frankfurt lately: city

To look at these pictures, you might think we'd been having a good bit of nice summer weather in Frankfurt lately. You'd think wrong. But about once or twice a week, over the three weeks since I've been back from the U.S., we've had a tiny moment -- sometimes only a few minutes, sometimes a whole hour or two -- where the sun came out and the air was warm and, even though tomorrow is August already, it felt like summer was just around the corner. Germany's doing its best to ruin my hopes of true summer weather, but I still haven't given up just yet. Happily, I'm off to the Côte d'Azur for a long weekend in less than two weeks, so even if Germany doesn't come through for me, I figure that Nice just might.

I was stuck in Frankfurt for the weekend (and spent part of Saturday working), but I put the rest of my time to good use: tried out Café Wacker on Oeder Weg, Launsch, and Moksha (the latter of which I intend to make into my local), as well as poking my head into Familienbetrieb (adorable, must return for breakfast); used a birthday gift certificate toward a hot stone massage at Palace Frankfurt, where I enjoyed myself but discovered that I'd completely forgotten how to say 'ticklish' in German (problematic, when you are in the middle of getting a back massage and the masseuse thinks she's doing something wrong -- 'kitzlig', by the way); and, last but certainly not least, finally giving Sunday Cycling a go. While the route wasn't terribly scenic (long stretches of the back side of the airport) and my knees didn't like me much by the end, it was good times regardless -- I'm planning on going again next week.