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"Women's Carnival" or "Old Women's Day") ( https://bestplacestovisitgermany.com/celebrating-old-womens-day-in-germany/ ) - first of the 6 wild days of Carnival - a whole day up and about and drinking...✖
LOCATION:
9-11am: Hanna's & Ulf's flat - Eichstr. 44 - 50733 Cologne (doorbell: Kleinings)
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~12am-~3pm: Gaststätte Wirtz - Isabellenstr. 1 - 50678 Cologne
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Our CS'ers and we will have breakfast at our flat in Köln-Nippes ( http://goo.gl/maps/BmHfJ ), WHERE SPACE IS LIMITED (HENCE: get in contact to make sure we have enough space left if you wanna join...)!
From there we should leave by 11:00am to take metro #15 to CHLODWIGPLATZ [ ClohdvigPlatz ] tram stop ( http://goo.gl/maps/eOHTY ) to go to a pub which is our first stop every year on that Thursday. But we'll have to be there in time if we don't want to stand in line for hours to get in! That's really why we have to get up so early!!! And that's also why during Carnival you should in general never leave a cramped pub once you're in - it'll take hours to get back in later!!! On the way to this first pub when we walk down the Severinstraße [ SairverReensStrusser ] we'll get a first taste of what you'll experience for the next days: Thousands of dressed up people everywhere!
So in case you lose the group on the (short!) way: we'll make (if-need-be: fight) our way thru the crowd down the Severinstraße to where after 400m there's a sign to the "Krankenhaus der Augustinerinnen" hospital telling us to turn left into Jakobstraße which will lead right into "Haus Wirtz" [ House Veerts ] ( https://maps.app.goo.gl/ebQjvdsEKYcbsxNr5 ).
If you wanna watch the official opening of street carnival or even a first parade on the first day already then you can go back from "Haus Wirth" to the medieval "Severinstor" [ SairverReensToar ] (Severin's Gate) ( http://goo.gl/maps/swIqy ) at Chlodwigplatz where the play starts at 13:45 (not sure it that makes any sense at all for anyone who doesn't understand Kölsch - or even no German!) or to Severinstaße for the parade starting FROM the "Severinstor" at about 14:15 ( https://www.koeln.de/tourismus/karneval/highlights/historisches_spiel_von_jan_und_griet_519010.html ).
BUT BEAR IN MIND THAT TO GET BACK INTO "Haus Wirtz" AFTERWARDS YOU MIGHT HAVE TO QUEUE FOR A LONG TIME (easily 30-60 min or more)!!!
We'll stay at Haus Wirtz for 2, 3 hours... Nothing really planned after leaving that pub - though we might swing by the legendary "Lotta" (simply because it's so legendary!): https://goo.gl/maps/cbZwsFcXLC22 !
Later when we somehow walk to the Stadtgarten" (beer garden and during Carnival large overall party venue... - "Carnival 2025 THU 27 02 EVE STADTGARTEN" - ☞!ⒻⒾⓃⒹ ⒶⓁⓁ ⒸⓈ&ⒻⒷ-ⓁⒾⓃⓀⓈ ⒷⒺⓁⓄⓌ!☜), probably via CHLODWIGPLATZ tram/metro stop and then from there with #15 to FRIESENPLATZ..., we will have some food on the way, almost definitely on CHLODWIGPLATZ.
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HOW AND WHERE CAN "LATERCOMERS" MEET US ON THURSDAY:
From 9 to 11 at our place!
From ABOUT noon till ABOUT 3pm at HAUS WIRTZ.
So if you arrive EARLY ENOUGH TO DROP OFF YOUR STUFF WITH YOUR HOST BEFORE about 10am, then do that!
OTHERWISE store your stuff at main station (see "G: HYPER MODERN LOCKERS SYSTEM AT COLOGNE MAIN STATION (KÖLN HAUPTBAHNHOF/HBF)" on the Main Event Page "Cologne Carnival 2025 - THU 27 Feb -> TUE 04 Mar" - ☞!ⒻⒾⓃⒹ ⒶⓁⓁ ⒸⓈ&ⒻⒷ-ⓁⒾⓃⓀⓈ ⒷⒺⓁⓄⓌ!☜ !).
If you can make it to our flat in Cologne Nippes (just north of the city center) before 11am, then come there (☞FIND LINK for how to get from LOHSESTR. metro stop to my place ABOVE!☜ ) AFTER HAVING STORED YOUR STUFF, to perhaps still have some breakfast with us or at least walk together with us to the pub.
Otherwise AFTER HAVING STORED YOUR STUFF go straight to the pub:
From Dom/HBF (from the underground platform towards NEUMARKT) take metro #16 towards Ubierring/Sürth/Wesseling/Bonn/Bad Godesberg (check "GET AROUND IN COLOGNE" at the bottom of the Main Event Page "Cologne Carnival 2025 - THU 27 Feb -> TUE 04 Mar" - ☞!ⒻⒾⓃⒹ ⒶⓁⓁ ⒸⓈ&ⒻⒷ-ⓁⒾⓃⓀⓈ ⒷⒺⓁⓄⓌ!☜ !). TAKE A SHORT-CUT BY getting off at ULREPFORTE and walking over to Haus Wirtz FROM THERE: http://goo.gl/maps/5fwvK
If you ARRIVE IN COLOGNE AFTER 2pm then STORE YOUR STUFF & go straight to the STADTGARTEN meet us there when we get there by ABOUT 4pm! See the " Carnival 2025 THU 27 02 EVE STADTGARTEN" Event Page- ☞!ⒻⒾⓃⒹ ⒶⓁⓁ ⒸⓈ&ⒻⒷ-ⓁⒾⓃⓀⓈ ⒷⒺⓁⓄⓌ!☜
In any case it's a good idea to try and contact anyone of us first - THOUGH getting hold of one of us might be tricky and take a while...
Try the WhatsApp group and/or check the posts and discussion threads on the EVENT PAGES AND (if you can) CHECK THE DESCRIPTION HERE AGAIN FOR ANY LAST-MINUTE UPDATES (that I might even add after the "event started") BEFORE YOU COME TO JOIN US!
AND check the Google Photos Album where ALL THE LATEST PICS OF US WILL BE UPLOADED to see what we look like each day!):
https://photos.app.goo.gl/vfX44MTpihppr1CMA
Also read "C: COMMUNICATIONS" on the Main Event Page "Cologne Carnival 2025 - THU 27 Feb -> TUE 04 Mar" - ☞!ⒻⒾⓃⒹ ⒶⓁⓁ ⒸⓈ&ⒻⒷ-ⓁⒾⓃⓀⓈ ⒷⒺⓁⓄⓌ!☜ !)!!!
If you stored your stuff at main station's automatic locker machines, then you can always pick it up at night when you go home. THAT MIGHT BE AFTER MIDNIGHT (e.g. if you stay with us for the STADTGARTEN...) - so IF YOU CANNOT use the automatic locker machines but have to use the "Gepäckcenter" counter at the Douglas perfumery instead, then also consider bringing your stuff to some other place for at that counter you can only pick it up the next morning...
MAKE SURE YOU'RE WEARING YOUR COSTUME BEFORE MEETING UP WITH US - YOU DON'T WANNA LOOK LIKE A COMPLETE IDIOT, DO YOU???
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IF YOU INTEND TO TAKE PART in this event then PLEASE "sign up" on the event page(s) AND JOIN THE WhatsApp group ( see the main event page [ https://couchers.org/event/3434/cologne-carnival-2025-thu-27-feb-tue-04-mar * https://www.facebook.com/events/512480731453020 * https://www.couchsurfing.com/events/cologne-carnival-2025-thu-27-feb-tue-04-mar ] all the way down under "ALL THE MAIN LINKS" )!
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ALL THE MAIN LINKS:
WhatsApp group:
see the main event page [ https://couchers.org/event/3434/cologne-carnival-2025-thu-27-feb-tue-04-mar * https://www.facebook.com/events/512480731453020 * https://www.couchsurfing.com/events/cologne-carnival-2025-thu-27-feb-tue-04-mar ] all the way down under "ALL THE MAIN LINKS"
Google Maps:
https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=198FRmLD_f1L8BPVxxBRzUa20kw5wWDd8&usp=sharing
Google Photos Album (ALL THE LATEST PICS OF US WILL BE UPLOADED HERE - check to see what we look like each day!):
https://photos.app.goo.gl/vfX44MTpihppr1CMA
Cologne Carnival 2025 - THU 27 Feb -> TUE 04 Mar
https://couchers.org/event/3434/cologne-carnival-2025-thu-27-feb-tue-04-mar
https://www.facebook.com/events/512480731453020
https://www.couchsurfing.com/events/cologne-carnival-2025-thu-27-feb-tue-04-mar
Cologne Carnival 2025 - THU 27 Feb 2025, EVE - STADTGARTEN
https://couchers.org/event/3438/cologne-carnival-2025-thu-27-feb-2025-eve-stadtgarten
https://www.facebook.com/events/1648141279123131
https://www.couchsurfing.com/events/cologne-carnival-2025-thu-27-02-eve-stadtgarten
Cologne Carnival 2025 - FRI 28 Feb 2025 - Zülpicher Strasse
https://couchers.org/event/3440/cologne-carnival-2025-fri-28-feb-2025-zulpicher-strasse
https://www.facebook.com/events/637820465379780
https://www.couchsurfing.com/events/carnival-carnival-2025-fri-28-02-zulpicher-strasse
Cologne Carnival 2025 - SAT 01 Mar 2025 - Friesenstrasse
https://couchers.org/event/3442/cologne-carnival-2025-sat-01-mar-2025-friesenstrasse
https://www.facebook.com/events/990059956358578
https://www.couchsurfing.com/events/cologne-carnival-2025-sat-01-03-friesenstrasse
Cologne Carnival 2025 - SUN 02 Mar 2025, DAY - Rodenkirchen
https://couchers.org/event/3446/cologne-carnival-2025-sun-02-mar-2025-day-rodenkirchen
https://www.facebook.com/events/932393238877703
https://www.couchsurfing.com/events/cologne-carnival-2025-sun-02-03-day-rodenkirchen
Cologne Carnival 2025 - SUN 02 Mar 2025, EVE - KitKatClub@Bootshaus
https://couchers.org/event/3448/cologne-carnival-2025-sun-02-mar-2025-eve-kitkatclub-bootshaus
https://www.facebook.com/events/1331924341466651
https://www.couchsurfing.com/events/cologne-carnival-2025-sun-02-03-eve-kitkatclub-bh
Cologne Carnival 2025 - MON 03 Mar 2025, DAY - ROSEMonday Parade
https://couchers.org/event/3450/cologne-carnival-2025-mon-03-mar-2025-day-rosemonday-parade
https://www.facebook.com/events/923038419912451
https://www.couchsurfing.com/events/cologne-carnival-2025-mon-03-03-day-rosemon-parade
Cologne Carnival 2025 - MON 03 Mar 2025, EVE - post parade SAUNA
https://couchers.org/event/3452/cologne-carnival-2025-mon-03-mar-2025-eve-post-parade-sauna
https://www.facebook.com/events/491141893762048
https://www.couchsurfing.com/events/cologne-carnival-2025-mon-03-03-eve-sauna
Cologne Carnival 2025 - THU 27 Feb 2025, DAY - Weiberfastnacht
https://couchers.org/event/3436/cologne-carnival-2025-thu-27-02-day-weiberfastnacht
https://www.facebook.com/events/922055863423978
https://www.couchsurfing.com/events/cologne-carnival-2025-thu-27-02-day-weiberfastnach
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Gaststätte Wirtz, Isabellenstraße 1, 50678 Köln, Deutschland,Cologne, Germany
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