With new Cork-Dusseldorf flights, people should consider visiting gorgeous Germany

Former Irish Examiner sub-editor Mareike Graepel lived in Cork for years before she returned to her native Germany. With new Cork-Dusseldorf flights on offer, she gives the local lowdown on the Ruhr Valley.

As we are a German-Irish family living in Germany we naturally have friends and family from the Emerald Isle over on holidays staying with us on a regular basis.

For each and everyone we make a huge effort to impress them with everything our Ruhr Valley region has to offer — mostly successfully, I might add.