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In the spring of 2014, I visited Spain for the first time. I chose to fly to Barcelona for a weekend trip as I had has read a lot of this vibrant city, it’s culture and architecture and also it’s museums. On the day I reached, I had no fixed plan so I chose to take a public bus and go around the city and ended up near the National Museum of Art. As I was walking past it, I was drawn towards a beautiful gate and enquired about the place. I was told it is an open-air architectural museum. I bought a ticket andRead More →

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In my last travel story about Dusseldorf I mentioned that I took a day trip to Cologne from there. Here I am writing about my memories from that day trip to Cologne. After spending a beautiful day at Dusseldorf and a well deserved rest, the next morning after breakfast, I walked up to Dusseldorf Hauptbahnhof. From here I took a train to Cologne Main Station, Köln Hauptbahnhof. The journey time from Dusseldorf to Cologne is around 20 minutes on a fast train and it covers a distance of around 35 kms. Cologne is the fourth-largest city in Germany after Berlin, Hamburg and Munich on the river Rhine. One of city’sRead More →

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While thinking about which place to write my next travel story about, I realised I have been to some German cities but have not written about any of them. So I decided to write about one the cities I visited few years back. It feels good to look back at the photos and remember the places I visited and share those experiences with everyone who reads my travel stories. The two cities which I visited on a short weekend trip were Dusseldorf and Cologne. As I was working full time then, I used to do quite a few European city breaks over the weekends. IRead More →