FRANZISKA OUT AND ABOUT

At the end of a long and demanding Friday – and an equally relentless seventy-plus-hour workweek  –  Franzi, a successful corporate hotshot at the center of Frankfurt’s male-dominated financial district, finally shut down her laptop. She wished her associates a good evening and weekend, gathered her things, grabbed her handbag, and left her office on the 34th floor, determined to reward herself with a proper dinner and a drink – or two. Franziska – as her staff respectfully calls her – wore one of her many tailored two-piece skirt suits, seasonally paired with black, soft-shaft boots. As she strode past his desk, her assistant muttered a barely audible “Cute.” Franzi paused, turned around, and responded with one of her captivating smiles and a soft, effortless “Thank you.” His face immediately flushed crimson. First things first: bubbles (I hope you remember my posting on  bubble classification and denomination ). A stylish bar downtown provided exactly what she...

In terms of Franzi’s outings, this week in September 2025 was great. My wife was away for the entire week, and I planned and carried out three outings en femme within 7 days. It is not that I am trying to hide anything from her. It is simply having little better to do when she is away. I mentioned before that our location provides for ample opportunities to enjoy culture, due to the fact that we live in the mini-Metropolis Frankfurt and have two state capitals Wiesbaden, the capital of Hesse, the state where Frankfurt is located, and Mainz, the capital of Rhineland-Palatinate, in close proximity (around 45 km each). On that Sunday in late September, I took a day trip to Mainz. I had bought a ticket for “The Addams Family” at “Staatstheater” (Stately Theater) Mainz, and as taking public transport back to Frankfurt late in the evening can be a challenge, I took the car to get to Mainz. And since my wife was away with my car, I got to enjoy taking her convertible. Portraits of the day Dur...

In March 2025, Franzi visited the district of Frankfurt-Bornheim by tram during a weeknight evening outing ( link ). Bornheim is a popular neighborhood with many bars and restaurants. During that visit, only the lower part of Bornheim’s liveline “Berger Straße” was covered, going from “Merianplatz” to “Höhenstraße.” In August 2025, the second part followed, again as a weeknight evening outing, hence, a mere four hours out en femme. Portrait of the evening Outfit of the evening was a long, sleeveless, dotted satin dress – with a neckline that I would not call discreet – 5 denier nylons, black sandals, and a black knit cardigan. I hadn’t worn this dress since Franzi’s first weekend trip crossdressed to Stuttgart in July 2022. This dress also highlights why it is so important for crossdressers to be mindful and watchful of t-shirt arms . “Sehr hübsch” (very pretty) was a comment I received from a gentleman, who passed me by on the way. I took the subway to Bornheim-Mitte, where I happene...

This is the last posting on Franzi’s weekend trip crossdressed to the city of Aachen. After lunch and sightseeing, I went back to my hotel to pick up my luggage and hung out in the lobby for a while, until it was time to leave for the train station. The letters you see on the wall behind Franzi are part of a symbol that you find all over the city of Aachen. Such bronze plates on the ground lead you the historical path through the city of Aachen. But what is it? It is the seal or monogram of Carl the Great, Charlemagne, KAROLUS. But what happened to the vowels? At first you think Hebrew, no vowels! But they are all there: the upper half of the central rhombus represents the letter A, the lower half the letter U, and the rhombus itself the letter O. As Charlemagne could not read or write – like probably 95% of the European population at that time – he signed off on all documents, which had been adorned with his monogram by a writer, by adding the two little streaks or lines in the fo...

The first stop of Franzi’s sightseeing tour on Sunday was the department where I had spent a major part of my undergraduate and graduate studies. I asked a passerby to take a photo of Franzi in front of the gate. Maybe it was the time of the day and him being a student or maybe he wasn’t the brightest candle on the cake, but it took us several attempts until everything that I wanted was caught on the photograph. Imagine a large gate, the title of the department over it, a statue to the right and to the left of it: why cut off my feet, or part of the title, or half of a statue? And I am afraid that he was engineering student, a gen-z type of engineering student, I’d suppose. Anyway, my way then led me past “Audimax” (Auditorium Maximum), where I had heard Inorganic Chemistry twice a week at the ungodly time of 8.00 a.m. cum tempore, as well as the main “Mensa” (Mensa Academica), the lunch cafeteria of the university. I went further to “Ponttor,” the northwesterly gate in the outer city ...

As usual on Sunday morning at Franzi’s weekend trips crossdressed, art was in order. It was still very quiet in the city by the time I left the hotel. From my experience in Düsseldorf, I made sure this time that the museum was already open by the time I wanted to visit. While I walked to the museum, Franzi caught the attention of some strange fellow, who seemed to roam the streets without any clear target or intention. He followed me for a while. I have a very keen sense for such situations, but it still took a couple of minutes to eventually shake him off. He is alive (still, I assume), so don’t worry. Continuing with the theme of the weekend “Greens and Blues,” I wore a very light dark blue flower print dress. I was fun to wear. You might remember my visit to “Museum Ludwig” in Cologne in early 2024. “Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst” (Ludwig forum for international arts) in Aachen also goes back to the art collectors couple Peter and Irene Ludwig, who donated their vast collec...