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On the second last day in Germany, we decided to visit the Bridge Hohenzollern. He is known for the fact that it hosts many thousands of large and small locks locks, which hung couples. Another name for this object - Lovers Bridge. This tradition came from Italy. It was believed that when two people want to admit it to each other in the most sincere feelings and promise to be together forever, they have to close the lock and throw away the keys.

Now the bridge in Cologne can be found locks for everyone: big and small, strong and painted in amazingly bright colors, hand-made and professionally engraved. Virtually all written date and the names of two people, some of the characters we saw the organization of sexual minorities - in Europe there are no problems with the tolerant attitude to people, something that is not like most. Once the mayor wanted to stop locals and tourists to follow this tradition, but under pressure from disgruntled relented and retreated from their demands.

So we decided to hang up his small padlock to the bridge, throw the key away into the deep waters of the river Rhine. Local shops can always buy a ready-made souvenirs, as craftsmen quickly dawned available demand for small locks of lovers, but we brought her from Russia and did not regret it! Now, is there a piece of the homeland, thousands of miles from the Volga. Guess which of the locks in the photo at the bottom right We hanged?

The bridge offers a beautiful view of the city into two parts, separated by the river Rhine. Hence it can be seen in all its glory the most famous sights - the famous Cologne Cathedral. In the city there is a cable car across the river, which you can also admire the panorama of the Rhine, but before that we did not get the object.

Because tomorrow the time on trips to the shops will not be - go shopping souvenirs and gifts to relatives and friends. Need to bring everyone something special to surprise and awaken the desire to go to Europe itself.

Prices for souvenirs from shop to shop may differ, but the range is almost the same everywhere. You can buy cards at prices ranging from 20 cents to 1 €, keychains are expensive - between 2 € and up. Cologne is famous for its famous cologne (the word comes from the French Eau De Cologne - literally "Cologne Water"), the city has even dedicated a museum dedicated to this, so a good gift can be a small bottle of cologne, they cost of € 5 per bottle.

In almost every clothing store or shoe buyer willing to offer discounts, choice of offers is so great that in addition to buying things for yourself, you can bring your friends or fashion accessories cool t-shirts with different symbols.

Also on this day replenished our supplies of chocolate, we decided to bring it home. Prices for this delicacy in Germany is very low, tile Ritter Sport can be purchased for 80 cents, and a set of small chocolates with different fillings from the same manufacturer - a little more than 1 €. Our bags open-mouthed in astonishment when they learned how much of various gifts, things we will put in them tonight. Transporting a little, we still pack the luggage - the weight of each should not exceed 23 kg in terms of our tariff Lufthansa. The rest are placed to the backpack - back to Russia, we do not plan to travel light.

Go to bed early - tomorrow will have to travel a lot, fly and walk, but just do not get to sleep. During those days there was a lot of interesting events, we visited many different countries, cities and places, have tried a variety of national dishes and beers Kölsch. However, despite this, the measured and calm European life is unique in its essence, it is clearly in contrast to the endless cycle of events in Russia, sometimes inexplicable and harsh.

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