The Longest bar in world.
by sourbugger
On my last trip to Dusseldorf, with my one-year-old in tow it was a little difficult to sample the nightlife of the place.
It appears to be quite an attraction of the place, with the local tourist board promoting the 'party credentials' of the place by saying it has 'the longest bar in the world'. This is a blatent lie, and shows a rather un-Germainic lack of precision. What they mean off course is that there are a whole series of pubs, bars and clubs that are cheek-by-jowl along the streets of the old town. Collectively they probably do form one of the densest areas of drinking establishments on the face of the planet.
The world's longest bar (with a little help fromm google here) is actually in Oklahoma, USA.
Schloss Krickenbeck
by Lalique
It's a very nice castle built in XVI cent. surrounded by lakes and woods. It's situated in Naturpark Maas-Schwalm-Nette near Hinsbeck in Nettetal close to Dutch border. It was ruined by time and during WWII, looked really awful but it was totally renovated in the mid of 80s and now it looks splendid.
Renovation was done mainly due to the fact that WestLB bought the building in order to turn it into its training center, which it is now.
More info on the castle you may get from http://www.westlb.de/krickenbeck
I lived in Frankfurt so we...
by sharonn
I lived in Frankfurt so we drove here.
A lot of people use bicycles but that is too healthy for me. The public transport system here in Germany is really great they know how to run a timetable (should I write to the Minister responsible for the transport and ask him to bail out Britain? Just a thought:)
Intellectual breakfasts
by sabsi about Zicke
It's busy for Sunday breakfasts here!! Everybody seems to like it! I like it when I can sit outside in the sunshine, inside it gets a little bit too busy on Sunday mornings! A big breakfast and sunshine!
Heine House
by Nemorino
Photos:
1. Bookshop and literary café in the Heine House
2. In the bookshop
This is where the author Heinrich Heine was born in 1797 -- not in this house but at this address.
In one of his early books Heine imagined that some day "elegant English women with green veils" would generously tip the maid in his birth house so she would show them "the room where I first saw the light of day and the corner of the henhouse where my father used to lock me up when he caught me eating grapes, and also the brown door upon which my mother taught me to write the letters of the alphabet with chalk -- oh God, Madame, if I become a famous writer it will certainly have cost my poor mother enough toil."
He addressed this entire book, Das Buch Le Grand (1827), to this mysterious "Madame".
Speaking of Düsseldorf, he said: "Yes, Madame, I was born there, and I note this explicitly just in case it should happen, by any chance, that after my death seven cities -- Schilda, Krähwinkel, Polkwitz, Bokum, Dülken, Göttingen and Schöppenstädt -- all vie for the honor of being my birthplace."
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1. In the lobby of the Düsseldorf Opera House
Inside the Rheinturm
Duesseldorf Flughafen
Colorium, Dusseldorf
