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From Easter Break (Spring Break) in Frankfurt, Germany on Apr 05 '07

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Okay, Im back to the german keyboard so youre going to have to deal with some z and y errors.

I caught the airport express train from Krakow Glowny to the airport.  It was a seemless process and I got the airport ahead of time, which is always nice.   They had an electronic scale there so I weighed mz bag to find out that it only weighed 7.5 kg!  So I didnt have to do any tricks in order to get it to pass as a carry- on bag!  I checked in and took a couple of minutes to figure out where the gates were.  Once I found them I walked through the customs.  Apparently I never received a stamp to enter Poland so the guy was hesitant to let me out.  After some eyeing and some questions about mz triop that seemed relatively irrelevant, he let me through.

Flying Ryanair sucks so bad.  Heres why.  (1)Theres always a crying baby on board.  I hate crying babies on airplanes more than anything.  Why would you travel with a child?  They dont appreciate the nature of traveling and theyre quite costly to have!  Ahhhh!  I will minimize my traveling when i have a kid.  (2) they fly to the most remote airports possible.  Turns out that Frankfurt airport is 1.5 hrs outside of the city!  I had to catch a €12 bus to get to Frankfurt!!!  That was ridiculous.  Whats more so is that I have to catch the same bus to catch my 1000 flight tomorrow.  I have to be at the airport at 0800 so that means I have to catch this long bus at 0630!!!  Ahhh!!!  You definitely get what you pay for with Ryanair.

I flew into the Frankfurt Hahn airport and hads to catch that long busride as I mentioned before.   I met a girl who was studying in Frankfurt and was born in Romania!  She said dont visit though because the city isnt all-that and its quite expensive!  I was surprised to hear that!  Especially since it onlz recently accepted into the EU.

I found my Hotel Continental relatively easil after getting off the bus.  I walked along the river Main and found Römerburg, the city center.  I sat in on a service at the red sandstone Dom.  It is the lone survivor of WWII in the city!  It was really nice inside and it was most interesting because its the first cathedral that I have been to made out of sandstone.  It had gothic decorations and was really nice overall.  The room was standing only because apparently many tourists wanted to see the interior as well.  It was obvious that i didnt belong becfause i knew none of the words that they sang and I was always the last to do whatever everyone else did hahaha.  Its okay though because i wasnt disrespectfully ignorant, just oblivious.  Lets Go said to eat near the university so I walked up that way.  I found nothing to eat and instead had a bier.  I had a 0,5L of We-blah blah blah.  I thought I ordered 0,3L but apparently not said the bill.  It was good and I hung out at the cafe while the sun set.   I turned back around and went towards the city again to find something to eat.  Nothing looked good so I succumbed to Burger King.  I had a hard time asking for lots-of-ketchup because the lady insisted that the restaurant didnt have large-ketchup-packets.  I was doing the wrong hand motion I suppose.  I shoulda just said it in English.  I forgot that Im not in Eastern Europe anymore.

I spent the rest of the night wandering through the city.  Man this place loves its sex shops and strip bars!  Theres an entire main street full of em!  Looks like Las Vegas because all of the lights...only without the people lining the streets.

I walked back towards the hotel along the river and have been here blogging since getting back.  Tonight I will turn in early so that I can wake up early tomorrow to catch the same ridiculous bus to the same ridiculously located Frankfurt Hahn airport.  They shouldnt call it Frankfurt airport if its not in Frankfurt.

I hope I can post pictures tomorrow when I get to Peres house.  Im so excited for company...traveling alone has its limits.


Kaneohe avatar Kaneohe on Apr. 6, 2007 @ 05:46AM said
For future reference: the trick to have a non-crying baby on an airplane is to be prepared with a bottle of milk at take-off and landing. The sucking process clears the ears which probably irritates the baby during pressurization/depressurization. You never cried when flying at age 10 months. pat, pat, pat ...smart mom. Haven't been to Frankfurt except passing through via train... guess I didn't miss much.
localkineguy avatar localkineguy on Apr. 6, 2007 @ 05:46AM said
Nah, didnt miss much. But I prefer this city over Berlin just because its more calm and there seems to be a lot to do. There are many museums but I didnt go to any because all require entrance fees and Im museumed out for the moment.

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