Well the weekdays were more or less the routine stuff, go to work n back do some shopping n cook etc[cooking has become very monotonous now.... :(] . Then came Friday evening when
all i did was to plan the weekend.... As it turned out, Sharan wanted to see a football match in Dortmund (for which i was least interested in spending 50 euros) n Abhijit didn't have a
semester ticket yet.. so it was The lone musketeer for this weekend left to explore the beautiful state of North Rhine Westfalia.
Proper planning and internet is all you need to feel at home at any place... so i chalked out the complete itenary and left early in the morning (early by clock, sun rises unusually early here by about 4:30 or something..)
Bonn was the first destination.... city of the musician Ludwig Von Beethoven.... the famous guy about whom i got to know later from Dheeraj that he is actually real famous....
Lots n lots of museums from different eras, the historic house of Beethoven and his astonishing instrument, the immaculate churches...... i had never experienced this feeling before of being a tourist..
I mean everytime i go somewhere either friends or family is with me, n here i am seeing places alone just me n my cam... it was strange but fun, just like the wanderers we see in the movies
Feel hungry and the only tried and tested McDonalds is the joint i can trust(had an encounter earlier this week and almost consumed Beef, so i maintain extra caution these days)
The best part of these tours is that everything to be seen is located at the heart of the city and you don't need to move around in bus or cab or something jsut help urself with the map
the Tourist information centres provides and enjoy as you wish..
Early in the morning Kaku suggested that i should go to Koblenz as it has numerous castle n all, so after clicking a few picks at the shore of Rhine, a peaceful river that cuts bonn into two halves
i boarded the RE for Koblenz......... City was beauiful alright but the journey was awsome.... train goes besides the river, where u can see rafts and small towns located on the river sides, and the hill tops properly maintained
with a castle here and there... it was a new world completely different to what i had perceived of Germany till now... the suburbs of this nation are the same as towns presented in the dragon tales..
It poured down heavily when i was at Koblenz which was a big disappointment but everything can't be perfect,, so... acceptable.
I was lucky enough to get back to paderborn in time ti catch the last bus for my hostel... on the way, as i had mentioned, there was this football match.. it happened to bethe last league match which Dortmund had won and was crowned in front of home croud today
Well trains streets everything was as noisy as it could ever get... evryone was drunk(that includes girls and even quite a few kids) and when i say drunk, they were all tipsy, shoouting slogans and celebrating.... one guy comes up to me and says...man u are my brother and he gave me his seat which i had to accept without choice..
The next day was a trip to Hamm, small industrial place nearby.... not much to see though, the walls weer the main attraction for the three of us(this time all the musketeers made it)
Then on the way back since nobody was in the mood to cook after such an enthralling weekend, we decided to step into a random restraunt, which turned out to be Italian and later i found out that the dish we ordered, DonnerTeller is a Turkish Dish..
But fortunately, the food was mouthwatering, so in the end a nice weekend finally concluded, with the dreary thoughts of going back to work all day the next day waiting for the next weekend...
But trust me.. the weekends are worth the wait if you are travelling around!!!
"Truse" till the next weekend....sb
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