Walking in Frankfurt

A year ago, or at any time in my life really, if someone would have asked me to list the top ten places in the world I’d like to visit, Germany would not have been on that list. It never occurred to me to want to go to Germany. But after visiting Munich in November, I’ve fallen in love. Munich was beautiful, walkable, easy, and comforting. I felt at home there.

I had the opportunity last week to visit another German city, Frankfurt, and while it has a totally different vibe from Munich, I’m still in love. Frankfurt is more of a business city, with a financial district filled with glass skyscrapers, but I still found it beautiful, walkable, easy, and comforting.

I was in Frankfurt for work, and like in Munich, I established a daily morning routine where I got up early to walk, then ate breakfast before the workday began. Unlike Munich, where all of our work and dining took place in the same hotel where we stayed, in Frankfurt, we left the hotel every day to walk to our co-working space, and to lunch, and to dinner. I also had a work-free afternoon free to walk, eat frankfurters and cake, and shoot some photos.

Though we worked in the shiny part of the city where tall metal and glass buildings blocked the sky, our hotel was in a historic part of town only one block from the Main river. These beautiful red buildings were on my way to the river, which I walked along every day.

I’ll happily visit Germany every chance I get. I think Berlin needs to be next.