Trip to Frankfurt

In their second week in Germany, the students of Chico High School in California visited Germany's financial centre Frankfurt am Main. Being the fifth largest city in Germany there is a lot to see, like the huge amount of skyscrapers and high buildings, that is unique in Germany. Along with Beate of DFSR, Chiara and Paula joined the trip again to tell you everything about it.

Again, we met at DFSR in Heppenheim at 9 in the morning. After waiting for a while we walked to the train station and took the train to Frankfurt. Unfortunately the weather was not on our side again but this time the train was on time since the wet stuff coming from the sky was rain and not snow.

At the train station in Frankfurt we waited for our sightseeing bus that arrived after a few minutes of freezing in the cold. When we had figured out which of the audio tour machines worked and would not burst our ears, the bus started driving and took us through Sachsenhausen, over the Main river and to famous sights like the Hammering Man, St. Paul’s Church and the old opera.

Right before the sightseeing tour

Eating Rösti and Schnitzel

The bus driver dropped us off at the train station again and we started walking towards the "Zeil", Frankfurt’s biggest shopping lane. Searching for food we ended up at the top level of "MyZeil", the impressing mall on the "Zeil". After we had split up in the Food Court but all ended up in the same restaurant, we ate some Swiss food.
 

 Some of the students wanted to buy some souvenirs so we went on a journey to find some souvenir shops. On our way we saw the spice shop of the famous German TV cook Alfons Schuhbeck, went inside and bought tea and spices.

Then, after everybody had his or her souvenirs, we split up again and had an hour to go shopping ourselves. Some of the girls wanted to see the German shop “Liebeskind Berlin”, where you could buy bags, shoes and some clothes if you were rich (which we are not) and some others wanted to look for some more souvenirs.

The sun glanced out - so we took a group photo in front of St. Paul´s Church

St. Paul's Church and Frankfurt's second highest building, the Commerzbank Tower, in the sunshine

We met up again at the entrance of "MyZeil" and slowly walked back to the train station, with little stops at Starbucks and more souvenir shops. We took the train back to Heppenheim and said goodbye.