Würzburg; Monday, 12 December, 2022

The original plan for the day was to get up about 7am, have a quick breakfast, catch a train from the nearby Ostbahnhof just before 8 to be at the airport with plenty of time for my 10:30 flight. I’d then be back in London for midday and home just after 1pm to be back at my desk for the afternoon having only used a half days leave.

Obviously with my flight cancelled that wasn’t going to work, so instead I did a few hours work from the hotel in the morning through to early afternoon, both to get my hours in for the day and to build up a couple spare in case of any delays the following morning getting back to the UK.

About 2pm I headed out of the hotel and over to the Römer where the main Christmas market in Frankfurt is located and spent quite a long time just wandering round the stalls.

I normally have an idea of things I want to see or do in a city when I visit, but my day in Frankfurt was entirely unplanned, and I have been here a number of times before so instead of doing anything in particular I just had a wander around the city centre before heading back to the hotel to freshen up and have a very nice dinner that, along with the hotel bill for the night, was going straight onto an expenses claim form to British Airways along with the taxi I booked for 5am the following morning.

I decided it was probably best not to stay up too late as my alarm was set for 04:30, so about 9pm I turned in for the night and hoped that the journey back on Tuesday would be significantly more successful than Mondays journey.