Arriving in Frankfurt

I got on the train for Frankfurt to meet my friend from Israel. I will meet up with Paz in Paris on 5th June. When I left the Sheraton lodgings the landlady came to check my room as you have to leave it clean before you check-out, and she started talking about her sister (they are English) who married a Moroccan and is living near Paris. She works for Chanel as a cashier and would like to move to a job in the village she lives in, but work is scarce. After all said the anorexic landlady EVERYONE wants to be a cashier, don't they, there's just not the opportunity!

Now my travels take on a different nature. I left Munich and took an early train to Frankfurt, I had a lot of heavy luggage, including my three pairs of Italian shoes from the Sheraton lost and found. I was also carrying my emancipated liquor.

Paz was fine about my departure, though Paris seemed a bit daunting. I arrived in Frankfurt and checked into the hotel. The room was not as 5 tar as the last time we were here. From my Sheraton job I knew all the signs of VIP treatment and from them we got the bathrobes, free newspaper, turn down service with a bottle of mineral water as well as a rose in the bathroom. I set to work with all my alcohol to make it 5 star. I put a wrapped teddy bear which I had bought my friend on the pillow, put champagne on ice, ordered an extra ice bucket, glasses plus 2 bowls, I put fruit in one and sweets in the other. I had also brought chocolates from Switzerland and Austria. I brought extra coca cola so we wouldn't have to use the exorbitant mini-bar. Then I ordered an iron and ironing board and ironed my skirt. Took a bath, discovered an English TV channel and went to pick my friend up from the airport. The hotel is joined to the airport by a sky ramp. I went to the airport gate and sat there picking away at yesterdays cherry nail polish until my nails were clean. There were several other halves of couples waiting for their other halves, and it was funny watching the different forms of reunions from discrete pecks on the cheek to near intercourse on the concourse!