Bad Godesberg to Cologne, Germany

It was cool and threatening to rain when we left this morning. The ride once again had some challenges when we had to get off the river path.  There is a lot of industry in this area which prevents a riverfront ride. 

Every day we have riden there have been many places to stop for coffee and pastry. Each day we have had a thermos of coffee with us. Today of course we did not bring coffee and there were no easy places for snacks. It was almost 1 PM when we found a bakery--which was closing in five minutes.

It was difficult finding our hotel--similar to yesterday. We eventually got here and it is the nicest room we have had on the bike trip. We are spending at least two nights here and maybe a third. Our 41st anniversary is tomorrow.

Cologne's city center was 90% destroyed in WWII. The riverfront has a lot of very modern buildings.

We are now done with the bicycle portion of our vacation. We will be sightseeing for a few days and fly out of Zürich on Saturday.