I made it out here to Frankfurt via airplane
and bus. The Frankfurt, Hahn airport is really no where near Frankfurt.
It's about 100 km away, at least! I was really surprised it only
cost 10 DM to get out here. Anyway, last night I fled Salisbury and
went to Cambridge, it was a really good idea. The youth hostel was
simple to find, but when I got there they weren't quite ready so I walked
around downtown. I primarily walked around old Cambridge and out
to where the Cambridge castle once stood. It was just a mound of
dirt but it provided a nice view of the city. Afterwards I made my
way back into the hostel and completed checking in and got my shit squared
away.
I was getting hungry so I found a small little grocery store and bought
food for the evening and breakfast. I noticed on the way back that
Manchester United had a match and I managed to catch it on the hostel TV
after the news. While I was watching the game this Australian asked
me a few questions and invited me out for a little bar hoping after the
game. We wandered back into old town and found a place where the
locals were coming in in-drag and bath robes. It was really cool
and quite the spectacle. After a beer there we boogied on down the
road to try to find this place called The Eagle. We stopped at this
place called the Spread Eagle, it wasn't the same and they kicked us out
at 11:10pm, the jerks. We were walking back to the hostel when John
noticed a place that was open, that also happened to be a restaurant.
They were still serving drinks and they let us in, woa! It was pretty
fun there. John and I sat next to this English couple and we talked
to them until we got kicked out sometime after midnight! The owner
there was really cool and said we could drink if we said we had eaten food
there. No problem there tough guy. People were dancing and
having a good time. I was chatting with the English lady about my
volunteer project in France and how some of the French there were really
different people in French and English. Anyway, after we walked back
we hung out in the lounge for a little while. But before I go into
that bit of the evening I almost for got that we had a little midnight
snack. Well actually John did, I sat there in the take-away and talked
to this Asian guy who was working on his Ph.D. in something to do with
the brain. He was pretty cool and I managed to skip the midnight
snack. I think I'm still a little worried about the effect meat is
having on me. This is the first time that I was smashed and I didn't
eat meat, I wonder if I'm turning into a vegetarian. Maybe not a
habitual one, not totally certain.
It was cool talking to the Ph.D. student. We finally made it back
to the hostel and we were talking to the guard and then made our way to
the lounge where I was talking to this Portuguese guy. I was so drunk
and tired that I can't remember all that we talked about. I remember
asking the guy how Portugal was formed, but I don't really remember most
of his answer. After a while John headed off to bed and so did I
after a few minutes. I made it to the top of the hostel and into
my top bunk. In the middle of the night I work up because I needed
to take a fucking piss. In the morning I ate my leftover food and
then boogied to the train station. Stansted airport is really very
nice. I napped most of the flight. There was an incredible
amount of kids on the plane for some reason. Frankfurt is a nice
town. I'm not certain what I'll be doing tomorrow, probably laundry
and crap before I head out to Switzerland. I also need to buy my
train ticket to Mannenbach sometime tomorrow. I'm probably going
to crash here pretty quick. I'm really looking forward to German
breakfast tomorrow morning.