Weekend in Frankfurt

Christine and I spent the weekend in Frankfurt which is just one hour by train from Marburg. On Saturday we visited the Goethe Museum which is a rebuild of the 4 storey house where Johann Goethe lived. I was intrigued by the large water heaters in every room fed by water heated from fireplaces on each of the landings. Someone was kept busy keeping all those fires going. Today we visited the Staedel Museum which is one of the best art museums in Germany. It is currently hosting a Monet exhibition so it was very busy. I do like the design of the most recent downstairs extension which makes use of glass portals to let in natural light from outside - but some of the art was a little puzzling such as the single black rectangular painting. Being Sunday we felt we should do what the Germans do and treat ourselves to a piece of cake - see below. Now we are catching up on the news of the devastating earthquake in Nepal. A very scary time for everyone there but especially the climbers at Everest Base camp and those at Camp 1 above the Kumbu icefall as they are trapped there until a new route is established through the icefall.