Our story begins with our flight from Vancouver to Calgary and then Calgary to Frankfurt. All told about 11 hours flying with the Calgary – Frankfurt leg taking about 9.5 hours. None of us got much sleep – it was hard to get comfortable in the seats. In Allister’s case, the ability to select his own movie was probably the key factor in his insomnia – he claims to have only watched only 3 movies but the rest of us think it was closer to 5 movies. He was in heaven.
Frankfurt is a big airport, second only to Heathrow in the number of flights it handles. It isn’t the largest city in Germany, Hamburg, Berlin, and probably Munich (and likely others) are all bigger but it is central and on most of the major transportation routes so maybe this accounts.
As some may know, we are traveling in Europe by car so the next task after recovering our bags was making contact with Auto Europe, the company that administers the Peugeot buy-repurchase program that is supplying us with a new Peugeot 407 Station Wagon for our trip. Even though you worry that somehow we won’t figure out how to make contact we do and we’re picked up in a van and taken about 20 km away to where our car is parked. We’ll include pictures of the Peugeot later but when we took delivery it had only 11 km on its speedometer – so this really was a new car.
