Same Shirt, Different day-2012 Adventures of the "Devonport Wonder Babes"

Wednesday 22^nd August Cologne, Germany Slow start again, leisurely breakfast, then in afternoon walked down to river Rhine past allotments and parks, and watched people getting on boats for cruises.

 

Ulrike told me that you can cycle along the riverbanks from Cologne to Budapest, maybe about 1000km , Lyndsay says she might be up for part of that !!

Also on the river bank there is a memorial to all the gay and lesbian people who were victims of the Nazis.  

 

Spent about 1 ½ hrs in the Museum Ludwig which had an exhibition of “Degenerate Art” from the Haubrich Collection. These were all modern, late 19^th early 20^th century, mostly impressionists works up to late 1930’s that had been banned and confiscated by Nazis as “degenerate”. Each work had a note of its provenance as much as could be determined.
 

 

 

One painting in particular, “Woman with Fish” an oil on glass by Heinrich Campendonk

was hung with both front and back visible showing the original gallery stamp,

the confiscation number ( one at the top)  and now the gallery number.

 

Quite fascinating and I spent all my time in the museum at this exhibition so didn’t get
to see any of their 500 Picassos.

Also some interesting installations in this museum, this man below was very lifelike.

Walked back past the Roman museum  ( Cologne was a major Roman city) which was closed by then but has great display in windows of pieces of buildings displayed, many with very legible writings and images. 

 

Then the tour guide took us to Globetrotter, the most amazing outdoor place clothing and equipment shop, with 3 levels of every best brand of outdoor gear in world, a pool within the store to try out canoes etc and a “wet” room to try out rain gear. One really fun thing there was a toilet made to look like a dunny in the woods, with a computer screen for a window across which an elk or moose walked ! 

 

 

Stop at pub, outside on street, Lyndsay did the ordering and paying for the Kolsch. Sabine bought some pork/pasta stuff and home for dinner with this fried and nice salad.