Snapped by Checkpoint Charlie

We made it through Germany without any problems, but the Austrian border control fined Phil for speeding (approaching the checkpoint) :-}

Quite amusing really that one minute you can be travelling @ 180kph, and then get snapped for doing 69!

So we're into Switzerland now, heading for Davos and looking for somewhere to have dinner.

Speeding South

After a little bit of Autobahn we managed to get to Clint at 15:20 CET. Against the odds we've got all the bags in the car and we're now trying to get some kilometers under the wheels.

Frankfurt to Switerland is going to be a bit of a trek. Making use of the toll roads should reduce the travel time to Davos to around 5 hours. We going to travel as far as we can before we hit real traffic and then stop to get something to eat. Hopefully we'll be in Bavaria by then.

Arrived in Frankfurt...but no Chariot

Just arrived, but the lads are 1h 20 away apparently. Standing waiting for my bags now, so still plenty of time to find a Starbucks and relax with a coffee. Phil's found the speed limitless road so they're flying towards the Airport @170km/h :-)

With any luck the Chariot will survive the Autobahn!

Lunch in Maastricht

The drive this morning went well but for a little congestion near Brussels, though nothing like we might expect back in Blighty. We've left the car under a town square in what must be the cleanest carpark in the whole of a very big place indeed.

Russ enjoyed reliving his youth listening to the very popiest of Europop on the radio with the Venga Boys and whoever sang "Love and devotion". But the poor thing over did it a bit and had to take a short snooze to recover. ;-)

Once we're done here it's just 2.5 hours over to Frankfurt to collect Clint and complete the fellowship.

Misty Belgium

As it's very misty this morning in Bruges, the majority of us (we haven't floated this with Russ yet) have decided to make our way tout de suite inland to Maastricht in Holland to find some brunch and even some "treats" that John Major may have left for us.

Leave Los Angeles

On LH451, tail number D-ABVD. Another 747-400. Very different seats.
Loads of leg room, but not quite lay-flat beds. See you boys in the
morning!

Enough exercise

Unfortunately for me its quite a hike from the Star Alliance Lounge to Gate 102 - and when I got there the plane hadn't arrived yet - so no tail number or photos yet. My Laptop battery is out of juice (dumbass forgot to pack a US converter!) so I'm sucking back a Corona using one of the Lounge PCs. The annoying thing is it means I cant post any of my photos...oh well.

So I've got another hour to kill before boarding (the boards read: scheduled time: 6:35PM, actual time: 6:40PM, status: on time - something wrong there).

My next flight is 10h 40mins, arriving Terminal 1. Looks like the bigger of the two terminals, so hopefully the guys should be able to park temporarily outside and I can walk out to meet them. Unless it's like LAX (sounds like Flying High, or Airplane) "The white zone is for the immediate loading and unloading of passengers, there is no stopping in the white zone. The red zone..."