The tour operator, Fital, staff and bicycles were not due to arrive until late in the afternoon. Three of us, Todd, Hargy and myself, set out in the morning for an adventure using multiple forms of public transportation into Koln, aka Cologne. We started on a bike/ pedestrian path walking to a bus stop. It being Sunday the bus came only once and hour but being Germany it was precisely on time per the posted schedule. It took us to a train stop. Not a full station but soon enough a very clean and on time train arrived and took us into the main Koln Bahnhof (train station). It was directly acrosss from the spectacularly large cathedral. It was hard to get the whole building into one picture.
We found a tourist information office nearby the cathedral, picked up a map and immediately set out in the wrong direction in search of the old town neighborhood. We came upon some American tourists off a river cruise and they led us back to the Cathederal where we soon found the old town. We stopped for a lunch including liverwurst and rye bread for me outside in a lively square.
Afterwards we retraced our route back to Troisdorf proudly using our newly found knowledge and appreciation for the efficiency of public transportation. We found the Fital staff and remaining riders at the hotel and enjoyed a lively dinner filled with celebration and information about the upcoming tour.
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