Glad to have some news of you, Lady Sarah! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wave.gif" alt="" /> Since you're into shopping, I offer you some place in my depot, if you get too encumbered. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" /> We'll have to hold a stocktaking list though, since we might end up not remembering all that we bought and that somebody here seems tempted to sneak and sevre herself in my discoveries... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/devil.gif" alt="" /> I wouldn't want the same thing to happen to you...
The chocolate museum was great. I loooove chocolate. There is nothing better, more efficient than eating chocolate when you have an energy drop/sugar lack. T is also a well known antidepressant & aphrodisiac. Long before people from the old continent discovered it, the native peoples from South America were consuming very much of it and it was venerated; the beans were used mostly to make a beverage and/or a paste with different seasonings (mainly chili pepper), and the leaves were smoked. It was also used for its medical qualities to to cure diarrhea and dysentery. About chocolate. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
I began my tour of the town by the most evident, I went to visit the Dom; the building and the collection in there are highy impressive... After that I was “having worms in my pants”, as we say in Quebec for someone who needs to move, so I lined up for the Cologne visit by foot and did the Roman route, the mediaeval route and the ciruit along the Rhine. Destinations to come: the botanical gardens and the museums. Anyone's up for it?
Thank you very much, Alrik, for all this info on Cologne (and in all languages, even french wow!). I guess we're to stay here for some days to see all that! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
It seems like Germany is one of the heavens for archaeologists & anthropologists. The first Neanderthal man fossil was discovered here and got his name from the place where he was found, the Neander valley. We still don't really know if the Neanderthal man is an ancestor of the Homo Sapiens or if it is an Homininae specie that evolved to a "dead end" and was replaced by the Homo Sapiens from Africa. Most last discoveries seem to point to the second theory. There is also a third theory, less relevant though, that says that the two species could have cohabited and even reproduced together. It is a very interesting subject. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
Well I'm gonna go to bed too I think. All these walks have left me *yawn* so tired... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/sleepey.gif" alt="" />
