Tuesday 21st August Cologne, Germany. Walk to local supermarket with
Sabine for fresh rolls and after breakfast we had inspection of the major
alterations that have been made to the house.
The brick chimney exposed in new floor living area on the top floor and the
cellar are the only parts of the house that survived WW11 bombing. Later we had
a visit to the cellar which takes up the whole footprint of house and is a
magnificent storage area.
On our 10 min Walk to local station, you can see why people bicycle
everywhere in this city as they grow up with it as well as fact that it is
flat.
Just 2 stops to central Train station to get tickets for Berlin, which
became a 10 min conversation with a very helpful DB lady.
Then spent more than an hour in Cologne Cathedral which is a truly
magnificent building, quite unique and with a fascinating history, photos
really don’t do it justice.
Whole interesting area below of former Roman buildings
And of course I met a Kiwi woman in the Cathedral (mother of a Black Sticks
at Olympics) who was on Rhine cruise from Amsterdam to Budapest.
Also while in area we saw some filming of a TV crime programme with 2
famous German actors just outside the Cathedral before spending the rest of the
afternoon and evening walking around central Cologne with our superb travel
guide, Ulrike.
out the elves of
In the city centre there is a fountain with scenes from the childrens book about
the elves of cologne
Also took a ride on a bus past an
area where in 2009 the excavation of a new underground train tunnel had caused
the collapse of several buildings, including the city archives and an apartment
building and 2 people died.
We had dinner in a brewery restaurant where we were introduced to the local
beer “kolsch” which is served cold in tall thin 200 ml glasses. Dinner was
hearty German fare, Lynds had liver and I had schnitzel.
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