Cologne
The trip to Cologne was my first hitchhiking experience ever. My host was Barbara, a German girl able to mix flawlessly Spanish and South American slang. She speaks better Spanish than me!. In Cologne I visited the cathedral. It’s massive, it looks big from outside and it’s huge once you are inside. The cathedral was full of tourists so it was not such an amazing experience. I miss the Hindu temples in India were only locals are on the temple instead of tourists taking pictures!
In the top of the biggest cathedral in Germany (Ulm cathedral was taller!)
With Barbara, my CS host in Köln and Cataldo, the espontaneous surfer
My hitchhiking sign to Frankfurt (The original idea was Frankfurt-Strasbourg but I did Frankfurt-Köln)
Köln massive cathedral
More interesting than the overhyped cathedral was the Chocolate Museum. It has a tropical section with real cocoa trees and a very nice exposition about how cocoa was used in America as food and currency before the Spanish arrived and how cocoa is nowadays cultivated in tropical areas all over the world. The best part of the museum is the small factory where they make their own chocolate bars and chocolate candy!
Munich
I went to Munich for a visit to the Spanish consulate. I hitchhiked to Munich on a bus full of Tamil people that went to Munich for a demonstration to raise awareness about the Sri Lankan war. How random is that? I must have a strange connection with that country. It was fun to say “hello” “my name is david” and “thank you” in Tamil, this people were not used to europeans speaking their language and it was very interesting to see their reactions.
Frankfurt
I went to Frankfurt to play a scavenger hunt game on the city. It was a lot of fun because the task list forced us to move around downtown with concrete objetives: Locate the naked man, make a human chain from this statue to the other… It was nice to walk around downtown Frankfurt paying attention to the street and the people. I really want to organize a similar game in Würzburg!
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