Monday February 8, 2010:

Monday February 8, 2010:

As soon as we arrived in Aachen train station, we realized how small and historical the city is.
In fact, it was a 10 minute walking distance to get to the (Ibis) hotel, which has a great chain in Europe.
It is pretty much a cheap hotel, especially for couples, as it offers 2 nights with reasonable price in European currency and moreover, it is comfortable, located in the heart of the city.
After we got heal a bit from our 5 hours, (4 stops in different destinations, till last one), then we went for a short walk around the heart of the city.

Actually, we knew this city is in the heart of industrials art of Germany and very close to the boarder of Belgium and on the other side near South boarder of Holland as well; but I must confess how cultural and religious this city is.
In fact, this small city is so beautiful and well-known for its old, Romans style buildings and churches and domes.
We easily could walk around, in less than 2 hours in the most touristic areas and shopping districts, but we were desperately looking for a supermarket and hardly could see one.
Well, Actually on Monday when we were wondering around and discovering some other directions, we saw plenty of Kiosks, small supermarkets and health care around, even post office.
I tried to send 2 post cards home, but I was writing in Farsi and they use computer for post cards (new system) and told me the computers might not be able to distinguish the address on the left side, as they write on the write side. Good point and good to know from now!

Anyhow, I would strongly can say this city, which the cover of less than few mile has more than 5 churches and symbols of Christ every where hanging and glittering, is definitely, a very Christian, old, cultural city, which doesn’t attract too many international tourists, which is the good for us enjoying and drowning in the beauty of the nature and atmosphere, rather than being in a very big city, lost in crowd.