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- May 19, 2024
- ⛅ 20 °C
- Altitude: 28 m
- GermanySchleswig-HolsteinNeumünster54°4’22” N 9°59’10” E
Neumünster, Hamurg, Dubai, Home
May 19 in Germany ⋅ ⛅ 20 °C
Normal start, then a serious debate about hotel breakfasts. The winner based on atmosphere is… Bamberg.
It rained as we had breakfast, but the road was dry when we walked to the Bahnhof and bus. The HH airport bus came early, left on time, went down Roonstr on the way to the autobahn (sad that the trees on both sides and cobblestones were ripped out in the 1980s or 1990s to make a main thoroughfare), past windfarms, solar farms and a few deer, and arrived at Hamburg Airport 5 mins early… 45 mins before Emirates opened its counter.
It was cool and sunny again when we arrived, so went up to the airport’s observation deck. From there we saw a luggage-loser Air France plane. Poor passengers. I am sure the flat truck behind it as it taxied was collecting - or not - the cases dropped from the hold.
We leave at 1530. It is 6h25m to Dubai, 2h20m stopover, then 13h50m to SYD, arriving Monday 2205. The trick is to convince ourselves it really leaves Hamburg at 1130 pm.
Our excitement on the way was a bottle of Korn handmade in Boostedt. At Hamburg airport they wanted to confiscate it (over 100ml) - but it was okay if we went through a different scanner, so Anne went through German customs twice. At Dubai all hand luggage was hand- searched, and it was given its own sealed cardboard box and taken in the hold. It was a simple collection in Sydney, but then the box was left on the train when we changed at Central. Lots of talks with helpful passengers and staff, who knew the same train was back at Central 20 mins later.. but when the carriage retuned a Sydney Trains man on the seat we had had said it had just been handed in at platform 1 at Town Hall. So we went to Town Hall … and there it was. Only effect in the end was that we were home later than planned.
12, 800 steps, 9 km and 2 flights. End of journey.Read more
Traveler Is that the smile of someone certain the Germans won’t lose that bag??
Traveler Just pleased that the French won’t get their dirty little mains on it!
Traveler You will have to work on muscle isolation and dexterity if you are going to be proper grumpy old man, dad. Rose and I both thought this hand gesture was an accident at first
Traveler Very curious to see equivalent photo with mums middle fingers