hurrah

I'm hoping this wasn't the last hot beautiful weekend, but if it was, it was a good one. Aperol spritzes and a rooftop BBQ, a long bike ride along the Main, two lakes*, one pool**, train rides, homemade Pfifferlinge salad, the most dangerous brownies (with sea salt on top), and a full afternoon spent reading my guidebook in preparation for Ann's visit (two weeks from Friday!) and plotting all of the things I still want to do in Germany. It's a good thing I don't have anything in the way of a departure date from Frankfurt yet, because I am in no way ready to be done with this country.

*Lake 1: Grüner See in Dietesheim, which a lot of Germans rate quite highly, but Megan and I found the algae a little off-putting, and I was cowed by the signs proclaiming swimming to be illegal (though apparently no one enforces this. Lake 2: Strandbad Spessartblick on See Freigericht-West in Großkrotzenburg, which was a seven-minute train ride from Hanau and was my favorite FFM-area lake yet. There's not much a view of the Spessart hills from the lake itself, but you can see the Spessart in the background a little bit as you approach, and the lake itself is lovely.
**Freibad Eschersheim was a delightful relief on Saturday after Megan and I gave up on trying to reach Strandbad Spessartblick by bicycle and decided we were not really interested in swimming in Grüner See.