The Journey

Now we have been two weeks in Brisbane. There has been so much to do and the first week a jetlag to cure so I haven't really been able to write any blog posts. But from now on I will shape up!
Since I have a bit of a backlog this first post will cover the journey and the coming days I will try to catch up with happenings and observations until today.
We started the journey on Monday 3/9 at 06:50. The weekend before was frantic. I can only say that we underestimated the work left with cleaning and removing personal stuff from the house big time. The night between Saturday and Sunday we only slept a few hours and the final night we eventually never went to bed at all!

Anyway we treated ourselves with some Aussie wine, provided by my former boss (thanks for that!) on Saturday night to start adapting to Australia.



On Monday morning after first having left our car for storage (Yes we left home 3:30) we arrived to Landvetter totally exhausted. And the journey hadn't yet even begun...
The flights went well. Air Berlin took us to probably the worst airport of Europe, Berlin Tegel. Then to Abu Dhabi where it was +40 at 11pm! , strange experience. The final leg was a 14h flight with Etihad in a Dreamliner, the new airplane type from Boeing! Quite ok I must say. Nice staff and nice food.

And most of all on the entertainment system they had the MECCA POINTER!!! This service provides, at any time, the direction towards Mecca in relation to the flying direction. It is of course a little bit difficult to kneel in that direction onboard the plane but maybe it is enough to just have it in mind.



Finally we arrived to Brisbane airport. Except for some queue to the passport control the border crossing went smoothly and not at all as in the TV show.
Taxi service was perfect and at the apartment Kathryn met up with keys and a welcoming kit, thank you!  We went for a short walk, took below first picture and fell into bed totally exhausted...