In four days we learned a lot of things. One that sticks out in my head is, don't take regional trains in the middle of the night. This we learned again on Sunday night when we got into Stuttgart. This is the biggest city with any proximity to where we were so we were in the train station a lot. This time we were not so lucky. There weren't any trains going anywhere close to where we wanted. Sad thing is, it wasn't that late. But the scourge of regional transport struck again and we were smote twice. We ended up buying a hostel in Stuttgart where I am writing this section of the blog.
My life was also enriched. If you have ever even seen Bayern, even from the train like I did, then your life truly is better. It is remarkably beautiful. Life is also enriched when you eat this much bread and döners. But really, the south of Germany is awesome and whenever you can learn valuable lessons, your life gets better.
Back to today. We left Lindau in enough time to make it to Stuttgart and make life choices when we got there. We were hanging out in the Bahnhof when Kim exclaims that she left something of value back at the hostel. Our train was set to leave in a half hour and there was a storm whipping across the lake. Kim and I waited at the train station nervously waiting Michael's return. In the meantime I had the best pastries I have ever had. I literally cannot recall ever eating anything so fantastic in all my life. I hope to have that experience again in Germany. It's wonderful. Michael got back with a minute to spare. And when we busted onto the train and settled down he told us about his adventure. It sounded like he pulled a Liam Neeson in any of his movies ever and went epic through the city. Lindau was a cool little city and had an awesome hostel. About that storm I was telling you about…it started the night before and because it was really windy and we had our window open my some of my stuff got wet. Oh well. I was going home that night…Oh yeah. Plans change. But I packed extra so it's all good.
Back in the Stuttgart train station tonight a man comes up to us while we are sitting and eating our supper and points at us back and forth as if he is choosing one of us for something then says "Guten Appetiet." I'm not sure what I think about that, so I enjoyed my food like he said to do. Later we were still in that spot and were working on our plans when the police told us we had to move. So naturally we did. It was warmer where we ended up anyways.
Here is a list of things that I learned:
- While trains are the cheapest way to travel, they are not always the best.
- Internet, smart phones, and cars are invaluable. With those things, one can practically do anything, we decided.
- Hostels are awesome places to sleep and parking garages are not.
- The south German and Austrian accents are awesome.
- And we know very little about train travel.
A personal attitude that I have embraced is that when things go amiss, it does no good to let the frustration overcome you. It does no good getting frustrated over things you cannot control, instead adapting and coming up with solutions, and being flexible is the best way to go. This is really the way to go. In the end, I love Germany, I love my time here with the people I am with, and I love the food here. Good gracious.
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