NH Hotels, the hotel chain leader in Europe, with more than 300 hotels in 20 countries in Europe, Latin America and Africa. Enter into our web site and find the best available tariff at all times
I will refer throughout to the subject of this review as Cologne Cathedral, that being the familiar English term for it. If you wish to carry out further research you will also need to know the German title: "Kolner Dom".
Two of my great interests in life are architecture and history; seldom do they merge better and in more spectacular style than in the great churches and cathedrals. Over the years I have enjoyed visiting virtually all of the cathedrals in England - many in Poland during the last seven years too. Since my late teens there had been one cathedral above all others that I had wanted to visit - Cologne.
However well one may, or may not, know Cologne, Germany, or even in a much wider sense church architecture, the iconic silhouette of Cologne Cathedral, with its truly colossal twin towers, will probably be familiar to ...
Advantages: Milka...Lindt...chocolate in general Disadvantages: cable car shut in winter
We went to Cologne this December so I could practice my German, we could go to the Christmas markets and we could take some much needed time off work. Actually, scrap that. Those were the reasons we went to Germany. The single reason we went to Cologne in particular was the flight schedules - Tui now fly there from Manchester, and our flights cost less than £70 return including taxes and the credit card fee (alarmingly charged per passenger, not per transaction).
I had been to Cologne before, but not since 1991, which is a decent chunk of my life ago. My companion had never been there, nor anywhere else in Germany for that matter. We booked in September, and had been annoying our mutual colleagues ever since, with tales of the heavily-chocolate-infused fun we were going to have. Now everywhere in Germany has fabulous chocolate, but ...
Advantages: Great story, Excellent acting, very funny Disadvantages: none
Kirk Douglas starts in this film playing the role of Harry. He was once known as the ?Polish Prince? when he was a prize fighter but now in his old age he has suffered a bad stroke and is trying to get his body working again and his speech back.
Harry has a son called Lance who he does not get on with to well. Lance and his son pay a visit to Harry at his brother house and Michael, the grandson, soon takes a liking to his Grandfather and suggests to his Dad that they take him on an adventure.
Harry talks to Michael of a fight he once threw in payment for a bag of giant diamonds but he never got the diamonds and they are now hidden in the house of the man who offered them to him. Michael tells his Dad this tale but he thinks Harry is making it up but soon Michael has talked his Dad into taking them on an adventure to see if there ...
