Wednesday, 30 May 2012

May 29, 2012 Auckland to Frankfurt Germany



We are on our way

Des picked us up at 9.30am and took us out to the airport to catch our flight Malaysian MH130 to KL.
Dave was working so had a quick chat to him before we went through. We left on time 1.15pm flying time 11.5hrs. We had quite a bit of turbulence across the Tasman delaying the serving of lunch by nearly two hours.
Was an unusual leg in that we flew west, south of Sydney, north of Adelaide by approx 100miles and all out west to The Aust Bite and then turned north.  Tail winds all the way and up to 100mph travelling north thru Australia. The crew weren’t particularly friendly, no smiles but spose they were efficient.( This is Petes bit of reporting and you could guess all about weather matters)
We are sitting in the airport right now and awaiting onward flight to Frankfurt. It’s hot as hell and not sure if there is any aircon. They were trying to sell us a bottle of water at 4Euros per 500mls. We have over three hours here before our onward flight. Our next flight to Frankfurt is over twelve hours.
We arrived at KL at 11.45pm NZ time and leave here after 3.00am NZ time so hope we sleep well on the next flight. Only dozed on the first leg. We won’t be arriving in Frankfurt until after 4.00pm Wed. then we have to get the car and drive for an hour to our destination. About 24 hours flying time in total.  
Better go for a walk!!
It was over four hours before we returned to the plane. By now so tired as soon as we had a snack on the plane took a pill and when to sleep for about 7/8 hours and arrived at Frankfurt before we knew it.
Went to the Holiday Inn for pick up of our rental car to be told that it isn’t ready re to do with some paper work telling us that it will be another four hours yet. DAM…. Then we can finally get on our way to Heidelberg.
Will get this posted now and get started probably tomorrow. Must be about 31 hours since we left Auckland now and still sitting waiting to get on our way.
A lot of tired writing so hope you can make some sense of it.





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