1,086 km - Planes, Trains and Automobiles

Germany Day 5

I wake up early to head to the airport for my extremely busy day. We leave Berlin via plane; it is a short flight to Dusseldorf and then grab a taxi to Krefeld. We are about to step into Siemens largest train manufacturing facility with a growing employee base of over 2000 people where they are producing 450 train car bodies each year. No pictures allowed on our tour, but take my word for it - it was huge and pretty impressive. It is quite a bit larger than our Sacramento facility. As we say goodbye we see the American flag alongside the German and Siemens flags - they raised it just for our little groups visit that day, very nice of them. After lunch we drive into Dusseldorf. This is the high-fashion capital of Germany and bit our of our price range. Here is where I finally tred my fist German beir at the beerhall Llerige (packed at 3 pm on a Wednesday), and it was awful - tasted like it was pored from an old boot.

Then we get on another plane for Nurnberg and finally arrive at our hotel in Erlangen. 1,000 kilometers of plane and car travel, plus touring a big train facility and touristing another city... and I am spent.