Since I didn’t really sleep on the plane, I was pretty tired when I got to the Frankfurt airport. To me, it was 1am whereas it was actually 6 or 7am in Frankfurt. Either way, I had to figure out a way to get some sleep before I started to feel really awful, and yet wake myself up for my next flight.
At first, I thought about trying to stay awake until my flight to Delhi at 1pm – I walked around the airport, peering in the duty-free shops in an attempt to stimulate enough interest to keep myself awake for the next six hours. I quickly became tired of lugging my carry-on of books around (I thought I would read a lot on the flights) and retired to an available chair. Unlike the chairs on the plane, the ones in the airport itself didn’t recline, so I again found myself awakening every 20 minutes or so. Eventually I started to feel a little sick, so I decided that I should eat something.
Since this was my first trip to Germany, I decided to try some sausage and the hefeweizen. The hefeweizen was quite tasty, but the sausage that I ordered turned out to be the tiny 3-inch-long crap you get in the frozen section of the supermarket. I was so hungry (and the booth was sooo comfortable) that it wasn’t such a big deal – put enough sauerkraut and mustard on and anything tastes good.