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fave train places
 | really, this should have pics ..
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| Cologne: at the end of platform 6 in the sun looking up at the Dom and the old-style extension of the main train station arena, then turn left to the pseudo-industrial roof architecture of the Museum Ludwig and around and look at the Eiffel-style bridge to Deutz |
| Frankfurt airport: watching an ICE 3 float into the post-post modern glass-and-steel-temple |
| thassright, don't know jackshit about architecture & can prove it. |
| Rhine, winding down the: it's a beautiful day. if you ever get to old europe and it's a beautiful day, you must take the train from Cologne to Mainz -- it meanders along the Rhine at a chugalug pace (au contraire to what they may be telling you when you buy the ticket and pay extra for the so-called InterCity or EuroCity so-called Express), past ruins of real castles and the Loreley, a hairpin curve in the river where blond ladies in flowing white dresses used to sing to boat captians, causing them to sink their ships against the submerged cliffs .. |
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