I woke up this morning and left Darren asleep while I went for a walk around town. I went to the post office first where I posted the German book for my auntie and a postcard for my nan, then I just wandered up and down the streets for a while. I came across some cool looking roman ruins which had been excavated and had a glass top over it to look down into, then went past a pretty park and wandered around more streets. I started to make my way back to the hostel...

We slept in a while today, then chilled out using the wifi for a bit before getting ready to go out. We walked down the stairs and when we got to the front door, we saw that it was pelting down! The rain was so heavy that the gutters were rivers! We put our hoods on and walked/ran as fast as we could without slipping over to the square up the street that was filled with tables and chairs covered with umbrellas. We went inside this place to get some lunch, but the...

So after getting no sleep in the hour leading up to my alarm going off, I ended up falling asleep as soon as I pressed the snooze button!! Argh! So after a snooze or two, we got up and got ready, finished packing, then Pancho and Nina arrived. Pancho worked out how to get Lars' printer working so I could print our boarding passes, then we grabbed our bags and jumped in the car and started the hour and a bit drive out to Düsseldorf airport. Nina had brought a...