18-19/52 Weekly update Düsseldorf Summer weather in May

Düsseldorf has had summer weather with nice warm temperatures
When the weather is better I do have less time to write my weekly blog updates and also less time to work on my creative projects. More time to enjoy outside and our days are getting longer and longer and kids has been staying up way too late the past two weeks. Picknicks with friends outside in a park, going to the stable late and afternoon at the swimming pool in Kaiserswerth tend to always be a longer event then I plan. But hey soon summer-break right so better to get use to staying up late.

One weekend we went to Eindhoven for the day. We like to go to the Netherlands - people are friendly and even if it is only an hour away you can feel it is a different country with an other spirit. A spirit which is more open and more friendly. It is also good to go on a Sunday when most things are closed here in Germany. Here is a few pictures of a graffiti wall right next to PSV Eindhoven football arena. On the other side of the wall is Philipsdorf park a fun park for kids to play in and kept nice and clean by local pensioners. We thought kids would be happy to go and play a bit but both of them just sat in the shade and looked grumpy - and we realized that they are faster then you think reaching an age when playgrounds are not really that much fun anymore. So we headed into the city and enjoyed dinner in a cool food-court with tastes from all over the world. Down Town Gourment Market, Smalle Haven, Eindhoven.
For me it is so amazing to take my family to Eindhoven and Valkenswaard in Holland where I used to live when I was young straight after high school - I never thought I would ever visit this part of Europe again and now since four years I live only 1 hour and 20 minutes away. Life is an adventure and randomly takes you places.

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