This should be full of pictures, but I discovered my camera batteries are flat, or more likely,the wrong type.
We had various ways of getting here, and the chosen one (Bus to Saarbrucken, then direct train to the airport) does not allow buying tickets online. So I could leave early, go to the station, buy our tickets, then return and without stopping, pickup Sue and the bags and return to the station. Or we could leave together at the same time, and just catch an earlier bus.
Which we decided to do, and it was lucky we did. When we crossed into Germany, the German customs stopped the bus for a spot check. Four armed police came on board and started cross examining all the passengers, including us.The driver told us afterwards they were looking for drugs or for black money cash transfers.They hauled some poor foreigner-looking man off the bus and searched him for a while,then let him come back on. Later the driver told us his bus had been stopped successfully twice in recent weeks. Once a man had been caught with 420 000 euros of black money. The other time it was 460.000 euros in cash.
Off we went, somewhat late. Our schedule gave us 21 minutes between the bus arriving and the train leaving. We were 20 minutes late. We had a mad scramble, and some luck, and we were the last people to get on the train!
Otherwise the trip was uneventful. We arrived early, and ran into a noisy demonstration at Frankfurt airport. Protesting about noise, aircraft noise. I bought some batteries for the camera, so at last you get a picture.
This was the band which led the noise making at the noisy demonstration.
Next stop Addis Ababa.
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