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Background - I'm over in Germany conducting a training course for my European brothers.  The office is in Maintal, near Hanau, near Frankfurt.  Hanau is kind of sleepy and was heavily bombed, but there are still some magic parts.

The view from the hotel with the castle walls in the background.

One of the castle towers.  12th century I am led to believe. I big culture shock for an Aussie to be wandering around, looking at things that are 800 years old

A run of the mill water tower.

The difference in time zones woke me up at 5am one morning so I went for a walk.  A standard streetscape in Hanau

Somewhere I would like to have eaten, but didn't.  I hope they have changed the menu a few times

A day trip to Cologne with 2 Russian friends.  A view of the Rhine from the Cologne Cathedral.  (Cologne is where my great-grandfather was from)

An other piece of history.  Alte Nikolaikirche or Kaiserdom, I forget which. 

A square in the old city.  I was enjoying myself, really.

A took a boat cruise along the Main River in Frankfurt, where I had a frankfurt for lunch.  Not worth writing about to tell you the truth

Over to the UK for some meetings there. 

The Thames by Parliament House

Westminster Abbey.  It's so hard to get a good shot of the whole thing.

  Big Ben.  I had to wait about 5 minutes to get the buses in and even then they wouldn't stand up straight for me.