Our new flight to Munich wasn’t until the evening so instead of spending another day hanging around the airport, we decided to pop into the city for a few hours of fresh air and some touristy hotspots.

First stop: Römerberg – a historic square in the middle of the medieval old town of Frankfurt. Here we also visited the Alte Nikolaikirche (Old St. Nicholas Church), a medieval Lutheran church first built in the mid-12th century.

Most of this area got destroyed during the war and it wasn’t until the 1980s that the city decided to reconstruct the half-timbered houses.

From here we walked to the Eiserner Steg (iron footbridge), famous for it’s skyline and plethora of locks. This bridge was originally built in 1868, rebuilt in 1911 and then rebuilt again after being blown up in the final days of WWII.

Next stop… ice cream (gobbled too quickly for a photo!) and some quaint little shops full of pretty things.

And that was our unexpected whistle-stop tour of Frankfurt on Monday 17th July! We are now back in our “travel clothes”, and looking forward to our flight to Singapore via Munich. Hopefully with no more hiccups!