Wednesday, 17 September 2014

Arrival in Cologne

Wednesday Sept 17th.

I'm on a boat about to go down the Rhine, and it seems there is very little Wi/Fi here, so I'm trying to post from the phone as an experiment. I won't write too much in case it doesn't work.

Our journey this morning was made difficult by London Transport breaking down almost completely, as far as we could judge. It took us 2 hours to get from Oxted to St Pancras, through appalling crowds. We did think we might just as well have spent the night with our children in Manchester, it wouldn't have taken much longer and would have been far less stressful!

Eurostar was fine - I slept in the tunnel as we'd been up at 6, and we were soon in Brussels. The train to Cologne broke down though, so that part of the journey was more trying, and we were late arriving. The boat is quite nice - this is it, taken the following day.



Our cabin is not one of those practically in the water, it's on the middle deck.

Because we were late arriving, we only had time for a brief look at the outside of the cathedral.




I think this is one of the worst photos I've ever posted, but it's hard to get far enough away, the evening light was difficult and the cathedral is being renovated so it's covered in scaffolding and screens.

If there's time, I may try to do better tomorrow before we leave.

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