Back on the road
Tuesday, August 30th, 2011(Sun Aug 28) Mon Aug 29 , 2011 – Day 1 Frankfurt
After two weeks of taking a break from travel, I starting to get restless when the day of my flight rolled around. It was a short flight, leaving Calgary at around midnight and getting to Frankfurt at a quarter to five. About 8 hours. The immigration took next to no time and I was at the hostel in time to take a shower and join Julia on a hostel-sponsored free night walk. The tour guide is from a village next to Frankfurt and had been living in the city for about a year. The tour took about 2 hours and we got an intorduction to the history of the city as well. After the tour, the entire group went out for drinks. The special of the day was a metre beer! The measure made no sense till the lady brought the beer out. There were 11 glasses of beer in a holder that was a metre long.
Tue Aug 30 – Day 2 Frankfurt
Spent the morning walking around town, taking photos like the tourist that I had almost forgotten to be after a fortnight of being a homebody.
At noon, I headed back to the hostel to meet a native of Frankfurt that I had met and made friends with in Colombia. We had lunch and walked around to some of his favourite spots in town. I was quite tired by the time I returned to the hostel and my left ankle hurt!
Frankfurt is a big city and seemed the financial capital with a LOT of banks! I do miss the easy camaraderie of Latin America. My hostel was in the red light district and there are plenty of sex shops all around the hostel. It is also the area with a lot of international markets. The city is quite multi-cultural and based on the number of Turkish markets and restarants, has quite a large Turkish population.
I catch a train to Leipzig tomorrow. Most of the folks I had met, German or otherwise, didnt have much to say about Frankfurt, but I found myself warming to the city! A day more would be nice, but the hostel is expensive and I already have my train ticket.
Damu