trip to cologne

Cologne cathedral / Kölner Dom

climbed 500 steps to get up here but amazing views!

best meal I've had since being here: veggie lasagne

Lindt chocolate museum

I guess it's not very interesting for everyone to read about what 'tourist' activities I get up to, unless you are planning on visiting Germany of course, but this was basically the first day out that didn't just involve going shopping and getting drunk. We decided to visit Cologne on Saturday as I was so desperate to visit the chocolate museum (even though I'm not supposed to eat it right now because I'm on a lactose free diet) but it really was too good not to. The weather was beautiful as you can see and I haven't even edited these pictures... the sky really was that blue! We climbed to the top of the cathedral which makes up for eating so much chocolate and the views were incredible. We definitely picked the best day to visit as there was barely a cloud in the sky and we could see for miles, amazing!

Hope you all had lovely weekends!

Rozi xo 

designerdrogen

These are just a few photos from Thursday night when a few of us went out in Dusseldorf. We'd seen a flyer for a fashion show in a club so thought we should check it out. As it happens it was a really strange situation, a tiny catwalk in the basement of this club and I don't really know what it was but we think it was the show for a student's final collection or something similar! Nevertheless it was pretty cool.

Rozi xo 

sex and mönchengladbachcity

If it wasn't for these three girls keeping me sane I think I would have already got on a plane back to England by now. I really hate being here for various reasons and I'm not sure if I'll be able to stick it out much longer. I am considering coming back but I don't want to have to start Manchester in the middle of a semester plus I've spent so much money getting out here. 

Friday night we watched Grey's Anatomy which by the way is brilliant, I can't believe I have never seen it before. Watching in German with English subtitles is even more entertaining. Then Saturday we went to Bonn and visited a museum, I had my first Starbucks since being here and then Estelle cooked for us all and we decided to go into Monchengladbach and it was pretty awful to say the least (not up to  much at all compared to Manchester). 

Hopefully tomorrow I will have something more interesting to blog about as I have my ASOS delivery to pick up from the post office.

Hope you have all had a nice weekend! 

Rozi xo 

deutschland

If you read my blog regularly or follow me on Twitter, you will have seen me going on about Germany rather a lot. That's because I've packed up my bags and moved to Monchengladbach which is located North Rhine-Westphalia (about half an hour away from Dusseldorf). Everyone reckons I'm crazy but I'm here now, no going back! I'm here until July 2013 as part of the Erasmus programme through Manchester Uni which basically means I'm studying for 9 months at a University here doing the same sort of topics that I do at home. My year abroad counts as 10% of my final degree and then next year I go back to Manchester to complete my final year. Part of my grade is a project I have to undertake - basically documenting my journey and creating a report of my time abroad. Hence me posting about all of this on here! I'm going to try and log everything on my blog (as well as continuing with fashion & other bits and bobs) so from now on there may be lots of posts about food, scenery and general German life!

So anyway, this is my room ^^ (obviously), it's actually massive and I even have my own fridge and I've made a little tea station! The bed is seriously weird, it's practically on the floor with a fold down thingy to make a sofa. ALL of the sheets over here are polyester (shiny, slippy and a complete nightmare), my quilt is constantly sliding off but I guess that's something I will get used to! 

When I arrived the room was completely bare, I had to buy absolutely everything for it and I've spent a small fortune. Considering I only started learning German a few weeks ago I'm pretty happy I've managed to negotiate buses to shops, find everything I need and make it sort of homey. 

I have loads of wardrobe space which is brilliant, managed to fill all of it - I'm not quite sure how I managed to bring SO much stuff from home, considering I came by plane but I don't travel lightly so no surprises there.

Overall I am really happy with this room, I pay absolute peanuts for it and only share the bathroom with one other person who I'm yet to meet. Praying it's a girl as I cannot cope with boy mess. 

The food situation is stressing me out a bit, I'm not fussy but everything is meat, meat and more meat. Genuinely wondering how there are enough animals in the world to cope with the demand for it. I only really eat chicken, no red meat apart from the occasional burger so I'm going to be preeetty hungry. 

Anyway, I've talked for far too long - hopefully my posts will be fairly interesting for you all.

Rozi xo 

ps. I am dying for teabags (Germans don't drink tea), crumpets & marmite - so if you're feeling nice and want to send some this way hollaaa and I'll send you my address