Cologne, Bonn and Remagen

 Friday and Saturday May 20th and 21st

A mix of some industrial areas and big cities over the last couple of days. Reaching Cologne was  great as we know about it's magnificent cathedral. Bonn today was humming being the weekend and a sunny day. Tonight we're in a small place called Remagen in a pleasant camground by the Rhine. Nearby are the remains of a bridge that was the subject of a movie "The Bridge of Remagen", another tragic WW2 story.

We're getting a little spoiled because many campgrounds here have restaurants, so we passed on cooking for the last two nights.

Today the landscape is just beginning to change a little from being completely flat to some wooded hills along the river. Tomorrow, after Koblenz, we expect the scenery to get even more dramatic as the Rhine will be flowing through a pretty gorge. Looking forward to that.

Here in the campground, adjacent to us are several more cycle tourists, same as last night. However I can't say that any are overly friendly - even Frank is having a hard time engaging any of them in conversation!

Cologne Cathdral

Cologne Cathedral amazingly survived WW2 with minimal damage

A great dinner in the campground dinner last night. Someone's going to ask where is Frank's beer - it just hasn't  arrived yet 😁

A section of riverside path

Main square in Bonn today. The city Hall is in the background.


Beethoven was born in Bonn so there are many references to him in the city

South of Bonn, approaching Remagen




Sat May 21st

Some of tonight's neighbours




The towers of the Bridge at Remagen ( called Ludendorff) are all that remain today, on both sides of the river. Our camground is just steps away.

Comments

  1. JirkaMay 21, 2022 at 5:06 PM

    So it is good that you survived the wild weather that was in Germany in recent days in good health and without harm. Maybe they had a tornado there. The Germans themselves were amazed.

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  2. DaphneMay 23, 2022 at 12:04 PM

    Yes I think we were quite lucky, we did hear about a tornado. We saw a lot of broken branches on the pathways after.

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  3. Eva and GeorgeMay 23, 2022 at 4:49 PM

    Everything looks like you are having a wonderful time. Happy for you!
    Meanwhile we had a severe thunderstom in Ontario, lots of fallen trees on houses, we had no hydro for 2 days and were lucky that our street was fine...some people still don't have hydro, 10 peple died...

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    1. DaphneMay 24, 2022 at 12:00 AM

      Wow, that's terrible. Glad your street was ok

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