Flew to Frankfurt and took the train to Dusseldorf about 2hr trip. Here I met my tour Guide Lea, she showed me around Düsseldorf, quite a rich city had a beer at a bar which had its own brewery inside it just for that bar. Had a kebab on the Rhine river, good kebabs here but still nothing on Cuba Kebab. Then went to leas place in Essen, good little West Germany hangout, most of the city was bombed in the war so mostly new buildings. Had a couple of brews that night, good chilled times.
Slept a bit then went to the Rhur museum, awesome place and great example of heavy industry the west germany is famous for. Old coal mine and there were heaps of them here. Also a bit of a natural history museum and history museum. Then went to another part of town owned by some rich dude that housed all his workers there with a sweet supermarket which you’ll see in the photos. Ate a Currywarst after being taught in german the correct way to order it, played some german drinking games – Looping Louie!
The next day on the way back to Frankfurt I visited Cologne Cathedral, amazingly intricate and interesting structure, had some down time here chilling in the quiet time of gods house. This was followed by a brain explosion of loosing my ticket to collect my bag and therefore missing my train.. oops… not to worry though its germany, you just take a faster train! Mean, good on you german efficiency.
A Big thanks to my personal tour Guide Lea, was awesome to have a garman speaker hanging out.
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