Blogs from Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany, Europe - page 17

Day 1: Frankfurt for a day Ant and I arrived in Germany at about 10am. With a 6 hour layover we decided to roam Frankfurt. After walking the streets for a bit we found a spot to eat, took a cab back to the airport, and caught our flight to Bilbao ... read more

Indiana Jones 5 - dieser Name begleitete uns 3 (2) Monate durch Südamerika. Wir starteten nahe des Äquators und reisten fortan immer weiter gen Süden, und drehten erst wieder um, als es am südlichsten Ende der Welt in Feuerland nicht mehr weiterging. Gemeinsam erlebten wir Momente, die wir ein Leben nicht mehr vergessen werden. Dieses Buch soll uns immer an diese tollen Momente erinnern, uns die Augen öffnen und in diese einzigartigen Länder hinfliehen lassen, wenn uns vor lauter Deutschtum das fernweh packt. Da das Vorwort der eher langweilige Teil dieses Buches ist, soll an dieser Stelle Schluss und dem geneigten Leser ein fröhliches Weiterlesen gewünscht sein. Auf das wir bald wieder ein solch spannendes Abenteuer erleben werden! Indi 5.... read more

Train to Frankfurt required several changes but I finally got there. Handy that the ticket terminals at the station let you print out the train timetable. Found my hostel was in the middle of the red light district, got hassled by spruikers at 3pm lol. But there was two reasons I stopped at Frankfurt. One was to catch the boat the next morning foir a cruise up the Rhine to Koblenz, but the main one was to go and try one of those famous, oversized schnitzels and oversized beers at Waldgeist restaurant, at Hofheim on the outskirts of Frankfurt. Took the train out there and then walked, was a bit further than I thought, about 5kms. Sat outside in the beer garden where they had a big TV set up for the soccer like everywhere does ... read more

We drove ourselves to the centre of Frankfurt (sounds like an Amazing Race clue) and found the Zeil, a large pedestrian only shopping area complete with restaurants, fruit and ice cream stands, as well as “rummies” begging for quarters... I had perfected my "I don't speak German" line when a woman approached us and in near perfect English said "do you have 50 cents for me and baby". After a brief moment of hesitation I let out "Ich spreche kein English". We walked quite a bit, and noticed there were more shoe stores than anything, also, there is a bakery about every 100 meters or so. Everything here is green already; they seem to be a month ahead of us with their spring. There are bicycles and motorcycles everywhere in Frankfurt, and the traffic is surprisingly ... read more

April 22, 2008 We made it safely to Germany to our niece Henita's place. We had a great dinner last night at ten o clock. We lost a whole bunch of stuff, like our brand-new video camera, but the camper is slowly spitting our stuff back out. We actually didn't really lose it; it was all were we left it but our brains have been fuzzy. We've been sleeping well; ten hours overnight! Today we are going down to the border of Austria; if all is well and our plans work out!!... read more