Instead of just passing through, Kendall Hill thought he'd stop in Frankfurt. He made a mistake.

Given Frankfurt is Europe's busiest airport hub, it seemed reasonable to drop by and investigate what it has to offer the stopover traveller. Surely this cosmopolitan city of bankers and book publishers harbours a host of undiscovered attractions, despite its ill-conceived motto proclaiming, "All roads lead through Frankfurt Am Main".

The German Tourist Office staff were helpful, as always, but the first thing they suggested I do was hop on a train and get well out of there. I tried not to read too much into this.

My destination was a place called Rudesheim but, due to an error of judgement at Hauptbanhof, Frankfurt's handsome Bavarian castle-style railway station, I found myself instead at Konigstein im Taurus in a locked, empty train that, thankfully, still had a driver at the helm. Once he recovered from the shock of finding a trapped Australian simpleton aboard his carriage, he set me free and I was on my way.

Frankfurt: It could be wurst, continued
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