Goodbye Köln

We only had minutes left in the city so walked the short distance to the river and got a few better views of the city once we were able to hide the ugly 60s office buildings behind trees. Köln has not fared well the decades of urban growth and the centre could not be more removed from the clean monumental streets of Dresden. However, like Dresden this cathedral also suffered in the war and was also rebuilt. But any similarities stop there. If there was no cathedral here it would be an easy place to miss architecturally.

We finished our brief visit with a coffee in Mcdonalds of all places. I'm not proud of that but the city didn't seem to offer much more in a Monday morning. It was certainly a surprising end to our journey but actually we did have a few more miles to drive so back in the car it was through two more countries.