I arrived in Bonn last Thursday, April 19th, in the afternoon. My hotel was in the city center, so I put my car in the parking garage for the duration of my stay, and I walk and took the bus instead of driving.
In the center of Bonn there are many pedestrian streets as this one:
And people use their bicycles a lot:
On Friday afternoon, I went to 's house and I met his wife and daughter.
_kids came too and we went to the Steemit Meetup Aachen #3 in Aachen, which is around 100 km east of Bonn.
We had a lot of fun there, and the other Steemians were kind enough to speak to me in English, as I was the only one that could not speak German.
On Saturday, on the recommendation of , I walked to see the cherry blossoms.
On my way, I saw one of the park:
I also walked through some narrow streets, such as this one, with very well maintained old buildings.
There is a street in Bonn where there are many cherry trees, on several hundreds of metres. They florished in April, and I was fortunate to visit Bonn at the right time.
After that, I wanted to visit the Beethoven house, but unfortunately it was closed on Saturday morning.
After lunch, I went back to visit . We mostly talked about our life an Steemit.
I ask him to show me how he was using dada and he created a drawing in front of me.
After a vegan barbecue with family, I went back to my hotel.
On Sunday morning, I finally was able to visit the Beethoven house.
One thing I noticed there was that many documents were written in French, such as this one:
On the afternoon, brought me to Drachenfels, the place where Siegfried, the hero of the Nibelungenlied is supposed to have kill the dragon.
Drachenfels is a hill with an old castle on top that is mostly in ruins.
From there you have a very good view of the Rhine.
Early on Monday morning, I drove north towards Copenhagen. After crossing the sea on a ferry for 45 minutes, I arrived at house, and I finally met him, after translating his comic Phill from GCHQ for more than a year.