FRANZISKA OUT AND ABOUT

The third and last day out and about with my new wig, before having dropped it of at Franzi’s hairdresser to have it washed, groomed, and styled. It was very early in January 2024 and very cold out, hence, it was a good opportunity for my long beige winter coat to make a showing. During my weekend trip crossdressed to Cologne in June 2023, I had missed the opportunity to visit one of the top museums in Cologne, because I had to return early on Sunday morning and in drab. As it is just a little more than one hour on the ICE high-speed train between Frankfurt and Cologne, I took the opportunity to pay a visit to “Museum Ludwig,” which is located next to “Kölner Dom” (“Hohe Domkirche Sankt Petrus" or "Cathedral Church of Saint Peter"). In this posting, I will report on everything   but   the actual visit to the museum. The museum and its fantastic pieces of art will be covered in a separate posting that will follow shortly. Portrait of the day  Escalator down to the Frankfu

This is a another early 2018 quickie (short outing, short posting), with which I will conclude this brief series of retrospection. Within a little less than two years of regular blogging, I have covered all of Franziska’s days out and about of the years 2018 to 2023 in a total of 97 postings. With the next posting, we will move into 2024, another year filled with crossdressing fun, including another weekend trip and two outings together with my wife. Portrait of the evening At the department store This time starting with a cocktail at a bar… … before moving to a restaurant. There is one specific memory coming back, as I look at this picture. This is a short and tight-fitting dress (to which I also have/had a matching blazer, as you can see in the pictures). The restaurant was not busy, yet, when I entered, but all ground floor tables had been reserved. They offered a table upstairs, to which a narrow and steep, open spiral staircase with wooden steps lead. The vivid memory is, coming d

This was my second January 2018 outing. It feels like a long time ago. I still own and happily wear this wonderful gray wool coat. Its length is such that I should cover the hem of your dress or skirt but leaves sufficient room to show off your legs. I find this very sexy. In this case, I wore a short dark brown skirt, a shiny white satin shirt, and brown ankle boots. Portrait of the evening At the department store Trying for a new LBD At a seafood bar with prosecco… … and oysters, … … followed by a glass of Shiraz at a wonderful wine bar. How good can life be?

Haha, this post title not only refers to the posting itself, which will be a very short one, but also to the underlying outing, which was just four hours long. It was in 2018, while I temporarily lived in another city during the week, where I was able to make use of weeknights for shorter, typically three-to-four-hour long outings.   The challenge with these short outings, was to get as much as possible prepared the evening before, to leave work on time, and to be out the door en femme by 7:00 p.m. “The way Franzi does it!” (#7)   Preparing for a short outing means the following for the evening before Entire outfit selected, checked, prepared Wig brushed and styled Handbag packed Make-up ready Curves ready Eyebrows groomed and styled Toenails polished For the outing itself it means No fake lashes (unless you are very fast at applying these properly) No polished fingernails (unless you use press-on nails that match your toenails) Applying these rules, it takes me just a little over one

This is the title of the musical that Franziska got to see that evening at “Alte Oper” Frankfurt. “Ku’damm” is the short version of Kurfürstendamm (Elector’s dam), an important street and section for trade and gastronomy in the suburb of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf in the German capitol of Berlin. This street and section, erected in the 1540s, was more-or-less the center of West-Berlin, while the city of Berlin was split between 1945 and 1990. The historic and current center of Berlin lay in the eastern parts of the city, which were redeveloped only after 1990. Berlin is well worth a visit if you come to Germany and should be your preference over Frankfurt. Make no mistake, while I very much like some parts of Frankfurt, there are many aspects about Frankfurt that I loathe. If you visit Germany for the first time, I recommend to pick Berlin, Hamburg, and Munich over Frankfurt. If you want to have a (small) chance to run into Franziska, you’d have to come the Frankfurt, though. The music

This was my second day out and about with my new wig, and – slowly – I was getting used to it. This being late December, it was fairly cold out and I dug deep into my box of scarfs and shawls. That box contains about 50 different items, some of which I have never used, so far. But I love accessories and having a matching or fitting scarf or shawl for my outfit, I consider a very critical success factor. This day again consisted of two parts and two outfits, a daytime outfit and an evening outfit, and this posting will report on the former. You might recognize by now the bus stop at which many of my outings start. The bus goes every 15 or every 30 minutes, depending on the day of the week and the time of the day. The bus route leads past “Südbahnhof” (South Station) where I get off and make my way down “Schweizer Straße” (Swiss Street, which runs through Swiss Square) towards the river Main and into the banking district. Frankfurt is a village, remember, if you are good on foot, you can