My Aachen back!

The pics from Aachen are up, as promised. I hope you all appreciate what I went through to get these. Namely, I spent 2 hours on a bus to get to rainy, cold Aachen. I then stood outside the cathedral for 30 minutes waiting for the tour to start. Once inside, I gave myself a crash-course in low-light photography. After the tour, we were on our own for about 2 and a half hours. it was decided that we would have something to eat. This led to major league group drama between those who wanted to duck into the first restaurant offering coffee and a roof, and those who were looking for something more "typical Aachen". Your humble narrator, gentle readers, was in no mood for such shenanigans for the following reasons:

1. I was battling a nasty virus with such charming symptons as "sore throat", "headaches", "upset stomach", "head ache"
2. I had to carry my laptop around the whole trip because I needed it for a presentation for class in the morning and I didn't have time to go back home to drop it off.
3. I was, for some reason, completely against being addressed in anything but native English or German.

Anyway, we eventually settled on an expensive-ass restaurant where I got a much needed gigantic bowl of pea soup (with a friggin mett plopped unceremoniously in the middle) and a Kölsch, which lifted my spirits enough for the 2 hr. bus ride back and all the way up til we went to the good ol' James Joyce pub. I am silently lobbying for a change of scenery from the JJ though. And none of the people have even read Ulysses in one marathon 24-hour session, so I feel like I should have a little more say in whether we go there or not. I also went to a dance club, Carpe Noctem (HA!), which was kind of a bust, but oh well.