Blog 1 of 2 that I meant to post before I left...
In remembrance of my experience in Germany (not just for you all, but for me as well), I figured I'd make a "photo-blog" of my daily walk to the Frankfurt office from Berger Strasse 121. Enjoy.
So I lock the front door...
Walk down the steps (inside)...
Then walk down the steps outside (to the left) and pass by the casino on the ground floor (mind you, its in the cut, as you have to go under a canopy-corridor off of Berger Strasse to get to this area...
Check the always empty (except for the infamous letter grandma sent me) mailbox...
Come from under the canopy-corridor onto Berger Strasse (this is the view north)...
And this is the view south (the direction I have to walk to the U-bahn (subway)). Watch out for the cars.
Walk less than a block to the escalator for the Hoenstrasse station...
Pass by the "Fahrkarten" machine that I never learned to properly use my entire time in Frankfurt. Mind you, this isn't where you purchase the monthly pass, so I never really had much interaction with this machine, except when visitors came to town.
Go down two more levels to the actual boarding area...
However, this is the end of the boarding area I would wait because by boarding the train at this end, it would be less of a walk to the escalator I would need to take when I would get off at Hauptbahnhof (my destination).
Check the time board to see how much longer I have to wait for the next train...
Board the train when it arrives. Unfortunately this end of the train is ALWAYS crowded.
Fortunately, two stations later (at Konstablawache), many people get off the train to transfer to another train. I can usually find a seat at this point.
Get off the train and come above ground to this rather grandiose view of the Hauptbahnhof...
Get an "apfeltashe" (which I just learned means "apple turnover") from one of the vendors by the long-distance trains...
Walk to the southern-end of the station (along the platform for track 1)...
Exit the station and walk towards the cylindrical glass building in the distance...
However, its not as easy as it seems because the rental car parking lot blocking your way is like a maze (they have hidden gates and rails that making walking a straight line (the shortest distance between two point) impossible)...
Once through the parking lot, I come out on the street between the two buildings in the distance where the green "go" stick figure is (this picture is me looking back from where I just came)...
Walk half a block west to the next street, make a left and the glass building comes into clear view...
At the end of the block, all that's left is to cross the street...
Cars hardly come from the left...
But the right is always chock-full of cars...
Once across the street, a clear, sunny day always greets me with a beautiful view of the cobblestone ground around the office...
Although the glass building is the guide, our building is the trapezoidal one next to it...
Walk to it and put the access card in my wallet to the "entrance pad"...
Walk through the glass door that slides open...
Catch the first available elevator to the 2nd floor (which in the U.S. would be classified as the 3rd floor)...
Get out the elevator and use my access card again...
To open one of the glass doors for entry onto the floor...
Turn to the right and walk down the hall...
To the "water closet"...
To get my favorite 32oz. "medium-carbonated" sparkling water...
Go back out into the hall and walk the opposite direction to the other end...
Turn the curved corner...
Say hello to the world famous, Wall Street Journal quoted, Head of Research for Germany, Inga Schwarz (whose laughing by the way cause of all the pictures I'm always taking)...
Admire the open lay out of the Frankfurt office...
Walk to my desk and say hello to my desk mates Pascal (right) and Thomas (and yes Thomas is also trying not to laugh at all the pictures I take)...
And finally, get my laptop from the shelf to hook to the docking station to start another day at work...
Cheers.
In remembrance of my experience in Germany (not just for you all, but for me as well), I figured I'd make a "photo-blog" of my daily walk to the Frankfurt office from Berger Strasse 121. Enjoy.
So I lock the front door...
Walk down the steps (inside)...
Then walk down the steps outside (to the left) and pass by the casino on the ground floor (mind you, its in the cut, as you have to go under a canopy-corridor off of Berger Strasse to get to this area...
Check the always empty (except for the infamous letter grandma sent me) mailbox...
Come from under the canopy-corridor onto Berger Strasse (this is the view north)...
And this is the view south (the direction I have to walk to the U-bahn (subway)). Watch out for the cars.
Walk less than a block to the escalator for the Hoenstrasse station...
Pass by the "Fahrkarten" machine that I never learned to properly use my entire time in Frankfurt. Mind you, this isn't where you purchase the monthly pass, so I never really had much interaction with this machine, except when visitors came to town.
Go down two more levels to the actual boarding area...
However, this is the end of the boarding area I would wait because by boarding the train at this end, it would be less of a walk to the escalator I would need to take when I would get off at Hauptbahnhof (my destination).
Check the time board to see how much longer I have to wait for the next train...
Board the train when it arrives. Unfortunately this end of the train is ALWAYS crowded.
Fortunately, two stations later (at Konstablawache), many people get off the train to transfer to another train. I can usually find a seat at this point.
Get off the train and come above ground to this rather grandiose view of the Hauptbahnhof...
Get an "apfeltashe" (which I just learned means "apple turnover") from one of the vendors by the long-distance trains...
Walk to the southern-end of the station (along the platform for track 1)...
Exit the station and walk towards the cylindrical glass building in the distance...
However, its not as easy as it seems because the rental car parking lot blocking your way is like a maze (they have hidden gates and rails that making walking a straight line (the shortest distance between two point) impossible)...
Once through the parking lot, I come out on the street between the two buildings in the distance where the green "go" stick figure is (this picture is me looking back from where I just came)...
Walk half a block west to the next street, make a left and the glass building comes into clear view...
At the end of the block, all that's left is to cross the street...
Cars hardly come from the left...
But the right is always chock-full of cars...
Once across the street, a clear, sunny day always greets me with a beautiful view of the cobblestone ground around the office...
Although the glass building is the guide, our building is the trapezoidal one next to it...
Walk to it and put the access card in my wallet to the "entrance pad"...
Walk through the glass door that slides open...
Catch the first available elevator to the 2nd floor (which in the U.S. would be classified as the 3rd floor)...
Get out the elevator and use my access card again...
To open one of the glass doors for entry onto the floor...
Turn to the right and walk down the hall...
To the "water closet"...
To get my favorite 32oz. "medium-carbonated" sparkling water...
Go back out into the hall and walk the opposite direction to the other end...
Turn the curved corner...
Say hello to the world famous, Wall Street Journal quoted, Head of Research for Germany, Inga Schwarz (whose laughing by the way cause of all the pictures I'm always taking)...
Admire the open lay out of the Frankfurt office...
Walk to my desk and say hello to my desk mates Pascal (right) and Thomas (and yes Thomas is also trying not to laugh at all the pictures I take)...
And finally, get my laptop from the shelf to hook to the docking station to start another day at work...
Cheers.
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2 comments:
ummm that wallet is awful big...ever thought about a "Man's Bag"?? I'm sure you can find something nice and petite. :-)
I had a chicken sandwich from Portobello Road on saturday and it was great. Just wanted to point that out.
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