T’Was Many Nights Before Christmas

Frankfurt's Cathedral When I moved to Germany back in April (God, was it really that long ago already?), there was only a small number of things I was really looking forward to – one was the availability (not to mention the price) of beer, which had been relatively restricted in Malaysia. Next after that, was the availability (again, to say nothing of the price) of good meaty meals, something which I also seriously lacked in Malaysia. Then,... Read More

10 Things About Germany – Part II

A couple of weeks ago (at least), I started off with a list of 5 things you need to know about Germany – that you might not otherwise expect. After writing such an epic piece, I was then so excited about continuing that I promptly forgot, and would never have remembered again in fact, only that a friend wrote me on Twitter the other day asking what was up with the rest of the article. Indeed.   So here we go, this episode I’m going to hit... Read More

In The Lap of Luxury

Lately we’ve been taking the train to wherever we’ve been needing to go, instead of chancing our arms with the complete randomness of the ‘mitfahrgelegenheit’ system of car-sharing, where you book a ride with someone and then pray for three things to happen; a) That they actually show up in the first place. b) That they’re not a crazed maniac. c) That your fellow passengers are also not crazed maniacs.   Taking the train negates at... Read More

Re.Discover Frankfurt

Carnival time! Recently, with a very important visitor over to see us in Frankfurt, we had cause to re-visit a few attractions we haven’t seen in some time – in one or two cases, ‘some time’ being in the order of years, rather than weeks.   The regular carnivals have continued to show up in Frankfurt, as much as seems to be practical and one in particular lasted right up until the day I had been hoping it would be around – by which... Read More

Telephone Sheep & The Shopping Centre From Hell

Since our trip to Munich, no other opportunity to escape Frankfurt for a weekend has presented itself, and so we’ve been instead trying to come up with things to do for a weekend in Frankfurt. It’s not that there aren’t options – it’s just that a lot of the options seem pretty much the same. Anything that has ‘market’ in the title is more or less guaranteed to be a bunch of food trucks, with random drink stalls dotted throughout. Which... Read More

We’re Going To The Zoo…

Once again in the constant battle between me and time, time has won out and I’ve realised I haven’t updated the blog in quite a while. Apologies, as always, but things are slightly more hectic than usual and I just haven’t had time. Hopefully though, I can do something about that the next few days – or try, at the very least.   Welcome to Frankfurt Zoo! A couple of weeks back, right after the excitement and the adventures of Munich, we... Read More

A Weekend in Munich – Part 2

Morning again, Munich... The next morning, as I said in my last blog post, we were sort of tricked by Munich. We got up, the sun was shining – we got dressed and ready to go out, the sun was all but gone. Our hotel, which had previously seemed to be the busiest hotel in all of Europe was even busier if that was possible, and there was a new all-time first, a wait of 15 minutes to just check-out.   Back out onto the streets of Munich once again,... Read More

Frankfurt: Help Yourself!

It occurred to me recently that there are so many options in Frankfurt, which I’ve never seen before, that involve you basically doing the work yourself.   Yum! And all my own hard work...almost... The first one came last week, after our trip to check out Mainz, when Anna suggested we hit up some restaurant she’d been to the previous week with some of her work colleagues. The idea is a little bit like the Superquinn self-scanning thing; you... Read More

Why Not Live in Lovely Mainz?

Welcome to lovely Mainz! Lately we’ve been discussing where to go live next – at the moment, Anna walks to work in about 20 minutes in the morning, which is perfect, but I have a commute of over an hour to get to where I need to go, which isn’t so perfect. Assuming then that the ideal solution would be to go somewhere where we both had to commute for a less, but more equal distance, Mainz seemed like the perfect solution. Although where we live... Read More

Palmengarten, Berger Kino, Und Mehr…

The angriest swan you'll see in a long time. I promise. So, just one week after our epic trip to Hannover, the next weekend came around and we surprised ourselves by really going out of our way – to do nothing. I’ve started working and the over-an-hour long commutes to my new office have me more or less destroyed by early evening. So we decided to take it easy over the weekend and, finally, see what exactly Frankfurt had to offer us over the... Read More