March 2026. Dusseldorf. Germany.
Day 2 of our German mini-break (ugh); time to leave Wuppertal‘s anarchism,
and head to the teutonic order of Dusseldorf, where the boys would no doubt have enjoyed a cultural afternoon.
The DBahn website taunted us with cancellations, and rail replacement buses lined the walk to Wuppertal Hbf, so the sight of an S Bahn (late) was a relief, though Dusseldorf greeted us with an underground strike.
“Get a table” I texted Matt.
20 minutes walk, or 35 if you stop to take photos of the Grosse Grössen store,
and wonder why only the second ö has an umlaut.
The most notable feature along Bismarckstraße are the hot pot, noodle and Bulgogi places, but there’s plenty that looks like a Kraftwerk album cover, too.
The elegance of Dusseldorf only really hit home when we visited with the Southworths in 2022,
Across the Königsallee you get the financial district
a different world to the industrial Ruhr, and then the old town,
where you wonder how you’re going to walk past the sausages in Carlsplatz.
But then you see it…
….hang on, I thought the boys were saving us a seat ?
retiredmartin 
Große (or grosse) means “big”. Größe (or Grösse) is English “size”, and it takes an N in the plural. So grosse Grössen is “big sizes”. The shop sells tall, long and maxi sized clothes, according to the shop window, though a tree is hiding one of the signs. Could it be wide?
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