Tag Archives: Köln

The Mysterious Banana around Cologne by Thomas Baumgärtel

Stadtbanane

Plenty of Bananas in Cologne Have you recognized all the bananas in Cologne and other places?  The cityscape includes quite some interesting aspects once in a while. Who is actually behind the scenes of the Banana? Around 30 years ago, Tomas Baumgärtel started to spray the banana for the first time onto buildings. This he is […]

Streetart Gallery in Ehrenfeld: Heliosstraße

Are you ready to see new streetart around Cologne? Yesterday, I was super excited to see new art in Ehrenfeld, Heliosstraße. I love taking this street to find new streetart. If you are into streetart I highly recommend you to check out Heliosstraße (streetname) in Köln- Ehrenfeld as well as Vogelsanger Str. If you are coming from […]

Free Alternative Cologne Tours

Starting December 2016: Free Alternative Cologne Tours December 2016, I started hosting Free Walking Tours in Cologne.  What are Alternative Cologne Tours about? It’s all about the Alternative. We make things different. The approx one and a half hours walk through the city includes more than just the basic historical dates and sights. You will have an insight into […]

Preparing my Thailand Trip

The different kind of Thailand preparation The following lines will show you how the average traveler does not get ready for a Thailand trip. Reading at one’s own risk ;).   It was about two weeks before I left for Thailand that I started ‘planning’. Due to my Australian travels I knew that I had most of […]

Fair Fun: CGN Deutz

Cologne Fair Fun

If you are seeing a ferries wheel across the river in Cologne …the fair is still on. This year (2016), the fair is on until the 10th of April. I was not too happy to go to the fair the other day because I assumed it to be boring. But I told myself that I […]