Frankfurt

Caught the train to Frankfurt. Arrived late and headed off to find our hotel - freezing cold and snowing - only had a few streets to walk luckily - arrived and settled in. Thought we might go for a walk and see if we could find the local Christmas market as we needed some exercise. Long walk to the town centre - arrived with only about a half an hour before it closed for the night, had a quick look around, the market was as usual in the city square next to their cathedral and alongside the river (so it was very cold) had a gluhwein to warm ourselves up and headed back to the hotel - somehow must ave taken a wrong turn as we seemed to be walking for ages...map was hard to read and it was getting colder by the minute...came to the realisation we were headed in the wrong direction so turned around still not quite sure where we were - though I knew we weren't too far away from where we should be.....Luckily we came across a taxi rank outside the Opera house and got a ride back to the hotel...nice to be back in the warm.

Next morning got up and went downstairs for breakfast - dining room overlooked a lovely garden which was covered with a sprinkle of snow - pretty as a picture. As we sat there the snow got heavier and heavier, it was going to be a chilly day.

We headed back to town and walked around the square - we had intended to go to some of the museums but they were all shut on Mondays.. so we went inside the cathedral for a look, not quite as spectacular as Cologne (Koln) but still very grand.

Walked down towards the river and found a lovely pedestrian bridge - very icy and slippery - climbed the sairs carefully and walked across - the wind as blowing an icy wid through us....absolutely beautiful though looking across the water towards the cathedral and other old buildings along the riverbanks.