Or should that be insanity ensues and yes before you ask this story is going to involve more than a little drinking.
It all started after work with the following conversation:
Me: Want to meet in the Dom Keller at 8:30, I’ll have to wander off about 11:30 or so to meet the lads though.
Hardy: No I’ll stay in tonight as I’ll be in town with Leon and the others tomorrow night.
Hardy: I’ll go for one or two in Kohlscheid after work though.
Me: When you leaving?
Hardy: Right now.
Me: I’ll be downstairs in 5 minutes.
And from there things soared…..left Kohlscheid about 9:30ish I think and came back to Aachen. Headed back to my apartment and met the lads around 11:30 or so. Apparently they drove across the square in Aachen and had a load of taxi drivers shouting at them 
We wandered down to the Dom Keller and had a few pints and then took a trip to Pontstrasse. Brian goes for his first trip to the bar in Germany and what a trip it was….”Brian go to the bar and say Funf Weissen bitte”. Somehow….god and the bartender only know how he manages to return with 5 tequilas instead. Apparently I ended up skipping/wobbling home but I feel better about myself after hearing about the insanity in Kohlscheid, the work crew kept going till 02:00 but that’s for another time.
Anyway enough of the booze talk for the moment, the next day we all hauled ourselves up and got some breakfast and decided to take a drive to Luxembourg, man 230kph on an Autobahn is fucking excellent. We passed through Belgium on the way and apparently they have speed limits there…closer to the Irish standard than the German one but christ driving at 120kph is a bit lame when you can do so much more. It took us about 2 hours 20 minutes to get to Luxembourg….which was almost 280kms from Aachen.
It’s a pretty cool city, lots of interesting architecture and an amazing valley running through it which I have pictures of that I must put online at some point. We took a walk around the city, took lots of photos, had a beer and headed back to Aachen. The second night we took a wander down to the Guinness House and had a pint…..apparently the cider there isn’t all that good 
after that we met up with a few people I work with in a bar/restraunt in the Markt area. Took the lads for a walk down A strasse too….it’s not half as entertaining as I remembered the first time I walked down it.
Sunday was a quiet enough day….went for dinner in the Spanish place around the corner from my apartment. Pete got a steak that’s had me thinking bad thoughts about steak for the last few days (suffice to say it was a very rare steak). I think I might go for one over the weekend or possibly several .
Took another high speed trip to Cologne and went to see the Cathedral which was pretty amazing too. Pictures of that to come as well. Went out again on Sunday night….pretty calm night really and I was tired enough, there may have been a struggle moment when it came to ordering food but we had Hardy to save the day and explain to the fella what Pete wanted. That pretty much finished the weekend….Monday was a clean up day….damn messy apartment
I don’t think I’ve much else to report from the last while…..think I’ll be having a quiet weekend because I’m still pretty tired. For anyone who cares got the number, used it, waiting for a reply…..lets see how it goes.
Now I should probably think about wandering off to bed to repair what little is left of my sanity after the weekend
em i think the (wriggling) steak was breakfast, not sure though, the days just moulded together.
there was no ‘apparently’ about the cider, it was fowl!!! shudder.
great weekend though hun! thank you!
Glad to see you are spreading your wings a bit, Ma and me are ready for the big trip, USA here we come, wont be setting up a blog on this trip, wont have much time for that type of stuff. Talk when we return.