Abu Dhabi to Stuttgart

Today we left Abu Dhabi to head for Stuttgart. Murray and I were a little confused at the gate because it said the plane was going to Stuttgart but via Vienna. We were intrigued by this, wondering why it was going via Vienna and that we did not have boarding passes for Vienna. One we were on board the Air Berlin A320, the cabin crew told us that we would be stopping in Bucharest for a refuel stop. We found out why because on the flight information it said that we had a 150km/h headwind, making us use more fuel than normal. It was a 6 hour flight from Abu Dhabi to Bucharest, then we waited on the plane for a half hour while the plane was refueled, then another 2 and a half hour flight from Bucharest to Stuttgart. The Air Berlin flight did not have the type of on board entertainment as ETIHAD had, where every seat had a screen on the seat in front of them, Air Berlin had the ones where a screen came down from the ceiling about every 5 seats. This was OK again as I slept for a fair chunk of the flight. I watched the last 40 minutes of The Bucket List.