On the Way to Cyprus

We took the Air Link coach back to Dublin airport. Our first flight of the day was on Aer Lingus (yes, it sounds a wee bit rude!) from Dublin to London. It was a pleasant flight and they offered drinks and food for purchase. A lot of passengers purchased the “Full Irish” breakfast which seem to consist of mostly meat - sausages, black and white pudding, etc. I was surprised that we didn’t have to go through passport control in London. Since Lufthansa also operates out of Terminal 1 in Heathrow, we were didn’t have to change terminals and were able to enjoy breakfast and a few hours of sitting around waiting for our Munich flight.

The flight from London to Munich was about an hour and a half. We were served a small, but very good, cheese sandwich, a mini Mars chocolate bar, and a choice of alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages.

We had a 5.5 hour layover in Munich. Originally, I had planned for us to take a bus into Freising which is a small historic town about 15 minutes from the airport. However, it was rainy and cold when we arrived and we were so exhausted we really did not have the energy to do anything. We tried to get a room for a few hours to sleep in at the Kempinsky hotel in the Airport Center, but they wanted 174 Euros. Apparently there are sleep booths that you can rent by the hour in the terminal, but I didn’t not see the sign until it was too late. Our layover was not fun because we were all so tired (we had been up almost 24 hours with very little sleep the night before we left). We went to the Airbraü in the airport center which is an outdoor beer garden with 2.30 Euro 0.5L beers. The beer was amazing but I was trying too hard to stay awake to really enjoy it.

Having a Beer at the Airbraü

Any ideas what this carving at the Airbraü is?

Finally at 9:30 p.m. we boarded our flight to Cyprus. Rosemary slept for the first two hours then woke up very cranky. I tried to feed her the lovely kids meal provided, but she refused. It was a shame because Lufthansa really goes all-out on the kids’ meals. The meals were created by a famous chef with the input of a group of children. The meals are made from healthy, natural ingredients but are designed to be fun. Rosemary was given a very colorful salad, chicken strips and rice, and a green frog dessert. There was also a set of colouring pencils and a colouring book on the tray. I had an amazing marinara pasta, salad, and roll. This was the best airline meal I have ever had. The dessert was alright, another fruit salad, but at least it was fresh (unlike Air Canada). The drink cart came around several times and I had a few glasses of decent sparkling wine. I was way to tired to take photos.

We arrived in Larnaca at 2 a.m. and took a taxi to Nicosia. It is about a 45 minutes’ drive and it cost 50 Euros which was reasonable.