First Day
Utrecht station we were standing for the bus to Frankfurt at jaarberplein. Unfortunately bus was too late. Regular time was at 11 PM. Finally bus arrived at 11.30 PM. Bus was too big larger than our Volvo buses that we have in India. Bus was already filled with people who came from Amsterdam. We were five Abhijit, Roshini, Bala, Pankaj and me. We were scattered in the bus as there was no space in the bus where we can sit together. Expected time at Frankfurt was 5 AM. Bus came to Frankfurt half hour early 430 am. Thanks to German government as there is no speed limit in the Germany for vehicles. I woke up 15 minutes before bus comes to Frankfurt.
We asked for guidance to find way to hotel. One of the local bus drivers guided us to find hotel. We were aware that hotel check in time is 9am and we are early to go in hotel. Still we decided to go for a try. Hotel guy allow us to stay in hotel but told us to pay some more money. As it was too early, 4:45 AM in the morning and we were in sleepy mood we were ready to pay for it. So finally we settle down with him and got rooms in hotel. We had great sleep and we were out of hotel at 9 am for Frankfurt city tour.
We asked at tourist counter they told us we can provide guided tour at 230PM only. We booked tickets for that and we started roaming around the city on our own. Firstly we saw euro council where European Union bank business occurs . European Union has control over euro. This council is responsible for major bank operations in the Europe we had lot of snaps there in different poses. Then we went to see main tower we went to top of the building to see Frankfurt it was great decision to go up. Again we had lot of the snaps over there.
After that we went to mac de our only one food center in Europe.
While going to station one car just passed away in front of us. In that car our very own himesh reshmiya’s song ek bar aja aja was playing. Frankfurt mainly known as modern city and financial capitol we saw lots of sky scrapper building in Frankfurt. Most of the part of Frankfurt was destroyed in the Second World War but they build again this city so most of the parts are modern in Frankfurt.
We had almost three hours of the city trip after coming to city and had dinner in Indian restra.
After a long time we had Indian food so we were just delighted after having food. After almost three months we ate bendi masala, chana masala and roti n biryani.
Interesting thing was that hotel where we stayed was of Marathi guy, who used to stay in dadar. That sounds great to know for all of us.
That’s the end of the first day
Time: 8:08PM Saturday 23 Dec 2006
Second Day:
Sunday 24 Dec 2006
In train Frankfurt to Paris at 539PM Dec 24 Christmas Eve
Morning was too cool for us temperature was almost 0 degree but sun in the sky making us warm and was encouraging us to see German financial capital, Frankfurt. We saw almost same places that we saw yesterday but this time on our own and with our own pace. Church ie ROMA was too good to see. There was not entry for visitors today but some how we manage to see most of the inner parts of the church
Little history: This church took almost 500 years to build as most of the time because of the political issue and financial problem work has been disturb many times. Only after 500 later after it has been build whole church build according to planed as before 500 years.
Later we saw some of the sky scrapers in the Frankfurt. In this city there are more than 250 banks and 150 banks among them are foreign banks. More than 30% of the people are non German. That's sounds interesting. Even hotel we were stay was belongs to Indian guy, a typical marathi family hotel.
We were finding a souvenir from here. We almost spent more than 1 hour in mcde as we were having lot of time to spend to catch train. After that we were at station for almost 1 hour waiting for our train. Here we saw simran running for a train on the platform. Just like dilwale dulhaniya le jayenge seen. Here romeo was absent, only Juliet was running for train in same fashion as of simiran. At last we boarded train. In train there was electric power supply. We put on our gizmos on. My camcorder, Pankaj's laptop, all cameras and mobile all were setup to data transfer to laptop. I downloaded almost more than 120 videos from my camcorder to Pankaj's laptop. Others soon followed by copying their snaps from their cameras to laptop. Then time comes to watch videos and snaps. We spent almost more than 2 hours to see most of the snaps. Just we had our snacks time around 5 PM. Now all are relaxed waiting for Paris to come. Paris is almost 3 hours from here now. I am going to plan Paris trip soon i.e. where to go and how to go to hotel n all stuff.
Time out 558M Dec 24 Christmas Eve Currenly Pankaj and bala sleeping Abhi and Roshini listening songs and me writing blog
Time out 558PM Dec 24 Christmas Eve
Currently Pankaj and bala sleeping
Abhi and Roshini listening songs and me writing blog.
Hey I am running out of time to write a blogs in travel so I am going to cut short now.
I finishes planning for the Paris trip also. But when we reached paris somewhere outskirt of city, We were looking for Metro, whole map was in my hand and we were running here and there. Luckly one aged woman showed us Metro Station. After some changing one Metro we reached our destination. Hotel was near to Eiffel but not visible from hotel. We reached late in hotel, after putting our luggage we ran out to find food. Some how we manage to get french fries, too oily but no option other than to eat.
Next morning we ran to find out Eiffel Tower. And we got bit nervous because half of the Eiffel was in the fog. But I visited this place earlier also two years back, so I was bit ok but for others it was first time. So they go nervous. After that we gave to go up Eiffel tower and decided to next day. That whole day we saw Paris city. It was christmass eve and whole paris was lightening up.
Great day I ever spend in my life. In the evening bus cought in traffic and how shud i forgot song rubaroo and dance by bala at upper deck of bus. Truely great company I had.
on 26th Boxing day, again we ran to see Eiffet tower in the morning and this time it was pretty visible. So brought ticket to go up and within an half of hour. we were top. Took dozens of snaps and video shoot there. Then again our joruney starts to see paris. One of the tourist attraction, louvra biggest museum in the world where monalisa is placed, was closed. But we did not miss other parts of paris.
In the evening it was different scene altogehter.
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