Fall Break for the Geezers - October 25 - 26 (Frankfurt!)

Having a week long break in the middle of our time in Sweden meant one thing: travel!
We decided to "get out of Dodge" via airplane to Frankfurt, Germany, shortly after Wes's classes wrapped up on Thursday afternoon.  Here's the view of Jonkoping as we passed over our beautiful,
temporary home.
And here's a most welcomed view the next morning as these geezers would need fortification for a day of walking 7.7 miles in the city of Frankfurt.

Our first walk was to the Stadel Museum, an art museum with a collection of  2,700 paintings, 100,000 drawings and prints and 600 sculptures.  We saw as much as we could, but the standout for me personally was this masterpiece by
Sandro Botticelli - Portrait of Simonella Vespucci
ca. 1480 

The hair tendrils....the pendant...the pearls...her profile.  Exquisite.

We were delighted by two special exhibits there, too.
Both opened in September.
Victor Vasarely (1906 - 1997)
was a Hungarian-French artist who is widely credited with being the grandfather of the
 OP ART movement. Sixty, yes sixty, years of his work was on exhibit.  Wes's favorite was "mixed technique on paper" from 1938.
Study of Movement (Fishing)

 And me?  I liked his later year pieces with the bold graphics that would translate so well into quilted wonders with their shapes and patterns:









 The second special exhibit was the work of
Lotte Laserstein (1898 - 1993)
who was a German-Swedish painter and portraitist.  During the Nazi period in Germany, she emmigrated to Sweden as she was Jewish.







Her work was hauntingly beautiful.

After one of the most disappointing lunches at the museum cafe, (how can one make an inferior potato salad in Germany??), we headed out to explore more of Frankfurt. 







We loved it!

Then, after a bit of a rest, we were hitting the cobblestones again in search of an
"authentic" German restaurant.

WE FOUND IT!

A note about these drinks.  They do not sell beer here!  I don't like beer! It's a "special" apple cider. Yum!



Pork chop and sauerkraut for Wes; schnitzel cordon bleu for me. Wunderbar!!!



Back to our hotel - we will leave early in the morning for Paris!
Thank you for a memorable day, Frankfurt! 

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