Traveling: 27 June 2008

Getting from one place to another in Europe is more challenging than I expected. When we first booked our flights from Kerry Airport to an airport outside of Frankfurt I thought the hard part was over. I was wrong, that is the easiest step. So here is the rundown of transportation involved to get from Cork to Germany. Friday morning wake up call around 7, walk to bus stop in city centre (.5 hours), catch 8 am bus (2 hours), get to Kerry airport around 10 for 11:30 flight, fly to airport outside Frankfurt (1.5 hours), get on bus to Frankfurt (2 hours), walk to hotel (.5 hours), taxi to downtown Frankfurt for dinner (.1 hours), taxi from downtown to hotel much later that morning (.1 hours). I spent about 7 hours in an upright sitting position. As one may imagine I was very sore that night and the following day. I will now appreciate when airports are extremely close to the starting and ending point of a journey. It is a royal pain to take buses all over the place, especially when every seat is filled and it is a hot day and the entire bus is filled with odorous Europeans. At the end it was all worth it and I could not be happier that I went to Frankfurt for a weekend holiday.