Trains, planes and automobiles

After a busy morning at the interface of email, I embarked upon another of those annoyingly long, but none the less quite short, journeys. I'm not sure how far Muenster is from Edinburgh as the crow flies, but as the Arclight journeys it's a flight to Amsterdam, an annoying wait at the Schengen border and security (I went out and came in again to avoid a huge queue at the airside border) and a walk to the furthest B gate, followed by a bus to the aircraft, a tiny hop to Duesseldorf, another bus, another long walk through the terminal, a skytrain (you are supposed to pay, I didn't) to the train station, a long wait in the ticket office queue (ticket machines don't take Visa or Mastercard....you might ask, what *do* they take....; only one person staffing a counter), a slow train to Duisburg followed by a failed attempt to change to a fast train which failed because it was delayed by 30 mins for unspecified "technische" reasons, back on the slow train to Muenster, and finally a short taxi ride to the airport. There was a point on the airport train station in Duesseldorf when I seriously thought about turning around and going home again.

Luckily the hotel was quite comfortable. That's the best that can be said about yesterday.

Going large on this photo shows more clearly the aircraft coming into land through the Duesseldorf dusk.