I took the high speed train to Frankfurt on June 19th. It was really cool — the speedometer went as high as 270 km (or 168 miles!) per hour. I wish we had something like that to travel within Canada. Once I arrived in Frankfurt, my first impression is that it’s like New York City: a major economic centre with lots of luxury shopping.
Mmm… smells like money! There’s even an established Occupy Wall Street movement set up here. Just like America.
I feel a little romantic about my personal family history visiting Germany. It’s kind of cool to think this is where at least 50% of my heritage is from. I love little things: the chocolates my Oma & Opa always give us at Christmas, the familiar traditional German dishes in restaurants, and the 1/5th of the language I understand ;) I didn’t realize how much of the culture was familiar to me until I got here, and now I’m just excited to experience it in detail
Frankfurt is an instant favourite of mine because it’s a big city. I especially love large cities where the present is juxtaposed over its past. My hometown isn’t old enough or large enough to boast such an interesting city face.
You can see from my photos that the weather wasn’t excellent when I arrived here. It was very cloudy with intermittent rain. This kept me indoors.. where I occupied myself with shopping (ugh I don’t even want to add it up in CAD). Thankfully, the rain relented in the evening, and there was an outdoor food festival going on in the city centre! I had some excellent authentic German cuisine and a huge glass of delicious apple wine!
Hopefully the weather gets a bit nicer the rest of this week!
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