Münster; Sunday, 22 December, 2024

I though I’d learnt my lesson from the previous day and got up a bit earlier for breakfast, but it turned out everyone else had also had the same idea, and I ended up having to wait even longer to get somewhere to sit down and have breakfast.

Breakfast finally completed I checked out of the hotel and headed back into town to visit the Stadtmuseum, or City Museum, which charts the history of the city from the pre-historic era through to the modern day including it’s rise to be an Hansiatic city that was bigger and more important than Cologne, and it’s fall back from those heights. Throughout the museum there are models of how the city looked at different stages throughout history with the model from 1945 showing just how much of the ancient heart of the city was destroyed.

Having looked round the museum I went for a wander through the city, arriving in the domplatz at the same time as the hop-on-hop-off bus tour was pulling in at the end of it’s tour and preparing for it’s next one so I hopped on that to have a tour of the city before getting back off again at the cathedral and hour later.

By now it was time to start making a move from Münster so I headed back to the hotel to pick up my bags and catch the train back to Düsseldorf Airport and my additional night in Germany.

The RE2 train was already pretty packed when it pulled in and I decided there was no way I was going to get a seat on it, but thankfully on the opposite side of the platform was the RE42 service which was due to leave a couple of minutes later and, despite having to change in Duisburg, would get me to the airport only 20 minutes later, and that had plenty of seats, so I had a comfortable if slightly slower journey back.

Back in Düsseldorf airport I walked over to my hotel for the night – having booked the Sheraton (BA were paying so I wasn’t going cheap), located within the terminal, to check-in.

I headed back down into the terminal to visit the supermarket located at the very far end of the building to grab some stuff for dinner and after dinner and a drink in the hotel bar I had an early night as I needed to get up early to put a couple of hours work in before my flight, given I was supposed to be at work on the Monday!