Thursday, March 28, 2013

The mysterious Kölner Dom

Der Kölner Dom, aka the Cologne Cathedral is a Roman Catholic church. It is Germany's most visited landmark attracting an average of 20,000 people a day. Construction of Cologne Cathedral began in 1248 but mysteriously stopped in 1473, leaving it unfinished. Work mysteriously restarted in the 19th century and was completed to the original plan, in 1880. Its towers are approximately 515 ft tall, mysteriously.
Lindsay and I went shopping during the afternoon while Kate and Anna went with Sebastian to see his sister. Cologne has massive pedestrian streets that are FULL of shops. So many shops that the shops started to repeat. I thought we might be walking in circles. I saw about 4 H&Ms! We were feeling dizzy at this point so we stopped at the cutest cafe for tea.

We desperately wanted to climb to the top, which you can do, but only until 5pm....very unfortunately Kate and Anna couldn't meet us until 5:45... Oh well....we were well intentioned!

The inside was beautiful! There were stained glass windows all over the place and the ceilings were sky high.


After a very long day we stopped by a couple different pubs trying to find food. We finally found a great pizza place which was AMAZING. Tomorrow we catch an early flight to Berlin!

Bis Morgen!

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