By Kristen Long
Let me first start this post of by saying WE’RE ALIVE! Our apologies to any parents out there looking for confirmation of our safe arrival! Our flight went well, and we all arrived in Frankfurt in one piece.
We were on the way to the main downtown of Frankfurt when our bus driver stopped and told us we couldn’t go in the city—apparently Frankfurt has some air quality rules that say when it’s a red-zone day—which this day apparently was—diesel buses can’t enter the center of the city. So we modified our plan and skipped Frankfurt.
We ended up stopping at a travel stop and having our first experience with German food. Lots of people got bratwurst and potatoes, and others got cold cuts.
Then we made our way to Erfurt, where we checked into our surprising swanky hotel, the Radisson. We settled into our rooms and then went out to dinner in downtown Erfurt in our travel groups. We saw the Kramerbruke—a medieval bridge that is Europe’s longest bridge with buildings built on it.
My group and several others had dinner at a place called the Ratskeller, which we were all immediately attracted to because of its similar title to the Rathskeller in Chapel Hill. The food was amazing, and although the waitress really didn’t know English, we survived and ordered our food by pointing at things on the menu we couldn’t pronounce.
We ended the night with our nightly devotions and then most went to bed.
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