We saw a wedding party come out of the chapel, and going in afterwards, we could feel how much warmer it was after forty or fifty bodies had been in it for an hour. The bride was wearing a traditional white dress with a white fur stole.
The theme of the sculptures in the hall leading to the bedrooms was children's fairy tales. There were Nils and the goose; Snow White and the dwarves; the little mermaid; Beauty and the Beast; and some others.
This ad in the Frankfurt U-bahn warns Schwarzfahrer [black-riders], or people who ride the buses and subways without tickets, that it can be very embarrassing to be caught.
The first building rebuilt after World War II. The Münchners like their culture. And their royalty. The Opera House still has a "royal box" for the Wittelsbach family, and the Wittelsbachs still sit there, and people still bow at them.
New Orleans had fish, Lake Charles had alligators, Munich has lions all around the city.
This lion may be the Loewenbraeu/Lowenbrau lion. He is wearing the Bavarian colors on his vest.
The Dreikönigskirche was one of the first Protestant churches in Germany, at a time when it was still dangerous for a congregation to choose this path. Its first Protestant pastor arrived in 1531. This new church was built on the same site in the late 1800s.
A British classicist friend writes: "It’s Odyssey – don’t know exactly where off the top of my head… 'Striking the wine dark sea, towards foreign peoples'. Splendid!"
The large building is the Staedel Museum, one of the best small art museums in Europe.
Frankfurt was the "ford of the Franks" or the "free ford," and was near the northern frontier of the Roman Empire. Charlemagne held meetings here, and the kings of Germany and the Holy Roman Empire were elected, and after 1562 crowned, here, in the Cathedral or "Dom" which you see in the background, covered in scaffolding. This photo shows the annual Museumsuferfest (Museum-riverbank Festival).
The Commerzbank skyscraper in the background. I liked it so much I looked up the architect. It was designed by Sir Norman Foster, the same man who designed the famous "gherkin" in London.
This is a huge store. Why doesn't it just hire more employees? German unemployment is 11.3% this month. These two things are related.
Goethe was born in Frankfurt and the city is very proud of him. He would be more popular abroad if English speakers knew how to pronounce his name.