Onboard

Found our seats and settled down for the flight. Goodbye Europe, goodbye 2010!

Leaving.

So, I'm all packed up. I've had breakfast, a quick shower and gotten my daily dosage of the interwebs. I'll be bringing ~17kg total. 3 of those will accompany me on the plane as hand-luggage so I'll have my OrbIT-blanket (corporate sponsorship!) and one of those omnipresent inflatable horseshoe-shaped travel-pillows I've always wanted but never had until now, a pair of comfortable pants and my Eee-PC. There are also a few packs of chewing gum and a set of good headphones. Should be fine for ~8 hours of flying, I figure.

So, going off here now. Still available on my phones until we hit the air and the new year. So long!

Packing!

So, I'm pretty much packed up and ready to go, finally. Just like this years Yule-tide celebrations, it has yet to dawn on me that I'll be halfway across the world in two days. After a last shoppingspree in Cologne at Globetrotter my kit is pretty much complete. Complete, that is, after my own free ideas as for what I'll need exploring the western parts of India. Not like I have much experience to go on. Should be fine with what I got through, and whatever turns out to be lacking can always be remedied by throwing a few Rupees in the direction of a suitable shopkeeper. Now the bed is beckoning, just wanted to throw up a little note before getting my beauty-sleep. I think the current plan is to leave here at around 14:00, with Susanne being gone to work from the wee hours until 13:ish. Everything working out, we should take to the air from Frankfurt at around 22:00 and hit Asian soil ~8 hours and several time-zones later.

India 2011: A place to sleep in Delhi

Susanne's blog is also up and running now, remember to bookmark/follow it! We will be (making at attempt at...) running separate blogs focusing on our own experiences and interests.

India 2011: A place to sleep in Delhi: "Just booked a hotel room for the first night in New Delhi. http://www.hotelwoodland.com/ It was an advice from the 'Rough Guide' and seems..."

And that's our first night in India booked =] ~€10 for a room and another ~€10 for airport transfer arranged by the hotel. Not bad at all!

Bonn'd

Finally arrived in Bonn after numerous delays including a frozen aircraft struggling with strong headwinds on its way up to Norway and a very cold 30 minute wait for a local train out of Kevelaer. Very tired, only got a touch over an hour worth of sleep this morning and the same in the air... the bed is looking really inviting.

Goodbye home..

Last time I'll see my snowcovered little harbourtown until February. *waves*

On the ferry across the Oslofjord bay with my dad and a friend of his who will drop me off at the airport.

My first mobile posting

Testing an app i got (Blogger-droid), hoping it will let me add little snipets on the run without too much fuss.

All my bags are packed, I'm ready to go... not.

I am about to embark on the longest and most adventurous journey of my life as of yet, and I am as prepared for it as... well, I'll let my still empty suitcase speak for itself. I'm leaving Norwegian ground in 14 hours, and I have - give or take -  two weeks worth of preparation and planning to go through before I set foot on Asian soil for the first time. Good thing Germany has large malls ready to serve my every need so I can stock up a bit.

Some of you already know that I'm off to India in a week, after spending the holidays in Germany with my best friend and travelmate Susanne. Assuming Frankfurt airport is open on New Year's Eve, we will be carried into 2011 by a Boeing 777-2/300ER heading for New Delhi. There is a very roughly planned travel route, and areas to mention are Agra (Taj Mahal), Jaipur, Jodhpur, Kerala (backwaters) and Goa. As far as I remember, we will be heading back to Europe on January 28th, giving us a whole month to roam the country of fragrant spices and wandering cows.

Starting this travelblog a little early so I can get used to posting to it on limited devices such as my netbook and my smartphone. I am hoping to acquire a prepaid SIM-card for my phone with a flatrate data package so I can post on the go (given there's network coverage).

Oh well, I guess I better get started on stuffing the suitcase and backpack. I'll be following the old saying 'If you bring everything, you forget nothing', I can still sort out what I wont bring further when I'm settled in Bonn.