So how can I explain what happened next in Cologne Germany?
We just arrived from Amsterdam and went to visit the Koln Cathedral.
The cathedral was locked!
All of these strange,
phantasmagorical-creatures were around.
They were acting wild.
Crazy.
I mean this is Germany on a weekday in November!
Do you think I got a lollipop by mistake?
Or maybe it’s just CHEERS to you from CARNIVAL in amazing Koln Deutschland!
(On a big bummer note, my laptop broke. A nice Bulgarian person let me use his laptop to download some photos and send this post to you with no editing. I am traveling in small German towns with no idea when I can buy a new laptop, hopefully before I hit Slovakia. So until then, I am abroad and adrift, laptopless, and missing you and your posts terrifically~
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People there seem to be whimsical and just have fun. I hope you’re able to buy a new laptop before long. Have fun. 🙂 — Suzanne J.
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They do know how to have fun and thank you, I have a new German laptop with umlaas!!
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Amsterdam se ve una ciudad festiva y divertida. 😉
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Si, mi amiga muy linda y mucha divertida!
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Obviously you have been in Cologne on Novemer 11th, start official start of the carnival period 😉
Have fun Cindy! 😄
By the way: Where ever you are now – ask for a “Mediamarkt” or “Saturn” – one store of these big chains will be nearby 😃 Greetings from Stefan
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Yep, just came from mediamarket here in Wurzburg with my new German laptop! Danke~
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This cheered me up on an otherwise depressing day (Paris carnage). Thanks.
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I have heard nothing about Paris here in Wurzburg Germany and this is the second mention, so now I know something awful happened and am dreading looking at the news.
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good photos…enjoyed viewing them.
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So glad & thank you~
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Looks like you ended up in a strange sort of dream 😀 But Germans do start their preparations for Carnival early…
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The kind of dream you want to keep on dreaming…..
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The windmills’ photos are so beautiful. Lovely.
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Thank you. Holland is so perfectly picturesque!
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You’re welcome.
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Sorry about the dearly departed laptop, but great post anyway! Love the carnival costumes.
Be safe out there…prayers for Paris.
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Be well my friend and cheers to you! ❤
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Fantastic photos! So sorry about your computer woes. It is stressful when our hardware goes on the blink. Hope you find something that works for you soon. Safe travels.
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Thank you my friend and all the best to you!
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Right after Mary Jane’s lollipop I got confused….., something about a topless broad drifting through Germany with a Bulgarian ????? Hahaha !!!!! 😉 Looks like fun, Cuz. Hope you’re not getting near what has happened in Paris. So absolutely insane…, and sad for those French families. Hugs !
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Just noted the Packers fan in the crowd (cheesehead). Good lord, they’re everywhere ! Germany, you’re still on the heritage trail of my mother’s family, Cindy. If you continue to Austria and to what was at one time Prussia, you’ll have completed the path. Ha! Hope all is well over there. 🙂
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I am thinking of your Barton history (and mine too cuz) as I travel. Love to you and your family.
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Stay out of harms way over there, Cuz. I’ll feel better when you tell me you’re home. Hugs!
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Awwwww, so nice to be cared for cuz! ❤
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Oh no, death of a laptop. Funny how lost we are these days with something that didn’t exist not so long ago.
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Yes, I experienced the dreaded Blue Screen of Death!! erghhhhhh……
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What fun!
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❤
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Whoa, bad news about the laptop, Cindy. Hope you can find a replacement SOON! In the meantime, have fun — certainly looks like Carnival to me!!
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Those Koln folks know how to paarty!
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Looks like a lot of folks were having fun
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They were having a party-hearty time!
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Well, now, that would have quite a surprise. At least it was a celebration and not the norm! Looks like a fun time was had by all. I see you reference getting a new German laptop. I didn’t know you could read and write German! 😆 Bwaahhahahahaha!
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Well, I really can’t so that’s the problem…. 😉
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“Wow, totally like crazy man…” Did you find out what it was all about? Everyone looks to be having lots of fun…
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Well. it carnival, a religiously based holiday originally…….
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So much fun and such wonderful smiles. Thanks for sharing. This is Ruth anomy other blog was sunset dragon and after way to many times to get into it, and not being able to I started this one.
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I am hopefully following you now, although God only knows what I am doing now with my German laptop!
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Fab photos and so uplifting too. Thanks for sharing 🙂
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Yay! Thank you~
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Thank you!! 🙂
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Such fun! ～̎̎٩(⌒͡∀⌒͡⌯̊)̥̊◦
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Thank you ～̎̎٩(⌒͡∀⌒͡⌯̊)̥̊◦ !
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What a fantastic time Cindy. The celebration is wild, right? So sorry to learn of your computer problems – hope you are able to fix it while you are overseas.
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This was one wild PAARTY!
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🙂
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Well the nun with the beard quite clearly had a lollipop (or two!). You can tell just from his eyes (A Doctor Writes…). RH
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Cracking up. I need to do more of these posts just for your comments!!! 😉 😉
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Wow, adventures! Stay safe!
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Yes, the dull life of an aging retiree……
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🙂
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Cindy – I echo Ineses’ comment above – please stay safe. This post made me homesick for Germany and mad all at the same time. The Koln Cathedral is one of my all time favorite places to find peace and perfect for contemplation – and to find it locked is a sin in and of itself. I know it’s because of the changes in our world but it breaks my heart all the same. Knowing the world traveler you are, you’ve probably been there several times but you can never see the Koln Cathedral too many times. Will you still be in Germany when the Neurenberg Christmas Market rolls around or perhaps it’s already started.
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I was there at the start of the market in Nuremberg. I am now in Regensberg, Christmas is HERE! Be well my friend~
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I loved, loved, loved the entire holiday season in Germany. They really know how to do it up right. But, then, so do all the other European countries. My dream is to go back one day.
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Oh, I hope you do! We are going to the Christmas markets in Vienna tomorrow. Hugs to you Sheri~
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What fun you’ll have. I see all the lights now.
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Wunderschöne Fotos wünsche einen schönen Tag und eine gute neue Woche Gruß von mir und Umarmung Gislinde
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Wunderschöne Fotos wünsche einen schönen Tag und eine gute neue Woche Gruß von mir und Umarmung Gislinde
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Danke schoen mein lieber Fruend Gislinde! ❤ ❤
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Danke, dass du mein lieber Freund Gislinde. Ich bin im schönen Deutschland jetzt!
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I wonder what my cousin in Germany will add to this. She’s always telling me about all the fun things going on they enjoy. ❤ ❤
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Oops. Forgot to say thank you for sharing. Much enjoyed. 🙂
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Germans definitely know how to celebrate! 🙂 ❤
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They sure do from what I hear by way of emails. ❤ ❤
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Now it is the Christmas Markets and they are wunderbar!!!
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What a fun post! All those costumes and colors leaves me smiling. Hope you resolve your technology problems soon.
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Thank you and yes, this celebration was full of joy and energy!
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Based on the photos above, I agree with you ~ you did not buy one MJ lollipop, but several and shared them with your camera and lens as how else could you see such things 🙂
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My camera and lens are bad influences, like hanging out with the wrong crowd in high school…….
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You didn’t have to go to Amsterdam for an MJ lollipop. We have plenty here in Colorado. 🙂
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So I have been hearing…… 🙂
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That’s wild! I hope the nice weather continues for couple of more weeks so I don’t get stranded in a snow storm 🙂
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Excited you are coming and looking Forward to seeing your photos!
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They & you sure know how to have fun!!
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Fun is imperative! ❤
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What fabulous fun, brilliant photos. Enjoy your travels.
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Thank you Charlotte and someday I hope to travel to hear a performance from you my friend. We’re going to hear a quartet tomorrow in the Vienna Symphony Hall!
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Fabulous, wish I was there. I’ve an exciting solo concert on Saturday one hour, it will be my first time performing the Haugtussa cycle.
Best wishes Charlotte
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Someday soon Jim & I will be in ýour audience! ❤
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I can see myself fitting right in with this crowd!
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Me too, when I was a lot younger 😉
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😊👍🏼
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>3
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great photos!
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So pleased you enjoyed and cheers to you!
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Sorry about your laptop!! It does leave you feeling a bit helpless without one. What oh what was the occasion at the Cathedral? We lived in Spain for 12 years and traveled summers north– I remember dancers in front of the Cologne Cathedral, but nothing quite so interesting as you saw!
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Yes this was quite an cccasion, this was carnival, which is an official German day of celebration.
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Looked like crazy sort of fun!
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Exactly!
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They sure know how to have a good time in Amsterdam. So the laptop broke…..know you can feel my pain.
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Well, I am responding in my German Laptop, constantlz mixing up the y´s and z´s!!!
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Ha! When and if I get my laptop unbroke ( just invented another word) it´s configured in Spanish, so you also have the same problem like me, feal the pain!! 😉
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Yep. I feel your pain. 😉
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Hi Cindy …your photos are really great ! I love the many friendly people I met in Bulgaria 2 years ago and Amsterdam was glorious ! Thankyou so much for these reminders of lovely days . Love and blessings , megxxx
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Love & Blessings back to ýou, and so glad the photos prompted happy memories!
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Such a very fun and lively post, Cindy. How wild it must have been for you to see all this craziness and fun around you. The costumes are quite elaborate! I’m so glad you were able to get these great captures and use a stranger’s laptop to share this fun day with us. Thanks so much Cindy! 🙂
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I really appreciated their exuberant ability to celebrate and the creativity and humor they displayed! Thank you for your kindness!
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Seems like I missed a lot of your latest adventures – need to catch up. Hope all is well HW.
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No hummingbirds to whisper at here! I miss them! Be well Antionette~
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I looks a lot like Key West, Florida the last week of October, except there are more clothes in your pictures.
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Cracking up……it was a lot colder of course! 😉
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Reblogged this on Oyia Brown.
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How thoughtful of you and thank you!
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I found you again. Computer is not happy with the storm outside. Wanted to thank you for following my blog and let you know how much I enjoyed the pictures of the Germanic signs. I grew up in Germany and have visited a few times since. It has a very different feel than here. I’ll be back.
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It was called Fasching when I was a kid. My parents dressed up but it was not a holiday for children. I didn’t do Halloween till I was 11 and then it was over a year later. Too old and no more Fasching. 😦
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lol not the kind of carnival i am use too that’s for sure 😛 thank you for posting 🙂
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What fun!!!!!
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Cheers to you Gigi!
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