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I’m in Jinan… after a 36h trip

You probably all know the Greek legend of Odysseus. Well my flight two days ago came pretty close to an odysee.


Our plane at the gate at Frankfurt Airport

The trip took about 36h in which I did not really get any sleep besides napping away for a total of maybe 2h. It first started with the flight route to Beijing via Shanghai. So we flew over Beijing, literally to get to Shanhai. There we took the grand tour of the airport (with our luggage) to come back to the same plane we had before one and a half hours later. Then we took of to Beijing, where our connecting flight to Beijing was supposed to leave about 4h later.


Arrival at Beijing Capital Airport

When we got there we got the news that the plane would be delayed for about 2h. So we checked in anyway. When we arrived at the gate, hell broke loose over Beijing. Thunder and lightning. So we where told that the plane is stuck in Jinan because of the weather and it will arrive another 1.5h later.

Waiting for our connecting flight to Jinan

So the plane finally got there and we could board. When we thought we could finally start (and still make it to Jinan in time for the game Germany vs. Argentina) we had to wait another 45 minutes in the plane before we left the gater with a now a 5h delay. So the plane went to the runway, stood at the runway and then turned and went back to the gate. The game was still 0:0. We got back to the gate and waited there for maybe another 30 minutes. Before we finally took off the regular playing time was over with 1:1. After touching down in Jinan the SMS arrived telling us that Germany won. The other Chinese travellers must have thought we are crazy shoting: Deguo, deguo, which means Deutschland in Chinese ;-)
Anyway after another hour in the bus to the city I finally made it into my bed at about 4:30. After being up for 36h straight I slept till 3 in the afternoon the next day.

So thats my first report from Jinan, China. Stay tuned for more.

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This entry was posted on Sunday, July 2nd, 2006 at 11:17 and is filed under China. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

3 Responses to “I’m in Jinan… after a 36h trip”

  1. Ding Says:
    July 3rd, 2006 at 22:45

    Hi , Hannes Finally you are in China now , Welcome to China !!! ^!^ I got a world cup timetable from Koln rail station when i was in Koln and i watch games and fill the scores on it everyday now , Deutschland is so great , they won the the game with Argentina , they are the top 4 now ,Congratulations…. The photoes you took on the wedding is so nice , you two both looks so happy and graceful…especially the one with candle , traditional chinese wedding :) Do you have any China telephone number now ? where is your next plan in China ? let me know maybe i could do some help …
    with my warmest greeting and welcome Ding

  2. morinox Says:
    July 4th, 2006 at 07:06

    Oh my, what a journey. But eventually you arrived sane and safe in China. Hope you have a fine time over yonder and make many pleasant experiences.
    Maybe you’ll even have the time do do some geocaching - yet the next cache is 70km away.. you should do something about this! ;-)

  3. Han Says:
    July 5th, 2006 at 11:50

    Already did man, already did: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=03f1fb55-272c-4343-acb3-36dfb72e7f66

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