
{"id":1265,"date":"2008-07-27T00:02:05","date_gmt":"2008-07-27T07:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/?p=1265"},"modified":"2008-07-27T20:26:18","modified_gmt":"2008-07-28T03:26:18","slug":"live-from-frankfurt-am-main","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/27\/live-from-frankfurt-am-main\/","title":{"rendered":"Live from Frankfurt am Main"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><small>Photo of Frankfurt am Main<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/frankfurtammain.jpg\" alt=\"Frankfurt am Main July 27 2008\" \/><\/small><\/center><br \/>A few short weeks after leaving a certain enterprise application development company that caused me to visit the Frankfurt airport (Frankfurt am Main for those not in the know) I find myself waiting there for an airplane at nearly midnight Pacific time. The flight in from Boston wasn&#8217;t hateful (excepting the wino-windbag I had for a seatmate, literally, this guy was breaking wind and guzzling wine from Boston to Germany&#8230;and he was one smelly fellow.)<br \/>\n<br \/>\nWhile on the airplane I watched two movies, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0478087\/\" target=\"_blank\" >21<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0467200\/\" target=\"_blank\" >The Other Boleyn Girl<\/a>, I liked 21 as a popcorn-type movie and the Boleyn flick wasn&#8217;t my cup of tea despite having Scarlett Johansson and Natalie Portman in leading roles. Eric Bana as Henry didn&#8217;t help the movie, but to be fair, it wouldn&#8217;t have mattered. It was poorly conceived and executed from my perspective. The acting was hollow and the story was trite.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nAfter arriving in Frankfurt, I had a breakfast of salty pretzels, veal sausages, sweet mustard, and weis bier (yes, I know it&#8217;s not Munich and I know it&#8217;s not Octoberfest, but what can I say? I&#8217;ve developed a taste for some German cuisine &#8211; wish I could find some Mettswurst&#8230;) Meanwhile, the gate information for my next flight to Bangalore hasn&#8217;t yet been posted, so I&#8217;m crashed at a gate with 300 of my closest friends waiting for things to sort themselves out.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThere have been a few questions about safety since the bombs last week in Bangalore &#8211; I&#8217;m not worried for the record. The most dangerous part of this trip will be riding in the car from the new airport to the hotel &#8211; I&#8217;m looking forward to this visit, though I do miss my family dearly.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<i>Update: This should read Live from FraPort instead of Frankfurt am Main, the train station! Travel haze sets in, what can I say?<\/i><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo of Frankfurt am MainA few short weeks after leaving a certain enterprise application development company that caused me to visit the Frankfurt airport (Frankfurt am Main for those not in the know) I find myself waiting there for an airplane at nearly midnight Pacific time. The flight in from Boston wasn&#8217;t hateful (excepting the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1265"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1271,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265\/revisions\/1271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}