You can see it in the middle of the photo. It is a large stone thing that sits in the shopping area near Marks and Spencer. Water is running from the top down the sides of the structure. Kristie took this photo.
Antoinette was out shopping. Sandra was off meeting with her ex. Kids and I were wandering home from the video store and happened upon this beach volleyball competition in Neumarkt. The sand was trucked in a couple of days earlier. Unfortunately the kids fell ill and we never got a chance to come back before the competition ended. Though we did ride by it a couple of times on the tram. The kids both had a stomach flu of some kind. Turned out, pumping some soda water into them and making them burp was the only remedy that worked.
Kristie made an interesting wooden block structure. She also took the photos from several different angles so you can see it in different perspectives.
It is interesting to see that she knows how to photograph the structure in order to get every perspective down.
I guess that's all for the different views.
There is some massive tram works going on around town. This is a view of the works near the Rudolphplatz tram station. Trams all over town have either been delayed or canceled in some cases. It has been causing a bit of a headache.
Antoinette Fitzpatrick and kids in front of the Dom. Antoinette is a good friend from the Trento days. She was on her way back home to Dublin having had it with bartending in Italy. It was nice to have had her over for 5 days. Her, Conor and I have got to get together to go pub crawling again!
Antoinette also brought the nice weather from Italy with her.
I haven't seen so many days of sunshine in Köln in quite a while.
Antoinette got in on Thursday evening. She was originally supposed
to have left that day from Duesseldorf but ended up with a Monday evening
flight instead. The first day her train from Frankfurt broke down
and she had to change trains. Of course, nothing at the train station
indicated that the train wasn't arriving so we thought she simply didn't
make the train. Turned out she had but arrived almost 2 hours late.
So we caught up with her later and had a pint down in Flanagan's and chatted
for a bit, going through photos of the Trento days. The rest of the
weekend the kids were out with the stomach flu so she went to Maastricht
on her own. We did manage to spend most of Sunday and Monday together
as we did here on the way home from the train station.
The weather has turned nasty again. Matter of fact, once Antoinette split, the weather has gone down hill. Drizzly, nasty, overcast, cloudy and gray days again. The weather swings here are really a pain. And with the wet weather, we've started having mosquitoes! They really haven't bothered me, but they have hit Sandra and Kristie.
Anyhow, one thing you find is some people have absolutely no dignity at all. There are people here that carry garbage cans on their backs for a living. We followed this guy up the street abit and found that he wasn't even picking anything up off the side of the street with the long stick he had. He was just walking around with the can on his back.
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