well, I am going to Germany

[Jay Vaughan]

> Interesting: I think Cologne is great, especially the Gothic  
> cathedral.
>

i really love that building, it is a fantastic place.  all the way at  
the top you can count a lot of energy plants on the horizon, but its a  
*lot* of stairs.

> What's typical of Cologne, though, is that all the other churches and
> the 'Altstadt' near the Rhine has been re-built after the war. That
> ancient look is fake.
>


hey, at least the fake was built by someone who'd, you know ..  
actually probably grew up on the old, original, ruins.  was a lot of  
work to rebuild it fake, or just so, either way .. they had their  
reasons to recreate it.  tourism?  probably.  'conscientious  
contribution to future generations in face of a tragedy', well then ..  
pretty good art.  fake or otherwise.


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Jay Vaughan