Germany

We stayed in Germany for less than a day, with my cousin and his family. My cousin is Kurdish like me, but his wife is German. He has lived in Germany about ten years, in a little town near Koblenz. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koblenz)

Flying over Germany, seeing the clouds below you rather than above you never gets old:

My cousin told us some disturbing things about germany. Apparently a good chunck of Germany sympathized with Hitler, and thought he had the right idea. They dont like Non-Germans living in their country. In some parts of Germany, there are hate crimes and homicides towards non Germans regularly. He said some friends of his in those parts of Germany dont go out at night, for fear of not returning home. The German police have tried to combat it, but the sheer number and disguise of these people is too much. My cousin said his town was fine though. In some parts of Europe they are still not used to Muslim women wearing the hijab, so we got a few more stares than we are used to.


The town:

My half German cousins:

The autobahn we drove on, no speed limit!

Windmills everywhere:

We got back to Frankfurt airport, this is part of an expansion, its a terminal designed like a ship:

Our flight took off at 1:05 pm, and on August 12th at 8:30 pm we arrived back in Columbus.