Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Sitting in Frankfurt Hahn waiting for a flight

We left Rothenburg by train yesterday to arrive in Frankfurt to take a 1 3/4 bus ride up the mountains into Hahn. There, is an old military base purchased by the Ryan Air Flight company to use as their cheap flights' base for Europe. However, the only way up here is to take a bus or drive. We had a lovely bus ride, sunny day, G's first experience on the autobahn and then.......left our camera in the elastic seat part of our chairs. Panic -- not for the camera, but for the 1000 photos on the disk. So, G ran. literally, ran, first to the parked bus to see if it was ours, then to the ticket booth to have the lady phone the bus company. Turns out, that our bus, whose company also belongs to Ryan Air has its terminal here at the airport and was in the bus washing stall just minutes away in the small town of Hahn. G took a taxi to the station, got the camera, gave the driver a tip, got back into the taxi, came back to the hotel, gave the taxi driver a tip, walked over to the lady in the ticket booth and gave her a tip. Jeez, if this keeps up, we're going to be poor. But...we have our camera!!!!!
So, the adventure continues. We fly out of here tomorrow - good weather we hope. We have heard that in Spain most of the internet centers have been closed so we may have trouble getting onto the blog to fill you in unless our hotels have access. We shall see.
We are eating breakfast now, lovely spread. Same as usual - bread, rolls, meat, eggs, cheese, juice and coffee. It's nice to know that some things we can count on. We would never have found this place out except for the advice from James to take Ryan Air which is super cheap. It's 139 to fly to Spain. Air Berlin, however, coming back is over 600. Couldn't get a flight with Ryan Air back at all.

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