After years of discussion I finally convinced Danielle and we will visit Japan this spring. I’ve been here before but for Danielle it will be her very first trip to Asia. I really hope she enjoys “The Land of the Rising Sun” as much as I did during visits in the past.

After checking the usual websites for flights we’ve found an absolute bargain on www.klm.de. We leave in Nürnberg in an Embraer 170 and after a transfer in Paris to an Airbus A380-800 with which we’ll land about 15 hours later at Narita Airport about 80 km from Tokyo.

At this moment we are still figuring out what we want to see during the 11 days we are there. So far we’ve come up with Tōkyō (東京), Mt. Fuji, Kyoto (we hope to enjoy Sakura, if it happens early this year) , the Tokyo SkyTree, Hamarikyu Gardens, Imperial Gardens, Tokyo Fish Market and we want to ride the Shinkansen. Oh and before you think aren’t they visiting the Tokyo Disneyland Resort, yes we will for 3 days! So we’ve a lot to check-out till the departure date!

The way back home will take the same amount of time and with the same planes. We can’t wait till we are there and you’ll enjoy some preparations blog updates till our departure date and off course we’ll try to blog live as we did during the last vacations!

On this 21st day of our vacation it’s time to go back home. Our first flights leaves at 11:50 from Orlando International Airport towards Detroit. Since both of our suitcases where a bit overweight we decided to leave as soon as we were done showering and packing the last couple items. At 8:40 we left the Staybridge Suites in Lake Buena Vista and headed to the airport with avoiding the toll-roads.

At 9:25 we dropped of our SUV at Alamo and as expect no additional costs and at 9:30 we were already dropping of our luggage at the Delta Check-out. And both our suitcases were 3 pounds to heavy (about 1,5 kilo) and we needed to re-pack our stuff, which we did and we managed to get even more stuff in our carry-on items, both suitcases almost exploded but it all fitted in.

After having a small bite at the gate the plane left almost on time and from the air we had some nice views over the Florida coast line. And before I forget we had complimentary 30 minutes WiFi in our flight towards Detroit and Delta started with allowing usage of electronics from gate to gate! About 2 hours later we arrived in terminal A at Detroit and we walked towards our next gate. During the walk we discovered the Detroit City Mug at the Starbucks but our carry-ons where already full…

But I didn’t want to leave it there and decided to re-pack our stuff again and we managed to find enough place for a mug! So I walked back and brought us something to eat before we board, at that time it was already 15:00 and before we would get something to eat in the plane it would take at least a couple of hours. The flight to Amsterdam was pretty good the entertainment system was amazing and we both watched some cool movies The Internship (Danielle), Jobs (Sander), Planes (Danielle), Now you see me (Sander) , The Watch (Danielle) and a part from Armageddon (Danielle) and Iron Man 3 (Sander). The food wasn’t bad either, we both went for the chicken. After only 6 hours and 50 minutes we already arrived at Schiphol Amsterdam.

In Amsterdam we had to wait for about 2 hours before we could board our third and last plane back home. The plane was in the new KLM design which was nice and gave you some the feeling that you have more space. But the best thing was the breakfast, 2 sandwiches and something to drink. The sandwich was really delicious.

We landed at 9:15 at the Nürnberger airport, at 9:25 we had our suitcases, at 9:28 we passed through customs without any question asked, at 9:35 we found our car back and minutes later I was already racing the Autobahn! At exactly 10:00 we drove into our parking garage.

That leaves us to a last word of thanks to every reader of our blog, thanks for leaving comments, thanks to Richie and Denise for inviting us over and many thanks to our neighbours for taking care of our mailbox! From now on we will stop bothering you with daily FaceBook updates and sharing overloads with pictures!