from koblenz we headed straight to the unicef office where i was part of a briefing presentation about the trip to dadeldhura along with german colleagues in december last year...
the building iteself is a unique one with creatures crawling up the sides!!
with christian schneider who was part of the december trip and who is now the chief of unicef germany
lunch with the family after the presentation
with silke
in front of the unicef office before departure
back in the hotel we decided to first reach ravi off to the station to go to the airport to catch his flight...
... then we all decided to accomapny him to the airport itself...
... it was while ravi was trying to check in that he realised that his ticket was for the earlier day!!!
so we went aroud hither and thither trying to find the next best flight for him back to london
we waited for ravi and ujwal who had gone scouting for tickets.. baba has his favourite english breakfast tea...
they came back with a ticket from hannover for the next day...
.. and ravi tore the unused ticket!
on our way back it poured.. this is the ceiling of the atrium in the train station
we visitied the dom-- cathedral.. a roman catholic church, and one of the largest in europe.. with huge twin spires.. that miraculously survived allied bombing during ww2...
the cathedral from the outside...
and inside.. with its great vaulted ceiling.. really tall... and stained glass windows.. kripa took many of these images
we were lucky that there was a performance on the organs that evening... the recital lasting over an hour.. and enchanting.. haunting to hear an orchestra being belted out of one instrument.. echoing along the domes and walls of the cathedral!!!
people were sitting on the floor of the dom to listen to the performance
this window was a puzzle for me.. while listening to the performance i was trying to figure out some sense in the pixelised stained glass right in front of us !! no luck... later learnt it was a random computerised design by gerard richter
following the performance we went to eat..and came across this reminder of the great water of cologne!
the dom looked even more beautiful illuminated
... and as customary.. we took one round of pictures with the dom in the backdrop
ujwal was in spirits high enough to imitate an airplane...
...and some yogic posture!!!
too lazy and tired to walk home.. we decided to take a train back.. and waited... and waited...
.. and waited...the yawn is catching!!!
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