Hotel Brunnenhof Hanau

... spent too much time investigating. Aside from a few months of an Introductory German course that I failed and dropped, I certainly have no 1st hand experience with their culture.
Planning, plotting, and practicing is how I will accomplish this irresponsible feat of travel and confusion.
Godspeed and good luck I've wished myself well in advance.
Who knows?
Maybe I'll never even make it out of Frankfurt...

... Well here's the story:

After having met a bunch of design students "by chance" (still don't believe in chance though ;) at a party,

[to be continued]

I reckon this trip will help me to make some awesome pictures.

It was sooooo cold in Frankfurt, we didn't want to spend much time here since we had no winter clothing. WE got in late, went to our hotel, then back to the airport to get our flight to Bangkok moved up. We though it would be at 8 that night, but they managed to get us on the next flight out, which was pretty much within the hour. Woohooo! I also kept speaking Italian in Germany... so confused with all the languages.

... plane. It was such a relief to be in my seat 4A with my carry-on carefully stowed and the flight attendant being somewhat attentive to my needs. The folks who were fortunate enough to board before me were finishing their glass of champagne and starting their first glass of white wine. Mind you, it is only 11:15 in the morning! Just water for me, please. I ate, I slept and I arrived in Hyderabad India some 10 hours later at about 1:30 am.

Mainz, Germany
Mainz was all about some quality time with my mum! Being the best mom ever she got me and Chris a room for the night at her hotel. We arrived and dropped off our stuff and then called my mum up. She is a flight attendant which is why we were so lucky to get to see her during one of her flights. She arrives in the morning after working all night and sleeps till 2pm so after she woke up it was time for reunion hugs and ...

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We arrived in Frankfurt to some more wet weather, and we headed to a hotel a few blocks away that we had seen online. It was in the middle of the red light district, but it was suitable and close to the train station. After we checked in, we found a phone to call Nadine and Flo. Nadine is a cousin of Chad's brother-in-law, and Flo is her boyfriend.

They met us at the train station in two separate cars and drove us back to their ...

... should be rerouted to Naples and NOT Rome. However, I'd have to file a missing luggage report once I'd landed in Naples because there was no way my bags would make it out of Frankfurt that day. Ooh deja vu of my hiking trip 2 years ago in Scotland! I cursed my decision not to wear my hiking boots while flying and hoped that I wouldn't be forced to hike in my inadequate trainers. Anyway, I got to my hotel at about 23:00 and the room was decent and ...

... the site hosts award presentations as well as political and cultural events. As I remember it when I was here in 1972, the Rathaus and Kaiser Dom were the only two buildings of any age in that area. Since then, the historic city centre, with its magnificent half timbered houses was reconstructed according to the original plans in 1986. Modern townhouses were also built on the medieval housing parcels. While I was not alive at the time of the Second World ...

... there was another plane they would use and we could fly at 7pm it was about 5 pm. so another 2 hours. Well everyone was mad we all got off and the pilot got on the intercom and said we couldent fly that night because of some legal issues something to do with the crew only being able to work a certain amount of hours a day or in a certain period of time. they could sign a wavier but they wouldent so we where stuck at the airport so they said they would ...

... you’d never do in the US, where freeways scream right over and around the centers of towns, frequently chopping up neighborhoods in the process. In Europe they stop at the edges, strictly a point-to-point sprint. You still have to wind your way through the cities, usually.