Travelling forms.

But also not traveling;

provided, of course, that you invite the world to you and let it tell you about its special features, for example from the kitchen.

And so you learn that fried milk is not an annoying mishap, but a downright tempting specialty from the Spanish province of Navarre.

The Leche Frita was presented at “Spain on the Main”, which has always been one of the most popular program items at the Frankfurt Museum Embankment Festival, which, however, like the Museum Embankment Festival at all, had to be dispensed with in the past two years due to the corona pandemic.

Christian Riethmuller

Editor in the Rhein-Main-Zeitung.

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The anticipation of the organiser, Stadt Tourismus und Congress GmbH, was correspondingly great, finally being able to celebrate the big party on both banks of the Main again, possibly combined with the anxious question of whether the audience would flock to the festival of festivals at all again.

It did, and extensively.

Whether there were actually more than a million visitors by the end of the festival late on Sunday evening or just many, many hundreds of thousands who pushed past hundreds of stands in sometimes dense crowds in front of 14 stages with music performances from jazz to rock, from Electro to Schlager and felt encouraged by the many special events of the participating museums to take a look at the exhibition rooms, given the rush,

Although the first buttons, which entitle the holder to visit all museums participating in the festival for seven euros, had to be ordered on Friday evening, many visitors were not only interested in culture, but also in particular in the culinary arts.

Anyone who wanted could taste their way through the kitchens of half the world at the numerous stands without having to travel around the globe.

A distance of 5.8 kilometers was enough, the length of the booth magic on both banks of the Main between Holbeinsteg and Eiserner Steg.

But even if the smell of roasted, grilled, boiled and mixed foods filled the air at every turn, the Museumsuferfest is not just a gastronomic event, but also a vehicle for many institutions to present themselves or their work.

This was especially true for this year's guest of honor at the festival, who was not Spain, the guest country of the book fair, but the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences (UAS).

She was supposed to have this role last year on the occasion of the anniversary of her founding 50 years ago, but because of the cancellation of the festival she just celebrated her 51st birthday, among other things with appearances by some professors as DJs or with a concert by the university's own big band.

The participants in the various dragon boat races, on the other hand, relied on conventional construction methods, a popular spectacle both on Saturday and Sunday afternoon, which draws the visitors’ eyes up and down the Main and thus also to the special backdrop of the festival, the one with the skyline, the many worth seeing museum buildings and the bridges offers some of Frankfurt's most beautiful views.

And at the end of the peaceful festival, all eyes are once again on the river, where the ship is floating, from which night becomes day for a few more minutes when the traditional music fireworks illuminate the Main.