Contel Hotel Mainz
Wallstrasse 56 Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, 55122, Germany
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The sun shone in Frankfurt
... a chat. They have been here for a month at a cost of $40,000 seeking treatment for his cancer that is not available in Australia. It involves heating up the body under deep sedation and has had good results. They have left their 3 small children at home and we felt for them. We told them that we are people who pray and promised to pray for his healing. We will never know how he fares, but we left feeling thankful for our health compared to his challenge. As we reach the ...
Day 22: With my nose to the grind/tombstone
... around to rub up against my legs. No joke, I actually got a tour of the oldest Jewish cemetery in Europe from a hobbling old black cat.
It was really a beautiful place, and the first headstones I was passing were really old. I could tell exactly HOW old because all of the writing was in Hebrew, and often also impossible to see due to wear or destruction or moss growing all over it. There were so many graves, in ...
Last stop- Frankfurt
... apartment on the 14th floor with a magnificent view across the river and the whole city. It is a little more upmarket than the rest of our accommodation, but we decided to go out in style and it is a nice place to celebrate our wedding anniversary this week on the day we leave. We have unpacked for the last time and Peter is plotting tomorrow's round of museums and sightseeing.
Peter's art tour:
Two art museums before we checked in - my poor wife, but what a ...
My day trip to Mainz
... though I was unfortunately unable to go inside.
I continued on after that church until I reached the river, which was somewhat of a surprise. La Crosse's river may be dangerous when drunk and dark, but the Rhine was completely invisible until I was basically almost in it thanks to the fog. Along the Rhine was a very nice river walk that I followed for a while. It had a wall along the city side of it with what I think are parts of the ...
Gutenberg's hometown
... old church. Not so shiny and prestigious as some others I have visited. I lit a little candle for my family back home.
Ok, sat here long enough, time to get going.
So I wandered around town some more and then took the tram back to the hotel. It was raining consistently bu this point and anyway I was meeting Joris and Charlotte at the hotel. We left shortly after that for Mainz. I was the tour guide since I now know the city so well (ha!). One of ...



