36 Hours in the steel tube
If "getting there is half the fun" is true this is going to be a pretty ordinary kind of holiday. We meet up with our travelling companions and after being probed by security we settle into the Air NZ lounge which is pretty well deserted. We are eventually called and take the 3km walk to the furthest away boarding area and plonk into our seats. The so called latest release movies are so dated that I believe the others were probably released before the talkie era! We arrive in Bangers and after a brief respite we walk the 3.5km trail to our Luftwaffehansa plane-apparently they have upgraded their fleet recently but this one has missed out-this explains my seat number as being "rear gunner?" With the aid of powerful pharmacological agents the trip is borderline tolerable. The next stop is the aptly named Munchen where we sup on fine German sausages,cheese and bread(2nd breakfast) and then onto the 3rd leg to Athens and our 3rd breakfast of the day(?)-I could get used...