2006-07-08/09 . Munster-Cologne-Frankfurt

2006-07-08

Today we transitted through Cologne, where we took in the world cup atmosphere in the crowded city center, brimming with excited fans. Of interest was the ceiling of the train station at Cologne, where world famous soccer stars were painted.

We caught the evening train to Frankfurt hoping to watch the 3rd-4th placing match at some pub, but instead caught it at a soccer carnival along the Main River banks. We bought food from the hawkers (I got a huge helping of deep fried fish, rai got fried noodles and dina got a hotdog) and roamed around hoping to find good screens to watch the Germany vs Portugal match and managed to find some standing space outside a pub...good thing Rai didnt root explicitly for Portugal...but anyway Germany won 4-1...
after the match, we got some drinks and hung around along the banks...soaking in the festivites...






























2006-07-09

Today we walked around looking at architecture and collected world-cup collectibles from the river side booths...but the highlight was of course the world cup finals...and the magnificent fireworks display of the closing ceremony...wow...

oops...almost forgot abt the cheap pork knuckles and the 3 cans of beer....burp****