Koln (cologne) whatever your spelling

the cycling that day was also great weather and good cycle paths life was good, I made a slight mistake by loosing the velo15 route into town, as this route hugs the Rhine and is always more scenic somewhere i had missed the wee blue square sign and ended up the B9 road through the suburbs and into the city proper, this B9 road was on my right all the way the Rhine seems to be always busy with boats going up and down each way and on each bank there is a cycle path a main road and a train line following the river the road on this bank is the B9, i had actually no idea of what Koln would be like how big it was if it was modern that sort of stuff, I have a habit of when cycling in from the suburbs if you aim for church spires or tall buildings you will probably be at the centre,for this city it was the spires, they were amazing I stopped and took a few photos around them the whole area was flattened during the war but somehow this huge cathedral was hardly touched,

 on arrival it was still early but i decided i would have a beer and make a decision if i should stay or not, i found an Irish bar had a Guinness and looked for a hotel 

the little blue squares of vello 15 not truly required when you were right on the bank of the river but nice to see and at least i knew i was on the right bank of the river for the cycle path 

you could see the Irish bar from my hotel room window I had got into company with some northern irish fellas in  the bar and a polish girl called anna who was out obviously chasing one of them it was her 30th birthday they were buying shots for her i joined in the celebrations but had whisky not the slippery nipples they were drinking the whisky was 7.60 euros, i never asked for single malts this time though and i don`t know if that would have been more expensive