Last day of our journey! Everybody is a bit tired and happy to go home. To the best place on earth: Obere Zürisee und Fräänkedoorf to our families!! Handling in Thessaloniki is actually not too bad; for African standards. They don’t respond to calls, they have nothing prepared, the airport is likewise. Fueled up and …
Handling in Larnaca is again very efficient and we are in the air 10 minutes earlier. A short flight across the sea and we land in Beirut early. Unfortunately the fuel truck is broken and we have to wait. After a while we decide that Captain Tom stays back and the rest drives into Beirut. …
We decide to fly out of Tel Aviv a bit later since there is not much to see in Larnaca, the city in Cyprus we have to fly to since it is not possible to fly directly from Israel to Lebanon. While leaving Israel, security is much tighter. But all works very well and we …
16th of June Early rise at 05.30h, shower and off to Aqaba airport where we change into uniforms. A bit more comfortable than the desert camps. Everything is top service here again and we are in the air on time. Before take-off Captain Tom had to call a number in Israel to reconfirm that we …
14th of June After breakfast driving to the airport. We start to realize that this is actually the most dangerous part on our trip! Immigration and security is efficient; so efficient that they find our Swiss Army knives and take them away from us. Take-off on time and for the first time: we are happy …
Friday the 13th and we fly to Saudi Arabia. Checking out of the hotel is a bit difficult, they forget to organize the car to the airport, their the agent has not filed the flight plan; but we still leave more or less on time. A three hour flight over the desert (which is huge) …
The news on TV about Iraq don’t look pretty. All hell is breaking lose in the North. The rebels take the two largest cities. And we are heading towards that direction: to Kuwait. Leaving Bahrain is no problem and we fly north along the coast. Handling is slow and so is immigration. But at least …
Excellent handling in Doha and Manama. We have to wait a bit for the fuel since we decided to take it here. And it is not so hot anymore: only 43 degrees today! Since it is still hot and there is not too much to see in Bahrain, we decide to have another pool day. …
Another short flight from Au Dhabi to Doha. Handling at both places excellent and another dream-like destination. Today it is 49C; almost to hot for the pool. The floor is too hot to walk on it barefoot and even to touch the rail when coming out of the pool is almost impossible! But we do …
Drive to the airport is despite rush hour easy. So is security and immigration. We have to fill up some oil for the engine and get the feeling of heat! Take-off on time and short flight to Abu Dhabi. Already approaching the airport we get a glimpse of what is expecting us: we fly by …