Tuesday 31 July 2012 – Back to Frankfurt
Day 109 and 50 to go
It is hard to believe that
this day is actually here. It is already the end of July and we can’t believe
that we have done so much over the passed 3½ months and yet it feels like it
has disappeared in a blur. We look back over photos of Spain, Portugal and Egypt
and feel like it was a lifetime a go and yet there is so much more to come,
starting with our flight tomorrow to a new land, country that neither of us
have explored before. We are just a little excited but it is also somewhat
daunting.
Today we were up at 7am.
Sleep in the van was a little difficult knowing we would be returning the van.
The constant dinging of the town bell every 15min didn’t help either.
We were up packing, eating
and cleaning ready to depart at 7.30am, unfortunately there was no one in
reception. We kept knocking and eventually someone came out to disconnect our
power and let us out the gate and on our way at 7.45am
We made our way to Friedberg
stopping for fuel and then heading on the motorway. We skirted passed
Frankfurt, heading north and at 8.40am we pulled into the McRent motorhome
yard. We did the final check of our things and at 9am a worker came out to
check over the van. We didn’t mention the water pump and they didn’t check
phew! We did tell them the fridge wasn’t working on 12v and that the freezer
door fell off, but that was all overlooked thankfully.
We returned to complete the
paperwork having our bond returned to us in full yippee and then it was into a
taxi and back to Friedberg train station for the 10.15am train to Frankfurt.
We returned to the familiar
central station and dragged our bags through the station, across the road and
into the lobby of our hotel. We were able to check in straight away and were
given a room on the 3rd floor. With the formalities complete we went
straight to the room where we did some rearranging of things in the cases.
I then did some things on the
net before we rang home to check on everyone. It was good to hear from them
all. With these things done it was time to head back out on the streets of
Frankfurt.
We stopped in next door to
change some money in readiness for the US tomorrow and then made our way to the
post office as we had a poster tube we wished to send home. Unfortunately they
wanted 41Euro to send it home so we didn’t bother. We then made it to the
Chinese quarter where we indulged in a delicious Chinese meal that was just too
huge and we had to have the leftovers packed to take back to the hotel to
finish later.
Our final stop was info at
the train station to check on train times and platforms for tomorrow. With the
info man very helpful we went to check out the platform and then we returned to
the hotel and the confines of our room.
Paul had a bath as his back
is playing up from the driving and the hobbling around on his sea urchin toe. I
did some more work on the net checking things for the US. I watched some of the
Olympics as well, the first opportunity we have had. When Paul was done in the
bath I went to have one as well. It was so nice to lay back in it after a month
in the van. We then spent the afternoon watching more of the London Olympics the gymnastics and volleyball
were keeping us entertained.
We didn’t bother moving again
until 7.30pm when we went out for a wander around the streets. It had an unease
about it tonight. We passed a woman sitting on the paving playing with her next
drug hit. There were lots of groups of people milling around, with body
language that said don’t mess with us. There were plenty of sleazy men coming
and going from the myriad of choice in sex shops. It just felt icky.
We found the pizza bar we had
eaten in before and shared another pizza and a drink. We weren’t interested in
hanging around and were happy to wander back to the hotel at 8.30pm.
We continued to watch more of
the Olympic events enjoying the swimming.
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