I visited Julia in September, 2008 in her hometown of Solingen, Germany, During this trip we also visited Bonn, Cologne, and I took a short trip to meet up with some friends at Oktoberfest in Munich, Germany! I also took tons of pictures of Julia and her family’s cats Paul, Puschel and Michelle…
These pictures are from my visit to Drachenfels, near Bonn…
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Pictures from our day trip to Cologne to visit The Dome Cathedral, and shopping in downtown Cologne…
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Doris got pulled into a flash mob singing ‘Viva Colognia’
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After the visit to the Dome, we walked around the shopping district of Cologne. This was taken at one of the outdoors sports equipment store – and their ‘outerwear testing area’
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At a steakhouse – Julia laughing at my broken German while I try to ‘speak’ the different dialects
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A small summer party at the Muenkels’. Paul enjoying the summer sun
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Another party
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