Ouch, long flight:
Transit in Hamburg, Germany will just allow to hang around the airport transit, refresh, and get on board again. So let's checkout the airport:
The cellphone works, good sign!! Thanks to data upgrade just before the flight. $25 for one month, pro-rated, it should cost about $6 for the week. Phone upgrade to get phone calls overseas cost $5 per month, just a nice hook to get you to use it and pay roaming charge (30 cents per minute or so , ouch!!). There are other options such as buying a local card for international calls, or SIM cards locally. We'll see at the destination. Maybe I should have unlocked my phone by ATT before I left?? I guess they should be able to do that there also. Time will tell.
The airport is quiet, not lot of flights. I see an ad for Ford just above other fancy German cars. Cool, Detroit needs all the help it can get.
Even though the cigarette boxes are clearly labled with "Smoking will kill you", a step away there is a designated smoking area. Nothing but a sign, but this is Germany and everone follows the rules precisely!! Except the sign that "it will kill you", go figure!!
Speaking of killing, time that is, lets look at the paper. Notice the housing ads in the paper and future city plans for the new port (thanks to Google translation tool online). It looks like they are not too concerned about housing slow downs around here yet. Not many job offers on the paper, that's sad, but for sure they are looking for software engineers. They just need to spell it right ;-)
Let's check food prices. Well, here is what $6 gets you in Europe these days, a cup of fancy coffee:
Time to get back on-board heading toward Dubai.
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