I got a bit of sleep, about 5 hours, but I got up at 3:30 am and couldn't get back to sleep. I took a crazy early shower and went out to get fluids. I wasn't being fair to the view from my hotel room, if you look straight up instead of straight down you would see
Last night I ate at a pretty good, but expensive, Thai restaurant. I spoke entirely in German to the Thai waitstaff and I'm pretty sure they couldn't tell I was American. I'm sure I couldn't fool someone whose first language was German, though. I know I'm going to sound like a provincial moron saying this, but I always get a kick out of hearing Asian people speaking Western languages other than English. When I went to Costa Rica a few years ago I heard Chinese-accented Spanish, now I've heard Thai-accented German. So many linguistic layers...
Okay, I'm going to see if Fruestuck (breakfast) is happening downstairs in the hotel. I went past earlier and some poor woman was standing outside waiting for the reception/dining area to open.
(update)
Turns out the woman worked for the hotel and was there to serve breakfast, so that turned out fine. I decided to walk around Frankfurt instead of deal with the rail system since it wasn't that far from my hotel to the Altstadt (Old City). Here's a few pictures of that
This is a jewelry store (I think). An exclamation mark in front of a word in computer programming often is a negating symbol, i.e. !funny means "not funny." Therefore I have to conclude that the owners of this store are "not schmucks." I went to the Deutsches Filmmuseum shown here
The special exhibit was on anime so that was nice to save some money not having to get a ticket for that. One of the coolest things I saw in the regular exhibit was this handbill
I'll post more later, the Wi-Fi (pronounced 'vee-fee') is cutting out continually.
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