Ruppertshofen

So we arrived in Frankfurt, 9:30 am their time. I got off the plane and had a 2 hour layover. A nice SA employee noticed me looking slightly lost, (he asked me if I was business class-I had just come down the stairs where business class disembarks from on the big double decker planes) and asked if I wanted to go to the Lounge. So he directed me to the Lufthansa business class lounge.
The terminal I was in was PACKED. I put on my mask and started to thread my way through the crowd. Very long lines for coffee and breakfast. Loooong lines for the ladies room and no place to sit, anywhere.
So I found the lounge, the guy directed me to an elevator. When the elevator doors opened into the lounge it was quiet, cool, and NOT crowded. I took a look around, and found where coffee and breakfast was. But I had watched a YouTube blogger do a review on the same flight I was on. And he had mentioned that he had gone to the same lounge and had breakfast, coffee and a SHOWER.
So I knew I had about an hour. So I went straight to the shower room. Holy Moly. To be able to take a hot shower after a long day and night on a plane is amazing. I tried not to lallygag, I was dying for a cup of good coffee. So after my shower, I went and sat down and got some eggs, fruit, a croissant and some really good hash browns. And they have those cool machines that you push a button and it makes you a macchiato or a cafe crème (I had both). They also have a water “faucet” that has 3 small buttons on top and they give you plain, sparkling and something else. And I didn’t have to fumble around, I actually felt comfortable and like I knew what I was doing. It may seem silly, but there was a time I would have been too insecure to get coffee out of a machine that I wasn’t 100% sure how to work.
Since I wasn’t 1000% sure what time they were boarding, I left the lounge and waded back out into the masses. It was great people watching. The Germans are a neat group to watch. Throw in a plane full of people going to Singapore, and it was an entertaining last 1/2 hour.
I made this really good travel playlist to listen to. And I haven’t really been in the mood for it. Instead all I’ve listened to is the new Taylor Swift album. (It’s really good btw). I’ve learned to go with the flow and honor what I want to do in the moment rather than what I “should” be doing in the moment. It keeps it real and right sized.
So I’m back on the plane, they have just come around to take your order for breakfast. Or in my case, 2nd breakfast.
And I’m drinking a ton of water with a packet of the “hydration multiplier”. I’m having my 2nd one. I’m trying something new and working on staying hydrated on the plane.
So this leg of the flight is 12 hrs long. It’s noon here in Frankfurt. When we touch down in Singapore, it will be 7am their time, Midnight here in Frankfurt and 7 pm EST. My body at a minimum will think it’s midnight, and time for bed. But once we land it will be a new morning. I will have lost a night of sleep. 😳So I’m going to cat nap today.
Once I get to Singapore, I have another 2hr layover, (and hopefully another shower) before boarding a 2 1/2 flight to Bangkok. And once I get there, I will stay up through the day until early evening when I can go to bed early. So I have a scheduled a couple hours of spa treatments for the afternoon. I can’t think of a better way to spend my 1st afternoon fighting jet lag.
The pictures I’m including here is my seat on the plane, the Lounge shower and my breakfast. It’s weird, I haven’t actually spent any money on any of this, it’s all included in the business class ticket. (Well, yeah, I DID pay for it. ) But that shower. That was worth it.Read more