On a hunch, this morning I called up Lufthansa, to see if they might possibly have space on today’s flight.
Not very long story a little bit shorter: They did, and I’m flying on it in a bit more than an hour.
After a tearful goodbye with downtown Frankfurt, I hopped a train to the airport (a [...]
By listening to my sad tale with apparently genuine compassion and then changing my return ticket to Seattle with no charge, the nice lady at Air France made my day today.
I got nothing else to say. Thanks Air France. Whew.
Fortunately, I made it to the visa office in time this morning to be there when it opened.
Unfortunately, only a few of the people who work there did.
Fortunately, when they got there, they remembered me.
Unfortunately they let me know they still hadn’t gotten any confirmation from San Francisco.
Fortunately, the woman who’d said she would issue [...]
One of the best things about Europe is the different cars that they have here. It always surprises me how many cars I see here that I get jealous we don’t get in the US. I never photograph them and always regret it. This is the result of about an hour’s casual snapping while on [...]
Yesterday after the early morning visa business, I had nothing pressing to do, so resolved to visit some of Frankfurt, walking.
The Last couple days have been this: A lot of ambling, lots of miles. A lot of museums. This is a heck of a city for that.
Where did I go? What did I see? I’ll [...]
