Volume 2, Day 65-67
After spending possibly too much time in Cologne, I was off to Bonn for the weekend, or in other words…probably too much time. I hung out at my hostel in Cologne for most of the day because there was no sense in arriving in Bonn before 4pm when the hostel reception would be staffed.
The Bonn train station looked like it had seen better days and was a little difficult to navigate the platform with construction machinery blocking most of it and rain streaming through holes in the roof. The bad weather was continuing and I hung out at the underground entrance of the train station for a few minutes debating whether I wanted to hop on the underground street car or walk the mile across town to the hostel.
The rain was barely a drizzle to begin with and after a few moments it seemed to taper off, so I set out to walk it. It turned out to be no problem at all other than having to avoid some puddles. Bonn hardly qualifies as a town, it conveys such a sense of quaintness that I can hardly imagine it ever serving as the capital of west Germany.
The hostel was nice enough, though a bit overpriced in my opinion. I was the first to check in to the 8-bed dorm room with an en suite bathroom and windows facing the main street. It was spacious and clean.
Thinking that the rain was done for the day, I changed into my running clothes and cut the two blocks over to the Rhine, where I jogged a decent stretch up to a bridge and back again. As my jogging path cut through a section of the old town, the skies opened up and started raining. I popped under an awning to check the map then decided to just power through the last stretch since I was going to shower anyways.
I cleaned up in the room and made a dinner from the leftover sandwich materials from lunch (after a week of trying to be healthy with salads and whatnot, I finally caved into cold cuts and bread).
I chatted a bit with one roommate, a German guy who was in town for some event involving computers and university students. Another traveler showed up, dripping from the rain. He turned out to be part of the same event and the two of them conversed on their own.
It turned out there was a bar across the street that is quite popular on the weekends. It noisy for most of the night.
| Breakfast | 2.5 |
| Salami, Cheese, Bread | 3.66 |
| Train ticket | 8.2 |
| Hostel (3 nights) | 78.75 |
| Water and Chocolate | 1.13 |
| Total: | 94.24 EUR (735.1 RMB) (USD 103.97) |
Running Total: 24489.5 RMB (USD 3463.79)
Daily Average: 376.8 RMB (USD 53.29)