18:00 CET
Went outside for a walk with Robbie, with moderate snow.

Went to Köln...

to see the Domkirche (dome church).

In a word, huge. In another couple of words, cold and dark. (No central heating, damn holy misers).

Because it was so dark, a lot of the pictures are sub-par. With flash, the camera only captures the light that immediately bounces back and the church is so big that the flash is useless for the "big wide shots." However, without a flash the camera takes a long time for exposures (as long as five seconds). Hence the bright but blurry shots. What I do like about the long exposure shots is the warm colors they show.

no flash; shutter 1/5

flash; shutter: 1/60

Fun with photostitching software: from where I was, with the one lens I had, I couldn't get the entirety of the church into view so I took a series of shots and threw them into the Canon stitching app. I'll play around with them in Photoshop later to equalize the colors. Medium and large, the "original" is ginormous (2833x8256; 4.2MB).

Afterward we walked through the Köln Weihnachtsmarkt and shopping center street in the snow and sleet... to buy shoes. The museum was closed, so we'll try again later, hopefully.