ghost of nature.

we always wanted to visit trier because its roman history interested us. and i kind of had high expectations that were not really fulfilled. don't get me wrong, while i really loved the medieval core of the city the rest didn't excite me as much. the roman remains just didn't knock me off my feet. i don't know why, but in the end everything was just ruins and you had to pay for those ruins in order to see them and learn more about them and it just felt so exclusive and not really worth the money... the only building i really liked out of all the roman architecture was the porta nigra, because you could get in touch with it.  i would have loved to enter the basilica, but it was closed for the whole day ( even though the notice told us that it would be open around 10 - well, it seems that they don't open in winter months ). we also wanted to take a look at the liebfrauenkirche, but we were too late because we spent too much time in the cathedral. well, sometimes y...

frankfurt is probably a town i'll never get warm with. it's too big for me, to busy, too overwhelming. i said it a lot of times before, even though we will never be friends, the city's still got a few nice places to offer and even shows a friendly face to solitude-loving people as me. because my parent's were visiting me again i decided to show them this city - they have never really been there. our visit was brief, we only visited the cathedral, the church st. paul's ( for a short history kick ), the römer and then mainly sat by the river main to enjoy the skyline of frankfurt. which is monstrous to me, but still has something about it that you can't ignore. obviously. but there is some kind of aesthetics, you have to admit that. st. paul's church is a church that is really important for germany's political history. it's not used as a church anymore, more like an information center about the importance of this church in terms of germany...