Cologne, Germany - Day 5

Well we cruised the river from 1 pm yesterday to 1pm today. The weather changes rapidly. One minute it's nice and your sitting on the deck reading or sleeping the next minute it's misting rain and the temp dropped 20 degrees. I'll probably have pneumonia when I get back. At 6:30am we rolled past Dusseldorf. A beautiful German city but we are not stopping here just passing through. Finally, we dock at Koln or Cologne as the yanks say. Since most of the excursions are included in the price of the cruise, we prepared to disembark in Cologne. We endured a 2.5 hour walking tour of the city and one of the the largest churches in Europe. It really wan't that bad.  After that we hit the Lindt Chocolate factory on our own. Yum-Yum...  Free Chocolate!!!  Chocolate is our religion and much more important than any church! Delish! We visited several stores and back to the ship for a local German band show coming on board. They were really good! Just couldn't understand a word they were saying as the sang. Don't get me wrong.... They were good just all in German. Time for bed as we push away from the dock for our evening travel to Koblenz & Rudisheim
for tomorrow. Till then... nite!