Saturday, December 31, 2016

German Efficiency

German efficiency is a real thing. There was a freak out moment this morning when we found out we were going to have stamp our passports during the 60 minute layover in Frankfurt. The information receptionist assured us 60 minutes would be enough time. Okay, relax, there is nothing we can do about it. If we miss our connection we will deal with it. It is out of our hands, now we just roll.

Land. Frankfurt Germany 1:10 pm. Greeted by a lady holding a sign with three cities listed on it in black marker. Sophia, okay that one. We go to her, she points to bus 2, second in the row marked Sophia. 20 other people join us off the air bus from Paris. We stop twice on our way to drop of 2 sets of people whose plane stairs await them directly off the bus. The rest of the 15 passengers arrive at the big building. They point to the door. We enter in a line. The first passengers go through the passport stamp station, stamp, stamp, 45 second. Next up us. Stamp, "geood," stamp, stamp. Good. We are then again directed out the rear door back to the same bus waiting for us. All 15 through. Now shuttled to the main terminal up the stairs, scan the boarding pass and down the ramp to the boarded plane awaiting us. We are on, 10 minutes before take off! Sweet German efficiency.

Last day in Paris.

Place Vendome

2 comments:

  1. So tomorrow you'll be in Bulgaria to meet your adoptions?

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Yes, we meet them on Monday the 9th and spend the week with them.

      Delete