FRANZISKA OUT AND ABOUT

I trust that you have all had peaceful holidays, as I assume that those who hadn’t, surely weren’t in the mood to read my blog. My spirit has been pretty bad of late – watching the news too often and reading about AI too much, I guess – which occasionally leads to such depressed and uninspiring sentences. I am sorry about that. This is still the last day out and about in 2018. After an uneventful afternoon, culture was in order again this evening, when Franziska headed to “Alte Oper.” A brief recap: “Alte Oper” and “Frankfurter Oper” are two different venue with different uses. Please check my posting from 12.12.2022. After the recent visit to “Frankfurter Oper” to see “Ariadne on Naxos,” a heavy and depressing opera by Richard Strauss, this time was fun time,  seeing and hearing   Benny and Björn’s “Mamma Mia!” at  “Alte Oper.” The element connecting these two entirely different musical performances is: Greece. If you have not yet seen this musical or the 2008 movie with Meryl Streep

We continue to dip into the archives of 2018. This is the last day out and about in 2018 and it will be covered in two postings: daytime and evening.   Late December 2018, shortly before the end of the year, but I have no clue what I was up to. Hence, no story, no background information, no trivialities, no useless knowledge – today. I will continue to write such matter, though, as-long-as you don’t stop me. Judging from the pictures, shopping seems to have been in order that day – and lunch.   Portrait of the day Final check in the large mirror of the entrance hall of where we lived in 2018 At one of the department stores Lunch at one of the 3-4 different Italian restaurants in downtown Frankfurt that Franziska frequents. Man (no pun intended), I was quite a – what, in German, we would call – “Pummelchen” back in 2018.

This is the very first time that I am doing a Christmas shot. It was inspired by my sisters at CDH, many of whom do the same thing every year. Another reason is that we actually do have a real Christmas tree at home this year, which is not a given. As an early Christmas gift, I bought myself a new wig. I hope you like it.   I wish all of you a wonderful Christmas season and a great time with your loved ones.

We continue to dip into the archives of 2018, here in early November, the evening of a fun day en femme.   My regular readers know that I like to take Franziska out to cultural events. And one of the arguments to do so is the opportunity to dress up. I don’t know if you have ever gone out shopping or hiking in an LBD. Franziska dresses for the occasion and as she likes to dress up, we need to find the fitting occasions. Opera is one of them. And some of you might have read my article on CDH  on this very topic.   In my last posting, I had covered the daytime of Franziska’s November 2018 day out and about. After a brief stop at home to freshen up and to change into the evening outfit, Franziska headed to the Frankfurt opera house for Richard Strauss’s “Ariadne on Naxos.”  Naxos or Νάξος or Náxia is a Greek island that, apparently, is important in the story of Ariadne, the goddess of love and fertility in Cretan mythology and daughter of  Cretan King Minos.   Let’s very briefly cover her