UN Climate Change Conference in Bonn

11.11 11:11 Köln Carnival

Nov 11, 2017 | Articles

Today we get see a different side of Germany, only in Cologne. They start the Carnival at 11:11 on the 11 of November.

http://www.koeln.de/tourismus/karneval/1111__sessionseroeffnung

at the stage, a crush of people , only a tiny bit of wiggle room

The Cologne catheral 

Medieval cathedral

Lets have fun

not so much fun

now at the train station on the way home

Rochester town, Cathedral and Castle

Nov 1, 2017 | Articles

I had no idea Rochester was so interesting or important

They have a bridge document which pre dates the Magna Carta

The Romans built a bridge across the River Medway as part of Watling Street, carrying traffic from London to Dover (the port for Continental Europe)

In AD 560, King Ethelbert of Kent came to the throne of Kent. Around AD 600 he promulgated a code of about 90 laws defining crimes and punishments. The code was regarded as sufficiently significant that in the twelfth century (over 500 years later) they were written down in the Textus Roffensis, the “Book of [the church of] Rochester”. Although the only surviving copy is the Textus, the laws are referred to by both Bede and Alfred the Great. Æthelberht’s laws are thought to be both the earliest law code of any kind in any Germanic language and their wording the earliest surviving document in the English language.

Rochester is a town and former city in Kent, England. It is located at the lowest bridging point of the River Medway about 30 miles (48 km) from London. The town’s location is due to the bridge which carries the Roman Watling Street (now the A2) over the river.

White Cliff’s of Dover

Nov 1, 2017 | Articles

I have heard of white cliff’s of Dover.

Once I saw them on a bright sunny day I was amazed