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Cologne

Hi all,
Today we are in Cologne Germany famous the perfume 4711 Ice Cologne, remember it? It is also the 4th biggest city in Germany. Also the the home to Bayer the big pharmaceutical company that make lots of drugs. (no not that sort).


We got to take a another walking tour around the city. After that was a tour of the markets where we had some more gluhwein. We did check out another huge church here unreal they are inside.






It was cold raining and windy so we were not all that comfortable, so we did what we could and headed back the the warm ship.

We headed off shortly after lunch on our way to Amsterdam. We crossed the border into the Netherlands around 8pm and are slowing sailing down stream. We will arrive there in the morning to take 2 tours.
Bayer stack (maybe not in use anymore)

Tonight we raged a bit. Sang in the choir on board singing Christmas carols then after dinner we had a bit of a dance and sang along to some modern music.

elephants in Germany??

Short and sweet tonight.

take care all -- Keep living your dreams

Rob & Liz

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