Cologne

So we docked in Cologne on the Tuesday Morning. We were really looking forward to Cologne because of the photo Poppi took in 1945 showing the Cathedral above the ruins. Kate tried walking over the bridge just in front of us to try to replicate the shot.

You can see that Kate nailed it. The church to the left, The Great St Martin’s Church. was rebuilt and completed in 1985. We will see it later on our walking tour. But first, the famous parakeets of Cologne. It started in the late 1960’s

The tour started off on docks where we moored. We walked through some of the rebuilt buildings, 80% of the buildings were damaged or destroyed during WWII.

We the came to the Great St Martin’s Church, this time from the front.

We walked through a couple of squares and came out to see the below.

The windows over the side doors are new since the existing ones were destroyed during the bombings. We will see them from the inside lit by the morning sun.

It’s 10:00pm now, and so I will leave the Cathedral for the next post. It is absolutely amazing inside.