Kölner Dom I couldn’t help thinking of this little pun while we were exploring Bonn on Saturday, but it was already one day late. Actually, I think Germans don’t pronounce Bonn to rhyme exactly with “gone”--the short o vowel is shorter in duration somehow. These days if I’m not sure how to pronounce something, I ask Henry. He seems to be a pretty good gauge. Elisabeth didn’t have school on Friday, so we took a 2 1/2 hour train ride to Cologne (Köln in German) and spent the day there. In truth, we spent most of the day in and around the cathedral. It was everything I wanted it to be, and more. I had heard from John and several others who had been there that it is great to go to Cologne by train because when you get off the train you are right there at the cathedral. What they didn’t tell me is that the church dwarfs the train station. The windows of the station are huge, and allow only a portion of the cathedral to be se...