Hotel Schottenhof Mainz

... 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...

... because I could not use a flash, except when I was sure no one was looking). This was the first astounding example of German Romanesque architecture (with touches of Gothic design) we are going to see. This Cathedral was completed during the late 12th century, with a few additions during the following two centuries. It is magnificent, and my photos do not do it justice in the slightest. The vaulted ceilings peak at over 120 feet, and much of the stonework is ...

Short entry this time....

Only here for one night. Got to the hotel saw a couple of shops with beersteins, birkenstocks and clocks. Had dinner and watched some feral women proceed to get ****** and act like idiots in the hotel bar. Some good news though, won 30 euro on the slot machine in the hotel.

One of the guys (we assume it was a guy) even peed in the hotel hallway and our Tour Manager had to clean it up. People can be such animals.

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Wow St Goar seriously looks like a very typical little German town, it's hard to describe why but when you just look at the little houses you know your in Germany.
Went to wine tasting last night coz the Rhine Valley produces sweet reslings and i like sweet wines but even i was like dude this is hurting my jaw LoL...
kinda wish i was a mum right now coz it seems like we stop for a second and Kylie ...

After another wonderfully Nutella-filled breakfast at noon, Claudia and I hit the road towards Mainz, a city just outside of Frankfurt. We got on the Autobahn and drove towards Mainz. The Autobahn is great because for the majority of the way, there is no speed limit. We would riding along at 180 km and some Audi would rip past us like we were standing still! However, the Germans do know how to drive - i.e. you ...

... I could create there? We get to the Mainz Hauptbanhof and find our way to the street. Well, there was a little confusion with an elevator. We found one and it started to go down. When it opened we got out and then realized there were still stairs to go down. So we went down them and saw the elevator opening on the first floor. We just got out like lemmings when the door opened, not noticing we were not where we needed to go. We thought we knew ...

... a thought-provoking vista. After returning to Mainz, we met up with our friend, Shellie, another friend / student from Rollins. She lives in Mainz too, and we wanted to see her before she went home from work. We had a wonderful dinner at the restaurant, "Alex", with Shellie, Bill, Joe, Sean, and me. It was a nice way to round off two days of touring such amazing marvels that harken back to the beginning of our nation.

... finally we made it to bingen and just happened to find a shop to buy a few bottles and then we headed on to mainz. we hageled our way into a very nice hotel to get a singel room for 100 Euro! it was way too expensive, but it was the only thing open because of conferences in town. so we did it and went out and had a few beers in Mainz and turned in. sunday we had to part, it was sad, but i am sooo glad we got to spend the time together!

I've been in Frankfurt several times, mostly checking out the gift show in my capacity as a trade show geek in general, promoter of my frog line in particular. So I know the town a bit. But this time we merely pass through, in the middle of the night, right through the center ...