After walking around the shopping area of the city, we went to get some lunch in the sun and relax before we took our tour. We then took a tour on a boat that went up and down the Rhine, talking about the different sights and major points to the city. The tour came in both German and English, so we were fortunate to be able to understand it. The weather was fantastic, in the high 70's or so (One of the main reasons we decided to take a tour on a sunny boat). We enjoyed some refreshing wheat beers (Schofferhofer Hefeweizen) that were perfect in the Sunny weather. There were also a bunch of soccer players from a team in Stuttgart on the boat, who were here on some team trip and definitely looked like they were having a good time.
After grabbing lunch and the tour, we walked around the old city, where it was all cobblestone and the streets were literally lined with bars. Dusseldorf is known for having one of the longest bars in the world (possibly the longest?) because it's old street has so many bars in a consecutive line that have outdoor seating that it forms one huge bar that's almost a mile long. There was an outdoor band playing for the afternoon too, so it made it pleasant to stand around and have a drink. Apparently that was the weekend that everyone and their mother decided to have their bachelor party, and so the streets were littered with groups of guys wearing T-Shirts with different German phrases relating in some way to a Bachelor party.
After walking around the bars, we noticed a guy doing the robot. He was pretty awesome. Definitely got the most attention out of any street performer there. People giving him a lot of money. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_W_4K1V0kM Pretty Awesome. All in all, Dusseldorf was a great day. We also went up an observation tower that was about 150m high. The FA Cup finals was that day too, Chelsea v. Everton, so we got to watch some quality soccer.
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