Koln

We spent two nights in Koln - the first one largely spent recovering from a little jet lag on the way over. It's pretty easy to recover, though, when you're sitting in the balcony of a restaurant, with a fresh pint of local beer!

Here's the hotel we stayed at:
Das Kleine Stapelhauschen. It was very nice, and had a great little restaurant downstairs (with a good wine list, too).




We were very amused by the enormous pink David in Koln - it's right at the top of a walkway near the old town, next to a lovely outdoor space associated with a couple of museums and the symphony. (They had some kind of fancy reception there the first day we were in Koln.)



And this is Koln's dom, or cathedral. It was enormous - this photo gives you somewhat of an idea, but doesn't even begin to capture the scale of the building. Very impressive - and it's the first thing you see when you round the corner out of the train station.



We climbed up the bell tower in the cathedral - this photo is my proof I actually went all the way up. (Which was a little dicey for me - part of the trip was on open-weave metal stairs. Ick.)