For our last day in Cologne we spent the day doing the information gathering for writing a children’s walking tour of the Dom cathedral. I do not know if it will be a successful attempt, but it was only intended to be a learning experience. We spent the whole morning there taking pictures, asking questions and gathering information. Ideally we would do this as an iterative process where we would then do the research on the areas we found interesting and then return to fill in the details. I am expecting that this first walking tour will be somewhat rough when compared to the detail we should be able to supply for the walking tours of Beijing attractions. We climbed the 507 steps of the Dom tower, saw a ladder going even higher, and restoration workers hanging from the Dom's scaffolding. We then descended back down to see the crypt, the treasury and cathedral we stopped a contemporary German restaurant, a couple of shops and a Glockenspiel on our way to our main destination for the day: Circus training at Zaxs Zirkus Wibbelstetz. We were able to do some spring jumping, tight rope walking, and Kirsty taught us all to juggle as well. What a cool experience! Afterwards we saw a very nice sunset and went to the younger and more trendy University section for a dinner of potato pizza (yumm. potato crepes with pizza toppings, really very good, despite what you might imagine. We then progressed to a bar for drinks passing an empty Indian Hooka bar on the way. While we drank and our daughter slept at the bar Kirsty interviewed us about traveling as an American family for German radio. I think that she may need to do some clever editing to get an interesting broadcast. It was quite late, 12:20am or so when we parted ways with Kirsty to return to our hotel and our early morning plane flight. We will really miss her and hope to see her again some day. She is always welcome where we are.
The Dom
St. Peter's was the largest of the many bells in the clock tower. The smallest of which was just a bit larger than the liberty bell.
Cool job, but nobody in the family wanted a job application.
At a more modern German restaurant
cologne in cologne. Its made locally of course.
A glockenspiel with music and animated figures
This building is still pockmarked with the remnants of allied bombing.
Zaks circus school
Learning to juggle
Learning to walk on the tight rope. Notice the circus trailer in the background. A whole caravan of these were parked outside.
This is perhaps the only restaurant in the world making potato pizza. It was very good.
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