Deutscheland 3 - Heidelberg and Frankfurt ´Mainhattan

í´m feeling a bit crook tonight in the tummy but i don´t know why.. have been feeling crook there since this morning.. went to the Talbot Anglo bar in Heidelberg to watch the English self-destruct against Croatia at Wembley to cost English fans a trip to beautiful Vienna and Geneva next summer.. had 2 Rathaus.. got back was alright.. my consumption that night was nothing like Munich and was p normal.. so how come i woke up with a rather queazy tummy with a bit of nausea.. might have been the falafel i got last night.. don´t know.. as it is, my tummy has kinda put a bit of a bum on things atm.. had to go vegan for lunch just to do a bit of a tummy clean-up but was later hungry and went to a cafe in Frankfurt and just had a cake and coffee.. after this, will prob just hang around at the hostel and just chill.. could be 2 months of travelling gradually taking its toll..

anyway was sad to see the back of Heidelberg, although i did manage to get 2 hours in before my train left at mid-day for Frankfurt, only an hour north on the efficient Deutsche Bahn.. shame the Christmas market wasn´t quite open even though this local I met told me that it was due to open today (Thursday).. would be surprising though coz it is still quite early and most Christmas markets i think open on Advent, i.e. December 1 like the Nurnberg one. nevertheless, the weather was a bit better than Wednesday and i decided to go up to the wonderful castle and retake my pictures of Heidelberg at the top.. the joys of digital photography where u can just delete a picture if u doon´t think it´s good enough.. what would us fussy people like me do without it - i have been rather fussy with my pictures when i can, but it´s just i want to remember a place when the weather is alright not when it was pissing down with rain..

i could easily live in Heidelberg.. maybe even go to university there coz the town is p much the university, which is the oldest in Germany and i think is quite famous for its medical school across town.. just like Dunedin.. even got to relive my university days when i went to the university cafeteria and grabbed a p cheap and filling lunch.. Heidelberg is possibly the best university town i´ve seen in Europe and i just wonder what Cambridge and Oxford are like..

Heidelberg is prob going to be the oldest German city i´ll see on this tour bar maybe Freiburg.. Frankfurt is p much all new bar the area in front of the Romberg and so is Stuttgart.. i think Cologne also suffered v badly in the war so i reckon most of the buildings will be quite new and Munich despite the efforts of the locals, has only three buildings which survived World War II, with the rest being rebuilt according to what they looked originally.. and it does have what could be Germany´s oldest bars.. went into one coz mum told me Hitler carved his name on one of the wooden tables they´ve got there.. turns out it´s actually a sign of Adolf Hitler Platz with a postcard on it that the place is known for.. and even if Hitler did sign his name on the tables it would be p hard as people have carved their names on the table since the 1700s.. the place literally reeks of history when u see Pamela Mexico´77, etc.

after wonderful Heidelberg, i´m now in Frankfurt which is actually better than the impression that I got from Lonely Planet.. having said that, I´ve only seen the city for about 5 hours now and still got another night here.. Frankfurt is what Milan should have been.. it may not be well known for its old buildings bar the Romberg and the Dom but Frankfurt makes up for it with some amazing skyscrapers.. in fact always associate Frankfurt with the massive Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank buildings rather than the Romberg as it is known by everyone as Germany´s and the European Union´s financial heart.. even if there is not much to see, there´s shopping to do i guess..

anyway gonna go chill and recover a bit.. must try and get some apple wine which is what Frankfurt is famous for.. staying in a official youth hostel which as they go may have great facilities but the social life isn´t quite up there with Wombats if u are an individual traveller.. having said that Frankfurt´s hostel is right near town unlike Heidelberg´s which is ´miles´ away in the hospital area.. in fact overlooking the river with the Alt Sachsenhausen and its famous apple cider taverns behind it..