Frankreich -> Frankfurt

Germany baby!! May 18th in the morning at about 6AM, I was in the Paris airport, waiting for my sisters to leave in their respective flights, and having no idea about where to go exactly afterwards. A few hours later, I had issued 4 couchsurfing requests: 2 to Rome, 1 to Bern, and 1 to Zurich, aside from a personal one with an old friend from college in Frankfurt. A couple of hours later, one of my sisters had left for Chicago, and my Bern couchsurfing request was rejected. An hour later, Zurich and a Roman rejected me as well, but a response from my friend Nadya from college had given me hopes - she said she lived near Frankfurt, had nothing to do next day Tuesday, and would be happy to have me around. Just before my other sister left, I got anoher message from her: she had agreed to receive me in Darmstadt!! I was happy.

A few hours later, I was walking around the airport, trying to find the place where I could validate my new Eurail pass. I finally found it, was given a free trip to Paris station "Gare du Nord", reserved the LAST AVAILABLE SEAT from Paris to Frankfurt at 19:05 for 5 Euros, and went outside to find some wines to send to some friends.

I found the post office outside the station and wrote/sent a few postcards.

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I ended up not finishing this blog because I fell asleep in Nadya's couch. To make the story short, I got on the train to Frankfurt, I met and exchanged emails with a nice lady on the train who also likes to travel, I arrived at Frankfurt and met Nadya at the station, we walked around Frankfurt for an hour, ran back to the train station to take a midnight train back to Darmstadt (cost me 6.95 Euro but should've been free for me because of my Eurail pass (DUH!)), walked through the city because it was too late to catch a bus, got to her apartment, ate some dinner, and tried to blog on Nadya's couch until I fell asleep.

To be continued...