Last Saturday Holger and I excitedly went to our trusted jewellery shop to pick up our wedding rings with a week’s delay. Unfortunately the good man had forgotten that I did not want one of those shiny little precious stones on my ring. So, it will take another week before we can pick them up but that won’t matter so much since I will have to wait another 87 days before I can wear it anyway.

We spent the rest of the day with a wonderful outing to Düsseldorf airport. Now, if that does not sound great to you I have to tell you that you missed something. With nice spring weather to enjoy we spent about 2 Euro per Person to buy tickets to the visitor platform of the airport. We had no idea what a bargain that actually was! Not only were we allowed to leisurely stroll on the rooftop of a terminal, watching all the things that happen in order for an aircraft to get ready. Something which is especially interesting if normally you are sitting inside, wondering what could possibly still take so long once the door has been locked and everyone carefully fastened their seatbelts.

What we did not know is that our ticket included free rides with the SkyTrain which takes you to the second visitors platform. That platform is situated quite nicely at the very end of the runway and offers a wonderful view on the airport’s “planepark” as well as the surrounding woods. So we were able to watch a good number of planes land and take off, sometimes with just minutes in between. It was very relaxing, especially when the airport fire brigade raced down the runway several times, seemingly chasing the plane that just took off.

Between visiting platforms we enjoyed a large mug of very yummy Chai Latte (highly recommendable!!!) at the Starbucks coffee house in the airport’s very nice and calming check-in area. That, however, was not included in our tickets .