View from our hotel room window. Stu liked the use of space for
gardens and trees
ICE train as seen from our hotel room window
After breakfast we headed up to the cathedral (via coffee at Starbucks) to go to the 10am mass. My first ever Catholic mass. In German .. heh.
Finial - at the same scale as the finials on the
cathedral towers
Street artists outside the cathedral
After mass we meandered down the Rhine to the Chocolate Museum. Where we watched chocolate being made and even got to eat some.. Yummmm!!
Kaiser Wilhelm II statue in Heinrich-Böll-Platz
Hohenzollernbrücke
Pegel clock
Altstadt and Great St Martin on the banks of the Rhine
Severinsbrücke
Malakoff Turm next to the Chocolate Museum
Chocolate Museum!
Chocolate display in the chocolate museum.
There was one for white, milk and dark chocolate
Interior of the chocolate museum
Golden chocolate fountain. The lady was dipping wafers
into the molten chocolate and handing them out - so yummy!!
Toblerone wrapping machine!
They make and package Lindt rectangles in the museum
You can watch these little balls being made, and then buy one at the end for a euro
The Milka cow
Our feet were killing us by this stage so sat down at a cafe outside for potato and beer (stu)/apple fizzy stuff (me).
We stocked up on all different flavours of Lindt balls
Next was another Dave stalking mission - to go see the Watertower Hotel, which was very impressive.
Hotel im Wasserturm - Water Tower Hotel
Then I got totally bummed out because the two stores I wanted to go to on Hohe Strasse (Lego and electronics store) were both closed cause it was Sunday :(:(:(
Hohe Straße
Meister Bock! Although we walked past this several times, we never
actually got anything from here
Came back to the hotel to crash for a bit and use the internet before heading out to dinner. We walked to Osho's Place which this time really was a vegetarian restaurant and actually had people in it heh. Stu rather enjoyed it, and we drank lots of beer too :)
Ganser Kölsch
Osho's Place - very nice vegeterian cafe
And finally back here to crash. 9:30pm at night and the sun has only just barely set. Gotta love being this far from the equator... Unless you're trying to get some sleep that is ;)
On the way back into town and the western face of the
cathedral is nicely lit
Cologne Cathedral in the setting sun
You could see the cathedral and Hauptbahnhof from our hotel room - if
you hung all the way out!
So we've really rather enjoyed our couple days here in Cologne. Tomorrow we get on an ICE train for Berlin...
Unlikely to have net access at the place we're staying in in Berlin...
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