Saturday, 29/11/14
Day 11, Düsseldorf

After a party the Germans threw me on Friday, I was sooooo tired in the morning! They drank lots of beer and had a great time … in German. Thankfully, I had some of my tour friends with me so I could at least keep my sanity. It was a fun time, but I was absoloutely wrecked in the morning!

Our family went to the Christmas markets in the aftenoon and we bought 'Kartoffelpuffers', which is a home-made hash brown, really, but you dip it in apple sauce. There were all kinds of beautiful shops: hats, wallets, souvenir shops and craft shops. But there was one shop that sold incredible hand-made wooden toys and gadgets, at a cheap price. The thing I like about Christmas Markets are the smell of them, and how they seem to radiate warmth with their bright, luminous lights. A common smell that I love are the smell of roasted almonds. Mmmmm …

Later, a few of our friends and their hosts went to a gig of one of the schools' bands. As we entered the café, there was blazing techno music and lots of young people. After my ears started to bleed, the band members took their places on the instruments and played all of the punk songs from the song-list. It was good, but after about seven songs two dudes from the audience began to … um … dance? They were very drunk and it was hilarious, but it was kind of alarming because they knocked a few people down in their jig-like circle dancing (including the lead guitarist!).

I couldn't even get out of bed the next day.

~Charlie