Thursday, July 9, 2015

Frankenstein Castle 2015

The other day we had to bring some friends to the airport in Frankfurt which is a little bit over two hours from us so we decided to make a day out of it and find somethings to do. About 30 minutes from Frankfurt just outside the city of Darmstadt is Frankenstein castle or Burg Frankenstein. It is alleged that the castle may have been the inspiration for Mary Shelley's Novel Frankenstein.


 After we dropped our friends off at the airport we made our way to the castle. We got there pretty early in the morning around 8am. The castle isn't manned so you can come and go whenever, but when we got there construction workers were working on part of the castle. They didn't seem bothered by us being there so we looked around.


The castle is in mostly ruins except for the two towers that were still intact. One of the towers you could climb to the top of the other didn't have access stairs so you couldn't climb that one.


There are a lot of walking trails around the castle and leading down the mountain that it sits upon. We ended up being there about 45 minutes. I don't think it would have been worth it to drive the two and a half hours from our house just to see but was definitely worth it since we were in the area.

After the castle we went to the skyline plaza in Frankfurt which is a shopping center. Before driving back home we had to get Chipotle for lunch. Its one of the only American based restaurants in Germany that tastes exactly the same as it does in America so when we're in Frankfurt we like to get a taste of home. We got to the plaza early so we walked around and shopped for a bit and I got my first ever lush products. When we went to use the restroom which is in the back hallways of the plaza we saw arrows pointing to the skyline garden. We decided to follow them and it led us to the top of the parking garage where there is a garden and seating. It was beautiful. After that we got our Chipotle and the manager gave us a twofer coupon for our next visit. We ate our chipotle then got on the autobahn to start our journey home.

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