first day in Germany

We have arrived! It was a long and exhausting trip but we made it and so did all our bags. We also had a pleasure to fly the big beast A380. It is indeed more comfortable than all the others that we've flown before. We survived the 13.5 hours flight with just a bit sore bums.

We've been talking about people fainting on planes before and sure enough some 4 hours into the flight we had a gentleman who wasn't well and fainted. Ziggy The Hero got him back and they didn't have to turn the flight back. The plane was full so we didn't get an upgrade but were served beautiful desert and champagne from the first class kitchen. That was delicious!

The second flight, 6 hours from Dubai to Frankfurt was straight forward ... except for finding the right gate in Dubai ;)

Just kidding ... there was proper info in English too but I just find this one so much more interesting.

We landed on time, collected our bags and Uli was already there to pick us up an drive to Poppenhausen. We stopped at their little private strip to grab the parachute and have a look at the place where all Schleicher gliders have their first flight. They have an amazingly beautiful spot there!

amazing all wood hangar

Uli and Zig

We are staying in a beautiful traditional guesthouse with Wasserkuppe views, good food and beer in decent sized glasses. This is what you call living!