Days of Bonn

Ok, a fairly dry blog this time. Next one should be about my trip to Hamburg. The past month I've been hanging out around Bonn. Some of the places I've been- walking around the Rhine, going to the Haus der Geschichte Museum, walking along the very well known cherry blossom street, and as previously written about, the Botanical Garden.

Let's start with the cherry blossom street- the day after I step off my flight to Germany, I have a lovely cup of tea with a visiting friend. Then we walked down Heerstrasse. Again I missed the highest level of blossoms by days, but it was still lovely in the days after the high bloom.

The next Saturday, the weather was the best it had been all year, and another friend and I walked all day around the city, checking out various areas, until we got to the Rheinaue, the park next to the Rhine River. We found the one shop open in early April and I had yummy french fries. Afterwards we went to the Japanese Friendship Garden- probably the smallest one I've been to, but there was a lovely crane posing for us. It was a nice little spot to visit. We proceeded to walk back to the city by the river and it started to get chilly, but it was the perfect day to just walk around. Next time I'll have to plan for a picnic by the Rhine.

The UN in Bonn

The day after the perfect weather day, I went to the botanical garden, and of course the perfect weather from the day before. You can read about this one on the previous blog entry.

The following weekend I went to the Haus der Geschichte Museum, which takes you through German history from WWII to modern day Germany. I went with an eclectic group of people, and while some signs were in English, not all of them were. That's where our German companions started helping out and filling in information. It was a fun trip through the museum, made all the better by my compadres. This museum will require a second trip. We went to lunch and went to the French market going on in the city. Wine tasting ensued. April in Bonn was a good month.