This piece reminds me I need to re visit Koln.
Haven’t been for about 15 years.
‘The champagne of pale ales’: my search for the perfect kölsch beer in Cologne ‘The champagne of pale ales’: my search for the perfect kölsch beer in Cologne | Travel | The Guardian
Have got friends in Dusseldorf so whenever I visit make sure we have a trip to Koln as I don’t like Altbier but love Kolsch.
He’s from Berlin and his wife is Danish so fortunately don’t play the whole Dusseldorf vs Koln thing.
Anyway it seems that I have managed to coax and friend (who was supposed to be in Munich last weekend) out of his shell with the offer of a curry in Manchester.
So this Saturday the 60th tour makes a violent handbrake turn and heads north.
I’d like to have a few pints and get to the bottom of what the gibbering fuck is going on with his life and if there’s anything I can do other than giving him money. Proud men 
He may yet flake on me but it wouldn’t be difficult to fill a couple of days with the Koffee Pot and the Smithfield Market Tavern.
Your life is so random / complicated / unusual, random is the biggy here, that I can’t keep up. Doesn’t it tire you ? Did you do a lot of drugs as a youth ?
Well yes 
but I also seem to have a knack of finding friends who are uncannily good at pulling the pin on their own lives.
Well, if you find yourself at a loose end, I finish work in Warrington at 17:00 on Saturday
