Yesterday, I went on a little adventure. I needed to go on a walk to think over things. I wanted to find the horse track. I got out my map, but the map I had stopped halfway at the racetrack.
The bottom circle is where I live and the circle above that is just the U-Bahn entrance that's closest to me. The green space above that is apparently a park and then above that is the horse track. So I followed the street that put me to the right of the racetrack. All I saw was a fence with many trees inside. In the distance I thought I could see some sort of track. I went all along it on that side, but I could not find any information. I just saw horse posters.
By now I was off my map, but I didn't want to head back yet. I found this random path that I decided to take.
It was very peaceful, very nice. I followed that for a while when I came upon a fork in the rode. The same path continued straight, but, to the left of me, I saw this:
There were cars randomly parked out here! I figured some sort of civilization was around. I went that way and I found tennis courts and a track!
But I think you have to be part of the club to play on the courts. I continued a little further where I found this odd building:
I continued to walk and went down an actual rode and ended up seeing these as well as what looked like an entrance into the horse track:
I then left that place in search of the train stop just after mine, which I ended up finding very quickly. I took that to mine, which I hopped on the 13 (it was above ground) just to ride it and see different things. I rode that to the very end, where everyone got off but me...
And here's the map of the rail services in Cologne:
And lastly, where I live compared to where the school is. It's about 2 miles away. You can also compare it with above in comparison with the whole city.
I just need to take one train, and it drops me off at the bottom left circle. From there, it is just a short walk away. For the past several months, there has been construction on the railways, so until this week, I had to get off at the bottom right circle and walk 10 minutes (a little past the other circle). Now that construction is all done, it is faster for me to get to school in the mornings! It definitely helps that I can take either the 12 or 15, and they basically come every 3 minutes.
4 comments:
haha random adventures are the best! At least u found ur way back home though :)
Be careful! You always make me nervous with all your random walks. I hope this one wasn't one of those midnight walks. Okay i'm done with the "mom" speach.
Those pictures look great. it looks beautiful there. Do you like it? Do you miss home yet? Has it set in yet that your there for an entire year? You are doing some great things over there. So, Stella came over the other day while she was in town and brought her kids over and her daughter and dad were best buddies about parrots. It was cute. I MISS YOU!!!!!!!!!
my train home at 1am yesterday broke down and it seriously took me about 2 hours to get home. i hate public transportation. hahaha :D
haha, yah i def. see that the sun is out. Silly me!
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