After I went to bed on Friday afternoon (arrived at my hotel at 01:00 am and went to bed half an hour later - couldn't sleep because of all that excitement and took my last look at my alarm clock at 02.30 am...
Had to go up at 07:00 - breakfast at 08:00 where I met my colleauge Tobias and then at 08:30 we left the hotel and walked 5 mins to the group again. Left our baggage at their hotel and then Tobias did a shopping tour and I did a "cultural walk" through the city of Duesseldorf which was very interesting for me as I never thought about this town and learned a lot - for example this city is clear of debt and that means all kindergardens are "free" - you don't have to pay for that! Isn't that great??? And Duesseldorf is the one and only city in Germany where they have 3 lights for the pedestrian lights (no clue if you have to know that - but I've learned that).
So we walked around for about 3 hours and we all got a nice and informative impression of this beautiful town. When we started our guided tour the city was very calm and empty as most of the malls and shops open at 10.00 am and we started our tour at 09:00 - but the later - the crowded...I think thats normal.
After a two hours "break" - we had lunch - we started another tour with a curricle which was very nice.
I nearly fell off the curricle when I saw this: First I didn't recognize the dog but then I couldn't stop myself and I had to take a photo - but the biker was happy with that and grinned....
The dog had a special "bag" so couldn't jump out - how funny is that - and when the biker started again the ears of the dog flew up and down - sooooo cute I could not stop grinning and laughing.
It is said that Duesseldorf has the largest bar of the world - its a whole street where one bar is next to the other - so it was no surprise for me that we got to know how Duesseldorfs dark beer tasts. And to avoid down falling glasses during the "ride" the table looked like this:
There were holes in the table where you could stick in the glasses. And as the coach man had to sit in front of the carriage it was my part to refill the glasses every now and then. I was told I did a good job! So if my business will run bad - I try to become a "bar woman" - lol.
After the ride we arrived at the hotel around 05:00 pm and all guests had to refresh as an hour later they got picked up for dinner on a boat on the river Rhein. For us photographers our jobs were done and we waited for the taxi to the airport - had a nice flight back without any probs and hubby picked me up at the airport at 09:30 pm - a long but interesting and special day. This are days when I love my job to bits.
I had to edit a few photos but now all is done - I did around 650 photos and hope that they are happy with the result.
