Gary and I have been to Frankfurt many times, (Wanling has been here once before too) but we have never been here for an extended period. On this first day, after our wonderful German breakfast(Gary picked us up at the airport, we rode the train and street car to the apartment, stopped at a bakery and got fresh Brötchen, made wonderful German coffee....), we walked around the downtown area of Frankfurt, soaking in the language and culture of the city. You see the Römerplatz (the central old square where the city hall sits - every tourist ends up here, at least for a few minutes), the Frankfurt skyline along the Main River, the Alte Oper (old opera house), a statue of Goethe down on the Zeil (which is the main shopping/tourist area, pedestrian zone) against a backdrop of skyscrapers, and the statue of the Euro on Willi-Brandt Platz; you also see Gary and Wanling walking along the streets downtown. Frankfurt was heavily bombed in WWII and many buildings were NOT rebuilt, so one sees pockets of the old, refurbished buildings among the many new and modern buildings of this skyline in the downtown area especially.
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