Welcome to the dark side, we have cookies! Another couple of
days of Karneval have passed, and I have no idea how the Germans are still up
and about. Yesterday eight of us boarded
the train early to head up river to Düsseldorf, aka: the dark side. Thankfully there were no train mishaps along
the way this time, and we arrived there around ten in the morning. We managed to successfully navigate the maps
to the hotel and dump our stuff, and then we set out for the town center to see
what there was to see.
The first thing I noticed was the lack of costumes. I suppose that it was still too early in the
morning for Karneval people to be about and about, but after having seen the
streets packed in Köln it was a little suprising. The main square area was decently calm and we
wandered around a bit looking for a museum to visit. We eventually settled on K2021, a modern art
museum. Now I am not the biggest fan of
20th century modern art, I much prefer impressionism or even the
more modern 21st century pieces, but I actually enjoyed the museum a
lot. My favorite exhibit by far was the
paper cloud exhibit by (unfortunately I cannot think of the artist currently). This was a room full of white geometric paper
shapes suspended from the ceiling. You
could walk among the clouds and even make your own to hang up and add to the
exhibit. We had lots of fun taking
pictures and making clouds, and even some of the group that did not enjoy
modern art liked this room.
Afterwards was lunch at a restaurant and then back to the
hotel for a nap. Per usual, that meant I
sat on the bed reading and listening to music while everyone else took a
nap. Apparently not much has changed in the
napping department from when I was little.
The girls woke up a bit before the guys, and upon finding no one had
locked their doors, we pranked a couple of them by taking their shoes and
putting them in our room. Finally around
6:30 everyone was awake and dressed up in costume, and the shoes were returned,
so we were all ready for a night on the Altstadt (old town). We started the night off with some true Italian
pizza (yum!) and then went to a dance club.
It turned out to be a club that played only English music from the 70s,
80s, 90s, and some of more current stuff.
This was so much more fun than any other bar/club I have been to
here. People were there to dance, and
the music was awesome. Even stuff like ‘Pirates
of the Caribbean Soundtrack’ music was remixed and played, making for some
awesome beats. I even got the chance to
try heißeschokolade mit amaretto (hot chocolate with a bit of amaretto mixed in)
at one of the cafés. BEST HOT CHOCOLATE
EVER! The night wound to a close after
successfully navigating back to the hotel, showering, and going straight to
bed.
This morning we woke up, had a late breakfast, and headed
back to Bonn on the train. All in all it
was a fun, albeit exaughsting weekend.
The verdict on Düsseldorf? It is not as bad as Kölners make it out to
be. The celebrating is a bit toned down,
but I enjoyed the atmosphere, and dare I say I like Altbier more than Kölsch?
Don’t get me wrong (or secretly pull a prank on me in the night) I like Kölsch,
but Altbier is pretty tasty. Düsseldorf gets a thumbs up in my book!
One more Karneval parade to go and then Vienna, quickly
followed by a Physiology test. Whoop!
Tschüß for now,
M
Tschüß for now,
M
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