Although I love Essen and everything seemed to go so well, again I got lost shortly after I found the first promising sign pointing to my first destination „Werden“. I even circled back to the sign and tried again but not a chance to find the follow-up sign. So I decided to cycle to Werden according to my phone, again missing one of those „wonderful“ cycle routes.
When I arrived in Werden, it seemed like I had gotten on the right route anyway somehow and cycled a bit along the Ruhr on the „official“ nice cycling path. Since it was a wonderful sunny Sunday, there were a lot of people everywhere but it still wasn’t too bad.
Only a few kilometers further, I already had to leave the nice cycling path and after that the route went up and up and up the hill towards Ratingen. Probably a little foretaste what I have to expect in the Eifel region 😉
The distance between the first city sign of one of the suburbs of Ratingen to the town center was endless but when I finally reached it, a „nice“ surprise was waiting for me: like the Sunday before there was the „car days“-weekend in town and people and cars and stalls were everywhere…too bad. I had a quick lunch break and moved on right after, although I usually love to roam through the town a bit.
Of course, I still had to take a picture of the stadium where – in two months time – the decathlon and heptathlon meeting is going to take place, this year again without me (as spectator of course 😉 ).
Right after Ratingen start the outskirts of Duesseldorf. Luckily, the cycling path doesn’t lead through the city center. So I cycled more or less around Duesseldorf and arrived a little later at the Rhine river where everybody was enjoying themselves in the sun :-).
After some more cycling through the Vodafone area – Vodafone and some other big companies are settled there – I arrived Neuss and a little while later also my home for the next two days.
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