Heidelberg Castle
Alone in Germany on a holiday that Germany does not celebrate then on to Frankfurt for the start of the Christmas season. Read the full description.
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A few years ago I flew to Frankfurt, Germany the day before US Thanksgiving for a 1/2 hour business meeting. The meeting was a bust and alone, in a terrible mood, on a bone-chilling afternoon I boarded a train to make my own holiday fun in Heidelberg, where I dined on venison and then discovered that the Student Prince was alive and quite drunk. The following day I celebrated the start of the Christmas season with the sound of a choir in a square in Frankfurt.
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