Bowenz.com: December 2008

Monday, 15 December 2008

Weekend in Cologne

"We are back in warm London after a cool weekend in Cologne (Koln) Germany. We popped over for the weekend to see the famous Christmas markets. It was really really cold, but we were wrapped up like marshmallow men, so I think that we weathered it very well and don't have bronchitis.

We did a lot of walking, and found 4 Christmas markets all in Cologne and quite close together (one was on a huge boat in the Rhine River). We managed to get some lovely tree decorations, all wooden and very traditional. Knowing us, we also found some great things to eat like eisbein / pork knuckle and sour kraut, cheesecake, cabanossi worst, more cheesecake, pastries, xmas cookies, gluwein, more worst... basically a vegetarians nightmare.

So Saturday was very busy trying to see everything, and then yesterday was a bit calmer and we walked up 500 stairs to the top of the Cathedral (Dom - biggest bloody cathedral I have ever seen, wide angle lense was not big enought to fit it into a single picture), which was a magnificent view, but we could not believe we paid to punish ourselves with that walk! All in all, a good trip, just what we needed to put us in the Christmas spirit.