Thursday November 3 – Dusseldorf

The entrance to a local Benedictine monastery.

Just a brief update, we are still enjoying this wonderful “hotel”, and feel very lucky to be able to experience everyday life with a German family. Ruakiwi was taken to the motorhome company yesterday and we will collect it today and drop it off to Mercedes to have a full service done.

Yesterday we passed by the power generation plants, these really are the ugly side of Germany, and such a contrast to the beautiful autumn colours of the forests.

And we had our first visit to an IKEA store, and what an experience and understand now why it is such a popular company. Perhaps it was a good thing that we have so little room in our bags! Maybe one day they will come to New Zealand.