A walking day in Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium (the old Roman name for Cologne). It started with where I left off yesterday saying I would come back to something morbid, which I certainly did. A church, St. Ursula’s Church. What’s so creepy about this church? The Golden Chamber, a room with lots of gold. What’s creepy about the gold? Nothing, its the bones and skulls the rest of the room is decorated in. Thosands of human bones are adorned on the walls, in artistic patterns. With dozens of skulls, with red decorative cloths masking the ‘faces’ of the skulls. There are carvings and busts of religious figures, with a pile of their bones undernearth in a case with viewing window, it was crazy. The bones are said to be of St. Ursula and up o 11,000 virgin who were killed by the huns. The church is built on an old Roman basilica, and the room was currently be renovated or fixed up, as many of the skulls were gone, and many wrapped in paper.

Next was a walk to Colonius, another large television tower like the ones in Berlin and Munich, this one called Colonius. As my research indicated, it might be closed, and it was. The note left on the door is very cryptic and mysterious, reeking of conspiracies (pictured below).

Next was a walk to the nearby Cologne central mosque, or Moschee, in German. It was under construction and covered in scaffolds, but it has really neat architecture, just google ‘cologne central mosque’.

Next was a visit to the nearby Hiroshima-Nagasaki Park. The park is nice, but very little is there, save for a related museum, and big square shaped lake.

Next was a walk down Achener Straße to the Hahnentorburg, another large cool medieval gate house. Afterwards I found a cool 3 floor Halloween store, tons and tons of stuff, but all the cheap stuff.

Next was a visit to the chocolate museum gift shop, (for realsies). Next was a visit to the Römisch-Germanisches Museum, a cool museum with tons of amcient Roman relics and stonework from the Rhine/Cologne area, including a relatively recently discovered huge mosaic from a large old villa. As stated, Cologne was a Roman settlement nearly 2000 years old.

Next was a visit across the river to the disappointing Tanzbrunnen (dancing well), some empty, though cool looking performance area.

Next was the nearby Köln Triangle, an office tower though not nearly as tall as the others, but gives good views over the river of the cathedral and other prominent buildings. I wandered around back to the other side, and went to the statues of old goofy 1800’s puppet creations of Tünnes and Schäl, famous in Cologne culture, created by rivaling pupeteers who were brought together. A Laurel and Hardy of sorts.

Next was…well nothing was next, so I suppose this is the end.

Here is a super duper amazingly moderately average video from the tower across the river: https://youtu.be/tBPg21_2ats