..aimvotal: voyage echoes

I made my way home on the 11th January 2006 after spending many wonderful days in Tatarstan, Russia with my lady. On the way home, I took the Kazan-Frankfurt-Bangkok-KL flight. You may notice that the people who actually shop in the Duty free of Frankfurt airport & probably other European countries too are a rich bunch of folks.

They are either from Europe themselves, or from Japan, rich Arabs & Asians, & etc. Now that I recall it, I even asked how much it would cost me to have my watch fixed to fit my wrist on my way home to Malaysia from Tatarstan, Russia at Frankfurt airport.

The lady at the duty free watch shop answered nonchalantly “14 Euros”. I was flabbergasted, :O thanked her & walked away from the shop. The fee charged to do a simple task was unbelievable & outright ridiculous, in my opinion. I later had my watch done in a Malaysian watch shop at the Ampang Spectrum shopping mall for a few Ringgit which adds up to around 1 Euros. Lol

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I arrived at the Bangkok airport around 45 minutes where I had to wait around two hours for the next Lufthansa flight to Frankfurt in 2005, origin of the German hot dogs or frankfurter; maybe but the name is similar. The concourse area was so wide that it seemed like a waste of space. The flight would take around 10 hours so there were two full meals, one or two snack sessions & on board movies.

When first seated, I realized that there were at least two burly men sitting within my view. Maybe they were Lufthansa Airlines air marshals. One of them sat directly next to me. He told me he was from Hungary & was very hungry as he quickly ate when served his food. He was in Bangkok for a holiday & was a professional diver on his way home to Bulgaria.

I remember he got to telling me about a novel which consumed him throughout the entire flight. Perhaps some of you may have read the novel too. The novel was about a father & son team of cave divers who got lost & ran out of oxygen & died. I let him be with his reading. There are only so many hours that a man can sleep comfortably in economy class seats so I asked for hot chocolate from the flight attendant more than twice during the flight & watched the in-flight movies.

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