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23. 07. 2001 Bonn (GERMANY) Here in the north of Germany it starts to get a bit chilly. Bonn is a delightful little town, small, neat, quiet. Around lunchtime we "settled" in a little park and, armed with our stove, prepared our lunch of lentil soup. Very good! After a wander round the centre, we decide to pop over to Cologne. The first thing that strikes you as soon as you leave the railway station is the wonderful, impressive cathedral! Now I'm sitting on a bench right in front of it... When I saw it I felt the same emotions as when I first saw "Stonehenge" or "Big Ben"! It's majestic and elegant! Almost always words are nothing compared to the feelings you get... What made it all the more moving was the music coming from the many organs of the cathedral... What magic was in the air... In the evening we catch our train to Copenhagen, not knowing the night would be a very long one...

They make us get off the train in the middle of the night over a silly reservation we hadn't made because we hadn't had the time to make it. Having formed a little group (me Italian, a Portuguese, a Finnish couple, a Norwegian, a Dane, an Indian and an American) we wander round Germany from station to station all night. In Hamburg we manage to book seats on a train to Denmark, and since we'd be leaving three hours later and considering we'd been awake all night, we take the chance to grab a nap. Once the mats and sleeping bags are sorted, we fall asleep at once; after a while I feel a tap on my arm. German police again, telling us we couldn't lie down there. Annoyed, we go to our platform where Pedro and I, getting out our stove, make hot tea for everyone!