Maritim Kurhaushotel Bad Homburg

The beer and Valium may cause a slightly hazy navigational experience while trying to catch my next flight. This will in no way cause me to actually avoid these drugs, but rather it will simply push me to do a bit of extra planning while still state-side.
I'll look up the map of the airport.
I'll work out my route from one gate to the next.
I'll look into specific landmarks to help jog my potentially foggy ...

... Well here's the story:

After having met a bunch of design students "by chance" (still don't believe in chance though ;) at a party,

[to be continued]

I reckon this trip will help me to make some awesome pictures.

It was sooooo cold in Frankfurt, we didn't want to spend much time here since we had no winter clothing. WE got in late, went to our hotel, then back to the airport to get our flight to Bangkok moved up. We though it would be at 8 that night, but they managed to get us on the next flight out, which was pretty much within the hour. Woohooo! I also kept speaking Italian in Germany... so confused with all the languages.

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We arrived in Frankfurt to some more wet weather, and we headed to a hotel a few blocks away that we had seen online. It was in the middle of the red light district, but it was suitable and close to the train station. After we checked in, we found a phone to call Nadine and Flo. Nadine is a cousin of Chad's brother-in-law, and Flo is her boyfriend.

They met us at the train station in two separate cars and drove us back to their ...

... lennolla tarjottiin lämmin ruoka. Siispä kävelimme sisään United Airlinesin B777-koneeseen ja istuuduimme odottamaan nälkäisinä ruokaa. Koneessa odotti mukava yllätys - paikkamme olivat Economy Plus-luokassa, jossa on siis enemmän jalkatilaa kuin normaalissa Economy-luokassa. Myös penkit tuntuivat leveämmiltä. Koneessa oli kolme penkkirivistöä - ikkunoiden vieressä 2 penkkiä ja keskellä 5 penkkiä. Kone ei ollut myöskään niin täynnä kuin mitä meitä Suomessa peloteltiin, vaan heti meidän ...

... Rebecca by mobile and had kept her advised of my situation and we hatched a plan that once I got to the desk I'd try to fly to Munich instead of Rome because there were direct flights to Naples from there (saving me a train journey from Rome to Naples). Well the woman at the transfer desk said that was entirely doable and so she booked me onto the 16:10 flight to Munich, followed by the 19:30 flight to Naples. So far so good. NOT!! The flight ...

... that would be around 17.50 AUD!
Anyways I arrived back to the hotel at 9pm and made myself dinner with all of the ingredients that I had left in my cupboard. It wasn't too shabby. I made an omlette with eggs, salami, cheese, avocado, cherry tomato, onion and pineapple. And that used up everything that I needed to use up. I got a phone call from Annabel, who said that she wanted to come with me to Cologne the next day for Karneval, and after that I ...

... sleeping pills. Jim is nice enough; on his way to meet his wife in Birmingham, England. He's a production supervisor in a Chicago area manufacturing facility that supplies parts to the big three automakers. He boasts that if for some reason they had to shut their plant down, they would paralyze the entire automotive industry in the United States! He's been working afternoons / evenings for 12 years, and has only been married for one. It is time to start a family, he says, and ...

... you’d never do in the US, where freeways scream right over and around the centers of towns, frequently chopping up neighborhoods in the process. In Europe they stop at the edges, strictly a point-to-point sprint. You still have to wind your way through the cities, usually.

... was that the bus-drivers in Offenbach, where we were staying, had no idea what it was. Usually they would not want to admit this and just wave us through, but when I went out on my own to see Frankfurt by night the driver insisted that the card was for Frankfurt only, not Offenbach. We argued for about five minutes, with my very limited German and his non-existent English, before he telephoned headquarters to find out about it. Eventually he let me through, admitting ...