Our Saturday morning began with breakfast (my usual of bananas and coffee for me) and getting ready before we decided to head out to explore Düsseldorf. Johannes was our tour guide, and he also happened to be the worst tour guide ever, because for all the months he has lived there, he knew very little about the city.
So he decided we should head to the riverfront, so we began walking downtown, when we happened upon a motorcade of my team members, who had decided to throw an impromptu parade of sorts to welcome me into town.
Continuing on, we made our way to the
Rheinturm Düsseldorf, which is not only a tall tower with an observation deck and radio/TV signals attached to it, but also a clock/timepiece. We figured what the hell, so we paid the few Euros to go to the top and check out the views, which were pretty cool, considering it is Düsseldorf.
As you can see, Düsseldorf is a relatively generic and somewhat boring town. It's not so bad though, but it's just not particularly interesting either.
Next, we headed on to the old part of the city, which struck us as slightly more interesting, particularly because there was a farmer's market of sorts, with many of Johannes' roommates in attendance. Unfortunately, as we were strolling through the booths, we ended up getting caught in a downpour, so we sought refuge in the town square (at which point I totally ended up stumbling into and through a homeless man's bowl full of Euros and got yelled at in German - go me).
We decided it would be a good time to eat, at which point we stopped in at a cute little Italian place just off the main square. We all ordered food, and I got tortellini, along with caprese salad I split with Elia. My food arrived and I took a bite, and then another, and then Elia commented that it looked a lot like meat filling. Confused, I looked, and although it didn't taste like meat, it certainly looked like it. Johannes asked what the filling was, and our answer was pork. Consider that a lesson learned - ordering pasta in Germany is not quite the same as ordering pasta in the United States.
After the minimal food fail (I ended up eating some of Elia's mushroom pasta and the salad) we continued on our way, next stopping in to go shopping. We ended up in a quirky fun shop,
Kauf Dich Glücklich, where Elia purchased a dress and Johannes was a total champ, trying on men's clothing for Elia to see if it would fit for Rich. The end results were quite hilarious.
After we were done, we wandered a bit, and when we came to the realization that there wasn't much more to see, we headed back to the apartment, but not without first snapping a photo of Johannes under the sign for the hangout of his team.
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