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Hi lovelies,

It seems like we have been planning our current adventure for such a long time, and yesterday we began.
We left Toowoomba at  8.30am with the lovely Andrew taking us to the airport, and this commenced our looonnng flights.

At Brisbane I followed the family tradition of trying to get through customs with some sort of weapon.  I had forgotten that I had a small ladies Leatherman type tool in the bottom of my bag.  It was enclosed in a lovely pink pocket, but the security officer decided it was to go into the "never to be seen again bin".  Oops.



Our first flight was to Singapore.  I had visited there before when Phillip and went to UK a couple of years ago to visit Andrew, but it was Robbies first trip.


Two things he noticed was that there are no speaker announcements, so it is very quiet, and that there are guards in the bathrooms.  This was the shortest of our two flights.  Our viewing choices were John Wick 3 and 5 new episodes of Arrow.  Not a bad way to kill 8 hours.  The flight and the food was good.  Robbie especially enjoyed the ice cream.

Our flight from Singapore to Frankfurt was on an A380, we had seats on the top deck.  This was really cool.  We were on the window seat and the one beside it.  There were only 2 seats on the side so we were the only ones in that set.  There is a storage area between the window seat and the window so there was a bit of extra room to spread out.  This leg of the trip was 12 hours, but as it was all at night we managed to kind of keep to a regular day/night pattern.



 We were collected from the Airport by our driver and he dropped us at our motel.  As it was only about 8am we were unable to book in, but we got all the paperwork done, and they kept our bags so we could go off and explore the city. 

The first thing we noticed was the number of bakeries, and they were busy.  We also noted that nothing really opens here until 10am!! The sun didn't rise until 9am so felt strange being dark for so long.

The mix of old and new architecture was everywhere, and really did not seem out of place.




We saw lots of tourist groups being given the guided walking tours about town, especially in Römerberg.   This is the older part of the city and is filled gorgeous buildings,











and an amazing old church.




I even found a Christmas shop.


We found a bridge that was full of padlock like some famous bridge in France.



and saw lots of statues.






And some interesting sights.
Wasps/bees on the pastries.  We are assuming that they are after the sugar from the fruit.


 I was surprised to see that this business sold coffee not alcohol.


These bikes that have a "carriages" on the front. 

 A really cool umbrella shop.





We managed to stay out walking until 3pm, which considering most of our walking was on cobbled streets was a miracle.



We then
headed to the motel, where we were finally allowed into our room.  A shower was the first thing on the agenda, followed by a cup of tea and challenging ourselves to stay off the bed before night time.

So that brings our first day in this lovely city to an end.  We have had the most fabulous time, and am looking forward to seeing more of Frankfurt tomorrow, after 10am when things open. 😉





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