By the numbers
Steps 26209
KMs 19.48
The night before after two beers, I ended up shutting down
by going to bed and starting to write the rest of the blog around 4am and
annoying some people in the room. I know people would not like to hear the
click clack of a keyboard for an epic post from yours truley. I think a pillow
would cross my face eventually. That was the start of my day, although I
knoew what I was wanting to do. I was
waiting for the weather and breakfast to see what was going to happen. I had
two sandwiches for breaky and two coffee while I was at it and looking at the
trains to Weisbaden. The train system is interesting. You have the trams, the
Sbahn which is regional trains, Ubahn, which is kind of underground in places
and then the long distance trains. I found a ticket machine, which I sorted out
a day pass with return. I don’t know if my pass would work that far out, but I
made sure I would not be caught out. Crossing the road here is interesting.
Some places you put your hand on a yellow sensor and in others you just have to
wait for them to automatically change. Different and confusing all at the same
time.
Not knowing much about the train I caught, I headed into
Wiesbaden and part way along the screen telling me where our station was came
up with additional information about the bus network. I became confused and
watching the screen after one station they vanished. Lets say getting off and
catching a bus was not part of my plan at all. Once the train got to the city,
I made sure I knew the direction I needed to go as I wanted the cemetery as
Manfred Von Richtthofen otherwise known as the Red Baron in WW1 a fighter Ace
for Germany. It was easy following my map as I was counting my blessings for
having data to do that and it was great to navigate myself around the country
without getting stuck and wondering what the hell.
I found the cemetery without any problems and there was even
a map to show me where to find the grave. I followed the directions and the
grave had the whole family there. I found other graves nearby that were
basically going to be recycled and I found a few like that. Something I had
never seen before, but they were spread throughout the cemetery. I had seen the
workers floating around doing their thing and there was quite a few gardening
staff working, although it was good to see. Going for a wander I found some WW1
grave stones, but these are different to the white ones and there were a few
from 1914, 1915 and 1919. I came across a Belgium princess by accident and
several other high class people and even British soldiers from well after the
war. I followed a squirrel for a couple of metres, but it could literally
teleport up trees. By this stage my phone was nearly dead and I was getting a
top up with my powerbank. That was the best thing I had ever bought and was
working really well as I walked along.
I headed back to town as I was going to get the rail back
obviously. I went another way just to see where I would end up. I nearly made a
huge mistake and nearly got skittled. I went to cross the road, I looked right
and then took a step, I looked to my left and went of shit as I was missed by a
car. I was looking the wrong way and I learnt my lesson after that, but I was a
little bit off with traffic from then on and I was being careful. I don’t want
to explain that on my second day of my trip. The driver never tooted at me or
anything. I got to the station without any more dramas and had KFC for lunch
before heading back to Frankfurt.
On my return, I was going to visit the old Jewish cemetery
even though I needed a key and thought differently when I turned up. I could
have gotten the key and I decided next time I visit, I would. The entire
outside of the cemetery along the wall had the names, numbers and the concentration
camp the person had been in when they died. From the gate the cemetery looked interesting,
but that would be next time. I had seen another cemetery on the map and that
was the Frankfurt Hauptfriedhof. I jumped off at the German library to use the
loo and went from there. I found the cemetery to be a lot larger than I had
thought and I never got to see the whole thing as it was late afternoon by this
time and I had walked what I could. I found a few huge grave stones and one memorial
to the Hindenburg that had caught fire in 1937. I think that was one of the
last time airships were used. I decided then that this was the time that I
would leave and I ended up at the station where I caught the Ubahn back to the
Frankfurt station where I wandered into a supermarket for dinner. I wasn’t really
feeling that hungry, but I got a sandwich and two wraps tro satisfy the urges..
I think it was a busy enough day and my last in Frankfurt as
I head into Berlin tomorrow. This includes going to a band that night and
hopefully it is not like Frankfurt. I have been staying away from the Euros
clubs, which I learnt we have one next door to the hostel. These are Brothels
without madams. Bouncers seem to sit outside keeping an eye on trouble. I just
avoid them entirely as I walked past and taking pictures from the comfort of my
side of the street. They all seem to be sleeping in the mornings as I havnt
seen one. I am looking forward to going to Berlin again and this time by train.
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