Cologne 4

Can you find the twins!?





















We had a good visit to Cologne again. I feel that we have really got the transport to and from Germany so well planned and arranged that it is becoming routine. We were a bit worried that the ‘babies’ had got older and could be more difficult, but they were very good again.
We are in the middle of winter and so were prepared for long walks in freezing weather, forgetting that Cologne is a bit further south of Denmark and is surrounded by mountains making it a number of degrees warmer than in Copenhagen. The day time temperatures were a “balmy” 6° C and in the sun it was warmer. Even so the locals were complaining about the abnormally cold weather!! In comparison it was between 2 and - 2° C.











I accidently discovered the shortest route to the Cathedral this time. After looking at this Roman built tower – construction commencing in 50 A.D. !!! (see below – most of it is original structure) I turned the corner and there it was. The Cologne Cathedral. So we (Babies and me) rushed up and into the enormous church.








































































But first I wanted to show you a special way that Cologne commemorates the hundreds of individuals who died or disappeared in the days of the 2nd World War. The city council has made plaques for each person who died and cemented them into the sidewalk at the address where they used to live. (see below. Translated – Here lived Siegmund Nathan 1882. Deported 1941. Declared deceased. ) Every now and again you see a couple of these plaques on the sidewalk as you walk along.




















The last photo is back home again in Copenhagen after a long trip the day before.

"Twin Friends"

We have met a couple of ”Twin Parents” along our way and try to meet with them when we can.
It is usually quite interesting and chaotic when we meet - 6 adults and 6 babies…wow what a lot of people!
We had a really good brunch in the beginning of January with our “Twin Friends”.

They are lovely people and we can exchange our “twin” experiences.

Here are a couple of photos…notice how often we are all seated around the table together…(a clue - not a lot ;)
We look forward to meeting up again.

New Year 2009 (and some Christmas)

New Years was celebrated in our flat with our friends Naja and William and their new family member, Thomas. I think we spent a total of 20 minutes seated at the table together, and that was all right. In fact, that was the whole idea. We took it nice and easy, ate some good food, (thanks to Naja) and then our guests left at 11-in time to make it home before the big midnight fire-works show which is always extravagant in Copenhagen. (See photos from our 5th floor seats.)
The children missed welcoming in their first New Year – they were asleep – fire works and all!!

December Holidays

We all enjoyed the December Hols. Dad enjoyed being home from work; Mom enjoyed that Dad was home from work and Victoria and Hamilton enjoyed that there was food and they were warm…I think.
Here are just some random photos which we took through the Holiday time.
We visited friends and were visited by friends; there are shots of the children with their big teddy bears; two shots for the record…with a pen; (if you look at our first photos I have one with my pen next to Victoria to show size and this is a follow up); we had our first snow and Randi is standing in it outside the post office and then there are a few shots of us feeding the babies their first semi-solid food!! Carrot pure mmmm.