Frankfurt; Friday, 04 September, 2020

In the original plan I had a late night flight from Heathrow, but that plan had been put together in October 2019 and had changed so many times that the BA app glitched every time it tried to load all the booked, cancelled, rebooked, re-cancelled, moved, rerouted and updated flights. In the end it was an extra half-day’s annual leave needed and a mid-afternoon flight from Heathrow across to Frankfurt.

After navigating through Frankfurt Airport, I was quickly on a train into town and, after dropping my stuff off in the hotel, out for a wander through the historic old town – the Römerberg and the area around the Main River.

I watched the sun set behind the towers of the financial centre of Frankfurt from a bridge over the river before heading back towards the Römerberg and stopping off in a riverside restaurant for a relaxing dinner.

Feeling slightly full from a very generous dinner I went for a wander around the old town and down towards the Cathedral.

I was initially a little confused as I was certain that when I had visited back in 2011 there had been some Roman ruins just outside the Cathedral, but I couldn’t quite place where they were. It turned out that in the intervening 9 years this whole part of the city had been substantially redeveloped and the errors of the 1960/1970s rebuilds had been corrected to such an extent that the whole area looked like it was a continuation of the post-war sympathetic rebuild of the Römerberg, it was only after walking up a couple of steps and looking over a balcony did I see the Romain ruins, now located in their own museum space underneath the new buildings, protected from the elements and with a lot more on show. Though at the time of night shutters were up so taking photos wasn’t possible.

I had a bit more of a wander around the cathedral area before finding my way back to a tram stop and heading back to my hotel and turning in for the night.