Today dawned
sunny with a nippy little breeze. We eventually rose and returned to the
‘communal flat’ for a tasty shared brekkie of buns with toppings – augmented
with a delicious omelette type thing courtesy of Simon Friday. Time to clean up
before setting out to explore the city with Simon (x2) and Maren. Our tour took
us back to see more of the university, a square dedicated to Kant, the Schlossgarten
and Volkspark, the White Tower (one of only two buildings which survived the
extreme WW2 bombing) , a travelling market from the Netherlands, the Luis in
the Luisenplatz main square, Starbucks (oh the shame – but we HAD to use a
loo), the student building Simon & Simon used to live in, the Waldspirale –
otherwise known as the Hundertwasser House, then home for a mini-rest before
hitting the road via a donor shop for dinner...YUM!
There were
six of us heading into Offenbach for The
Subways gig – soon to be Bray’s first punk rock event ever! We walked to
the Luisenplatz to catch a tram to the central station...to catch a train to
Frankfurt...to catch a train to Offenbach before making our way through the
relatively heavy rain to find Capitol, our
venue for the night.
Through the
door, coats dropped off, beverages purchased and we were ready to rock. The
opening acts had just finished and The
Subways took the stage.
GOOD TIMES.
A relatively short set but we jumped around, skanked, shook our tail-feathers
and generally rocked it out. Bray is now a punk rock convert!
After
retrieving our coats we gave in and took a bus back to Offenbach train station
as the rain was still bucketing down –
there we had a wee wait for our train but passed the time with snacks,
stretching, chats and a beverage or two. You can drink alcohol in public almost
everywhere here and it is SO weird – always feels ‘naughty’ to be doing so! (as
you can tell from Bray’s face in the picture) The boys bonded through The Simpsons storytelling-reminiscing
much of the way home...laughter bringing them to tears more than once...
Split taxi
costs to get home (still raining) then we headed back to our place – Roni still
too amped from the gig to sleep so we looked at pics and video from today for a
bit before she faded into zzzz....
