Frankfurt and Nuremberg with my Mum and Aunt

After my mum and aunty arrived in Frankfurt more than two weeks ago, the time has flown as we have done so much. I was surprised when I met them at the Airport that they looked relatively refreshed and very happy, considering they had just finished a very long 22 hour journey to get here, with only a couple hours break in Abu Dhabi. I have never flown from Australia to Europe in one go, I've always had a night layover somewhere close to halfway like Singapore or Dubai,  as I believed that would make the horribly long journey more bearable and minimise jetlag. Although the flight I have booked home after this trip will be my first 'get it over as quick as possible' flight, and seeing that my family survived the same trip, with little to no jet-lag, it's very encouraging.

As I hadn't yet done many 'touristy' things in Frankfurt, the day after my family arrived we spent the day exploring the city. Frankfurt isn't exactly one of the most popular and recommended tourist destinations in Germany, it does have the third largest airport in Europe so loads of people certainly come here, but often only on their way to somewhere else. I'm here to tell you it's actually ok, sure there's a large commercial district and the city has plenty of sky-scrapers which you can see in plenty of other cities around the world, but there's also the beautiful old-town with it's traditional buildings and the huge saturday morning flea markets along the pretty river Main. Also, just recently I visited museum Städel which is one of many world class museums in Frankfurt, and was blown away by their amazing collection including renowned artists such as Rembrandt, Picasso, Monet, Boticelli, Van Gogh and Renoir.


Me and my cute family in Frankfurt

 The next day we caught the train to Nürmberg and stayed a night. I've been to Nürmberg several times now so I knew that it is like a fairytale city and would definately not dissapoint.



Albrecht Dürer's house

This strange thing seemed very out of place in front of old-mate Dürer's house,
apparently it's some artists take on Albrecht's famous sketch of a hare (?)



Actually the hotel we stayed at in Nürmberg is worth mentioning, even if only for the breakfast. The name was Hotel Keiml and when we first were trying to find it we got a bit concerned as to what we were in for due to the amount of strip clubs and sex shops on the same street. Once we found it and went upstairs though, we were not dissapointed, and breakfast the next morning (which also turned into lunch as the lovely staff instructed us to pack a roll for later) was so devine!

Cheeses and jams and fresh buns - oh my!



This is my aunty's first trip back to Germany since she left with her family as a ten year old after WWII. Although she speaks German, she is new to the idea of speaking it everywhere she goes, and sometimes forgets and starts off in English but then morphs into German before the sentence is up without even realising she`s doing so. It's quite funny to hear and luckily almost everyone she has come across speaks both German and English well so it hasn't been a problem. She is getting used to it and doing it less and less but she has said that she is finding it hard to come to terms with the fact that she is actually in Germany. My mum on the other hand, who left Germany as a baby, is a strange phenomenon as she can understand German almost perfectly, but cannot speak it. When she has to speak German it comes out as a cute mix of English words said in a sort of German accent.