(Christine) Landed in Frankfurt at 7am...slightly jet lagged but managed to get our rental car and thankfully Kristian asked for a station wagon with GPS.  Yes, GPS has saved my marriage. Found our Old yet Funky hotel (www.hotel-am-berg-ffm.de/) and settled in for a 4 hour nap.  We woke and went out for mittag essen (mid day lunch) at a lovely G...

We arrived in Frankfurt earlier than scheduled, around 9am rather than the original scheduled time of 9:30. So the answer to question #1 is yes. During dinner I watched the movie "Because I said so" with Mandy Moore. I thought it was cute. Our flight also had a bit of "eye candy" with a group of handsome soldiers. One young man was in our row an...

...so we arrive at Frankfurt airport and immediately notice the smokey smokers corners every 5 metres! We are exhausted and probably deirious from an hours sleep and waiting about 8 hours in Bangkok airport before the trip. The plane was a larger one and so didnt have personal TV screens which we sooked about no end but the flight was fine. We g...

I spent the last few days in Bangkok shopping a bit, eating lots and lots of fresh fruit and plenty of spicy Thai food, getting a few more excellent massages, and meeting up with Elisabeth a few times. The holiday was incredible...but too short. I could spend months and months travelling through Southeast Asia. Maybe that should be done sometime...

Since we were so far east, we didn't want to trek all the way back to Barcelona, so we booked an overnight train from Venice to Frankfurt to catch the last two legs of our flight home. Two backpacking scuffs that hadn't showered in a day making use of the 1st class facilities wasn't accepted real well, but, hey, we paid the miles, so we should g...