was a rushed thursday again. why am i always rushing on the dates of departure? Dashing around in between meetings till when it is finally time to meet the rest, i was still 45min late. Quickly changed into jeans and then half run half jog to t3. They were alr chking in at the counter and when i joined them with my passport, was praying that i wont be showered by death glares from the long queue of pax for cutting queue. we went to basement for dinner before bidding the rest farewell early since they were gg sitex.
Abt half an hr to departure time, we reached the gate hold room. I treasure the slow pace in the queue sometimes, even tho i hate queues, slowing moving along the plb towards the plane. Slumped into the cramped seat in the 777-300er of qatar airways. Tsukare da. Muscles relaxed against the hard seat. Started the inflight entertainment while waiting for my fav moment of the plane picking up speed on the runway. the in flight entertainment wasnt too great. Have watched most of the movies in the collection. Picked the heat by sandra bullock in the end. The touch screen app is really slow, nt responsive. And the plane took off into the dark sky at 9 plus.
Arrived in doha int airport at 11 plus pm, half an hr ahead of schedule. Departure time 205am. Temp was 23 deg, similar to sg. Trodded thru the immigration into the transit dfs area. Lots of camels and aladdin lamps type of souvenirs, other than the usual pack of perfumes n EDTs that filled the air with the pungent mix. Urgh, i moved quickly away from the section.
Free wifi provides some comfort after people watching for abt 15-20min in the crowded boarding areas. Jus a mass of seats outside the boarding gates. With so many people. It is a boring sight. Horrible actually with such crowds. Will t4 be like tat. Now i know the pros of gate hold rooms. They make the airport looks neater with crowd control. The network gives less than 1 mbps, but sufficient for my use with wassapping and some net surfing. Was still trying to curb the zombified feeling from lack of slp. It was 5am in sg.
Boarding time. Onto the new plane for the first time. The dreamliner, 787. read it somewhere, dun think sq has its batch delivered yet. Love the double touch screen and the tint control bigger window. I think the seat can recline more, seems more space when the seats are upright as compared to the triple 7. Another 6 hrs to destination. Cant slp alr. Watched the croods before dozing off with the assistance of the audio playlist in which japanese songs were saved.
6am munich time, 40min from flughafen to hbf. The day trip tix for grp up to 5 at 20 eur is so much cheaper than the 10.60 eur per pax tix. They dun trust the self service one and wanted to queue at the manned counter. Sigh.... no leap of faith to risk buying the wrong one. Anyway someone asked if we need the tix as she wants to sell it at 15 eur. I jus got it frm her with the rest jittering in uncertainty. Insisted on chking with the counter if it can be used, they kenna scolding as it is illegal to buy frm others. Yawnz. Anyway, we made full use of it later on to hop on and off, the whole journey without any officer chking the tix at all.
Have heard that munich is much nicer than berlin and frankfurt. I actually find them similar. Too cold for comfort, under dressed prolly and they walked so slow that i cant even get my body warmed up. Still love the architecture and the naked trees, with their exposed hair-like twigs and branches which make them look prickly. The houses have big sloping roof to drain off the snow. So many cut pine trees on sales in preparation for christmas.
Got currywurst with baguette for lunch. Yummy as usual. Some dunno chicken or pork patty was also nice. We jus pointed out to the stall tenderer. They couldnt speak english well. Christmas markets everywhere but not all opened yet even at 3pm. We went to schloss nymphenburg where the pond had frozen, half water half ice. There were so many swans and ducks or geese. Arent they cold? They even dipped their head and neck into the water, prolly looking for food. It is jus a musuem, they din want to go in so we jus walked ard the freezing park in front of the palace. some ice on the grass too, it had snowed before we arrived.
went back at abt 4 plus for a bath before the night tour at 7pm. Decided not to join, as i had experienced similar ones in scotland. And when they return, all said envy me to be able to skip that 2 hr walking tour in the cold with boring ghost stories. The only good thing, they saw snow. Haha. Lucky, didnt miss much and i used the time to fully recover my energy. Relieved n more rejuvenated.
