you found the answer. Good things!!

1100 steps if I remember correctly.

Peggy and her husband have some serious knee issues. It's not the first three steps that would have presented a problem, It's the last 1097 steps that would have made this a no-go.

The old noggin can’t take the falls the way it used to either.

Wow! A DFW German Tour is top notch!

The cathedral is amazing!

Have you ever climbed the stairs to the top?

My wife and I did the one in Prague at the castle. Peggy and consort would have had a hard time negotiating 1100 steps, so it was out of the question today.

I was wearing my fanny pack under my shirt.

Much handier that way.

with that rare beauty of someone who is beautiful on the inside too!

I bet plenty of the people there smile back when they see you!

doesn't have his wallet in the backpack.

We encountered a gentleman several years ago in Stockholm at our hotel on a Sunday morning reporting to the desk clerk he'd had his wallet stolen out of his backpack--he was German--and asking the clerk whether he should report it to the police.

My husband and sons always carried their wallets in front pockets when traveling in Europe.

I caught a guy with his hand under my husband's jacket going for his back pocket coming up the stairs out of an U bahn station in Berlin. Fortunately, he was not carrying his wallet there.

Looks like you're having a great time!

A pickpocket was trying to steal the wallet of a Chinese tourist in the crowded car. The Chinese guy noticed it, grabbed his wallet back, and then proceeded to give the car a martial arts demonstration--on the would-be thief! We all applauded, and the thief ran like hell when the doors opened at the next station.

Pretty building the DU members rock too

I was there back in the day but did not use the stairs either as I am in a wheelchair

Hope you cats have a great rest of trip

I’ve only seen the Dom once in December in the rain and thought it was terribly dark, dreary, and depressing. I hope it’s better in summer sunlight.

It can't decide if it's early April or mid-July, and keeps vacillating between the two, stopping at every milk pail along the way.

I see a lot of jackets in the crowd.

The Innocents Abroad look pretty good.

-- Mal

From about 50°(F), windy and raining (like today) up to close to 80° and sunny when Peggy and L.M. arrived

When I first started coming to Germany, a Canadian friend who was stationed here told me, "if you don't like the weather in Germany, wait a minute." He wasn't exaggerating in the slightest.

And the detail in the shots is also incredible. What camera did you use??

"Cyber Shot," if that is even a model. I must have had it for the better part of two decades. I'm not good at photography, so I never got myself any kind of sophisticated camera.

What an adventure you guys are having...

(Also visited Koeln cathedral. Once with now ex when there was massive renovation in progress.)

Learned fairly late that Zwingli and Luther (pretty sure it was those 2) argued over a point of doctrine in the great hall of Marburg castle. The Calvinist and the Lutheran were unable to agree. Some historians contend that this lack of agreement between these 2 protestant groups aided the success of the Counter Reformation.

Just never been by there. Just last month, we were in Coburg for the first time. Coburg is an exquisitely preserved city with architecture to die for, but it is where the old east-west German border was, and used to be the end of the world. But one of my wife's cousins just moved there and got married there, and so we went, and were pleasantly amazed. I supposed one of these years, Marburg will be on the schedule as well.

First went to Marburg in 62, 1st yr of grad school.

Same yr went to Rothenburg. Absolutely blown away by Riemenschneider work. Had never heard of him before. (Sculptor of Reformation era. Read somewhere that his hands were cut off(!!!) in Peasants Revolt b/c he was on wrong side. Same war in which Luther took side of rulers and preached death to peasants. They thought that when Luther preached that all were equal before God, that he also would agree that peasants and rulers were equal on earth. Luther supposedly said 'kill them all - the peasants - and let God sort it out'.)

Stunning.

Thanks for sharing.

Seeing it and the Gero Crucifix inside was one of the most special moments of my life.

A 200 year old building in America is a national landmark.

When a building in Europe is 200 years old, it's time to wash the windows.

When we marvel at something "as old as 200 years old" they just giggle.

LOL....my mother was born in Koeln; I lived in Duesseldorf and Troisdorf a few years back. Sure miss my old stomping grounds!

CaliforniaPeggy is one of the best DUers out there!

But we skipped that part.

I took the train from next door at Bahnhof back to Bitburg once.

The only thing I know is in Bitburg is the brewery.

On second thought--"back" to Bitburg? Military installation by any chance?

What time frame is this?

I wasn't around all the time, but I was in the neighborhood every now and then.

Thank you, DFW.

Thank you for sharing, DFW!

4 years. Beautiful even in the 70s.
Glad your having fun!

One of the more beautiful friendly natives said, "come live with me near the banks of the Rhein River."

Of all the possible answers I could come up with, "no" was not one of them.

We would go there for Thanksgiving for 3 years when we lived in Belgium. I love that Cathedral, and it's even more beautiful at night. Have fun there, Koln is a great city.

I'm so glad you could all get together! What did you have for lunch? I love Turkish food.

Then we all had a Döner plate (see Peggy's post on the food for a photo). She and I had chicken, L.M. had lamb. Accompanied by tzatziki and a salad.

Then we walked out of there. Barely!

And thank you for sharing your wonderful visit!

I'm sure you, they and MrsDFW had a wonderful time. Maybe one of these years I'll make it to Cologne to see that cathedral.

We took the local train down to Cologne. It takes longer than changing trains at Düsseldorf, but you don't have to change trains if you stay on the local, and Peggy and her husband are not very mobile, so it was a blessing to have the option.

They are going up to Hamburg for Saturday night to visit with other friends, and will be back tomorrow night. I will take them to the airport in a little over an hour.

Mrs. DFW has had to run up to northern Germany and back a lot because her mother is very ill, and can't be moved for the moment. However, on Thursday night we did have a great meal at an old-fashioned style German place up the road we had never been to before. She plans to be back tomorrow night to cook one last gala meal before Peggy and L.M. return to London Tuesday on the first leg of their trip home.