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Nibelungenallee 31-35, Frankfurt, Hesse, 60318, Germany
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More neo-Renaissance favoured by financiers
The all-powerful euro
My steak dinner and my Reisling
This is a favorite pic of mine (Feb 2008)
We are arriving in Frankfurt and spending a few days but then want to take a train to Amsterdam. Any tips on train types, prices, travel time?
I have not traveled much in Northern Europe, mostly Spain and Italy. I can't seem to figure out much about Germany or Holland :( thanks for any help.
It isn't really a matter of train types.there are faster and slower trains, that's all.
You will find all the information you need, in English,on the excellent
http://www.bahn.de/international/view/en/index.shtml
You can book tickets online too, and either pribnt them off yourself (make sure you bring the same credit card with you) or have them posted to you for a small fee.
Bahn.de, by the way, carries train time and details for the vast majority of european trains. For fares, apart from for/from Germany, you will need to look at the individual country's railway website. All have English pages.
Within the Netherlands:
http://www.ns.nl/cs/Satellite/travellers
International trains from the Netherlands:
http://www.nshispeed.nl/en
To further clarify, you don't have to book tickets in advance.....even for reservation-only trains you can buy tickets up to a few minutes before departure, if there is availability. But you might wish to, to be certain of getting the train you want, either online or from the station a day or so beforehand.
Savings fares are available from EUR 39/one-way. Number of tickets is limited, use of selected train is required and tickets are non-changeable and non-refundable. Booking well in advance (max 89 days) is recommended.
One-way and return tickets can be booked on German Rail's website.
http://reiseauskunft.bahn.de/bin/query.exe/en
Actually, take the train to Bad Homberg and go to the Museums....& shopping....go a little further up to the Taunus Mountain top (berghof)and enjoy a wonderful meal in the middle of winter!!! Picturesque!!! Unbelievable!! My fondest memory of Frankfurt was the zoo....and the Arbortarium (sic)...it is filled with so many different flowering plants. I have a picture which as soon as I find it I'll post it.
One interesting aspect of life in Frankfurt (at least for me) was the relative abundance of quick, cheap and greasy fare in the old centre of the city. In general, I always expect that areas like these will be full of more expensive restaurants catering to businesspeople and tourists. Not so: in Frankfurt, evidently, businesspeople and ordinary citizens alike are quite happy to sit at outdoor markets and chomp on greasy sausages and pork cutlets. These stalls also sell various local products, although I’m pretty sure that the produce sold in mid-January was imported.
This year I ran the Frankfurt Marathon for the first time. It's a fantastic event, really well organized and with a great atmosphere.Lots of bands playing along the route, many spectators celebrating their own party with beer or champagne, and because we ran on Halloween, there were even some ghosts who eerily cheered us on.
The course is mostly flat, first zig-zagging through the centre of Frankfurt, then onto the other side of the river Main, before it goes back across the bridge in Schwanheim.
I thought I knew Frankfurt pretty well, but I was surprised to see the Frauenhof in Frankfurt Niederrad. Niederrad for me had been an office suburb, but during the marathon I was able to see the old part. The Frauenhof is a baroque building from 18th century, which was first used as a factory, but later as a cloister. We passed right through the main gate and the large yard.
Schwanheim is another one of Frankfurt's suburbs, which still keeps its village atmosphere.
That's the good part of being a slow runner, I get to see many things right and left on the course, which are only a blur for the fast runners. I'm not that slow of a runner though, that I take a camera, so there are no pictures taken by me.
The final meters are run on a red carpet through the finish line, very impressive (and most probably the only time in my life I'll have a red carpet for me). On the other hand I suppose after 42 km every runner loves to see the finish line, red carpet or not. Good running shoes are a must, and don't wear long tights. I guarantee, after about 10/15 km you'll be warm.
I will share with you in the "Off the beaten path" section some insights about the Commerzbank building, because I guess no regular tourist will enter the headquarter of the bank, but I advise you should do so while in Frankfurt, because this building has some interesting surprises to offer.
The "oak with monster children" (meaning: giant acorns) is another work of art by the late artist F. K. Waechter, after one of his drawings. It is on display along the "Grüngürtel"-hiking path. Just a nice sight, an oak tree with acorns the size of bowling balls.
How to get there: Drive direction Höchst/Schwanheim, then Schwanheim - Rheinlandstrasse. Drive along the Rheinlandstrasse past the small train station and then turn left. Park the car here. Go ca. 100 metres along the wood path parallel to the street past a childrens playground until you see an open meadow. Turn right on the hiking/cycling path and walk ca. 10 minutes until you see the tree with eyes on the righthand side (t-junction). Turn left and at the next sign left again. Walk ca. 100 metres and at the next turn right - there you can see the oak with the giant acorns. You may sit on them !
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