My Germany: Day 2 Frankfurt

When in Frankfurt, the best museum to visit seems to be the Stadel Museum. So we were lucky to find it in the early evening of our first day. So early the next morning it was off to the Stadel we went ... in the slight rain! But there was already a long queue.

It was the second last day of the Durer special exhibition at Stadel Museum, hence the crowd. "I will make something not many men can equal" - Albrecht Durer, 1507.

We left the queue a while to check out the Flea Market nearby. A section of the road was closed for the market, but walking through it, we found nothing of interest. So it was back to queuing ...



Queuing at the Stadel Museum. As you see here, there is a five foot nothing Asian among the tall Germans. We were lucky to be able to get in before the rain got a bit heavier and many umbrellas came up.

So we spent quite a bit of time here browsing through the Durer exhibits, and later discussing it over tea/coffee with Ira from Nuremberg.

After the rain had subsided a bit, we braved it back across the river to board the Ebbelwei Express near the hauptbahnhof. This historic tram trundles through Frankfurt and is a nice way to see the city. Although it is supposed to be 'a tad touristy', we found many locals taking it as well. Yann and his mum were on it to go home! No wonder the tram was full even if it was winter and the tourists (excluding us, we're travellers, ahem!) have yet to arrive.

In the later part of the day we took a taxi to the huge shopping mall of MyZeil on the Zeil shopping street in the city centre of Frankfurt. The 6 floor high building was opened in 2009 and designed by Italian architect Massimiliano Fuksas. It has one of the longest escalators (46 m) in Europe.

(MyZeil pic)

Note: The grey & brown muffler I'm wearing today belongs to my late father Ba. He used to wear it on the cold, very early mornings that he had to endure to get to work on the trains of KTM.