Whatever Happened to the Clothes Hanger Trick?

The last couple of posts, in my mini-series, I was writing about everything to do with train travel – partly inspired by my series of journeys last week down to Frankfurt and back (which ended up being in a car anyway). In all this time, I’ve been half-living in the north-west of Germany, half down in Frankfurt. So what’s been happening?   Today, Beer, Tomorrow, Pfand... Well, following a job interview on Thursday, I repaired forthwith... Read More

Escaping from Cologne – Not for the faint hearted…

The ICE readies itself for a high-speed journey to Frankfurt... After a less than overwhelming time in Cologne, Monday finally rolled around and it was definitely time to escape. We had our tickets for the ICE, Germany’s answer to France’s high-speed train service the TGV, and by around half 7 we were up and packing at a speed normally reserved for only the biggest dumps. Perhaps Cologne kind of falls into that category – after two visits,... Read More

Bumping into Cologne…

So, after all the planning and effort that went into getting me, quite literally ‘off the ground’, we finally made it onto the plane for Cologne yesterday morning. The journey was pretty quick and I took the liberty of enjoying one of Cologne’s world-famous Kolsch beers during the flight. For some reason, Germanwings have this strange pricing policy that sometimes means a beer costs the same as a can of coke if you pick the right... Read More