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old depiction no far from current scene
these guys will welcome you
Altbier
The other side of Düsseldorf
My husband and I are moving from Sydney to Düsseldorf next month, we will stay for the next five years or so. Having never been to Düsseldorf before can you offer any words of advice. What should we do first? Where should we live, near the water or can you live in the older parts of town? Second only to where we are going to live is, where is the best coffee - cause we are bound to need a few when we get off the plane :)
The Old Town is near the water, but accomadation is not easy to come by and pricey. Your answer depends so much on what you want from somewhere to live. A house in the suburbs? An apartment in the city .......? What do you want to be close to? Where will you and/or your husband be working? Tell me more and I'll try to point you in the right direction.
Bazaar Café in the Old Town is probably Düsseldorf's most sylish and popular coffee house. The Kaffee is excellent and it's a great spot to people-watch particularly when you can sit outside in the sunshine.
Hi,
Lolalai is right, if you give more informations (i.e.where you gonna be working), we are able to give you lots of tipps & tricks ... you can go to www.duesseldorf.de, its the citys homepage and you can even switch it into english.
You can send me an email anytime, if you want to :o))
Pat
The big tower is telling the time. I must admit I didn't quite get the explanation about how the time should be read, but the main guidelines are: the first vertical row of lights (starting from the top to the bottom) tells the hour, the second row of lights tells the minutes, while the third row tells the seconds. Good luck! I hope you manage to read it right and make it in time to all your appointments!
Dusseldorf has the nickname of "the longest bar in the world" because of the sheer number and density of the bars that pack the old town (Altstadt).
They cram together around the streets of this quarter, and maybe the busiest of those streets is bolker strasse.
You get quite an eclectic mix of people covering most age groups and ranging from smart business gents to scruffy oiks like us. Anything really, maybe it depends from bar to bar, but you shouldn't have much trouble anywhere.
Frankenheim Brauereiausschank was great!!
Friendly kobes (waiters) who take the 'P' at every opportunity, especially if you don't order the Altbier which is brewed on the premesis and is top quality. The vegetarian schnitzel was great! and I'm not a veggie.
These office buildings provide you with fantastic views. They are designed by US star architect Frank O. Gehry, as you can tell from their style. If you ask me it's Gehry at his best here - he built the Zollhof in three different materials - platinum, bricks and white. Plus the buildings are not as crazy as some of the other terrible things he built ;)
Inside the white building there's a fancy bar - Meerbar - with high prices, good fish dishes, a celebrity factor and wonderful outdoor seating. Underneath the buildings there's a garage where you can park your car for cheap in the evenings. That's about all you can do with the Zollhof buildings, apart from looking at them and taking a picture of course.
Düsseldorf's slightly surreal municipal Rheinturm, towers above the city like an electric blue funnel standing on a stretched stem in a similar mould to Berlin's Fernsehturm. The tower was completed in 1982 and is located away from the old town, near the state parliament and casting a unmissable shadow over the Media Harbour. The views from the Rhine Tower are absolutely spectacular, the best of any similar tower I've visited in Germany, or anywhere for that matter. This was especially so on the day that I visited, as the clear blue winter sky allowed for views over a huge swathe of the North-Rhine-Westphalia region, and exceptionally good views of Düsseldorf itself. The viewing platform, some 164m up the 235m tower, has windows that are slanted at such an angle that you can see all the way down to the very base of the tower: a truly disorienting feeling and not for those who suffer from vertigo.
The tower is open every day from 10am to 11.30pm, and costs €3,00 to climb the lift to the top.
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