First cup of fresh brewed from the coffee stash derek has been travelling w before heading off from the hotel on time at 7:30. Uneventful drive to airport, quick check in and off to the the lounge. Valetta airport is really nice with a good selection of duty-free shops (not for us) and we have a couple of mini cheese cakes. Derek had been looking up terminal locations in Frankfurt to make sure we don't have to switch etc. but then I notice there are no flights to Frankfurt on the boards ... because in reality we are flying thru Munich.
KM 306 leaves on time at 9:25 I take the window seat 1A since it's available (there are only two rows for biz class & we are the only people in it) and I finally finish the book I have been reading - Pioneer Girl by Bich Minh Nguyen, about a second generation Vietnamese girl obsessed w Little House on the Prairie and the possible intersect between her family and Rose Wilder.
Grey skies in munich - so strange to fly over so much greenery after a week in Malta. Bright yellow patches (rape seed?) mixed in w green fields until touch down at 11:17.
Munich airport is a big shiny clean shopping mall and is now my favourite airport in Europe, especially if travelling in economy - nice food options, double seater benches deep enough to curl up in in a secluded area next to individual sleep pods - sound proof, curtained, internet wired pods you can rent for 15 eur an hour. Also shower facilities outside the lounges.
LH2514 15:30 2D leaves 40 min late, arrives 15 min late.
Long queue at immigration and by the time I get out bags and car have been collected. I end up not going out to dinner (Camden Kitchen) and having a couple of slices of toast instead.
Night.
2025-02-17