Today we took a tour of the Dom Tower (the one mentioned two posts previously), where we discovered that the nave of the cathedral had been destroyed several hundred years after its completion by a tornado 335 years ago to the day. We also found out that the rubble had been left there for over 150 years before it was cleaned up!
Here are some images of the view from the top of the tower, after climbing the 465 steps, mostly in the form of a spiral stairwell. However, unlike the previous instances of this particular style of ascention enabler that we have encountered thus far, there was no need to squeeze past anybody. This was primarily due to the fact that everyone in the tower was part of the tour group, so we were all going in the same direction at the same time.
Also part of the tour was the area where the bells of the carillon are kept.
The church that used to be attached to the tower
The City of Utrecht. Leela's house is somewhere in the top 5th of this picture, next to the canal.
After lunch, we went to Amsterdam to board our night train to Munich. We took a tour of the canals of that city and saw, amongst other things, a giant cruise ship just leaving port, and several floats (oh, there was pun intended) in the Gay Pride parade that happened to be on the Amsterdam waterways today.
"Coldly profane and impiously gay." - George Crabbe
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