Starbucks in front of Aachen city hall

"I walked to the downtown for eating my dinner. Of course, I found my Starbucks Coffee in every town which I visited. The coffee here is quite bitter and the flavor are different from Taiwan's or Japan's Starbucks. "

I asked the Barista to serve me a cup of Caramel Macchiatto coffee with "Extra Hot". I mean the extra hot is about 80 deg. C. The BARISTA said our coffee (here Aachen) is hot enough to drink comparing with US.

I walked around the city again and found the historical Town Hall, the former place of the Imperial Palace of Charlemagne. Today's Gothic Town Hall was erected at the beginning of the 14th century on the foundations of the original Palace, which had been destroyed.













The Town Hall contains the "Coronation Hall". Here the copies of the Imperial Regalia (Imperial Orb, Imperial Sceptre, Imperial Sword, Imperial Cross, Ceremonial Sword, Holy Lance and Imperial Gospel as well as the Bag of St Stephen and the Sabre of Charlemagne) can be seen.














The Coronation Hall is decorated with frescos by the German historical painter Alfred RetheC.