{"id":36,"date":"2007-04-12T20:03:24","date_gmt":"2007-04-12T10:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/wordpress\/?p=36"},"modified":"2007-04-12T20:03:24","modified_gmt":"2007-04-12T10:03:24","slug":"christmas-in-europe-amsterdam-to-cologne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/wordpress\/christmas-in-europe-2006\/christmas-in-europe-amsterdam-to-cologne","title":{"rendered":"Christmas in Europe &#8211; Amsterdam to Cologne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"float: right\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-1009507070974015\";\r\ngoogle_alternate_ad_url = \"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/google_adsense_script.html\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\r\ngoogle_ad_format = \"300x250_as\";\r\ngoogle_ad_type = \"text_image\";\r\n\/\/2007-06-30: TSBlog 300x250\r\ngoogle_ad_channel = \"2928184950\";\r\ngoogle_color_border = \"FFFFFF\";\r\ngoogle_color_bg = \"FFFFFF\";\r\ngoogle_color_link = \"FF6600\";\r\ngoogle_color_text = \"000000\";\r\ngoogle_color_url = \"339933\";\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\n  src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>The drive from Amsterdam to\u00a0Cologne Cathedral took about 2 hours.\u00a0 Here we hit our first <a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/Destination\/v\/ChristmasinEurope\/CologneRhine\/_DSC0276.jpg.html\">Christmas market<\/a>, in the courtyard just next to the cathedral.\u00a0 We had two hours to look around the stalls, which were\u00a0selling traditional Christmas foods, Christmas arts and crafts and toys, etc.\u00a0 My favorite stall was one selling <a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/Destination\/v\/ChristmasinEurope\/CologneRhine\/IMG_0878.jpg.html\">hand-painted Christmas decorations<\/a>.\u00a0 They were beautiful, but at 20<font size=\"3\" face=\"Times New Roman\">\u20ac<\/font>\u00a0a piece,\u00a0just too delicate to carry around so early in the trip.\u00a0 It was very cold and here I had my first taste of gl<font size=\"3\" face=\"Times New Roman\">\u00fc<\/font>hwein.\u00a0 You paid 5<font size=\"3\" face=\"Times New Roman\">\u20ac <\/font>for a mug of gl<font size=\"3\" face=\"Times New Roman\">\u00fc<\/font>hwein, 2.5<font size=\"3\" face=\"Times New Roman\">\u20ac<\/font> of which was refunded when you return the mug.\u00a0 Not being a drinker myself, having alcohol in the morning was a heady experience.\u00a0 It might be sacrilege\u00a0to say this, but I\u00a0probably appreciated it more for defrosting my hands with the hot mug &#8211; although I must admit the drink did provide a little warm glow in my tummy&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>As all our previous visits to Cologne had been in summer, it was interesting seeing Cologne Cathedral set against the grey skies.\u00a0 From Cologne we drove for 2 hours to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/Destination\/v\/ChristmasinEurope\/CologneRhine\/_DSC0327.jpg.html\">Bopard<\/a> to board our river cruiser.\u00a0 The cruise went down river to St. Goar and then returned to Bopard.\u00a0 We did a 15-day river cruise from Amsterdam to Budapest last summer and the warmer weather is certainly the better time for a river cruise.<\/p>\n<p>Helen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The drive from Amsterdam to\u00a0Cologne Cathedral took about 2 hours.\u00a0 Here we hit our first Christmas market, in the courtyard just next to the cathedral.\u00a0 We had two hours to look around the stalls, which were\u00a0selling traditional Christmas foods, Christmas arts and crafts and toys, etc.\u00a0 My favorite stall was one selling hand-painted Christmas decorations.\u00a0 [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas-in-europe-2006"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - 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