July 6 - Koln (or Cologne)

The first port-of-call for your intrepid Ramblers was the city of Cologne, Germany or Koln (with two little dots over the "o") as it is spelled here. It is a medium-sized city on the Rhine with lots of churches.  The most prominent is the Cologne Cathedral called St. Peter's Dome.  Its style predates most of the flying buttress-type architecture of churches in Europe. It supposedly holds the skulls of the three Magi in an ornate golden box.

Gives a sense of scale

Twin Spires on the far left

After visiting church, we did the German thing and went to have a beer. Kolsch beer to be precise, which is native to Cologne. It is served in straight 0.2L glasses using unique and handy trays. Why other beers have not adopted this type of tray I have no idea.

The Tray

The Glasses

The Ramblers

The Facilities

After our beer excursion we took a quick jaunt to the Lindt Chocolate museum gift shop to pick up some goodies. Along the way we took some photos for Rambler Alex.

Auf wiedersehen!

Tomorrow is another day. Until then--food, wine and mach weiter (keep on rambling).