13.1.20 Waiting in Beijing & connecting flight back home

After 10,500km in the air and about 12.5 hours of flight time, the wait for the connecting flight begins. It's shortly after 5am, cold and dark, when I arrive in Beijing. It's already 10am in New Zealand and the sun is definitely shining! I definitely wish you, who are still cruising around, the same. Here I'll have a jasmine tea and some vitamins for now.

2 chairs in the business lounge will be my camp. In 9 hours, I'll continue towards Frankfurt. As always, there are delicious things to eat in the business lounge. Mostly Chinese newspapers, and China Daily as an English-language newspaper. Contrary to last year, Wi-Fi is now publicly available without scanning the passport and even some apps work that didn't work last year - like Whatsapp. You can't send photos, but you can chat a bit. I'm finalizing my blog on Polarsteps - here I can upload all the pictures I want.

After drinking what felt like three liters of jasmine tea and eating some dumplings and cookies 🙄, it's time to continue. The time went by quite quickly. On to Germany!