Heading to Köln

Heading to see Caroline in Köln
Sun May 20

After eating breakfast at Rebecca's house we headed with her older brother to Köln (Colonge in English) to see Caroline. The breakfasts I ate in Germany are much different from those in Spain. In Spain people usually only have a coffee with cookies, a crossiont, or some cereal. It is a very small breakfast. I couldn't live like this and wait until 330 to eat lunch so I usually made an egg or had yogurt with granola and fruit. In Germany we had bread with butter, nutela, all different kinds of jams, cheese, and some cold cuts. Yum!
Anyways we hit the road and drove to see Caroline which was only about a one and a half hour drive. The scenery was beautiful, rolling green hills with tons of these bright yellow flowers. The autobahn has no speed limit so cars can drive 180-200 km/h or even more! We finally arrived in Köln and dropped off Rebecca's brother at his apartment and continued to Caroline's house. Not a good mix, just Rebecca and me. Rebecca didn't know the way and I had no way of helping because it was almost impossible to sound out any of the street signs in German. After a few wrong turns we Finns arrived at Caroline's house. I met the family (who of course all speak English) .
There we ate a traditional German meal (I think haha) of weißwurst, which is a white sausage, a pretzel, and a salad. It was sooo good! After we finished eating we headed to another festival. In Köln soooo many people ride around the city on bikes, there are bikes everywhere. So, to the festival we rode bikes over. The only problem is Caroline and Rebecca are tall and so is there families so getting on these tall bikes was a struggle. I had to stand on the sidewalk or curb just to get on. The festival was really cool, more food and some beer and live music. Here I tried a reibekuchen which is basically a fried potato kind of like a hash brown. Once again it was really good.
When we got back to Caroline's house we relaxed a little bit and then when out to dinner with her family. We went to this Austrian restaurant that was so amazing! I ordered a
Schnitzel which is a fried meat, it can be different kinds of meat. At this restaurant it was veal and with squirted lemon juice on top you just can't stop eating it.