Monday, September 12, 2022

Cologne to Berlin

 

Pengembara NM menerus perjalanan tren menuju Berlin. Jarak Cologne ke Berlin sekitar 480km dengan perjalanan empat jam setengah. Catatan beliau menyebut tarikan berikut;

Central Station is enormous - which also a shopping complex; Brandenburg Gate - a symbol of the reunification of German; Agam Baklava - the best in Germany; Cafe Schaefer in Triburg -  who has the original recipe for the Black Forest Gateau created by Josef Keller in 1915.

East Germany heritage - old small town of Nauen; Glienicke Bridge (bridge of Spies), Potsdam - where during the cold war prisoner exchange took place between Soviet and America.

Nota: Ada sejumlah lapan puluh buah masjid sekitar Berlin. Lima puluh sembilan milik ahmad (lihat senarai - link).

 Sehitlik Mosque in Berlin-Neukölln

[sumber secretcity - link]

Bagi mengelak ahmadiyya baca rabwah dot net. Antara premis mereka Khadija Mosque  Berlin built in 1923.

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Saturday, September 10, 2022

Brussels to Cologne


Perjalanan sejauh 185km mengambil masa sekitar dua jam dengan tren Belgian Thalys.Tarikan di Cologne yang diceritakan adalah Hohenzollern Bridge yang dipenuhi mangga kunci lovelocks, statue Kaiser Wilhelm II, 4711 Eau de Cologne flagship store, The Ma'alot holocaust monument, Cologne Cathedral, Germany's best fish (prawn) and chips.

Cologne Central Mosque

[the largest mosque in Germany - obscura (link)]

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Wednesday, September 07, 2022

Brussels Belgium


Buku pengembaraan dengan keretapi oleh seorang pengembara mencerita persinggahan pertama di kota Brussels. Tren Eurostar dari LDN berhenti di stesen Midi Brussels. Apa yang ada di Brussels? Antara yang disebut adalah - the old Schaerbeek train station is now the Train World Museum; the Train Hostel; Delicain Belgian Chocolates; Smurf sculpture; Sablon Flea Market; The statue of the Pissing Boy (Mannekin Pis); the Grand Place - city's main square; ...

Papan tanda di sekitar Belgium memapar tiga bahasa - French, Dutch/Flemish dan kekadang beserta English.

Satu lagi ikon tumpuan pelancung adalah monummen Atomium.

The Grand Place, Brussels

"Who owns the Grand-Place?". focus on belgium (link).

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