We walked all over the city and saw some of what it has to offer. We were only there for the afternoon, and perhaps we are weary of walking and touristing, but we all decided that between Cologne, Bonn and Dusseldorf, the latter takes third place. It is a toss up between Cologne and Bonn. We love both of those cities.
That said, we are still glad we had the chance to visit Dusseldorf. It is where Augustus Gloop (from Willy Wonka) was from in the 2005 movie. In the 1971 movie, he was from the fictional town of Dusselheim--they had to be representing Dusseldorf, ja? Funny, we did not see any mention of Augustus as we walked around Dusseldorf. It is also on the Rhein River. We walked along their fun wavy sidewalk that symbolizes the waves of the river.
We watched the boats go by and were lucky to have yet another lovely spring day.
We saw parks with funky trees,
quite a few statues,
and Trey entertained himself with his own shadow when he lost interest in all the attractions.
In 1288 there was a Battle of Worrigen which was a fight over territory. The Germans won this battle and legend has it that the children of the area started doing side flips along the banks of the river, thus the cartwheel was born. This cartwheel statue is now one of the most well known symbols of Dusseldorf.
When we thought we could not walk any further, we made it back to the train station and came on back to Cologne. We picked up some curry wurst from a vendor right outside the train station and brought it home for dinner. We all think we could eat this every day!
Tomorrow we have one quick errand to run in the morning and then we are heading back to Gdansk in the afternoon.
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