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The trip from Munich to Frankfurt, plus a bit near the hotel.

I took the train from Munich to Frankfurt and checked into a hotel near the airport. I didn't do much other than walking around the area a little and getting some food at a nearby grocery store (it was just a grocery store, I didn't take pictures there).


006-IMG_20230329_052908856: On the train from Munich to Frankfurt. 007-IMG_20230329_062544491: A little town near the railroad enroute. 008-IMG_20230329_062557185: A soccer ("football") field, perhaps for a high school along the way. 009-IMG_20230329_062617794_HDR: The little towns kind of interested me. 010-IMG_20230329_062619588: One tall church steeple for the town. 012-IMG_20230329_071033744_HDR: A fair-sized town, I've no idea where exactly. IMG_20230329_074406930: Approaching the train station at the Frankfurt airport (Frankfurt Am Main Flughafen Fernbahnhof, for short). IMG_20230329_074420523: Hey, there were a bunch of workers standing on the roof of that building. IMG_20230329_075435092_HDR: Getting into the rail yard. There are a lot of tracks there. IMG_20230329_075438233_HDR: More trains and tracks, and I still don't know how to hold the phone camera. IMG_20230329_112206816_HDR: The Green Man is a scuplture in the Gateway Gardens area by the airpot. I think it relates to the reunification of Germany (I didnt take a picture of the plaque).

Addendum: Bez points out that it's an "Ampelmännchen" (little traffic light man). These are the figures that appear in the "Walk" signs for pedestrian crosswalks. It was created in East Germany and is one of the few features of East Germany that remained after the reunification. IMG_20230329_112536163: Lots of model planes in the window of Lufthansa. IMG_20230329_112555495: Even more planes! IMG_20230329_165100151: I have no idea what this is on the bottom of a table in my hotel room.

Addendum: Another response from Bez: The under-table device is very curious. If it's not a weird Stasi Ostalgie thing, some sort of weird lift mechanism? Bottom: