A half hour train journey from Dusseldorf to Cologne, weather not great, did have a couple of hours of rain, but that's what pub crawls are for. I prefer Dusseldorf's Altbeer, to Cologne's Kolsch, but San prefers Kolsh, so all in all winning weekend!
Started the morning in the classic Heinemann bakery / cafe for breakfast, several different breads, meats, cheese, lovely though as usual for Germany, service is patchy.
Walked to train station, train was 6 minutes late! At home you wouldn't notice, in Germany, they ask a question in parliament... Taxi from Cologne hbf to hotel, standard NH city hotel, our go to chain, paid extra €10 for a bigger room, view and tea making facilities.
Off on a pub crawl, lots of different Kolsch, had GoolashSoup, Currywurst and chips (See Neil MacGregor's fantastic German History podcast, especially the episodes on beer purity laws and sausages, but not the sausage one, when you are eating one), asparagus soup (in season this month). Ended up having a little Thai, not same league as last night, but looked and was good, shared a mixed starter and a duck curry, couple of glasses of house red.
The Ludwig museum was very hit and miss, excellent Dali and a couple of Magritte and an unbelievable Gerhard Richter that I will be using as my FB image
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