Translation of mead in German

We returned to the former capital of the South at dawn and were dropped next to our place. We had a very nice day all in all, although it was very touristy. We felt that we have seen enough of the area.
And off we went. It took a us only a few minutes to reach the village. Funnily my wife fell asleep as she was still tired of the flight. It has been more than twenty eight hours without sleep.
As my wife is a travel agent, and knows that in certain cases people do not show up, we decided to take a taxi to the airport nonetheless. It was actually not far from the border, about 5 kilometers away.