Berlin!!! the capital
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This is where koblenz is located... dusseldorf is the regional capital
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Bremen.. where a prof would be teaching
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I am in this... hessen
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The monument at the intersection of two rivers
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One of the castles in koblenz... we tried visiting one of these but found it a bit far and too lazy to climb up..
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Koblenz is further down the rhine from bonn and cologne... ha... :)
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I am flying
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Rathaus... Bonn used to be the seat of the Western German (and later Germany) government... before the capital moved to Berlin in late 1990s.
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Max Friedrick Plague
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MinoritenKirche in Bonn
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Really lovely watching family and friends playing soccer... those little children.
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Beautiful... autumn coming
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An institute of the university
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The cycling culture is everywhere
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Me... almost knocked against the signboard while jumping up to photo...
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The university campus
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The Beethoven Festival
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Me with Beethoven... :) He's great... even at his deathbed he was thinking of his music
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After Cologne... on to Bonn (land of Beethoven)
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Orchird in greenhouse in museum... it's really beautifully bloomed... but not charcoal as bottom
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Trumpeter
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Scarry
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All those chocolate television advertisements...
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How many have you tried?
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Schokoladen
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There was a greenhouse in the musuem... really stuffy inside... with double door-seal.
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Dispensable chocolates... the dispenser is old... really!
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Marketting of Chocolates is Art!
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Lindt!!!
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Truffle machine... those little sweet, sinful and lovely fluffy
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picture of old lindt factory
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Someday... you'll be eaten too?
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These are lovely... hollow inside... they are made by spinning the chocolates in the moulds such that they stick to the mould and thereafter solidified... yummy
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Fondue... chocolate... yes!
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Amazed... I would be if I were so young and watching how those "melt in your mouth, not in your hands" things are manufactured.
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Finally... Lindt Chocolates
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Step 8: Bosch Robot (the wrappers)
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Almost finished chocolates
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Step 7: Moulding Machine
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Step 5: Rolling Mill
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Step 4: Mixer
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Step 3: Cocoa mill
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Step 2: Milling machine
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Step 1: Roaster
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1883 machine for making chocolates... history!!!
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so what goes into chocolate...
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In the Chocolat Musuem... still bumming around Cologne... didn't really know chocolate had such a big history... there are three key types of chocolates... btw, the museum is an intiative of sorts of Lindt... this is a boat on which choco seeds are transported.
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Together with Jeff and Chenjun
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Vitality-picture
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