Cologne

We arrived in Cologne at about 7 pm on a Friday, dropped off our stuff at my friend's father's place, then we headed out to the restaurant "Curry Express," which is obviously a German wurst and frites place (sausage and fries with a gravy over them). At this point it is clear that I need to find out more about the German naming schemes.
Regardless, the food was fantastic. The Netherlands-style frites were better than the fries I had eaten in the Netherlands. The sauces and the wurst were also quite tasty.
After shopping for a few gifts to take home and a new sweater and shirt to replace the two I had destroyed with curry stains while in Amsterdam and Prague, We stopped for a lunch buffet of the all-you-can-eat variety full of Italian food. After which we headed out and checked out the dome, Koeln's most famous landmark. crossed over the Rhein and then wandered around on its shores for a few hours.
After returning to our host's apartment and checking out the TV offerings before heading out to one of the restaurants in one of the lots-of-restaurants-and-bars areas of the city for a quick grab-and-go dinner, and a few Koelsch beers from a supermarket to drink while we wandered around the city. We found my type of bar with 1.60-4 euro drinks (beers on the 1.60 side of things). and we sang along with the jukebox (OK that was me) and then headed back to the apartment at about 1am, which is early for Koeln.
OK running out of time o my Internet ticket, more later.