frankfurt am main

a few weeks ago i went on an 'official excursion' to the european central bank and st. pauls church in frankfurt. the ECB portion of the trip was pretty miserable - we thought it might be a tour, like they give of the US Mint. instead, it was us sitting inside a press room listening to a history of the european union/foundations of the euro. the session itself was informative, but there was no reason to travel all the way to frankfurt to get an introductory economics/history lesson.

still though, it was worth it because we visited st. pauls church. all students of jeremy king are aware of its significance (meeting of the first german national assembly and the place where they developed the first constitution for a united germany (just an idea back then!)) .




that speck near the tree in the grey sweatshirt is me.

i had a list of things i wanted to do in frankfurt the next dayu, but i wasn't able to get accommodation (apparently there was a famous car show going on in frankfurt that weekend). so i did the next best thing and went shopping and took a train back - there was a bizarre system where the first two cars split off and went to marburg, and the following six (or whatever) went to another town, so i ended up travelling around many train stations in central germany trying to get back to marburg, which i finally did at some ungodly hour.