Street market @ Frankfurt - Saturday

Saturday at Frankfurt Street Market, there's always this crowded street filled with stalls selling sausages and hot dog bread, cheeses and other stuff.

It's pretty much where we usually settle our lunch when we land at Frankfurt most of the time.

If you are lucky, you may see mascots walking around.

You may see birds eating all the left over food along the chair area.

Bicycles parked at various places, usually under the tree.

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7 days Romantic Road Trip - Germany

So much about Paris, here's the update on the latest road trip that we went to lately..

We had about 7 days road trip in Germany, driving along the Romantic Road from Frankfurt to Munich.. 

The actual main romantic road was from Wurzburg to Fussen.

Reference: Image from Google Map Screenshot

The main things to plan for was that you need to have all the way points you need for romantic road especially if you are going to just have a DIY free and easy one where you book everything yourself. From the car rental to the hotel bookings. Here's one of the guide you can read: http://www.romanticroadgermany.com/general/travel.php

Nuremberg is not exactly part of the romantic road but it's a pretty big city with lots of shops but you can walk around it though.. I think you should just stay over for a day if you are actually going there. But because it's city, parking isn't cheap so make sure the hotel you are staying has either fixed full day / overnght parking rate or free parking in order not to burst your wallet.

Reference: Image from Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disc_parking

Also, you need to have the parking disc for some of the places you wish to visit.. You can either buy a parking disc or get one for free when you pump petrol (if you can get a translation for it to get your message across). I'd say that Munich petrol / diesel pricing was actually pretty good so if you don't really need to pump your petrol, you can pump them all when you reach munich. Otherwise, you would need to keep an eye on the prices as it varies along the road at the middle of it, it's the most expensive though.

The reason why you need a parking disc is because certain places allow you to park 1 or 2 hours for free then after which, you may get a fine. 

Also, do take note that on Sunday or public holiday, there's no shopping area open so it's actually best to plan such that you are visiting sight seeing places on Sunday and not in any actual town / city (e.g.  Nuremberg, Fussen, Munich, Frankfurt, etc).

If your car rental comes with GPS like ours, it would be perfect.

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Paris - Disneyland

Paris' Disneyland is definitely somewhere that you shouldn't miss visiting at least during your first trip there.. It's definitely worth your time.

Depending on when you are visiting, the decos might be slightly different.. like during my time, it was the 20th anniversary, so it had special decos, discount to the theme park's entry pass. We are even lucky enough to see the chingay like event at around 1hr prior to the closing of the theme park..

See more about disneyland at my original post: Paris Day 2 - Disneyland Tour

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Paris Itinerary Planning

I've been slacking on my posting for quite some time and I am going to continue it again..

Just to continue my post from here since I stopped at the transport pass.

When visiting Paris, it's best to plan your itinerary well. Because none of the malls or shopping area are open on public holidays or Sunday. As such, you should go to sight seeing places during such period. However, popular sites such as Disneyland has to be visited on a weekday because it would be so crowded with the locals as well if you do visit on Sunday.

This is definitely a short post as the next one would be able Disneyland :)

Also, should you visit during periods where the day time is long and night time is short, especially on public holidays or Sunday, please ensure that you have your dinner or at least order your dinner take away by 7 or 8pm otherwise.. there's a chance, depending on where you stay that there's actually no real food around the area. We got that before during our first trip there as it was a public holiday.. due to the bright sun.. it feels like 6pm even though it's already 8pm... by the time we reach our hotel near the airport.. there was nothing to eat, even the bar at the hotel was closed.. The only option we had and we were lucky to have some coins to buy snacks at the subway station vending machine for dinner.

So do be aware of that. It might be much better now.. but we always make sure we have food, we will do that for all the cities that we visit now :)

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