After my sweet free breakfast I walked a ways to the Senckenburg Museum of Natural History…and I guess more or less recent history. Though on the way I passed a strange very tall ‘2d’ statue of a man holding and swinging his hammer (the arm does slowly swing up and down). I had seen a picture of this statue on the internet a long time ago, but had been long and totally forgotten, kind of a funny coincidence I just happened to walk into it, after deciding to walk instead of taking the subway). Anyways, the Senckenburg is a decptively large museum loaded with hundreds and hundreds of stuffed (formerly living) creatures, from lions and animals of the African savannahs, to jungles to forests and creatures of the sea and American prairies. It is also has a huuuggee collection of birds, so many of which I have never seen, or could imagine. It is also loaded with fossils of dinosaurs and creatures of he primordial ocean depths. (Though I think most of these were at least plaster models, or fakes as tons of them had paint brush signs on them). A room of of insects and a gallery of paintings of the eyes of 365 different creatures. Though, the most disturbing by far is what looked like an old early 1900’s pharmacy or doctors office with hundreds of small and large jars, all filled with preserved animals, and organs of llloooottsss of differet creatures, including humans. I didn’t exactly spend too long in there.

Next was a very short walk to the far away Römerberg district, (as I had taken the subway 98% of the way). It is Frankfurt’s ‘Ye olde medieval town’ and is mostly just a large courtyard with lots of shop and souvenir stores that all sold basically the same stuff. I also spent some time in th Frankfurt Cathedral and watched the mass service for a little bit. I couldn’t tell the difference between the singing in Latin and German.

Next was a very long walk to the far away Sachsenhäusen (sok – sin – hoy – zin) distict to a children’s park, with the not so childish Goethe Turm. Johanne Wolfgang Goethe was the German version of Shakespeare, revered by writers and poets, though mostly unknown outside of Germany it seems. I don’t know the height, but its a tall all wood tower built in 1932 I think. Looks like a giant park ranger tower, and provides great views over the trees to the main downtown area far to the north west.

After that I took the subway to a well deserved dinner at the Pizza Hut restaurant next to the MyZeil Galerie.