Bonnthoven…

Last weekend we decided to see a couple of cities we hadn’t visited as a family, Bonn and Düsseldorf. I had been to Düsseldorf solo while the family was in Brazil earlier in the year. We first hit Bonn.Aside from being the birthplace of Beethoven, Bonn struck us as a fairly typical German city. It was the capital of West Germany but doesn’t seem to be suffering much post-reunification. We had a very nice lunch near a faux castle gate (the name of which escapes) me. We then cruised by Beethoven’s childhood home, although we decided not to take the tour. The weather was unbelievably beautiful. We walked down to the Rhine, but didn’t see much in the way of restaurants or cafés, a real shame in our opinion.The kids played on a playground near the University (I think) and then we headed out to our hotel in Düsseldorf.