Fun in Frankfurt

After a short 3 days back at school I was off again for an extended weekend abroad! My first stop was Frankfurt, Germany. It was more of a long layover on our way to Barcelona, Spain. With a flight scheduled to depart from Kaunas at 9am, the only bus able to get us there on time left Klaipeda at Midnight. So we packed up our things, and caught the 3.5 hour bus to Kaunas. This bus took us to the city center, not to the airport, so we were really hoping that the local bus was running over night to take us to the airport. Luckily is was! We were in the airport, sleeping, by 4:30am. Oh, did I mention we were the only people in the entire airport?

Arriving in Germany, we took a bus into the city center and started our walk through the city around 1:00pm. We walked down a major outdoor market street on our way to the old town. Frankfurt is unique to other cities I have been to so far because it has really old buildings mixed in with massive new skyscrapers. In other cities, there is usually a separation between the two, but here they were just all mixed in. We made our way to Romerberg, which is basically the city hall town square.

We continued our walk over the famous iron bridge, and came across a really neat Lutheran Church. The lady at the entrance told us all about the history of the church and told us how to go up into the balcony. There was lots of pretty stained glass. The church seemed very plain and simple compared to some of the orthodox churches I have seen in the last couple weeks though! As we continued our walk I was approached by two men conducting a survey of tourists exploring Frankfurt during a long layover. Of course we fit the category perfectly so they followed us around and wrote down observations and asked us questions. We ended up finding a place to eat dinner and then strolling down a large pedestrian shopping district. There was this really fancy mall with a very modern design. After it got dark we went to Main Tower to see the view from the top. I read that there was a restaurant and viewing platform. Unfortunately we were an hour late for the viewing platform, and the restaurant was reservation only. We finished the evening with a late night walk around the city to get the best views.

The earliest bus back to the airport was 3am, so we got a little bored towards the end of the night. Having not slept much the previous night, we all ended up falling asleep in the central station McDonalds for about an hour. Although we were sleep deprived, we were very eager to continue our adventurous weekend abroad as our next flight took us to Barcelona!