Weekend
activities at River Main/Carlos Pueblo
Lots of
activities in the weekend at River Main in Frankfurt, River Queen embarked
on the north
bank pier, and many boat rowers gathered on the south bank for a
nationwide
contest. All matches from the preliminary to the final concluded in a day.
There are 8
rowers on each boat with a coxswain to direct the entire boat from the
direction to
the speed and amazingly all coxswains are female with loud voices which
no one can
ignore.
The city
blocked three sections of a street for a huge flea market to sell used and new
Goods, most
of them were sole proprietors for used items while some booths with
new inventory
might be from local stores nearby for the weekend exposure. The items
included
almost everything which we could think of, clothes, books, jewelry, bicycles,
furniture,
hardware etc. I found a pair of used leather gloves for my winter trip to
freezing
parts of the
world.
I overheard
the voice of the boat coxes and rushed back to the stand to watch the contest.
Two boats went
off like speedy arrows from one bridge front to race till the rear of 2nd
bridge. Audients
were all over on the south bank and both bridges. The traffic was in good
control for
instance, I saw river vessels were still passing through and even pilot boats
guiding the
contest row boats to their position. On the south bank, it was like a spring
day
carnival of
live music, open air restaurants, and families came out to the riverside grass
for
sun tanning.
I walked toward the south side of the river to see the weekend looked like. It
was also a
very busy section of the city. River Queen of the sister ship of Marie Theresa
embarked
toward the east direction for another destination to visit, the flea market was
closing and
the row boat contest almost finishing.
Sunday
morning, there was a marathon in the old town area. I stood at a corner of Willy
Brandt Plaza
to witness the runners passing by. There was a little blonde girl across the
street from
me with her older sister and a lady. She kept on yelling to the runners, SEIBOU
,SEIBOU, and
I asked a young man next to me what did it mean in English. He said that he
was not that
good in Berman yet might be faster, faster, then it was encouraging the
runners.
German kids are so lovely full of parents love and care and free express to the
ultimate.
Later, a young runner dropped by and I thought that was their mother and they
joined their
mother on the next block and I guessed the older lady was their grandmother.
I ran into a
Taiwanese girl who came here to work for a Chinese Tourist agency for three
months. I
brought her to visit the 32 garden houses with peonies in full blooming.
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