Friday, April 10, 2009

First Train Ride - 18 March (Wed)

Schongau is a very small train station - only one platform. The train we took looked more like a modern streetcar. Something like this:



The trip took about 4-5 hours. We thought we got a good deal on the tickets - four people for about 80 Euro. Later we found that we could have bought a Bavaria ticket for only about 30 Euro - live and learn. Bavaria and Baden Wuertemburg have these kinds of tickets allowing up to 5 people to travel together within the state. Pretty cool.

We had two pretty easy transfers - one in Augsburg and the second one in Nürenburg. Each time we changed to larger trains and on the second train we had a small compartment to ourselves. The tracks changed in Nürenburg, but I was able to figure that out from the overhead announcements and then confirmed with someone who worked at the train station....hey! My German is coming in pretty handy right about now!

I had hoped that we would see something from Nürenburg when we passed through, but you can´t really see any of the famous sites from the train tracks. Ah well - something for a future trip.

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