We left the boat a little after 2pm to do some exploring and to eventually try the favorite fast food supposedly of this area which is a curry wurst. Feels like something that needs to be tried once.

Our tour guide explained that it’s a requirement for couples to get married at the court house. When we were there, some people had gathered waiting for the couple to come out with a large balloon. He said typically the Turkish people do it right with large arches to celebrate while the Germans are boring and don’t really celebrate the couple. As we were walking through there were several arches set up….clearly by the Turkish.

We arrived on the main shopping street and saw lots of familiar stores.

We, along with several other Viking guests, have been missing pizza. That Pizza Hut was real hard to walk past.

We were on the hunt to find some blank notecards to write some thank you’s to the staff with some extra tip money. That has proven time be more difficult then I’d thought. We have seen mostly postcards or cards in German that are not cheap. (I don’t mind a Danke card but I don’t want to spend 5 euros each. I’d rather have that money for tips.)

Greg and I have a tour scheduled to go to the Top of Cologne and have instructions to meet on the side of the Cathedral near the camera shop. We looked for it on our morning tour and didn’t see it. We are off to find our intended destination. Carey and Linda are headed back to the boat.