Today is the first day of KARNEVAL, so a million Germans will be drinking, puking, fighting, and generally trying to enjoy themselves in Düsseldorf for the next few days. A similar proportion of the population will be leaving the city, to avoid the revelry/rioting.
An amusing fact-ette my german teacher informed me in last night's lesson, the overground trams/straßenbahn do not run during karneval, because there are too many drunk people falling over or sleeping on the street, and insufficient police to maintain clear tram tracks. Now I don't know but I think some kind of snow-plough/bull bar device on the front of each tram would sort everything out!
More of the madness soon
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