Friday/ to Frankfurt ✈️

We took off from Seattle-Tacoma Airport’s South Terminal almost an hour after the scheduled departure time. (The inbound flight from Frankfurt was late). The flight went without incident, though— always a good thing— and we made up the lost hour on the way.

Still at the cruising altitude of 37,000 ft here, with about 2 hours of the 10h flight remaining. Our route took us over Nunap Isua (Cape Farewell), the southernmost point of Greenland.
Our Airbus A330-300 bird landed on the tarmac. I have just boarded the bus that would take us to the terminal. Frankfurt airport is enormous, and it was more than a 10-minute drive, where we joined a line of buses and waited for another 20 minutes or so before we could go inside the terminal.
A view from the bus. The bus drive makes for a mini drive-by tour of the airport. The striped livery is that of low-cost German airline Condor.
Inside the terminal now, making my way to the passport control and baggage claim. These travelers are headed to their connecting flights.
Recognize the woman on the Italian tourism billboard? She must be Venus from Sandro Botticelli’s famous painting The Birth of Venus.
Frohe Weihnachten (Merry Christmas). A little while later I would learn of the terrible events in Magdeburg at the Christmas market there. A madman (50-year old Saudi Arabian doctor that had lived in Germany since 2006) drove into the crowd, killing five people and injuring some 200.

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