Touring Frankfurt

Howdy, all.

Scott & Sara -- Congratulations! Email when you get a chance (wlu address still works--does yours?). No rush, we know how it is.

My office building is very drab, but it has a great view. Frankfurt's mix of old and new is pretty obvious in this panoramic view.









No one we had spoken to who had been to Germany before was enthusiastic about Frankfurt. Too modern. But so far I really like the city. There's a difference between visiting somewhere as a tourist and living there as a resident. Frankfurt is really liveable. Nice parks, wide sidewalks, fun shopping, etc. And I think there's a difference between visiting a country as you want it to be, before you get there--like cuckoo clocks and castles and large beer steins--versus visiting it as it actually is, which is a place where people wake up and go to work each day and don't really care how great the museums are or how photogenic the scenery is. The guidebooks love Munich, but those buildings are just replicas, right? It got bombed along with Frankfurt and everywhere else, but it was just rebuilt in a different style. Of course I don't know, I haven't been to Munich yet. Here's our walk to work.











Boy oh boy do the Germans know how to put on a good street fair. Incredible food (we had African, from Cameroon), terrible music (Jenny got video of a German Barry White impersonator), lots of alcohol.

















We are still exploring Frankfurt and haven't left the city much. Here's two photos of the Old Opera House. Eli had to get out to explore by himself.




























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