Back to der Zug und Hauptbahnhof

After yesterday's day off kicking around Köln (this keyboard actually has an umlaut key, fancy that in Germany), am back on the train today for a three-hour ride up to Hannover (lots of controversy on whether it's one 'n' or two, am going
with what's on my train ticket), for Mexico-Angola.

Yesterday was too gray a day to do the Rhein boat thing, so just ambled around town. Couldn't do much in the way of shopping, since it was a religious holiday, no one seems to know which one, and everything was closed. Went by the in-town Media Lounge and got some things done on-line. Also stayed around to enjoy the matches on TV, either the big screens set up in FanFest, or by stopping here and there and watching all the ones set up along the sidewalk cafes.

A large number of English have already descended on Köln for the 20 Juni date with Sweden in the Group B finale here. Although I'll not be based here by then, will be back to shoot that one. After Sweden's 87th-minute goal to win last night, sets up an interesting scenario.
Originally, the incentive for the Group B winner was to avoid Germany in the Round of 16
as winner of Group A. But now, Ecuador is actually on top of Group A, based on goal differential, so that group is ending very interestingly, as well, with Germany-Ecuador.

This blog inteface, oh, have I mentioned over here it's all in Deutsche, is a little inconsistent. First it won't allow me to post more than two photos. Then, it decides to post two of the same image. Yesterday, it would only post one. So this blog's image will be another shot from Germany-Poland, which I tried to get up yesterday.

Enjoy und Ole'!

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