My flight from Delhi to Frankfurt was via Bahrain. So when I landed on the Bahrain airport, the first thing I noticed was McDonalds Bahrain. We had 2.5 hours to be spent at the airport before we could get the connecting flight. We found a long bench each and slept off. It was a night flight, so slept most of the time. Ate 3 times: dinner, dinner and breakfast at 5AM EU time.
One thing that was new for me was the fact that India exports a lot of cheap labour to the Gulf region, and so these flights via the Gulf region are filled with people that give you a feeling that you are travelling in a local Haryana travels bus from Delhi to Rohtak.
We landed in Frankfurt soon after, and our phones were not working. The plan was that we would be contacted by the taxi driver. Now that this couldn't happen, we were sort of stuck at the airport for about 1.5 hours, after which we decided to take a train. Reached hotel, reached office, took lunch at a Thai joint, Germanised Thai-I didn't like it. Dinner at some restaurant on Zeil street. In the name of vegetarian, they only had fried potatoes and salad.
I noticed a few things: The Germans are very disciplined. They respect traffic lights, pedestrians cross only when it is green for pedestrians, cars stop well behind the stop line, and the best part: there is a separate track for the cyclists everywhere, lying somewhere between the road and the pavement.
And I have just one tap in my hotel room: for washing hands after answering nature's call, for washing my face and for drinking. My room is compact and nice, with all modern amenities like TV with only German channels and only EU style plug-points. Thankfully I have a converter.
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