Well here we are again back at Pearson Airport awaiting our flight to Budapest via Frankfurt. The purpose of our trip is the Mississauga Festival Choir European Tour, but we are doing a pre-tour trip to Vienna for five days. The choir tour will take us to Budapest, Vienna, Salzburg and Prague over the course of 12 days. The International Terminal 1 has certainly changed since our last visit here. There are hundreds of iPads set up at desks with funky lamps and high counters with stools. Use is free and you don’t even have to purchase anything. One of the men we can see from our comfy seat by the window is sipping his wine and checking email…at least that’s what I thought until I wandered by and found him playing free cell.

Since we haven’t travelled Lufthansa before, we are curious to see how good their service is compared to Air New Zealand. Our flight will be a little less than 8 hours followed by a 4 hour wait in Frankfurt before our flight to Budapest. Unfortunately we likely won’t make the afternoon train to Vienna, so there will be a 5 hour wait at the train station and then a 3 or 4 hour ride to Vienna. Did anyone say tired? I’m already looking forward to a snooze!