Bad Wolf

It used to be easy, get on a 'plane at Prestwick at 21.00 on the Friday night and arrive at Frank's (Altstadt Cafe, Traben-Trarbach) just on midnight...now to get to T-T one has to fly from Edinburgh! to Weeze-Niederrhein, on the Dutch border, and then train it down the Rhein.
Edinburgh Airport has apparently doubled in size. Gate 23? It was a remote stand meaning a bus took us out to the ‘plane. Being last on the bus made a mockery of all those who had coughed up for Priority Boarding, Hector was fist on the ‘plane and selected seat 1C so as to ensure a quick getaway at Weeze. Then the pilot announces d a half hour delay.
Hector was first off the ‘plane and out the airport, I was also the only person on that flight to make the last train to Düsseldorf.

The Beyer Hotel, Sheurenstrasse 57, is not recommended. €33 for a single room appeared to be a good price. Arriving on schedule at midnight I advised the desk clerk that I would be going out for an hour or so…Füchsen should still be open. He told me that I was not going anywhere, he was locking up! Breakfast? You’ll have had your coffee. I took a banana not because I wanted one but because one cup of coffee is not enough.
The journey down the Rhein must be one of the great routes, the abutments at Remagen the beginnings of the Rhein Gorge… €29 for an Inter City to Koblenz and on to T-T, is not a bad deal. However this meant no bier in Düsseldorf, Köln or Koblenz…fifteen hours in Deutschland and no bier… what was Hector thinking about? It must be a wine fest weekend…