My friend and I had arrived in Frankfurt, with the intention of picking up a friend from the airport and leaving. We had never heard anything about Frankfurt and didn’t really know what to expect. But we discovered this city was really special.

When we came to the hostel, we were greeted by Elyes (one of the receptionists at the hostel). He was so much fun and really charming.

At the time, the Audi car show was in town. All of the servers from the show were staying at the hostel. Elyes introduced us to some of them. It was a big party. All of the servers had a case of beer and were sharing with anyone who was empty handed.

Everyone was gathered around the table playing poker. We stayed up so late telling stories and making new friends.

From then on the locals took us out every night. We had so much fun, we ended up spending almost one month in Frankfurt!