Well, now I’ve got a little time at work I can tell you of our journey home from our holiday in Australia and the surprise it brought.
So, we got on the plane fine in Sydney and had a VERY comfortable ride to Bangkok, not complete flatbeds but pretty damn decent I must say!! Moet champagne prior to takeoff, over 100 movies on demand, full bar service………….felt like home except I didn’t have to do anything. For the first meal (dinner), I started with a lobster entrée followed by a sirloin steak in jus with roast potato, onions and carrots for main. I then had some mixed fruit and pavlova for dessert. Breakfast was the usual fruit and croissants and jam and yoghurt and for the main part of that I had a stir-fry with prawns, scallops, squid and crab.
Kind of get mixed up after that point but it’s safe to say everything was good!! Yummy food, excellent menu with many choices.
So from Bangkok we went on to Dubai, in Bangkok we just stayed on the plane for the hour……….couldn’t be bothered getting off for a walk or anything. Got in to Dubai at around 5.30am or so, was already over 30ºc, the city skyline is dominated by that new monster of a skyscraper they are building and the airport was jammed full of people. Regardless, there was very little difficulty in getting our tickets on the next flight Dubai -> Frankfurt. We even got the same seats!!
Again great food and this time full flatbeds with a bigger lcd screen and everything remote control. The seats even had a massager built-in, very cool!! So we arrived in Frankfurt in good spirits feeling pretty relaxed considering the distance travelled, that was where we incurred problems. We arrived at around 1.15pm and our scheduled flight from Frankfurt to Berlin was at 3.30pm. Unbeknown to us was that several Lufthansa flights had been cancelled which caused a backlog of people trying to get to Berlin. This meant we couldn’t get on the 3.30pm and probably wouldn’t get on the 5.30pm either. Luckily Ina had had the fortitude to do this thing to the tickets which means we can also use them for Air Berlin and that’s what we did. Unfortunately the next flight was at 5.20pm so we had some serious time to kill at that dead boring joint, not really what you want after more than 24hrs. We took it in good spirits though and were just happy to get on that flight.
Finally got home at around 8.30pm or something I think. Could’ve even been later, we pretty much just took our stuff in, had a cup of tea and went to bed. I then woke up at 5.30am to go to work the next day.
At some point that morning I gave Ina a call to see how she was and she said that she’d been flat out and there was somewhat of a strange surprise for us. A neighbour from up the street had dropped a letter into our letterbox claiming to have found our cat Flickr and required a snappy response as they were going on holiday. Philipp of course was checking our mail and rang these people up to organise a viewing of the cat, he saw the cat and wasn’t too convinced that it was Flickr but was unsure so took the cat anyway. He couldn’t keep it at his so left it with a friend for 8 days and Ina picked it up from her on Friday.
Well, I came home, looked at the cat and knew it wasn’t Flickr, so there you go, a stray cat in the house straight after our holiday just to add more complications that we did not need. Weird kind of cat too, anyway, I certainly didn’t want to keep it and nor Ina so we took it to the tierheim on Sunday, kind of like the rspca where they’ll try and find an owner for it.
We are now trying to get the living room into some kind of order since there are a few new things to place and it looks like a bomb hit it. Bought an extension for the desk from Ikea and brought it home and what do you know, it’s the wrong colour. So we’ll exchange it tomorrow for the right colour (hopefully) and can then start to get the living room into some kind of order.
That’s the news though, not a lot but there you go.
