You’re right. We didn’t mix up the planes. The picture in the previous post has indeed been taken in Dubai, inside the Mall of the Emirates. And it shows real snow (with up to 400m downhill slopes).

Fun fact: Outside temperature is almost irrelevant as airport, metro and malls are a closed system. While the sun shines outside and it’s about 35°C warm, the shopping mall is well tempered at 19°C and the ski park inside the mall is cooled down to -3°C. Wow.

After about six hours of sitting inside the plane with not nearly enough space to fall asleep, we are now 5139 km and three time zones away from home. Very sleep deprived we’re hoping to get a bit more of Dubai tomorrow.

Maybe we took the wrong plane after all?

Just went into the plane and ready to lift off. Let’s go!

After what felt like hours of preparing and playing tetris to fit everything into the backpack, it’s finally time to start this journey for me as well.

Currently I’m sitting in the train, heading towards a beautiful sunset. Direction: Köln. I’ll meet up with a friend there for one more quiet evening in germany and will continue tomorrow to catch up with Ben in Krefeld.

… and of course I’m ready for No-shave-November as well. I’ll go even further and extend it till mid December!