Butzheim

After one last all you can eat breakfast we drove our rental car into Utrecht to catch a train to Cologne in Germany. To save lugging our luggage around I dropped Laura off near the train station and continued on with the car to the drop off location.

Unfortunately, the rental company had just that day changed their drop off location from where I had picked up the car originally. They did provide directions, but they were not very clear and when I arrived at the destination, the rental office was nowhere to be found. It took a number of inquiries and a phone call to finally figure out that the office was a distance away from where the car was to be parked.

Once I had finished with the rental company, I walked back to where I had dropped Laura off, and together we went to the train station and boarded our train in the direction of Cologne. We had a few transfers to make along the way, and eventually we arrived in the early afternoon.

We had a couple of hours before Laura’s friend, Klaus would come and pick us up so we found a locker in which to store our luggage and then proceeded to do a short walking tour. We started by going inside the huge Cologne cathedral. And following that we walked towards the river, and followed along a short promenade.

Klaus arrived in his Volvo and drove us out to his house in the outskirts of Cologne. We relaxed for a while and then he made us a delicious pasta dinner. After dinner we went for a walk through the area in which he lives and went to a pub for a drink before heading home again.Read more