"Ride The…Airport Bus"

At some time during the course of the night I spotted a Lufthansa uniformed person and cornered him! He assured me that our luggage would be on the flight and that it would also be checked through to Prague. He returned half an hour later with boarding passes for both flights. We were set! We said final goodbyes to Chris and Terry (who were still on the lookout for anyone from Emirates!) and passed through the security check to our departure gate. Everyone there was obviously as irritated as we were, and ignored repeated requests to move away from the glass door and take a seat. I was now getting really pissed off, commented loudly that there were no fucking seats available, and sat down on the floor in protest!

Eventually we boarded flight LH 761 to Frankfurt, occupying seats ?? and ??, just as I had arranged months before. These seats are "prime" as they are situated at the emergency exit and offer endless legroom. The fact that we had an empty seat between us also helped ;-)) We were asleep before the plane left the ground. We didn't eat. We didn't drink. We didn't watch the movies. We didn't even unwrap our headphones!

At Frankfurt airport I continued working on my trip report until we transferred to flight LH 3266 departing for Prague at 08h10. An hour later we were back home and, after helping a hapless South African buy a visa, we made it through immigration and customs without a hitch. Debs has an SMS message on her phone that Vrata would not be able to meet us, so we decided to take the airport bus back to Holesovice instead of one of the shark airport taxis!

Home was as we had left it - comfortable, warm and safe. And boring. In fact it was just about time to start planning the next uncomfortable, wet and dangerous expedition to some exotic location!! However, it will take a lot to top Bhutan and "Himalayan Roadrunners".

Travel stats for the day:
Odometer: 2,300 to 2,300 km (00 km)

GPS straight-line route: 00.00 km