Frankfurter originated from Frankfurt, also known as City of Banks. It is one of the major cities in Germany. One can call it as ‘City of Fairs’, ‘City of Science’, ‘City of Museums’. Full name of the city is Frankfurt am Main
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How to reach Frankfurt from India
From Mumbai, one can go by Lufthansa or Delta. You may choose Emirates too. Advantage is that one can go to Dubai, stay a day or two there then fly to Frankfurt. I like the food of Emirates but no Champaign. Cost almost same. Cheapest may be the Delta.
Frankfurt is one of the biggest and busiest airports in the world. They cover huge area and highest in Europe. It is also a transport hub mainly due to Lufthansa. From Mumbai one reaches there early in the morning and if you are lucky to have a window seat then you can enjoy the aerial view of Frankfurt. One can see too many aircraft coming from different direction. Very efficient control by ATC-Frankfurt has made the sky very safe. According to my knowledge, in recent years, no mishap has taken place.
Immigration staff is equally efficient and friendly (unlike London) and no one faces problems if you have a valid visa.
It is huge airport with too many terminals. One need not worry at all to come out of the airport if one follows the signs. After collection of the luggage there is Red and Green Channel as usual. I never found anyone there standing in queue. Just walkout and you get the Taxi.
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Accommodation – Not very costly. One even finds accommodation for Euro 20 without attached bath. However, such accommodation, away from railway station, may be costly due to traveling by taxi (hiring Taxi is a costly affair). Traveling by train is cheaper and network is quite good. In some cases, you may have to choose either tram or bus. Trams are quite fast unlike Kolkata.
For $ 60, very decent accommodation is available in decent area, breakfast included.
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Food - Have you ever tried Frankfurters? It is a sausage much bigger than what we get from Mafco. It is made out of cured, well smoked Pork and Beef and must be some more ingredients. Many believe frankfurters were first made in Germany during the middle age. It is also known as hot dogs, red hot, and wieners in America. Frankfurters in buns are a favorite American food.
I am not much delighted by German food. They consume lot of potatoes. Lot of green vegetable and fruits are available. I normally go for Burger, Pizza, Chicken fries and most my favorite is KEBAB. Kebab is a Turkish dish with lot of beef, one serving is good enough for lunch or dinner with a bottle of beer. There are too many Chinese restaurants like kebab corners. There are Thai, Indian, and Pakis too. Pakis are relatively cheap. Indian restaurants are quite costly.
There are verities of bread and other bakery products but white bread (that we consume in India) is easy to find.
I have seen one Indian grocery shop selling Indian Hair Oil, Bengali magazine like “Anandolok”, Rasgulla etc. All Indian spices are available and some vegetables. Unfortunately, I forgot the name of that place. It is within 2 km of Frankfurt main railway station.
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Drink – Germany is land of beer lovers. There are too many verities from different region of Germany. Same is the case with Wine. Cost of drinking water and beer is almost same.
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Sight seeing – There too many organized tour from one hour to three hours. There are tours like “Nightlife of Frankfurt,” “Vine Yard Tour,” Boat excursions on River Mine is very interesting because landscape is quite different than India.
There are too many museums; some are even manage by individual, families. There are about sixty museum and exhibition halls. They range from small special collection to universally oriented art museums.
A visit to Main Tower’s observation platform (about 200 m) is must to get view of Frankfurt and the surrounding.
Frankfurt is also known as “City of Fairs.” At least two major international fairs organized in a year. These fairs are due to the influence of high-level commercial activity and advantage is geographical location of Frankfurt.
There are tours for seeing nearby places of Frankfurt.
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Shopping – I prefer to go to Hertie, mainly for chocolate. Electronic goods are nowadays available in India at a lesser cost. In Hertie sometime, one may get Audio CDs, mainly old favorites, at a much-discounted price but it is not a regular feature. Good woolen verities are available mainly Jackets. In the airport there are too many duty free shops, carry your wine quota from there and one may go for expensive cosmetic too.
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A decent budget tour of ten days may cost you about INR 0.10 million.
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FYI – Lufthansa or Delta offers a free domestic flight against return ticket to Mumbai. So, one can plan a trip to place like Berlin or Munich.
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Caution – Walking on the street at night is not very safe. One may encounter a nasty drug addict like some of my colleague.
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