Day 2

The second day, September 2^nd, we arrived in Koln bright and early in the morning, around 6 am. The first thing that amazed us was the enormous cathedral just outside the train station.

This cathedral is one of the most beautiful Gothic cathedral in the world and it is hard to be missed as it can be seen from almost everywhere.

As everything was still closed we had to wonder around the city until the info center opened. The streets were clean and empty at that early hour in the morning.

From the very start we planned to take some bikes so that we can cover a larger part of the city until 10pm in the evening when we had to leave for Denmark…and so we did. For 10 euro each we rented great city bikes for the entire day.

We biked around, up and down the Rhine, through parks, gardens and streets. In one of them, through the middle of the park there was a train line, yap, you read it correctly...and it was even marked respectively.

During the day we also got to "visit" the pedestrian area of the city, where the only thing to do is shop.

In the evening we went up the highest tower in the city and watched it lighten up.

On our way back to the rental shop, we passed a bridge full of love locks. At first we did not know what was the meaning of hanging locks...and they were so many, all over one side of the bridge. Love padlocks are a custom by which sweethearts affix padlocks to a fence or similar public fixture to symbolise their love, beginning in the 1980s, in the center of the southern Hungarian city of Pécs.

The first full day of the trip was a success. That was Koln and we liked it.

Love u. Take care.