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| Stadel museum |
24 degrees, lots of cloud, a tiny sprinkle then partly sunny
It’s been much too long since we were inside a museum, so
today was the day to rectify that. On the banks of the Main river, is a bunch
of Frankfurt’s museums in the museum district. We decided to go the what we
figured was the main art museum, The Städel. The collection was bigger
than I expected.
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| backs of paintings |
We spent a couple of hours in there and could definitely have
spent longer. We got the audio guides, which draws things out – in a good way.
Art spanned from Renaissance to modern. An interesting part of the museum was
an exhibit of the reverse sides of paintings – this showed how much information
the backs of paintings actually contain. The most
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| more backs |
interesting thing about this
museum to me was that it was ‘the’ place for contemporary art during pre-war
years, over 700 piece of art were confiscated by the Nazis because they thought
these pieces were ‘degenerate’.
Lunch was in the old town in one of the squares -
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| apple wine bemble |
Römerplatz.
I had potato ‘dumplings’ which were more of potato pancakes to me with green
sauce…all very good and Chris had the special…cordon bleu. With our food we had
a bembel (traditional clay pitcher) of apple wine…again very good. The atmosphere
was great…good server, great weather (not in a lather for once), good food, good
people watching.
Frankfurt is currently having an apple wine festival. We had
to stop after lunch for an apple wine. I had a
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| lunch...more green sauce |
rosé this time, which I didn’t love
as much – sweeter. Had I noticed before I ordered, I may have had a ‘hamsterpisse’!
Hamsterpisse is apple wine and some kind of beer I think.
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| hamsterpisse |
In the evening we decided a bit too late to go out for food…by
the time we got any place the kitchens were closed…a pitcher of beer and nachos were the best we could do.
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