From Tokyo to Biberach in 36.5 hours.
By Lothar. Filed in Hong Kong |
This was one long travel ” day”. We left the Holiday Inn in Tokyo Narita on Thursday, May 19th at 2:30 PM . We left Hong Kong on Cathay Pacific at 15 minutes past midnight and had a flying time of 12.5 hours crossing China and all of Russia on our way to Paris. The Cathay Pacific service spoiled us along the way. Gabi and I were in row 88 on the upper deck of a Boeing 747-400 and there were three flight attendants for 24 passengers in our ” private ” cabin. After dinner, I watched 2 movies :
“The Aquatic Life of …” with Bill Murray, which I did not like and ” In Good Company ” , which I think is a great movie. I slept for the next 7 hours until the 3- course breakfast on board.
We arrived at Charles De Gaulle Airport at 6:45 Am Paris-time and connected to German Wings for our flight to Cologne Germany at 8:50 AM. This flight had cost 35 USD per person; paying fuel for a rental car would have been more expensive.
We took a train into the city of Cologne and continued on a Deutsche Bahn EuroCity train along the picturesque castle route up the Rhine river valley to Frankfurt. Gabi and I went to the train’s dining car for lunch, while enjoying the scenery from our panorama window. German food tasted really good after the long ” drought” in Japan. We switched from train to rental car and drove the German Autobahn for another 3.5 hours to Biberach in Baden- Württemberg. We finally were reunited with Sonja after a 36.5 hours travel day.