Frankfurt, Germany

Well I'm a little behind...A couple weeks ago I went to Frankfurt, Germany with a couple of girls from school. The first thing I did when we landed at the airport was, of course, ate a bratwurst at a restaurant called "Fritz." The brat was about 12 inches long on a 4 inch bread roll. It wasn't like the brats I'm used to, but hey it was authentic, so whatever. After an hour and 45 minute bus ride to the actual city of Frankfurt (if you fly RyanAir the airport isn't actually in Frankfurt it's in Frankfurt-Hahn) we arrived at our hostel. The location was pretty good right across from central station and about a 10 minute walk anywhere else.

Our hostel had it's own little lounge/bar/restaurant in it so we hung out there for a while waiting to meet up with the others we were with. While waiting a couple American guys walked up to us and started talking and came to realize that one of them was from the next town over from me. They were both in the army staying at the army base that's either in Frankfurt or somewhere really close to it. So later we met up with the others and headed to an area with lots of shopping and bars. It ended up being a horrible first impression of Frankfurt. We went to a lounge and the bouncer stopped us before we could get in and told us we couldn't. We asked why and he said "no reason." Ummm RUDE?! So this guy basically begged him to let us in and payed him 10 euro. It was so dumb, I didn't even want to go there anymore but the bouncer finally gave in so we went in. It wasn't even that great of a place. Well...about 40 minutes later the bouncer came in and yelled at our group to leave. (I was in the bathroom so I don't know exactly what happened) After we left we went to a club but I think it was too early for Frankfurters because there weren't many people there. I was tired from all of the traveling so decided to turn in kind of early.

The next morning we woke up early to see everything in Frankfurt in one day. Well, we didn't really need alllll day to see everything in Frankfurt, a couple of hours would have sufficed. The first place we went to was St. Bartholomew's cathedral. It was nice, not unlike any other cathedral, although it looked a lot more massive from the outside than the inside. After that we took pictures outside at some Roman ruins and then headed to Römer square. There wasn't really much to the square but a few authentic souvenir shops and a couple of restaurants. Later we headed to the "main tower" to see the bird's eye view of Frankfurt. The main tower was basically just "sky scraper" (not that tall) that you can go to the top of and see Frankfurt. It was pretty cool to go up there but it was sooo windy that day that it was kind of scary.

After the bird's eye view we went to eat some lunch. The place we ate at was a pretty cool little restaurant. It was Italian and you could basically have them make whatever kind of pasta or pizza you want, and they make it right in front of you. I've seen a couple of these restaurants since I've been in Europe, where there are a lot of big tables set up and you eat where ever and a lot of times there are strangers sitting by you, that's how this one was. We ended up sitting outside though because there wasn't any room inside. It was kind of cold out but it was really cute because they had blankets set out for the costumers. After eating lunch we really didn't have anything else to see so....when in doubt, go to the mall right? We went to the mall but I actually wasn't in the shopping mood so we went back to the hostel and took a nap.

When we woke up we hung out in the lounge area and wait for our free pasta dinner. They have this pasta dinner every saturday night, pretty sweet deal. It wasn't the best pasta but it was free so I was happy. We explored some more after dinner to see if we could get a good picture of the city lit up at night. It was really pretty but we couldn't get any good pictures. After that we headed back to the hostel because we had to head out early in the morning.

Frankfurt was a pretty neat little city, half old and half new. I probably would never go there again but I am happy to say that I have been to Germany. Next time, I will try to see Berlin or Munich.