跨年之旅 08/09 续 Europe trip part 2

Day 3
We had a good night sleep. :)
We took our own sweet time to wake up and even cooked spaghetti breakfast for Carsten, our host.
Today, he will bring us for a one day trip around Frankfurt city!
On the way out, I saw this squirrel inside the yard of someone's house in the neighbourhood :) I was kinda surprised to see it in a residential area.

First stop, we visited the century old city hall tower and the old town square. I did not expect much from Frankfurt of its historical architecture, as it is more famous as a metropolitan modern city, yet the sights here did not disappoint me. :)


Next stop, we visited a local market! We sort of brought it up that we want to get some baby tomatoes as snacks, and Carsten remembered that, and brought us here! :) It was not an ordinary spot where tourist will go, and I was glad Carsten brought us there. (although we didn't buy our tomatoes in the end as it turned out to be more expensive than in the supermarket.)

Market here is clean and neat, it is very pleasant to stroll around inside, they have everything here! From flowers, freshly coloured vegetables, to spices and meat and chocolates, and even sausages and ham and cheese for sampling!!! just like what u get in a supermarket! :D



We then continued our way to the Zeil tower (a shopping complex actually) where we get to climb to the roof and have a panorama of the city. On the way there, I saw this guy with such a big bunch of air balloons!!! Wonder won't he get lifted up by all these balloons? He must be like moon-walking with defying gravity :P


We also stumbled upon some abstractive 'human' statues, where we didn't waste anytime in cam-whoring :)
I like this picture very much! 螳螂捕蝉，黄雀在后 :)

Some pictures we took on the roof top.



We got hungry!!! What's next? FOOD of course!
We went into this cozy little restaurant with a very hospitable owner :)
We had a big plate of variety of sausages (which include the frankfurter sausage inside) and a pork knuckle to share among us, Carsten had a salad (which is quite a big one!!! I was very interested in it but too shy to share some :P )

We also ordered one big jug of dark beer which I supposed can only be found in frankfurt? (because I cant get it anywhere else during the rest of my trip :( ). I love this beer!!! It tasted just like root beer to me...haha~
Now I really miss this beer...

After satisfying our taste buds, we continued our journey to the older side of frankfurt where Carsten showed us several old type of residential buildings (which looked quite new now since after renovated, Germans are really good in their up keeping! ) and also an old church.


Next, Carsten eagerly brought us to this bunker-like building ( which was really used as a bunker during the WW II ) where his studio is located. Inside this building are many small rooms behind 2 very heavy and thick doors, where many underground bands have their own music time. The doors and walls are so thick that they are bullet and even radiation proof!

When we came out of the building, it was already dark. Carsten brought us to have a taste of the Applewine (afphel wine? Forgot the spelling,sorry) famous in frankfurt :)

The bar we went was interesting with very cool interior designs! They have light post, electric wires, road signs as decoration. Of course, the apple wine was awesome too! It is a bit sweet-sour and gassy.
We were told that a famous lady invented the wine, her name is Speierling?
This is her statue stood just outside the bar not far away. :)

After this, me and jackie decided to explore more pubs and bars here where Carsten brought the other 2 girls home.

Interesting incident happened when we tried to get back to Carsten place after some drinks in a lounge. We lost our way and couldn't recall how to walk back from the subway station to Carsten's place. It was already 1am >.<
Honestly, we were quite scared :P since there was no one in sight on the street!!! Luckily, eventually we saw a shop was still lighted up, it was a Kebab shop!!! The Turkish owner was going to close his shop and he didn't hesitate to help us the 2 poor souls; we gave him Carsten's number and he called him up to ask for his house direction. He even offered to drive us back to the house, right to the door step!!! How sweet!!! According to Martin (my Vienna's host), we call such people, Travel Angel :D !!!
Thanks a million Kebab uncle!!! (sorry, didn't get to ask for his name.)