18 hours of flight, from the 4 hours of delay, OMG damn shag. Headed to the Mariott hotel, which sucks! We gotta pay 9.95Euros a day for wifi, what to do? Wanted to get a SIM card from the shops but the reception said the nearest shop is 10 minutes from the hotel, near the train station. First time in frankfurt and I'm not even familiar with the surrounding nor know how to speak german, so decided to suck thumb and pay the 9.95euros for wifi a day.
After a few hours rest, headed to Mario Lino, a bistro for foodie.
Ordered the woodfired pizza to share. The pizza is really cheap, like around 5 - 6 euros? And its good!
Ordered ribbon noodle with chicken in "hello kitty sauce" or "pink sauce". Its supposed to be a mixture of cabonara and tomato sauce, so that it would be so gelate after eating so much of it. But the waiter probably didn't catch it and gave me tomato sauce =( The spagetti looks like the chinese ban mian lor, so upset!
The desert was yummy! I can't remember the german name for it, but it's heavenly! Choc icecream covered with cocoa powder. yumyum!
The next day, Tricia and I went for a tour to the Rhine river. Wanted to visit a castle but heard that we aren't allowed to take pictures inside the castle, so it kinda defeats the purpose. This tour is supposed to take us on a boat along the Rhine River and there would be castles along the way.
Its operated by Green Line tours, cost around 80+ euros, plus 5euros to and fro pick up from hotel.
The next day, Tricia and I went for a tour to the Rhine river. Wanted to visit a castle but heard that we aren't allowed to take pictures inside the castle, so it kinda defeats the purpose. This tour is supposed to take us on a boat along the Rhine River and there would be castles along the way.
Its operated by Green Line tours, cost around 80+ euros, plus 5euros to and fro pick up from hotel.
First, they dropped us off at an area which we thought we're heading to the toilet, and seems like everyone is heading out and queuing up.
Then we realised, we're in for the chairlift ride. Its optional and since we're already there might as well just take it. Its another 5euros and we just sucked thumb and get cheated again. HAHA.
Wasn't much of a regret cos the scenery was nice. Its open-concept kinda cable car so its quite cool, unless one is afraid of heights.
Wheeee reaching sooon!
After alighting, we just followed the trail of the tourguide and passed by many beautiful buildings and houses!
The houses all looks so nice and I love the flowers outside the windows of those houses! Looks so adorable and sweet.
Then we stopped at a restaurant for lunch!
The interior is very nice! Even the toilet looks awesome. But the food isn't that tasty, the chicken thigh is a lil dry and even the fries taste nicer than the chicken.
Inside the toilet!
Just a snapshot before boarding the ferry cruise.
This is one of the castle atop the hill! Looks good but looks kinda inaccessible
Along the river, there's houses and plantations. Its nice just relaxing on the ferry and enjoying the scenery.
There's many stops where people can just board or alight the ferry. Its kinda chillax on the ferry, there's tables and chairs and people can just order food, drinks and enjoy the scenary.
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Soon it started to pour and everyone scrambled to the second level which is the indoor area.
Then back to the same restaurant for wine tasting. Past by this cute little house with nice flowers!
There's 4 kinds of wines to taste. The sweetness of the wines depends on the month at which the grapes are harvested. If it is harvested earlier part of the year, the grapes are juicier so its not that sweet, which means it also requires lesser amount of grapes to produce a bottle of wine.
The first one was red wine which is made by 5kg of grapes grinded and made into red wine. Its purely grape juice and no sugar/water added so they claimed its more costly than those cheap wines in the supermarket.
The second one is a white wine, pinot noir in grape varietal which uses 10kg of grapes to produce a bottle of wine.
The third one is dessert wine which uses 20kg of grapes to produce a bottle of it. Its usually eaten with dessert. It taste quite nice but a lil sweet.
The last one we tried is the ice wine whereby the grapes are only harvested at the time when there's snow. Just that rare one or two nights, and the grape diggers have to selectively pick out the lil shriveled up grapes, which has became raisins to produce this ice wine. It requires about 50kg of it, wow!
That's the display of wines in the shops for people to buy. Out of the whole group, only saw one guy who bought 4 bottles of it. There's a buy 3 get 1 free promotion but doesn't seem very popular.
Here's how it looks like at the other side of the rooms. Tables and chairs inside the wooden barrels.
