Wine country and heading north

The night at the B&B wasn't perfect. The room was very cold and drafty, also there was a lot of noises outside at night: dogs kept barking, drunk people roamed the village street, cats meowed and finally at seven the village church bells started toil, not just one time but enought to wake up any God fearing people. What little did make up for it was the over the top breakfast the owner couple had set up. For only us two they had prepared food for at least four people.

Near Kröv

We bid our Wiedersehens and headed towards the town of Kröv in the Mosel wine country. We were looking for a Winehof called Gassen along the Mosel wine road, and wouldn't you believe it, it was right in the middle of the town. We stopped and after few knocks and shouts we were greeted by the Frau of the house who didn't speak English, she then summoned her son who spoke quite good English. I was offered a taste of their riesling and while I was tasting it (The Driver of course didn't taste) they summoned the Herr of the house who then took over the tasting and offered Rivaner wine for comparison. After I had tasted that, it was time to talk business. As The Car is limited in it's carrying capacity, we had to compromise for 4 bottles, two bottles of both riesling and torrin. The winehof people were very funny, relaxed family and were proud of their wines.

After trying to decide what to do next, we finally came to the conclusion of starting to head north and thought Köln would be a suitable distance away so we headed that way. We picked few cheap sleep options to try and were able to secure the first option - a double room at B&B Hotel Köln Porz (airport) for just 50 eur. Seems to be a clean, very basic, mostly self-service hotel. Only drawback is that there's only one electronic outlet in the room so I am writing this from the lobby.

The drive to Köln was nothing to write about, some on autobahn and some on small local roads. One smallish stau due to what looked like a broken down car. Ate at McD's.

After arriving to Köln, we went to the city and it was like any other big European city, same architecture, same shops and just too many people. Especially bachelor and hen parties as it is after all Saturday. Yes, the Köln Cathedral is impressive but that's about it. Maybe it's just road fatigue but the city seemed like a bore. And it rained. Again. Ate bratwurst hotdog on the shopping street.
For tomorrow we have no plans whatsoever. I think very little driving, just enough to get us to a new loaction to stay overnight.