China > There is no bus

China - On the Great Wall of China

I pack my luggage, keeping in mind what I can take as hand luggage and what needs to go in the main baggage. At exactly ten o’clock, I’m ready in the lobby for the transfer to the airport. There’s just no bus yet. Luc calls. He is assured that the bus will arrive in ten minutes. Even after ten minutes, there’s still no bus. Luc keeps calling. “The bus is really on its way.” Just before eleven, the bus finally arrives. The driver had been sent to the wrong hotel. There are still two hours and twenty minutes until the flight, and it’s about a forty-minute drive to the airport. It’s going to be tight. The driver does everything he can to get us to the airport as quickly as possible. At the airport, I say goodbye to Luc. I check in just in time, pass through customs and baggage control. Just before one o’clock, I board for a ten-hour flight to Munich, from where I continue on to Amsterdam. Home!