Friday, June 12, 2015 Nuremberg (Nürnberg)
Around 6 AM Frankfurt time, they fed us a breakfast that was kind of
disappointing. I expected more from LH. We arrived in Frankfurt only about 15 minutes
late, so we made good time. Customs and immigration was quick and uneventful.
We made our way through probably a mile of airport terminal to our departure
gate for Nuremberg. They called for boarding at 9:30. We boarded a bus, waited
quite a while, and then drove a couple of miles on the tarmac to our airplane,
a Bombardier CRJ900. By the time we loaded, taxied out, and departed, it was
10:30. Twenty minutes later we landed in Nuremberg. I can’t imagine anyone
taking this flight unless they were connecting from somewhere much farther away
from Frankfurt.
We got to our ship about 11:30. It is very nice, only about
a year old, and bigger than I had imagined. They had a buffet lunch set up but we could not get into our room right away as they were still cleaning up from the cruise that had just left.
The view from our room is not that great tied up at this particular mooring.
We took a shuttle bus downtown, wandered around for a while, bought some souvenirs, and had a snack. We were back on board by 4:30 and finally lay down for a proper nap after being up about 26.5 hours. We ordered a wake-up call for 6 so we could take in the orientation, then went for dinner. We sat with a retired United pilot whose wife was a special ed teacher, and a businessman, who had been a high school teacher, and his wife, who had also done some teaching. It was an interesting discussion and we solved a lot of problems. Too bad we didn’t have any decision-makers sitting in. We went back to our room about 9 and settled in for the night.
I asked the United pilot if he had ever flown the Seattle to New York route (on which they often flew DC8s north into Canada to catch the jet stream). He said he had, so I told him he was talking to me, which led to an overall aviation discussion. He also said he flew Boeing 747s out of Chicago and Minneapolis to the Far East, which also would have flown through Regina airspace back in the day.
Weather was sunny with a high over 90 F or 33 C.
The view from our room is not that great tied up at this particular mooring.
We took a shuttle bus downtown, wandered around for a while, bought some souvenirs, and had a snack. We were back on board by 4:30 and finally lay down for a proper nap after being up about 26.5 hours. We ordered a wake-up call for 6 so we could take in the orientation, then went for dinner. We sat with a retired United pilot whose wife was a special ed teacher, and a businessman, who had been a high school teacher, and his wife, who had also done some teaching. It was an interesting discussion and we solved a lot of problems. Too bad we didn’t have any decision-makers sitting in. We went back to our room about 9 and settled in for the night.
I asked the United pilot if he had ever flown the Seattle to New York route (on which they often flew DC8s north into Canada to catch the jet stream). He said he had, so I told him he was talking to me, which led to an overall aviation discussion. He also said he flew Boeing 747s out of Chicago and Minneapolis to the Far East, which also would have flown through Regina airspace back in the day.
Weather was sunny with a high over 90 F or 33 C.
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2:20 p.m.
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