"Ever see a man say goodbye to a shoe?"

First and foremost, a shoe update.



Yes, I know, they're not pretty. They have that Pakistani Exchange Student look written all over them. However they are extremely comfortable, and cost me something like 30 euros.

They definately made my tour of Frankfurt a lot easier, although I'm still a really crappy tourist. Where Michelle would hit up the Tourist Information Desk and arm herself with pamplets, schedules and a list of things to see, Im still just wandering around and checking out whatever is around the next corner.

Fortunately in Frankfurt I stumbled across some reasonably interesting stuff. First, a giant cathedral:


They're keen on Jesus over here

Then, an modern art exhibition:


(...yeah)

Michelle told me Frankfurt was a very business oriented kinda city, the kinda place where the town motto is C.R.E.A.M, and that became obvious early on. First there was this:


All hail our leader, the almighty dollar

Then this:



Somehow its hard to picture having a rough one at Mary Street, then chundering in the back seat of a 7 series on the way home. Maybe this is the Silver Service.

My good luck ran out when a massive storm rolled in and drenched me. Tired, wet, and sore, I did a little bit of wander through the main shopping district, then caught the train back to Mainz.

That night Michelle and I went to dinner at the home of some of her lab heads. It was all very surreal because it felt like I was hanging out with a bunch of my parents mates, just drinking wine and reminiscing about the good old days before the kids came along and ruined everything. The only difference was that half the conversation was in German.

Today we went to Johannesfest, which is like the Ekka only they set it up all through the middle of town. We got rained on, again, and browsed endless stalls of knockoff jewellery.



I think we're going back in an hour or so, altho this time we'll be powered by Jager Bombs made with the Aldi equivilent of Red Bull

In other news, German MTV is wearing thin. They literally run 10 ringtone ads in each break, one after the other. Its maddening. German music is pretty cool though, go get yourself some Heul Doch.