Saturday, April 15, 2006

Germany is under construction (I: Frankfurt)

Well people, as you know Eric and me went to Germany last week. We left last saturday. It was quite early in the morning (for some of you it was almost midnight). We left at 5:30 from Louvain-la-Neuve and we arrived at Frankfurt at 9:30.

The first problem was: where is the f***ing hotel? Frankfurt is not Louvain-la-Neuve! It’s a big city, so we try to find an Information Office and catch a map. After it we were a bit more situated and we could find the Hotel. I’ll explain later how the room was...

The first visit was at the Goethe Haus. I hope that everybody knows who Goethe was: the guy who wrote Faust. Ok, he was something else: a posh. He had an amazing “haus”, with three floors (and an additional floor for the servants). If I understood well the German (probably not) when he was born he was already rich, so he hadn’t a difficult life. Ok, if some of you know something about this man and I’m wrong, I’m sorry ok?

After it we visited a nice square with old buildings. I must say that the concept of “old buildings” in Germany is quite weird, because almost everything is restored. They are really (I mean: REALLY) good building cars, but not restoring buildings. You can notice that it is not a real old building from a couple of kilometres far. And in this cute square we ate some typical German sausages and frites, and drink some beer. We spent the rest of the day walking through the city. It’s an important financial city and it has a good combination of skyscrapers and old buildings.

The German weather is not very nice and we were quite tired, so we went to rest a bit at the hotel (with a cheap pizza with us). We asked for a wireless connection, but... they had problems with the date. So we had to drive through the city searching a wireless connection because there was the Barça – Madrid match! (It finished 1 -1). And after it we went again to the hotel. Ok, we had a double bed... yep, me and Eric sleeping together... don’t worry, it was a huge bed and we didn’t touch each other in the whole night!!

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