Frankfurt Museum Festival

*I spent much of the weekend checking out Frankfurt’s Museum Festival, probably the biggest festival to hit the city each year – they say they get 3 million visitors. All the museums are open extra-long hours and you can buy a cheap pass to get into all of them. The riverbanks are lined with many musical stages, booths for food and drink, and crafts for sale. I only went inside one museum – the Modern Art Museum. I loved the interior architecture – much like the Bilbao Guggenheim, the architecture becomes part of the art. I’m a fan of some kinds of modern art, but some of the more extreme works made me chuckle, like the piece that consisted of raw eggs smashed against the wall (drippings and shells visible on the floor) and an entire huge gallery with just one tiny blue square on one wall.

*There were fireworks last night, which I watched with some of the folks from last week’s stammtisch group. The fireworks were pretty, but the crowds were a little too Cologne-like for my taste. This week unfortunately I’m battling a cold that makes me tired, but I have lots of travel planned so I hope to shake it off soon.