Friday in the office

August 12, 2005
Office again:
*Went to the top of the Helaba building last night – Frankfurt’s second-tallest tower, 205 meters including antenna. It’s the main building I can see from my apartment window. The views were spectacular but I had a little vertigo and was timid about approaching the edge. I have a few fuzzy shots of the view from my phone camera – email if you’re interested and I’ll share. Also had a couple of cocktails in a bar on top of the building. Thanks to Bernd, a Burns alum who works at the Frankfurt newspaper, for being my tour guide.

*My new refrigerator arrived yesterday and I discovered the joys of shopping in the basement of the nearby Karstadt department store. It’s a true gourmet shop with much better produce and overall selection than my pitiful little Lidl grocery store. But expensive too. There’s an amusing “American” food display that includes boxes of Betty Crocker brownie mix for the equivalent of about six bucks apiece.