Cologne--Winter 2019--Cologne Cathedral, one of the most spectacular in the world.

Cologne--Winter 2019--Cologne Cathedral

Cologne--Winter 2019--Cologne Cathedral

Cologne--Winter 2019--Cologne Cathedral (Dom) nave

Cologne--Winter 2019--Cologne Cathedral (Dom), Transcept

2019--Cologne Cathedral (Dom)--Transept Glass by Richter

Cologne--Winter 2019--Cologne Cathedral (Dom)--Side Glass

Cologne--Winter 2019--Cologne Cathedral (Dom)--Rear Glass

Cologne--Winter 2019--Cologne Cathedral (Dom)

Cologne--Winter 2019--St. MCologne--Winter 2019--St. Maria (Baroque)aria (Baroque)

Cologne--Winter 2019--St. Maria (Baroque), nave

Cologne--Winter 2019--Deutz and the Rhine

Cologne--Winter 2019--Rhine and the Messe Tower

Cologne--Winter 2019--Old town on the Rhine

Cologne--Winter 2019--Rail Bridge over the Rhine

Cologne--Winter 2019--Rail Bridge over the Rhine--Love Locks

Cologne--Winter 2019--The Rhine River with the Severin Bridge

Cologne--Winter 2019--Deutz, across the Rhine from Cologne

Cologne--Winter 2019--Rail Bridge over the Rhine and the Dom

Cologne--Winter 2019--Gross St. Martin's church

Cologne--Winter 2019--Dinner at Renate Schneider and Joerg Goralewski--Christin and Harald Grieser, Renate Schneider, Carrol Benner Kindel and Joerg Goralewski

Cologne--Winter 2019--Dinner at Renate Schneider and Jeorg Goralewski--Renate serving

Cologne 2019--Pfaeffgen Brewery with Joerg Goralewski, Renate Schneider, Carrol Benner and Rick and Debbie Schreiber

Cologne 2019--Pfaeffgen Brewery--a typical waiter with his tray of Koelsch beer

Cologne 2019--Pfaeffgen Brewery--Carrol Benner Kindel and Debbie and Rich Schreiber with Debbies order--Haxen (pork shank with dumplings and red cabbage)

Cologne 2019--Koelner Graphikwerkstatt--Andrea Viltz and Carrol Benner Kindel, buy two of Andreas' fish prints

Cologne 2019--Koelner Graphikwerkstatt--Carrol Benner Kindel, Debbie Schreiber and Renate Schneider

Cologne 2019--Sud Stadt--Typical street

Cologne 2019--Sud Stadt Cologne, the medieval gate inside

Cologne 2019--Dinner at Haus Mueller--Karl and Carrol Kindel, Renate Schneider and Rick and Debbie Schreiber

Cologne 2019--Sud Stadt Cologne

Cologne 2019--Sud Stadt Cologne, the medieval gate from the outside

Cologne 2019--Swans and Chesnut trees in the Green Belt near Sulz

Cologne 2019--Chesnut trees in the Green Belt near Sulz

Cologne 2019--Shildergasse, the main shopping area

Cologne 2019--Shildergasse, the main shopping area

Cologne 2019--Downtown shopping area--Shildergasse

Cologne 2019--Downtown shopping area--Shildergasse

Cologne 2019--Downtown shopping area--Shildergasse

Cologne 2019--Kolumba Museum, on the site of the bombed out St. Kolumba Church

Cologne 2019--Kolumba Museum, on the site of the bombed out St. Kolumba Church--The memory room

Cologne 2019--Kolumba Museum, on the site of the bombed out St. Kolumba Church, The chapel with the miraculously unharmed (during the war) Madonna

Cologne 2019--Kolumba Museum--Photo of the miraculously intact Madonna amid the bombing ruins of Cologne in 1948—it is the same statue as in the previous photograph

Cologne 2019--Kolumba Museum, on the site of the bombed out St. Kolumba Church--Church and earlier, Roman ruins

Cologne 2019--Kolumba Museum, on the site of the bombed out St. Kolumba Church--Church and earlier, Roman ruins

Cologne 2019--View of the Cologne Cathedral from Kolumba Museum,

Cologne 2019--Dinner of smoked salmon and lamb at Renate and Joerg's--Debbie and Rick Schreiber, Renate Schneider, Karl and Carrol Kindel and Joerg Goralewski

Cologne 2019--Dinner of smoked salmon and lamb at Renate and Joerg's-- Renate Schneider, and Joerg Goralewski with the lamb course

Cologne 2019--Dinner of smoked salmon and lamb at Renate and Joerg's-- Renate Schneider showing their wedding rings (from Kindel's via Roger King)

Cologne--Winter 2019--Dom and the Rhine at sunset

Cologne--Winter 2019--Dom and the Rhine at sunset

Cologne--Winter 2019--Dom at sunset