Dusseldorf Funfair

This week has mostly been about Matt recovering from his trip to Swaziland, and getting on with his second Masters essay, which is due in next week.  The essay has been a team effort, with Matt writing and me reading drafts.  The weather this week has been scorching hot, with one day reaching 36 degrees!  We have made sure that we leave the house every day, even if it's just to go to the shop, walk around the park or go to the gym.  The heat makes it difficult to want to do anything at all.  It does help that there is an ice cream shop next to the park!  

We haven't been particularly social this week, going for drinks and dinner last Sunday with a few friends, and going to the funfair in Dusseldorf yesterday.  We actually had a really fun day.  Matt and I went early, before everyone else finished working on the summer school.  The fair is huge and has lots of rides, food and beer tents.  We also got flame smoked salmon buns, which are my favourite thing ever, and you can only normally get them at the Christmas fairs.

We went on a couple of rides, including both of the ones below.  The ferris wheel was nice and gentle and gave us a good photo opportunity from the top.

The other ride is one of those where you sit in a seat and it swings around.  They are normally for children, but this one is 80 metres high!  It was great!

Once our friends arrived, we went on this haunted house, which was pretty rubbish, apart from one bit!  There were dolls all around, being scary and gruesome, but one of them turned out to be an actual person who came at us with an axe, and made me scream a lot!

We also went on the below ride, which was a roller coaster in the dark with strobe lights, and the individual two seater carts spun around.  A really fun ride.

We had some beers too, and then went into Dusseldorf for cocktails once we had had enough of paying over the odds for beer.  A very pleasant afternoon and evening.

Next week our busy summer starts!  We've had it very relaxing this week up, but from now on we have non-stop plans, including a spa day in Cologne for our 2 year anniversary, 3 nights in Warsaw in Poland, photographing a wedding and then two weeks full of birthday fun and seeing friends in England.  I'm exhausted just thinking about it!