🇩🇪 Wuppertal: A Floating Reverie in Engels' Hometown

✨ "Where communist ghosts whisper through suspension cables, and every house tilts like a drunk philosopher." ✨ 🚂 Spontaneous Pilgrimage Hopped on an RB train from Düsseldorf at noon First sight: The Schwebebahn's skeletal tracks looming over the station Walked past shuttered shops into residential labyrinths 🏡 Surreal Streetscapes Leaning houses defying gravity (LA meets Wes Anderson) Wall poetry: Hammer-and-sickle graffiti beside Baroque stucco Eerie quiet: Only my footsteps and occasional church bells 🚟 Schwebebahn Epiphany Glided over the crystal Wupper River, swaying like a drunk tightrope walker Terminal discovery: A hidden hill of mansions Manicured hedges, zero graffiti "This is where the Kapitalists live," I whispered to a startled pigeon 🏔️ Vista Shock From that illegal parking lot viewpoint: New Zealand pastures meets Tibetan plateaus Then the Schwebebahn dragged me back to reality—to: 🍜 Tibetan momos with a homesick chef 🎨 Rebel murals winking near discount stores #FloatingBetweenWorlds #ClassStruggleVistas #GermanWanderlust