german.dusseldorf

well, the entire trip is not merely about japanese sights, scenes and food. we also ventured beyond japanese town to the famous shopping street in dusseldorf which is almost similar to omoteasando of tokyo if i insist to put a japanese tag to it....

we took the u-bahn to the k�, that how the street is called... here you see all the big names and people walking passed carrying brand name shopping bags....

we went into one or two big malls, doing a bit of window shopping, admiring things that are nice but not necessary...

inside the k� karrel, where we find the muji store, johannes got something from here and i like the simplicity and the black color from jil sander...

at midnight on saturday, i gave him a surprise gift for his 4-X birthday!! actually the whole weekend trip itself is to celebrate his birthday, so he wasn't expecting anything else besides the fact that he can shop liberally on the saturday :)!

on sunday, where all shops are closed in germany, we venture out to a rococo style castle just at the edge of dusserdolf

we were attracted by this big standalone mansion and approaching it for some photo shots

and i asked him to pose for a wall photo, but we were told off by an old germany lady basically asking us to stay away from this private compound in an unfriendly way....

then we arrived at the pink rococo style castle called schloss benrath

it has a beautiful and large garden in both french and english styles....

the french style sculpture between the castle and the well mend park

the mansion is overlooking a pond with some summer flowers/boarders and beyond are open fields...

at the other side of the castle with an english garden

there is some sort of fair going on just at the town of benrath, we walked around a little bit, finally see the typical german elements, the worsts grilling on the platform, the tea house with german cakes, the stall that selling the german sweets and biscuits and of course ample of beer stalls...

we went back to the city and took a stroll at the hoofdgarten - a nice park in the city with lots of greens and space...

and the trees lining nicely forming the shade

and of course we saw a german lady sun tanning herself in the park, that's how a typical germany should be in the summer!!