Dortmund, Cologne (Köln), and Düsseldorf

So, after having had finished all my exams, I decided to visit B in Dortmund (which is where he goes to university for the semester).
After getting there half an hour late because public transportation in Dortmund is never on time, it was already late enough to just go to B's home and half a glass of wine and watch a movie.
On Saturday, we went to Cologne in a crowded train. Thanks to B's semester ticket I didn't have any extra costs for public transportation the whole weekend because on weekends he's allowed to take one person with him for free! :-) However, Cologne is big and the only really interesting thing to see is the Cathedral which is huge and has pixly windows! :-P

After discovering the Cathedral, we just walked around the city a bit and found out that it was celebrating Europe Day. But that led to two demonstrations: a left-wing and a right-wing demonstration. B and I were waiting all day to see the big fight between the two groups, but the high presence of police managed to avoid a meeting between the left and the right. Since nothing much was happening, B and I had a typical beer from Cologne in one of the bars: a Kölsch.

Another interesting thing about Cologne is the presence of blue pipes throughout the whole city. Why they have them there is unknow to me though.

Since the day was still young, we decided to make a short stop in Düsseldorf on our way back because B wanted to have french fries from there. And I have to admit that they were very delicious! :-)

On this trip I let B take all the pictures with my camera. He had lost his and that way he could take pictures of whatever he wanted and I usually wanted the same pictures anyway. And in Düsseldorf I asked him to take a picture of the Rhine, so here it is:

The next day, we only had the morning to take a look at Dortmund. But it doesn't really have any sights anyway and on Sundays all the stores are closed in Germany, so we settled for a Starbucks Frappoccino and I LOVE Starbucks! :-) B says I'm addicted...whatever! :-P

London

I've been to London so many times already that I don't really know what to say about it anymore. It's one of my favourite cities. But it's also one of the dirtiest cities I've ever been to; I just am not able to keep my fingernails clean when I am there. It's the city with the loudest, oldest and shakiest underground systems. And living there is extremely expensive. However, due to the low course of the British currency, we could even afford to go out at Chinatown and watch a movie in the theatre (which normally you can't afford)! Our hostel was extremely cheap, but also not very clean. But I guess for that price you couldn't expect much more.

The location of our hostel:
Piccadilly Circus:
The London Eye:
Parliament:
Big Ben:
Tower Bridge:
St. Paul's Cathedral:
Millenium Bridge:
Greenwich:
Westminster Abbey:
St. James Park:
Buckingham Palace:
The British Museum:
It's not all about mummies, of course. But those were the ones that fascinated me the most! :-P

Hamburg

Hamburg was rainy and windy and somehow I had expected more. Or maybe you have to go there in summer when you can lie on something like beaches. However, we only spend two days there and our hotel was located on the red light district (Reeeperbahn). And Hamburg is the city with the slowest underground trains.
The city hall:

St. Petri (the oldest church in Hamburg and it was built in the 11th century):
St. Nikolai (although already in ruins was pretty impressive):
In fron of that church were two cool statues. The sitting one is memorial for the Jews at the concentration camps during the second World War.
At the harbor (the biggest harbor in Germany):
We went into the Hamburg Dungeon which was really good, even better than the London Dungeon. The actors did a great job scaring us and the mirror labyrinth was really cool! Unfortunately, you were not allowed to take pictures inside.

Reeeperbahn at night (Although B and I were walking side by side and it probably looked like we were a couple, the prostitutes made a move towards B anyway.)
Reeperbahn by day:
Some important building with politicians in it:
St. Michaelis:
A walk along the pier:
And at the end we visited another museum about different cultures with pretty cool sculptures: