In Transit – 29 and 30 Dec 2007

The trip to Amsterdam was largely uneventful, with all of our flights arriving and leaving on time, and our baggage accompanying us the whole way too.

Amanda created a challenge to eat McDonalds in as many countries as we can, and she started with a snack and a giant drink in Los Angeles…..

And then continued it in Frankfurt, where we also managed to order deep fried shrimp (?!?!?!!).

We flew Wellington/Auckland (an hour), Auckland/LA (12ish hours), LA/Frankfurt (13ish hours), Frankfurt/Amsterdam (an hour). The worst flight by far was LA/Frankfurt, where we had minimal legroom and no personal TV sets (it’s a hard life, huh) and had trouble sleeping for more than a couple of hours at a time. About halfway through I think we both wanted to jump out of the plane just to get away. The flight ended (finally) with us both vowing never EVER to travel all the way to Europe/UK in one continuous motion. Stopover on a tropical island next time, perhaps?

Considering that Frankfurt is a major hub airport, it didn’t have supreme duty free shopping (in my opinion). In fact, we were pretty disappointed with the duty free stores in our terminal at LA too. On arrival into the Netherlands you can’t buy duty free (just when you leave) so we got here minus a few key items which we had planned to get duty free… But never mind.