Weekend Duesseldorf
Tuesday 9 May 2006 ◷ 00:06
This time I took the scenic route and first wandered around Venlo for a while. Venlo doesn't have the ICE international jet-set transportation into Germany like Arnhem, but once every hour between the freight trains it does have some local train towards the Ruhrgebiet via Moenchen-Gladbach and Neuss to Duesseldorf, which takes about one hour. I didn't want to wait for the train in Venlo, so I walked into Germany and got on in Kaldenkirchen. The advantage of public transport in Germany is that ticket vending machines accept paper cash, which makes it realistic to pay EUR 20 in cash. (In The Netherlands some junkie will notice there should be a lot of cash in such a machine, so it will get looted some way or another, making it broken almost all the time). Another nice thing with Deutsche Bahn is that MacDonald's is in the stations, instead of Burger King which seems to have a deal with NS. Vincent Vega didn't travel with NS, obviously.
Duesseldorf is along the river Rhine, and they were smart enough to put the road that originally ran along it under the ground, so now they have a nice recreational area near the water. Which comes in handy when the weather is as nice as it was last sunday.
Roland van Ipenburg's logging attempt
Wednesday 2 May 2007 ◷ 22:15
Queensday on the K
Roland van Ipenburg's logging attempt
Wednesday 2 May 2007 ◷ 22:17
Queensday on the K
Link Exchange
Monday 6 August 2007 ◷ 17:48
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