Cologne

 Cologne

We arrived at midday and set off for a walking tour of the old city. Our ship moored near the centre.

The railway bridge across the river.

Just before we walked under the railway bridge is the Musical House. It was designed as a temporary structure of waterproof canvas stretched over a frame but it has been in use for more than ten years.

The railway station. The railway bridge points directly at the cathedral but there is a tight turn to the right to reach the station built just metres from the cathedral.

The cathedral from a distance but were were going in a large arc to reach it...

...first visiting Fish Market, site of the old port, and overlooking it St Micheals Church.

On one of the shop fronts is a record of how high the floods can be often in November due to heavy rain or April with the snow melt in the Alps.

The Whale Brewery, one of 12 in the city that brew a particular type of beer, first developed in Cologne called Kölsch.

A view of the side of the famous Cologne cathedral once the largest and tallest building in the world standing at 156metres tall that took 300 years to complete

And the reason that it is here and so important is that it houses the shrine and bodies of the Three Wise Men. The only picture I allowed myself to take within the cathedral.