First stop in D'dorf was a wander down the poshest street in all of Germany, Könnigsallee, pretty like King Street on steroids. It turns out that flannelette shirts and the look of a scruffy backpacker aren't the in at the moment, I'm sure they will be soon though.
After exerting ourselves we thought it was time to fill our bellies at the local market, smack bang in the middle of D'dorf - amazeballs! First on the menu was two bread rolls filled with fish fillets and onion - Aal Brötchen (salted eel) and Matjes Brötchen (raw herring) - specialities of the market. Both were extremely tasty.
We followed them up with Reibekuchen (deep fried potato fritters) with apple sauce on the side. You could eat these everyday for the rest of your life and never get sick of them.
After all that salt we were a bit parched so it was beer time. Hausbrauerei Zum Schlüssel was the first stop of our Alt journey. Which is brewed and served similar to Kölsch but with a few tweaks, i.e. it isn't as hoppy and is more malt driven and is served in stumpier 250ml glasses.
After Schlüssel we moved on to Zum Uerige, which is an early contender for bar of our trip. From the must that invades your nostrils upon entry to our Köbe who looked as though he'd been serving Alt for the last hundred years, this place this is a very old beer house.
We made sure that we absorbed as much of the experience as we could over a v enjoyable couple of hours.
After Uerige we battled our way through the rain to Brauerie zum Fuchschen for the last Alt of our trip, with a quick stopover at a lolly shop come concoction seller, as you do.
Fuchshen had a bit of a medieval feel to it, very tasty Alt and poorly marked unisex toilets (that may have actually been female toilets).
D'dorf's other notable achievement was giving us our first opportunity to wear sunglasses. It was short lived though and five minutes later they were back in our bag.
The Beers
Schlüssel Alt
Uerige Alt
Füchsen Alt
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