What a blast from the past was Wednesday's visit to the "Duisburg Countryside Park" and the old steelworks. The photo left shows Klemens our guide, describing production at the works, with one of the torpedo wagons used to transport molten iron ore in the background. By Wednesday my legs began to protest, but they somehow managed to take me to the very top of a gantry overlooking one of the blast furnaces. The photo below gives an idea of the height. In the background, hidden in trees, is a climbing school, that uses some of the original concrete structures as climbing walls. There is a youth hostel on the site providing accommodation for young people who visit to climb. No for me!. www.landschaftspark.de Two lower photos show us, complete with yellow safety hats, in the "Nightingale Coalmine." The Wikipedia link will give you all the information about this mine. At one stage our guide turned off the electric lights, and then lit up with only a dim torch. This simulated candlelight was all that was available to the poor souls who toiled in the mine way back in the mid 1700s to the early 1900s. The lowest photo shows us at "Arwin's Brewhouse" in Oberhausen Centro, the largest shopping centre in Europe. We dined here that evening instead of in the hotel. Wolfgang finds it amusing to photograph me at the same time as I photograph him. It was a lovely end to a busy day of walking, climbing, clambering and banging our safety helmets on the roof of the mine.
Clonk, clonk, clonk, in English and in German!
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