October 17, 2022 Another travel day with more problems, one by us the other by Bahn.
Two sets of stairs to carry our luggage down this morning, first Linda’s then mine as it far easier than trying carry both at the same time.
Café Noy, we will miss it.
There was a row of houses down the main street before the French knocked them down in the early 1800’s to make easier to move their troops.
The streets and sidewalks are paved with these stones. Every once in a while there is one with a notch. Why, we don’t know.
We waited and waited and waited at the train station.
Reason one. Someone misread the train schedule and there was no train to to the Frankfurt Airport at 10:56. We arrived at the station a half hour early also. Then the next rain that would take us to the airport, the one at 11:36 was almost 45 minutes late. The black travel cloud was still hanging over us.
But our problems weren’t over yet. The train we were on announced it would end at Mainz and we would have to take another train to the airport.
As you might guess, it didn’t arrive on time either.
Eventually it did arrive and later passed by this enormous Opel car plant that seemed to go on forever.
If it looks familiar, it is. Same hotel we have stayed twice before near the airport. We did luck out as the train we took from Mainz actually stopped at the station right next to the hotel, so instead of getting off at the airport we just stayed on it for the two minute ride to the next station.
Found a nearby Italian restaurant to eat dinner at. It was one of those with multiple menus.
In the last one we looked at we found what we were looking for.
Linda’s biggest complaint with the gin and tonics is she can never taste the gin. Her homemade ones have a 1:2 ratio of gin to tonic, something you never get in ones from the bar where they are more like 1:4 or 5 gin to tonic.
These two photos posted for a certain blog reader.
Ampelmann. That is our hotel behind him.
He was famous in the former East Germany and the one was erected to celebrate the 25 anniversary of the reunification of Germany. Tomorrow we fly to Tunis to began the first of two back to back tours.
