On my motorcycle tour of western Europe, we stopped in Köln. Köln is located in North Rhine – Westphalia, the most populated state in Germany.

Ben recently pointed me to an article in motorcycle-usa.com that included a stop in Köln.  The major attraction was the Kölner Dom – the cathedral. It is a UNESCO world heritage site, and it is easy to see why. Here I am, standing in front of this monster…

Here is a beautiful photo from further away – that I did not take - 

I did not realize it then, but this is the river Rhine, and we’d meet up with it again in Luxembourg!

We found this masterpiece in a store in Luxemburg and I’ll be damned if we didn’t consider trying to get it on the back of one of the bikes. It really would have looked great back home, right in the living room.