In fact, Cirk’s wait for his love interest would have been longer, but he was hospitalised for exhaustion after waiting inside the airport for over week.
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Despite being stood up, Mr Cirk waited in the airport for 10 days for his lover to arrive.
Alexander Pieter Cirk, 41, recently flew from Holland to Hunan province in the hope of meeting his online girlfriend, a Chinese woman known only as Zhang.
They said: “Like many who meet on the Internet and get to know each other, the 41-year-old continued to chat with the 26-year-old: despite being 4,500 kilometres away and the six-hour time difference, their romance blossomed”.
Pictures emerged online showing the Dutchman resting on benches in the arrivals lounge looking exhausted and dishevelled.
He chose to fly to visit her, but when he got to Hunan found no-one had come to meet him.
Another photo taken later shows him being pushed along in a wheelchair with an IV drip in his arm.
According to Zhang, Cirk had sent her a photograph of his plane tickets but she thought it was a joke.
‘One day he sent me a photo of air tickets abruptly, and I thought it was a joke.
Alexander only left the arrivals lounge when he was rushed to hospital to be treated for exhaustion.
‘He didn’t contact me later’.
She admitted she had been offline when he arrived as was undergoing plastic surgery in another city.
It’s understood that after a stay in hospital Cirk booked a return flight back to the Netherlands without meeting his girlfriend, he is thought to have travelled back yesterday (Monday).
Alexander Pieter Cirk met a woman online and really fell for her.
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She said she wanted to keep the door open on the relationship as was keen to meet Cirk once she had recovered from her operation.
