Travelog post for: Ragamuffin

Hi Mummy,
we visited the neighbour city Wuppertal today. Katja met a friend to take a walk. She said that the forrests are still covered with ice on the ground, so you cannot walk comfortly there. So she decided to visit Wuppertal.

We went there by bus and got off the bus in the city centre with its shopping streets.





The name of the city Wuppetal is made up of two words: "Wupper" is the river which is runing through the city and "Tal" means valley. This city was built in the valley of the river Wupper. On the next photo you can see how steep it is going uphill.



Before climbing out of the valley we needed refreshments.



The french fries were not enough for me, I had a doughnut afterwards    Than we went uphill ....



Most parts of the city were built in 19th century. For pedestrians more than 500 stairs were built in the steep slopes to connect the streets. We walked up and down some of them today.



We walked to the "Nordstadt", one of many districts, where we saw lots of pretty art-nouveau-houses.





Err ... this is certainly not art-nouveau ...





We walked back downhill  through a small park.



We walked to another quarter than, "Briller Viertel" where the rich factory owners built their mansions, mostly in 19th and early 20th century.









We took those stairs to walk back to the valley. These stairs are under monument protection, like many of them.



When we walked back to the bus statioin we walked through a street called "Bärenstraße" (Bear Street). Walter even found a "Löwenstraße" (Lion Street).



I would like another doughnut now 

Bye
Ragamuffin