We were all very excited for the trip.With our bags being packed several days before, we didn’t need to get up that early. But knowing the Chalk/Yelland family’s penchant for waking up far earlier than is actually required, Annabelle woke up 3 hours before we even need to rise from bed. But despite the early sleep discrepancy (which would come to haunt us all later on), we hopped in a taxi, and headed to the airport. Checking in was no hassle, and a slight scare involving the amount of moisturiser allowed on as hand luggage, we boarded our flight.
It was then that we found out that this flight was to go “via Cairns” - which involved us having a little stop over in Cairns (not that bad in the end). We got to Hong Kong no hassle, but our search for “gloves in the Duty Free shopping of Hong Kong Airport” “returned no search results.”
It was with not much fanfare that we rang in the New Year in the Lounge in Hong Kong Airport, with Tim realising that it has passed a few minutes earlier while waiting to board our flight.
Enjoyably, the timing of the flight to Frankfurt meant that there were few passengers on board, so we all grabbed as many seats in a row we could find, and proceeded to stretch across the seats in the quest for sleep.
We arrived in Frankfurt at around 6:00am yesterday morning, and collected our luggage, and a slightly worrying “honesty system” with regards to quarantine, meant we were out of the airport fairly quickly.
It was the hire car that caused us more problems than we anticipated. Now, I can speak from personal experience when I say that learning to drive a manual car is not easy. Gear changes, and even steering can seem difficult. But with more poise than I can say I would have demonstrated, Mum managed to get us accident free from the airport to our Apartment Hotel.
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