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13 years ago
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Hey hey everybodypeeps.
Having spent the last five days in and around Germany for the Cologne Fur Dance, I'm finally back to terra firma - but for any German furs reading, Köln was lovely and I hope one day to come back to your lovely country. ^.^
So, here's a quick snippet of some stuff I got up to.
Nearly got killed in Belgium
Belgian drivers are the worst in the world. This is a fact. They are utterly terrifying and awful and only the impressive driving skills of Jasper Foxx got us out of Belgium alive. Two motorways merging into one lane with cars sprawled all over the lanes and carriages is utterly nightmarish, and only some fine-tuned driving skills kept us out of the back of a Lotus... it was insane, it could so easily have been a pile-up, the way everything merged together. It was like the cross-over on a Scalectrix circuit. x.x Don't go to Belgium.
Got shown round Köln and went to the top of the cathedral
I was joined on Saturday by two absolutely lovely other foxes, Colditz and FurryRatchet, who came in for CFD but spent the day with me, for which I am grateful. However, the first thing I did was accidentally nearly kill them, after suggesting we go to the very top of Köln Dom, the 158m (516ft) high Cathedral which powers over the Cologne skyline. Those 1066 steps up and down took it out of us a bit, but they joined me for nibbles, Starbucks, souvenirs and general walking about, and accompanied with some good weather it was a great day out.
Free facts: Cologne Cathedral took 600 years to complete and for four years after it's completion in 1880 it was the tallest building in the world, until the completion of the Washington Monument. It stayed as the tallest Cathedral in the world until 1890, when Ulm Minster, in Ulm, Germany, was completed.
Went to the FC Köln Stadium
I know most furries don't really care about soccer, but I enjoy going to check out new stadia whenever I go somewhere new and the 50,000 seater RheinEnergieStadion between Frechen (where we were staying) and Cologne was just the ticket. It didn't look amazing, but it had that European-stadium feel to it and the surrounding parks and grounds were very nice. Just a pity the team got relegated last week.
Oh, and went to Cologne Fur Dance
On Friday we were greeted by one of the CFD staff, Kamikaze, who joined us for a meal at the EA Sports Bar on the banks of the Rhine. (Top stuff that was too). We, as the ambassadors for Frantic Eufuria, discussed our dance events and what ideas we had for upcoming events, and it was all very productive, and he allowed me to place around some ScotiaCon flyers around the venue, so hopefully we'll see some German sign-ups for the big Scottish convention! But I was able to place these flyers on tables around the venue, because I was delighted to learn of a social area adjacent to the dancefloor. This was perfect for me, not much of a dancer but able to talk constantly, I sat down with FurryRatchet and Colditz and was joined by various people throughout the night including Kamikaze, SnuggleBunny, Saberhagen, Kiono, BanaanePit, and a fair few others. Ended up spending €35 on drinks and had just about enough to see me through the next day.
In short: Thanks to everyone who stopped to say hello at the dance, thanks to the organisers, thanks to JasperFoxx for putting up with me virtually all weekend, thanks to FurryRatchet and Colditz for showing me around Köln and again, putting up with me, and thanks Germany for being nice and only raining when I was indoors. Hope to come back one day!
Loves,
Equium auf der Deutschland
Having spent the last five days in and around Germany for the Cologne Fur Dance, I'm finally back to terra firma - but for any German furs reading, Köln was lovely and I hope one day to come back to your lovely country. ^.^
So, here's a quick snippet of some stuff I got up to.
Nearly got killed in Belgium
Belgian drivers are the worst in the world. This is a fact. They are utterly terrifying and awful and only the impressive driving skills of Jasper Foxx got us out of Belgium alive. Two motorways merging into one lane with cars sprawled all over the lanes and carriages is utterly nightmarish, and only some fine-tuned driving skills kept us out of the back of a Lotus... it was insane, it could so easily have been a pile-up, the way everything merged together. It was like the cross-over on a Scalectrix circuit. x.x Don't go to Belgium.
Got shown round Köln and went to the top of the cathedral
I was joined on Saturday by two absolutely lovely other foxes, Colditz and FurryRatchet, who came in for CFD but spent the day with me, for which I am grateful. However, the first thing I did was accidentally nearly kill them, after suggesting we go to the very top of Köln Dom, the 158m (516ft) high Cathedral which powers over the Cologne skyline. Those 1066 steps up and down took it out of us a bit, but they joined me for nibbles, Starbucks, souvenirs and general walking about, and accompanied with some good weather it was a great day out.
Free facts: Cologne Cathedral took 600 years to complete and for four years after it's completion in 1880 it was the tallest building in the world, until the completion of the Washington Monument. It stayed as the tallest Cathedral in the world until 1890, when Ulm Minster, in Ulm, Germany, was completed.
Went to the FC Köln Stadium
I know most furries don't really care about soccer, but I enjoy going to check out new stadia whenever I go somewhere new and the 50,000 seater RheinEnergieStadion between Frechen (where we were staying) and Cologne was just the ticket. It didn't look amazing, but it had that European-stadium feel to it and the surrounding parks and grounds were very nice. Just a pity the team got relegated last week.
Oh, and went to Cologne Fur Dance
On Friday we were greeted by one of the CFD staff, Kamikaze, who joined us for a meal at the EA Sports Bar on the banks of the Rhine. (Top stuff that was too). We, as the ambassadors for Frantic Eufuria, discussed our dance events and what ideas we had for upcoming events, and it was all very productive, and he allowed me to place around some ScotiaCon flyers around the venue, so hopefully we'll see some German sign-ups for the big Scottish convention! But I was able to place these flyers on tables around the venue, because I was delighted to learn of a social area adjacent to the dancefloor. This was perfect for me, not much of a dancer but able to talk constantly, I sat down with FurryRatchet and Colditz and was joined by various people throughout the night including Kamikaze, SnuggleBunny, Saberhagen, Kiono, BanaanePit, and a fair few others. Ended up spending €35 on drinks and had just about enough to see me through the next day.
In short: Thanks to everyone who stopped to say hello at the dance, thanks to the organisers, thanks to JasperFoxx for putting up with me virtually all weekend, thanks to FurryRatchet and Colditz for showing me around Köln and again, putting up with me, and thanks Germany for being nice and only raining when I was indoors. Hope to come back one day!
Loves,
Equium auf der Deutschland
