Dec 12 - Home at last

Difficult trip home, only just arrived!

If I had been asked where our most likely delays would be when leaving Addis to come home, I might have guessed:
- the taxi could have failed to come,
- the traffic could have been so bad we missed the plane,
- the plane could have been cancelled
- etc

As it turned out, everything went smoothly, apart from a 2 hr delay in starting the flight, which itself was fine.

Got to FRA OK,  just the 2 hrs late. Then our problems started. We had train tickets to get us home, or at least to the nearest point, Saarbrucken.

A big storm hit Germany. All trains were delayed,  more and more as time went on. We tried to catch 4 different trains in 2 different stations.

7 hrs later we got to Saarbrucken - 1 AM, 17 hrs after we got up. Luckily we got a hotel for the night.
A fully automated hotel, we checked in and paid without seeing anyone. Try www.hotelbb.de hotel chain if you are arriving late.

Then the bus home, arriving 3.30 PM, So nearly 36 hrs in transit.

The good news: I both Sue and I lost 3 kilos. Maybe this was due to the warm temperatures in Ethiopia, the exercise, or the stress of the last 24 hours.