Our last day in Cologne

Today we tackled the Dom Tower. All 509 steps. I counted the steps going up as a kind of encouragement to myself about how many less I had to go. Only....I only got to count up to about 300 and we had reached the end. So here I was dreadiing walking up 500 steps and all for nothing. Apparently the 509 steps include the steps going down. I dunno. It sounds like cheating to me.

The journey is made more bearable by a couple of sightseeing stops on the way up. The bell tower which you get to walk right around, and........okay really it was just me pretending to look out the little windows to admire the view but really just for a breather.

The intricacy and attention to detail is mind boggling. It was sad to see some tagging on the walls. Greg said he saw some that were older than him, as far back as 1962. Older even than me.

We went on to the Römish-Germanisches Museum and kind of raced around it;I think we were still there for over an hour. Then we did the Ludwig museum as I felt that it would be a good contrast between the more traditional art and this modern art. We whipped through here even faster. Some of it was rather distateful. Some was just boring and some was just who cares. I liked some of it but the bit Jordy and Greg liked best was sitting down. Huh!