Late last week, I flew to London. 5 days in the city to hang out with friends. I don't intend to do an entry on that here…it was just days of chatting, eating, shopping, and sleeping. Nothing interesting, unless you are Waru catching up with her friends.
Although I flew into LHR, I couldn't fly out. Well I could, but I would've had to purchase a very, very, very expensive plane ticket. Especially since this trip was a last minute idea. So, rather than do a roundtrip, I decided to fly out of a different city for my leg back to Tokyo. Frankfurt in this case.
Which worked out perfectly because this would give me a chance to meet up with my RTW friend, Natalie. She was my dorm-mate in Santiago, Chile, and I ended up doing a Spanish course there because of here recommendation! That was….WOW, close to a year ago!!! And then we reunited in Buenos Aires for my birthday. Great memories : )
I'm so excited to see her again!!!!!!!!!!
Thus, I took an evening BA flight to Frankfurt today. I would've preferred to have taken the morning or afternoon flight, but those seem to go at a premium with the demand from business travelers. That's why I didn't get to Frankfurt until after 10pm. Rather late, creating a need to rush, rush, rush, rush, rush!!!!!
Rush through immigration (I was probably the only one traveling on a non-UK/EU passport and needed to go through passport control).
Rush to claim my luggage. Although I know that I can't do anything to control the speed with which luggages come out on the carousel. Just hope.
Rush out of the terminal, onto the connector train, into another terminal.
Rush to the 24-hour luggage storage center, where I wanted to leave my rollie suitcase with various London purchases for the night.
Rush to the train station to catch the last train out tonight to Stuttgart. I'd booked this ticket online (DB website) only a couple of days ago. Hence, it cost me a fortune!!!!! Need to book at least 3 days in advance for the discounts. In the middle of the night, the ticket booth at the station was closed, and there were no electronic machines. And no conductor to check the ticket on board. Hmmmm.... could I have possibly gotten away without having to pay for the ride?!?!?!
Surprisingly, everything went well.
And I arrived at the Stuttgart train station around 12:30am…where Natalie was waiting for me with her car. I felt soooooo bad for making her drive out in the middle of the night, but she was very nice about it. Lots of hugs and greetings.
We drove for about 30 minutes (obviously no traffic at this hour!) to her little town, our conversation jumping through trip memories, reality checks (ie. the daily, routine, somewhat duller life after travel), and plans for tomorrow.
She let me crash in her room for the night, which she had prepared with a bottle of water and a late night snack:
How sweet and kind!!!!! I need to learn to be this hospitable when/if I have friends over.
Tomorrow's going to be a busy day.
I have to be back at the airport in about 15 hours.
Rush out of the terminal, onto the connector train, into another terminal.
Rush to the 24-hour luggage storage center, where I wanted to leave my rollie suitcase with various London purchases for the night.
Rush to the train station to catch the last train out tonight to Stuttgart. I'd booked this ticket online (DB website) only a couple of days ago. Hence, it cost me a fortune!!!!! Need to book at least 3 days in advance for the discounts. In the middle of the night, the ticket booth at the station was closed, and there were no electronic machines. And no conductor to check the ticket on board. Hmmmm.... could I have possibly gotten away without having to pay for the ride?!?!?!
Surprisingly, everything went well.
And I arrived at the Stuttgart train station around 12:30am…where Natalie was waiting for me with her car. I felt soooooo bad for making her drive out in the middle of the night, but she was very nice about it. Lots of hugs and greetings.
We drove for about 30 minutes (obviously no traffic at this hour!) to her little town, our conversation jumping through trip memories, reality checks (ie. the daily, routine, somewhat duller life after travel), and plans for tomorrow.
She let me crash in her room for the night, which she had prepared with a bottle of water and a late night snack:
How sweet and kind!!!!! I need to learn to be this hospitable when/if I have friends over.Tomorrow's going to be a busy day.
I have to be back at the airport in about 15 hours.
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