May 25 - Evening in Frankfurt

We arrive in Frankfurt in the early evening. My husband decides to bring back the rental car tonight, rather than tomorrow morning before our flight. We will miss Greta and her directions, and her proud "You have arrived!" as we got to all of our destinations. We filled the car up with gas for the last time, return the car at the airport, and take their shuttle to our hotel. We will take the shuttle back to the airport in the morning-- retracing our steps, but it would be less hectic for us before our flight.

Our hotel that night was the NH Frankfurt (there's that NH again). This hotel is newer than the other NH we had stayed in, but this air conditioning isn't working and the evening is hot. My husband complains (at midnight when we can't sleep) and we get a discount on the room. This is our second time in Frankfurt but we will not get to see the city. The first time was on our arrival in Germany, when we were at the Frankfurt airport to change planes for Leipzig. That seems like so long ago now. Frankfurt is a big city, Munich-sized, so we're not disappointed that we have no time to walk around here. Besides, after all the castles today, then walking around Rudesheim, then touring the cloisters and being overwhelmed with the opera rehearsal, our senses are overloaded.