Journey: Cologne (0 miles)
Woke up with Ernest on my head…he has no concept of personal space 😂Took the pups for a mad run around and some handstands at Rhinepark – they much prefer this to lead walking and it really tires them out (Jasper will lie down bored in most towns if we stop to look at anything for more than 5 seconds).
Next the highlight – the chocolate museum! Our first museum…the best museum…you get free chocolate on the way in and out…it’s huge, covers every possible aspect of chocolate and even has a tropic greenhouse you can go in to experience cocoa growing temperatures. Also I found a new hero… a doctor who prescribes chocolate for pretty much everything. If you are ever in cologne it’s a must!
As art lovers we visited the Ludwig museum of contemporary and modern art…neither of us ‘got’ most of it but there were a few nice pieces, and it was in a striking building. It was still noticeable we spent twice as much time in the chocolate museum as here.
The pups joined us at the sculpture park and a cafe lunch where our appalling lack of German meant we both ordered toast und kase (cheese on toast)…as that’s the only thing we grasped was definitely ‘vegetaria’.
Before being allowed in the cathedral I was asked to cover my tummy flab which had poked it’s way out after all the pastries. To burn it off we climbed the cathedrals 533 steep spiral steps (which made us both a little nauseous) some 332feet up to have stunning views over the city. It was definitely worth it! Having done all that walking exercise we undid it all by scoffing pizza for dinner…yummy!
We then took the pups for a bedtime walk around the palace in the park but we weren’t allowed in so Jasper did a wee on the entrance roses 🙈 (thus proving why we aren’t allowed in).
All in all we haved loved Cologne and would highly recommend
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