Our hotel is about 800 meters from the center of the old town, so we rode the bike to our first destination, Cologne's fine art museum. Not too large, but an excellent collection of European art. In particular, they have some great items from the late middle ages. After lunch and a bit longer at that museum we rode a few blocks to another of Cologne's landmarks, the Gross St. Martin church, built before 1200 and therefore a different style from most medieval cathedrals. We were there only a half hour, but that was long enough for someone to steal from the bike the bracket to hold my cell phone while riding. Not an expensive item, but I depend heavily on the phone for navigating on our route and it would be a pain in the neck to have to carry the phone in my pocket. Fortunately, I was able to find a bike shop which referred me to a more distant bike shop which did have one such bracket in stock. A happy ending to a sad story. I had stripped everything else off the bike. Never occurred to me someone would know what the phone bracket was, much less want to take it. Sadder but wiser now.
Another thing we learned today is to wear bike shorts even for short outings.
There was rain early this morning and it never got hot today. I hope the heat wave has broken.
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