Wed, 15 June 2016, 11:17 am: Three hours after breakfast here at Dusseldorf’s airport I’m buying lunch. It’s not for immediate consumption, though; the Matt Take Me contingent has a second flight soon and this food is for on the plane. By the time we arrive in Venice and have an opportunity to grab a bite it’ll be mid-afternoon. Unlike the meals on the transatlantic legs, you have to pay for food on the short-haul flights… if they offer food at all. Best to buy something now at the airport to eat on the way.
I inspect the full length of a glass counter at “Bistrot,” a cafeteria near our departure gate, and settle on this sandwich as my edible carry-on.
I am told I’m the only Matt Take Me member who’s thinking about lunch so soon after breakfast, but as a precautionary measure I fetch the below item as well. From tarmac to boarding to flight to landing to baggage claim to airport boat transport to hoof-it-to-hotel to finally able to grab a 3:30 meal is a long slog away. Somebody’ll eat it. 