These days over the skies of Frankfurt, it seems there are more planes than birds. Not surprising, given that its airport is a international hub that’s a hive of activity at all hours. Its skyline, too, speaks of thrusting commercial energy, opportunity, creativity, and wealth. Yet there are also more low-key, old-fashioned, cultural, even folkloric sides to Germany’s business capital, too, to delight the visitor. The city was able to reconstruct the buildings of its historic centre after the terrible bombardment of World War II, and now they co-exist harmoniously alongside the sleeker modern architecture of the postwar era. So on and around old town square, the Römerberg, site of 13th-century cattle fairs (above, against the skyline), we can still see examples of charming old German...  read more