Hi Mum,
today we went to Wuppertal-Barmen by Schwebebahn to take a walk on the Nordbahntrasse, a former railway track. In Germany lots of no longer used railway tracks are re-built to lanes for pedestrians and cyclists. This one here was closed 1999.
Here you can see me inside the station.
A train was coming in on the opposite side.
Soon we reached Barmen, the second largest district of Wuppertal. Here we had to walk a few minutes to reach the former railway track, uphill of course 
From a larger bridge you have a stunning overview across the valley.
When the weather is as nice as today, usually lots of people are using this lane.
There also tunnels along the track.
Most of the railway tracks were removed, one stayed for handcar trips.
We found information boards at a former station.
There were pictures of the different states of use of this railway track.
We found fondly created gardens along the route.
We saw many different districts, some of the older parts and also "newer" housing areas.
We left the track at this station in the Northern part of the city centre.
A city festival is held this weekend. Yesterday Katja wanted to go out with a friend, having a cocktail or two. Due to a heavy storm lots of events were cancelled within whole North Rhine-Westphalia, also the city festival here was closed at the late afternoon. Today everything is fine again.
We walked through "Nordstadt", a district with lots of preserved historic buildings.
Urban gardening in the surroundings of a church
In the city centre Katja showed me a large fountain on the space in front of the city hall - a copy of a similar fountain in Trient, Italy. It was donated to the city in 1895.
The festival is called "Elberfelder Cocktail" - cocktails everywhere 
There also several stages, here a rock band was playing.
We enjoyed a cocktail (yes, in broad daylight) and walked home.
Bye
Mishuta
