Hallo from Frankfurt

We apologise for any spelling or grammar in this post - a combination of apple wine and a european keyboard makes for interesting blogging!
Well we finally made it to Germany after a very long flight! Lufthansa don´t have your own in flight entertainment  and we were trapped at our window seats with a German man that spoke no english and can apparently do 12 hours without ever leaving his seat!
We had to tackle the public trains on arrival which was interesting as there were no maps to pick up at the airport, but we managed to find our way to the apartment after a very friendly German man offered us assistance at the station. Even immigration stopped to have a chat with us about our holiday on the way through - everyone here is so friendly.
The apartment is amazing - would highly recommend it to anyone coming to Frankfurt! We step out the front door, and across the road is the Main River, its absolutely beautiful. We decided it was best to stay up once we arrived to get ourselves into the right timezone so we dumped our bags and headed straight out to find some German beer....and stumbled across a really cute little pub very much like the old Roxy. None of the staff spoke any English but Logan managed to get us some beer regardless!
The city is not really what we were expecting - not as metropolitan. It is a big city with a little city feel, the pace of life is so much slower and the place is just a lot more liberal than we are used to at home. There are bicycles everywhere, people wandering and eating, people drinking beer anywhere and at any time of the day, you can pretty much smoke anywhere you want to - and thats not just cigarettes - and on every street corner is a bakery, and gorgeous food smells! Thats not mentioning the architecture and just the great feel of the city.
Can't believe the number of dogs here, everyone has their dog with them, and outside shops and supermarkets they even have dog staions where you can tie your dog up to wait. They even take them into restaurants with them!
Went for a wander this morning to get oriented and ended up in the 'red light' part of town.....definitely a 24 hour operation!
After wandering for a while in the hope of finding bacon and eggs for breakfast I think Logan finally conceded they don't do that here and finally settle on schnitzel and potato salad. Sara stuck to the traditional bread with ham and cheese....yum!
(A note to Caleb......Logan found one of the 'special' vending machines in one of the public toilets ;) )
There are pigeons everywhere around here, and every time you look up there is a pattern of jet streams in the sky from all of the planes flying over head.
They have little shuttles by the train station that are like the Thai tuk tuks but they are covered bicycles - and the parking in town is crazy.....I can see why they have smart cars, we found a man this morning trying to maneuver out of a parking space where the car front and back were literally 10cm away either end if you are lucky.
We managed to find a little pub on the way to this cafe that brews their own apple wine (these are pubs with the green wreaths outside the front door) so we had to give it a crack......yum! So off for mor apple wine it is.

Auf Wiedersehen