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april '19: weinheim - of castles, tanner districts & botanical gardens.

lookout point at the runway 18 west of frankfurt airport. last year my parents visited me for easter on a long week-end, which we used for visiting various places that were a bit farther away from us. on the first day of their visit we drove to frankfurt's airport in the morning to watch the planes take off on the runway 18 west , an airstrip that got its own lookout point. it's close to walldorf-mörfelden and i had previously passed by it in march, when i visited the city to explore the neutra settlement. my dad is a huge aircraft fan, always watching the planes above our heads when we are out and about, classifying them via a mobile app, so i figured it would be amazing for my dad to see this place up close. we were there quite early around 10 am, but when we arrived there already were lots of people around the lookout point, populating the seating steps, with cameras and viewfinders at the ready. i am not a technology buff, but even for me it was quite impressing to see the...