Achtung!

Achtung!, originally uploaded by bravoinsd.

Tram crossing in Cologne.

Lunch

Lunch, originally uploaded by bravoinsd.

Currywurst stand next to the Koeln Hauptbahnhof...our lunch spot and Devin
trying to get out of a photo. No such luck.

DB Carsharing

DB Carsharing, originally uploaded by bravoinsd.

Deutsche Bahn is not just trains...also bike sharing and car sharing!

Cologne Mass Transit

Cologne Mass Transit, originally uploaded by bravoinsd.

Beer-powered transit in cental Koeln.

Fussgangerzone

Fussgangerzone, originally uploaded by bravoinsd.

Busy, crowded pedestrian shopping zone in Cologne.

Koeln Dom

Koeln Dom, originally uploaded by bravoinsd.

Cathedral in Cologne, incredibly enormous and the city's main icon.

Koeln Hbf

Koeln Hbf, originally uploaded by bravoinsd.

Hauptbahnhof (main train station) in Cologne (Koeln), our arrival point.

Bitburg-Erdorf Train Station

Bitburg-Erdorf Train Station, originally uploaded by bravoinsd.

Beautiful old train depot in Erdorf, where we caught the Regionalbahn train
to Cologne.

Fussgaengerzone

Fussgaengerzone, originally uploaded by bravoinsd.

Pedestrian zone in central Bitburg.

Bitburg Brewery

Bitburg Brewery, originally uploaded by bravoinsd.

Original brewery building in central Bitburg. Not the one where Devin
worked, which is much larger and on the outskirts.

Bitburg Street

Bitburg Street, originally uploaded by bravoinsd.

Quiet residential street in Bitburg.

Bitte ein Bit!

Bitte ein Bit!, originally uploaded by bravoinsd.

Beer truck in Bitburg.

Bitburg Entrance

Bitburg Entrance, originally uploaded by bravoinsd.

Entrance to Bitburg on the main road from Trier.

Countryside

Countryside, originally uploaded by bravoinsd.

Fields in the country outside Bitburg.

Baekerei

Baekerei, originally uploaded by bravoinsd.

Decorated cakes at a bakery in Bitburg.

The Downfalls of Living in Bitburg

The Downfalls of Living in Bitburg, originally uploaded by bravoinsd.

If you live in Bitburg you get the benefit of having a brewery in town,
random presidential visits that cause controversies, and a chance of getting
an unfortunate license plate (they all start with BIT).

We Kehr for You!

We Kehr for You!, originally uploaded by bravoinsd.

I love this little street sweeper seen in Bitburg. For those of you who
don't speak German "kehren" means to sweep. So this is a double language
play on words. In English it sounds like "We care for you" but when you mix
the languages it means "We sweep for you"!

Bier and a Bretzel

Bier and a Bretzel, originally uploaded by bravoinsd.

Enjoying my pilsner in the bar at the Bitburger Erlebnis Welt.

Bitburger Beer Erlebnis Welt Bar

Bitburger Beer Erlebnis Welt Bar, originally uploaded by bravoinsd.

A beautiful bar where Bitburger serves their beers after the tour. That
man's ghostly image is one of their logos from days when it was known as
Simonbräu.

Pretzel and a Beer

Pretzel and a Beer, originally uploaded by bravoinsd.

We visited the Bitburger beer brewery today. Many of you might not know
that I worked there for a summer. Don't be too jealous...all I did was pack
beers into cases so it wasn't exactly rocket science. You don't get a
factory tour anymore but rather a visit to the Bitburger World Experience
and you get to watch a lot of videos about how great the beer is. At the
end, they serve you two beers and give you coupons for three more at bars in
town, including the one we're staying at. Score!

Sunflowers for Sale

Sunflowers for Sale, originally uploaded by bravoinsd.

Sunflowers for sale (you pick yourself) on the side if the road just on the
edge of Bitburg.

Toronto Space Needle?

Toronto Space Needle?, originally uploaded by bravoinsd.

I'll find out what this is called later but for now will call it the Toronto
Space Needle. I tried to look around downtown Toronto but it was raining
and I didn't have an umbrella with me. This is the only recognizable
landmark I saw other than rolling landmarks.

Toronto Transit Commission Bus

Toronto Transit Commission Bus, originally uploaded by bravoinsd.

Seen outside subway station in Toronto.

Toronto

I tried to grab an earlier flight from Toronto to Frankfurt but that didn't work out.  Instead I took a "quick trip"into downtown Toronto.  The airport isn't really near downtown and it began pouring rain so I didn't get to see a lot (my umbrella is in my luggage).  I won't bore you all with transit pictures because that's all there was besides skyscrapers. 

Somewhere Over the Midwest

Somewhere Over the Midwest, originally uploaded by bravoinsd.

The sheer number of fields is really amazing. I need to Wikipedia and find
out why the fields are in circles.

On to Toronto

On to Toronto, originally uploaded by bravoinsd.

On Air Canada flight 780 to Toronto. A319. I'm glad they have free
in-flight entertainment.