Friday 17 June 2016

Cologne

On the road by 7.30 , we only had a short burst to Dusseldorf and from here we were riding along the Rhine.





It was in flood and what a scary sight it was. Ships going upstream were struggling to make any headway, while the likes of this barge, actually 2 barges connected nose to tail, PLUS he had another 2 smaller barges tied to the sides of the front barge, all loaded with scrap metal ,was racing downstream at a phenomenal speed. Boy if he collected a bridge he would carry it away. 😳








There's paths down both sides of the Rhine so I'm just deciding which way to take to Cologne. Dusseldorf is a fairly new city, having been pretty well flattened during the war. Interesting architecture!
We crossed over and followed the left bank. Stopped for coffee at Dormagen at a cafe with wifi . The hotels wifi was terrible and I couldn't get the blog away. There. was a market on so I bought some German smoked sausage to nibble on








Still a bit of water around from last night. Christine's making friends with Bamby and Blondby


A Couple of showers welcomed us to Cologne so the first thing we did was find a hotel and have a HOT shower
Then we went sightseeing . "My giddy aunt that's an impressive cathedral "









When a couple get married over here, a popular practice is to lock a padlock onto a bridge to seal their love


There's thousands of them on this railway bridge.
The European cup's on over here. The streets are humming ! Every bar's got a TV blaring out, flags everywhere- - -



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