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Düsseldorf Germany

On our second day of the cruise, we stopped in Düesseldorf, Germany 🇩🇪.  After a huge and amazing breakfast, we were off on our bike trip.  Our German guide Thor, showed us around the beautiful streets of Düesseldorf.   We were not the only ones in the streets trying to get to the largest beer hall in the world.    An interesting note about drinking beer here. You join people at a table and a guy in a blue outfit drops off a small beer. When finished with your beer he will drop off another beer and mark a line on your coaster. When you are finished drinking you cover your glass with your coaster. The guy comes by and adds up all the lines and that is how they track how many beers you drank.  This is a large art installation that depicts a large battle that took place when the town tried to replace their Bishop. The Bishop hired a large army to "calm" the town folks and one of the largest battles in the towns histor