CHECKPOINT KOBLENZ

Hi!

First of all welcome to our first online Blog! We're glad you made it until here and we hope you'd stay a while to check on our site ;) 

We're a group of young students who created this Blog to share our daily aspects of life here in Koblenz. But before we start, let's make a small introduction of our City. Koblenz lies in south-west Germany and is one of the biggest towns in the Rhineland-Palatinate. The City gives a visitor an excellent example of being able to combine the old with the new. We have many interesting sights around the centre of the town. One of the biggest lies on top of the hill Ehrenbreitstein on the opposite of the river Rhine. It was build around 1000 BC by Roman troops and it has been renovated over the years. Today visitors are able to reach the fortification through a chairlift with in no time. Besides this, there is another famous point in the town. Located at the confluence of the Rhine and Mosel stands a monument to the German Emperor William I of Germany. Because of its exact location between those two rivers this place became known as the German Corner.

But let's put history aside and move on to today’s life in Koblenz. The City offers a great choice of shopping and consumers opportunities. Just a few weeks ago a new shopping mall was opened in the center of the city, called the “Mittelrhein Forum” which could be translated as the middle Rhine Forum. The mall itself offers a vast amount of shops and food stores. There's even a sushi bar and a Star Bucks for hungry, or coffee thirsty visitors. 

The next mall, like the “Löhr Center” and many other shopping areas are all reachable in a few minutes by feet. Of course you'll find typical fast food companies like Mc Donalds, Burger King, Subway, Pizza Hut and even a KFC too! But besides those typical fast food restaurants we can also provide a great choice of culinary variety. Starting of with the Chinese, Mexican, Greek and of course local specialties, Koblenz also offers high quality food for fair prices. Even affordable for the local students ;) After a nice dinner in one of our restaurants you can spend the rest of the evening by relaxing or you choose to visit some nice places to hang out! Like our cinemas for example. Altogether we've three big ones, two of them are located in the town, near the main railway-station and one in the outskirts of the city just a few driving minutes away. But if you're not in the mood for a movie you can also try out our biggest bowling center, the Pinup. The atmosphere is kind of unique and they offer many different events which gives your bowling experience some kind of a kick. For example disco bowling, Formula One bowling, breakfast brunch, barbeque and many more. Another way to spend your free time would be the Paintball Paradise in a near town called Andernach. It is a huge place with measures about 3000m² free space and is one of the biggest Paintball hall in Germany.

Sounds great huh? Yeah! It's actually quite difficult to get bored here in Koblenz. There is always a activity which we haven't tried and if we're still not satisfied yet, we just make a short drive to the nearest amusement parks :) We hope you could somehow imagine how this city looks like and how we spend our free time in it. Of course we'll continue our journey through this city in the next articles.

Best wishes!

Felix, Benny and Michael

Pictures:
Pinup Koblenz 
Wikipedia Koblenz