Joel in Germany

Stopover in Doha on Saturday morning was a few hours. I got on the next flight as normal. Got a moment of panic before I got on that I'll leave out. Normal flight. Weird rude other passenger with multiple requests to swap seats to reconfigure his family situation. No big deal. Landing in Germany, amusing anecdote: when descending an escalator into the passport control area, everyone just stopped at the bottom, which created a potential for complete chaos as an entire plane-load of people were descending that escalator into a crowd of people who had decide to stay absolutely static. A german person called out "move into the queues! It is all signposted clearly!" Queue was a little long. Weird quirk: 3 border control people were assigned to non-eu citizens (me) and 1 was assigned to eu-citizens. So eu citizens were moving too slowly than they should have been. I was waiting for one of the three to open up for me, and it happened that an irritated German person walked up thr...

My total commute from Australia to Germany was total chaos. Don't judge me on this! Keep in mind that my plane to Germany would leave at 9:40pm on Friday. Thursday I had organised, at the last minute, for a charity organisation to pick up a bunch of my furniture, as I couldn't sell them (I didn't try that hard), and it would be good for people who need that stuff to use it. They were due to arrive at 1:30. Before that I figured I should pick up a van to move the last of my stuff to my storage box. So I picked it up at 11:30am. I drove home, and tried to pack kitchen stuff into boxes for the charity people to also take. I moved lots of my furniture downstairs to make it easier for them. That is, my bedroom cupboards, bed frames, etc. They arrived and took all that, plus my fridge, washing machine, couch, mattress, bed, etc. Then I loaded up some boxes and other furniture into the van and moved it to my storage box. Jasmine came that night to help me pack other things, and it...