Last weekend hubby and I planned to take the kids to visit an amazing castle (which I will be talking about during my next post). It is located in the NL, between Maastricht and the German city of Aachen. Because we had already visited Maastricht four times. We considered discovering Aachen this time. Driving from A'dam it took us exactly two hours to make it. 
This pal was just near the City Hall. I couldn't photograph the building because a wedding was happening at the moments and I did not want to disturb the guests and photographers.
Aachen is much bigger than I thought it would be: 260.000 citizens being 40.000 students. Aken, Aix-la-Chapelle, Aquis Grana, Oche... the city has been populated since the Neolithic times and was well known by the ancient Romans who channeled the hot springs at Aachen into baths.
The bakery houses in Germany are completely different from Dutch and French ones. There are frequently heart shaped chocolates and it is super packed with products ! They are also much bigger than Dutch bakeries and more glamourous (but everything is relative, I know, I know...)
The Cathedral of Aachen is historically considered to be the principal ecclesiastical treasury north of the Alps. It had lots of an oriental palace, with golden mosaics on the celinig and striped pillars in black and white marble which reminded me of Granada in Spain.
The Cathedral was extremely packed and was dark inside, almost impossible to make pics.And our Brazilian Giselle Bundchen is always omnipresent in Germany. I frequently bump against Heidi Klum but frau Bundchen is always pictured in huge posters and outdoors. She is really an über model, top, top, top ! She can sell summer flip flops to Germans or fridges to eskimos...
After visiting downtown Aachen we went back to the hotel crossing a huge park. The following day we decided after breakfast to visit the huge shop of chocolates Lindt. Amazing discounts, especially heart shaped tins and boxes that were not sold during Mother's Day.
Off to castle Hoensbroek !
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