Franfurt to Colonge

Today is another travel day.
We had the now *mastered* morning rutine (barely on ours second day in Germany).

Today the toaster did not fooled me, I knew exactly how to pull the bread out on will.

A quick comeback to the room to brush my teeth and grab my lugage, and we where on the way to the train station.

Today we bought a 3 Passanger ticket to Koln.
At the station there where some square old fashion looking trains, however ours, the "ICE" has an aerodynamic shape. On the outside of the train cart, next to the doors, there are monitor screens displaying the train name, code and destination. Once inside the cart, it is obvious that this is a fancy cart. The floor is fully carpeted on all areas, the hall ways where the bathrooms are have wood designs with soft curves on them.

The divisions between the carts are class automatic doors that open on approach.
The seats all have an european 220v plug between each of them (thats where I am plug right now).

They announced the "food service" over the speakers, obviously I did not get it, but now I can see it as the lady with a airplane like cart travels along the train selling snaks and bier.

The train ride is very smooth, as a mater of fact, sometimes is hard to know if it is moving without looking out of the window. I can not tell what speed it goes, as apparently all the windows are shielded, and I can not get GPS signal at all.

There is only one downside I can think of, and has nothing to do with the train itself, but rather a cultural phenomena. [or a poorly made seat decision] The smokers, I am not a fan of the cigarrete smoke. I can feel my lungs contracting already (I am actually quite asmatic).

Traveling by train might not seem as quick as doing so by plane, yet has some interesting advantages. On one side, we pretty much bought the ticket 10 minutes before the train arrived, boarded it, and it left 5 minutes later. No one hour waiting for check in, no wondering "where is my luggage?", but most interesting, it gives you something to see on the way.

We stop at a station, I look outside of the window and I see it says "Bonn". The GPS is not locking up, so I launch the notebook version of the software and search for it.
We are only 20km away from Koln now. This train must been traveling fast (and I better pack my stuff now, or else I might not get off on time).

The hotel in Klnon has no bathroom in the room.
That detail caught my parents off guard, as for me, I knew about it, it was specified on the confirmation email. This kind of room brings colorful memories of the times when I was studding in Zaragoza (over 15 years ago). However at that time it was actually a hassle for me to walk the corridor to get to the bathroom. Today, I find it kind of fun.