Frankfurt (am Main)

When I’m getting photos sent via snail mail from overseas containing complements to these photos, I know I have taken too long to post. Nearly a month too long, to be precise.

Here’s the Römer Square in Frankfurt; I actually have a (better) duplicate of this image in the form of a free poster I got while in the square.

The other side of the Römer Square. Apparently, the first set of buildings are all the originals, repaired former homes to some wealthy people in Frankfurt. These buildings are all new since the war, but built in the old style (so the square would look authentic? I guess).

In the square, looking for soveniers. I’m guessing you’re telling me not to take a picture of you, aye?

The Main river, after which Frankfurt am Main takes its name. There’s another, significantly less famous Frankfurt on the banks of some other river, but it seems both need to be distinguished.

By the Main River. Aww!

What’s that?

A bird, a plane. A flying dinghy?

The M: “You just took that photo of us huffing up the stairs to blackmail us with later.” Mission accomplished!!

Frankfurt am Main, as seen from a very cool architectural museum we visited. This was not the only reason it was cool.

Kayaks and cathedrals.

And a barge. I couldn’t decide which picture I liked better, so you get both.

A paper flower? That’s what it seemed like. This was in the botanical gardens in the park we visited. There were lots of cool plants, but unfortunately we got to the gardens only half an hour before they closed, so we didn’t get to see too much.

In the botanical gardens.

More pictures from the gardens. This patch resembled the plants you’d see in Texas, with its dry, rocky (or rock) soil. We all wondered how they got these plants to grow well in rainy Germany.

Foxgloves? Cool, anyways.

Space alien giraffe plant!! Truly bizarre.

Sitting in the gardens.

After everyone else left for Greece (lucky people) I ended up taking the slow inter-country (IC) train back to Jülich. This turned out to be a whole lot prettier than taking the express train (ICE) because for most of the trip back the train tracks ran along the Rhein River. Thus:

And:

This reminded me just a bit of the Marlborough Sounds, which is perhaps why I liked it so much.

Well, it was like the Marlborough Sounds, except for, you know, with castles.

Le sigh. Very cool!