Tulip Inn 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.

... returns and I was allowed to enter the holding pen. This very different from the US. You cannot enter the "waiting area" near the gate until the ticket agents open the area and you make it through the proces mentioned above. Then you sit and wait an hour while ticket agents random check your bag sizes trying to force you to "check" the carry on. Then you line up in the same non-orderly fashion to board another cold bus ride to the ...

... the hookers seemed to still be waiting for the American GI’s. It was raining and dreary, but soon to change when Erik’s cousin, Nadine, and boyfriend, Flo, picked us up to take us to their home town outside the big city near the Tanus Mountains. We had a wonderful visit, them taking us to a traditional German restaurant where we tasted fresh apple wine. We topped it off with a visit to their apartment. What a great way to end the trip!

... and listen to church in other languages, but we were real tired... (our train had left at one in the morning and arrived for a transfer in Zurich at 6:20. Not much sleep for us!!) so we opted to have the head set to listen to translation in hopes that it would help us stay awake. (I had only one earphone on part of the time so I could listen to the German as well, it was pretty great) After church we took a little ...

... at Frankfurt at 9.30. I checked into my hotel room which was directly across from the main train station and got 4 hours sleep before getting up and going again. I got to the airport at 5am and because of my early check-in, I got window seats for both of my flights to home. The first one was incredibly short, the second one a bit longer. I saw the following movies: You me and Dupree, Nacho Libre, Accepted and Little Miss Sunshine.
I got back to ...

... day. It was a fair bit of fun but we decided to head for the trainstation to start the trip to Berlin. Our Eurail passes are pretty cool - we had to get it validated for the first time we use it but for now on all we do is write in the date we travel and we can get an any train going anywhere that day. The train to Berlin we were on was a pretty new one - very comfortable seats and the ride was unreal - you can barely tell you're travelling at all. We ...

... tram went the wrong direction cause he never told me whitch direction to go so I had to get back on it and go to stops back the other way. I get off and Im in this room with just a couple of seats and thats it I was like what the heck where do I go? So I tried asking some people waiting for the tram well I was in the international part so no one under stood me. I finally found someone who did and they told me I have to walk down the steps and I will ...

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 ...