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Greetings from a city on River Rhine!

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I saw the river back in 1990, it must have not changed since 😃 Cologne, Germany.

A lot of Mett (tartar steak) this time 😋 A waiter:
– You have already had beer then Schnapps and now are asking for white wine? How come?
– Ich bin Polnisch... 😂
– Ah, dobrze! 😃
I won his heart!
 
Greetings from a city on River Rhine!

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I saw the river back in 1990, it must have not changed since 😃 Cologne, Germany.

A lot of Mett (tartar steak) this time 😋 A waiter:
– You have already had beer then Schnapps and now are asking for white wine? How come?
– Ich bin Polnisch... 😂
– Ah, dobrze! 😃
I won his heart!
Spent a beautiful day in Cologne on a Rhine River cruise. The city's a diamond in the rough of a highly industrialized and very busy lower Rhine.

Spent all day exploring the city and surroundings on a rented bike while the missus listened to hours of the usual church-and-castle crap on a tour bus with not a second of dead air from the guide.

Boy, did I win that round!

Must've cruised the wonderful MUP along the river half a dozen times. An endless stream of cargo and work boats of all sizes paraded by the waterfront — which only made it better for this lover of all boats. Many of the work boats bristled with deck equipment designed for tasks I couldn't even guess.
 
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