Dusseldorf, Germany Travel Blogs

Düsseldorf, Germany
Jun 5, 2003 (6 photos)

Last weekend we went on a road trip by car to Düsseldorf, Germany. We arrived in the old town part of Dusseldorf on Saturday afternoon and spent the rest of Saturday exploring the town. There was an amazing market with local produce, flowers and plants. ...

Dusseldorf, Germany
Apr 28, 2008 (25 photos)

... on to the next thing on our itinerary. We thanked Christoph for the brunch and the coffee and departed Essen headed for Dusseldorf. During our discussion, Jens had stepped out and gone to his parents house to pick up their car, which they were letting us ...

Germany, not for the last time
Sep 3, 1996 (1 photos)

... greeted with, "the boys will sleep here and the girls will sleep there". Goodnight Lucy. The following morning, we set off to Dusseldorf. We arrived in town and found the nearest hostel, dumped our bags and headed in to get some food and beer. Luck would ...

Anyone for pork
Oct 13, 2003 (19 photos)

... Germans really know and like their pork. We now needed to wash this food down with an after dinner drink, and when in Dusseldorf, there is only one. Killipitsch. It's a liqueur, kind of like Jaegermeister, and it tastes like cough medicine. There is only ...

Dusseldorf
Nov 3, 2007

Yesterday Steve and I spent most of the afternoon wandering around Dusseldorf with all of my luggage trying to find a hotel for the night.  The fancy place he's been staying in downtown Cologne was sold out last night and so we were forced to stay in ...

More Duesseldorf
Jun 11, 2008 (6 photos)

Nathan's parents have arrived and they are really excited since they have never been in this part of the world...so we are playing tour-guides, filling them up with German beer and stuffing them with German calorie-bombs such as the world famous ...

Germany - Andee's First Impression
Nov 2, 2007 (7 photos)

... was women's/men's/women's.  That's right...urinals right next to toilets.  Apparently public bathrooms (at least in Dusseldorf anyway) are Unisex).  I took one look, turned around, and literally ran back to Steve.  Can you even ...

Back in the Western World
Jun 4, 2008 (1 photos)

... but also a little sad since all the places you visit become a part of you and you wonder if you'll ever return. Germany is relaxing with no surprises, just the comforts of the known. We will spend the next 2.5 months in Europe, hosting Nathan's ...

Düsseldorf
Sep 7, 2004 (42 photos)

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Donations
Feb 6, 2008

We are looking for donations cuz we are skint bums travelling for 5 months. Visiting the Galapagos islands will cost us 1000 USD each for only 10 days. Please sponsor us so we can go and visit the endangered species. For every donation of 10 EUR we will ...

Dusseldorf, Germany
Oct 8, 2005

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Go Germany!
Jun 26, 2008 (4 photos)

Last night we went to the river in downtown Dusseldorf to watch Germany and Turkey in the semi finals of the Euro 2008 soccer cup.  I think we must of gotten the last chairs at the last table because the entire city was packed with German and Turkish ...

Lightening Köln visit and off to Freiburg
Oct 3, 2009

So last night I took the 10 euro trip from Düsseldorf to Köln (and they never checked the ticket, grr, but I guess just in case).  I met up with my CS host Ruth, with whom we had a bit of communications problems throughout the night, but still it was ok ...

Trip to Schlossenberg castle
Oct 3, 2009

... had lived in. We got some pictures for Oma and next time I think we're going to her house. When I got back to Dusseldorf I decided to switch trains at the Hauptbanhof (main station) and got to witness a huge free concert going on in the middle of the ...

Abflug von Düsseldorf über Muenchen nach Bangkok
Jun 30, 2008

Liebe Leser,

Across the Atlantic
Sep 30, 2009

So I finally made it to Germany.  I arrived around 7am (around a 7 hour flight I think it was), but was too late into town to meet up with my CS hosts, so I just kind of hung around the train station and had lunch.  I walked around town for a ...

Düsseldorf...where we lived like kings!
Sep 8, 2006

... from one expensive city to the next, we, and our pockets, we're ready to relax with Charlotte at the home base in Düsseldorf germany (or a small town near there) and see the area from the persective of a local...we werent sure what to expect, and we didnt ...

Anfang
Jun 27, 2005

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Playin' Basketball
Aug 15, 2007 (9 photos)

... it's a little bit faster than the "U-Bahn" and connects remote areas of one city or two or more cities). Arriving in Düsseldorf, I just wanted to drop off Ashley and my basketball stuff at Frank's. We went to Heinrich-Heine-Allee and rang Frank's door ...

Shoppping! Food! and Identity Theft!
Sep 21, 2009 (2 photos)

Today was awesome. I met up with Laura, my hosts little sister, and we went all over shopping. I mean hours upon hours of it! First we went to a department store called C & A which is much like a Nordstrom's, where we had the most delicious fish and a ...

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Oct 17, 2009 (7 photos)

... looking forward to sitting in the car for them for 5 hours this weekend :-/ We're going to take them to Lego land in south Germany. I'm trying to pretend to be as excited as they are, but it's not Disney we're talking about here and it's cold, not sounding ...

Düsseldorf Main Train Station
Oct 4, 2003

Traveling with the fast train, "Thalys" (300Km/hr) to Paris.

Some notes on Germans and the Dom!
Sep 20, 2009 (5 photos)

After the conference ended today (sad I know) It was time to head to Dusseldorf, my next destination, to stay with Marcel, an old friend of mine. I had to take the ICE from Berlin, which was actually not bad since it only made two stops between there and.. ...

Getting Lost on a bike, looking for a Palace
Oct 2, 2009

So I also had a bit of a late start today (damned jetlag) but was still able to get in a good 3 or 4 hours of bike riding.  This time I went South, rather than North (which is where I went yesterday, to the Old town) towards the Ryangather ...

back home!
Oct 14, 2005

back home after a long week of travel....whew!

Back with my first hosts from Europe :)
Dec 8, 2009

... the old town, having some nice hot red wine, and then some beers at a local brewery.  Nice night, and then slept really well to go take my train to the airport in the morning... I had a nice 10 hour flight from Dusseldorf to Fort Myers, Florida...

Connection à Düsseldorf
Oct 5, 2007

Connection à Düsseldorf

Dusseldorf
Jul 7, 2006 (60 photos)

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Home Sweet Home
Jan 2, 2008

Hallo, wir sind wieder wohlbehalten zurück in Deutschland! Auf der Internetseite www.ossenkamp.eu gibt es erste Bilder zu sehen. Katrin und Birgit

A bit of bikeriding and walking
Oct 1, 2009

... , and it was a lot of fun, and some of the people there even sang along hehe... Great night! Tomorrow a bit more Düsseldorf, and in the evening I will take the train to Köln. abrazos PICTURES: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=125382&id=515137154& ...