Frankfurt shop opening hours extended - 3.Jun.2006

Shop opening hours in Frankfurt (inside the "Anlagenring" and in Sachsenhausen) have been extended to 10pm on saturday 3rd June, Pfingstsamsag.

The longer opening hours are part of the "CityArena Frankfurt", street festival in the city as part of the FIFA World Cup celebrations. Celebrations will also include gastronomic and cultural offerings from all nations competing in the World Cup . Also a "SkyArena" will light up the city's skyscapers.

During the World Cup shops will be able to open until 10pm from the 9th June until the 9th July (Mondays till Saturdays). On Sundays and the public holiday "Fronleichnam" (Corpus Christi) they will also be allowed to open between 2pm and 8pm. On the day of the Final (saturday 8th July) shops will be allowed to open until Midnight!

more information can be found on the website www.cityforum-profrankfurt.de



Picture (with permission): Lars P Mathiassen larscapes.com

We all know 'Fronleichnam' is correctly translated as 'Happy Corpse Day'!

I like to call it "Happy Body-Snatching Day"

This is one topic we're never, ever, going to see under "Life in Munich".

Never.

World Cup doesn't count.

woof.

Isnt that the day thats also unofficially called Vatertag. Or am I mixing it up with another public holiday..

Thats right, Vatertag. Boozers day for the male population, doing our best to keep breweries from going bankrupt or ending up as Budweiser crap

the day of the final is Sunday the 9th and not Saturday the 8th as stated in the first post.

see http://www.soccerphile.com/soccerphile/wc2...e/schedule.html

read "day before the final" then.