So green water and blue skies, that all seems like Nice is a nice place, right? Well, I guess, but to me it's more like unbearable heat and stupid cashiers.
First of all, the train from Toulouse was 3,5 hours late, so we all got to sit in a drafty entrance in the train station in the middle of the night which made me catch a cold. I was able to find a hostel right outside Nice, which was very nice except for the location. Then I went back into town to get a ticket for Leipzig. This is the conversation with the cashier in short:
- I wanna leave here tomorrow and go to Leipzig
- (searches a little)... full
- Are all trains to Leipzig full? Ok, can I get on any train that takes me north?
- You have to tell me a place
- Ok, so... Berlin?
- Full
- Hmm... so Munchen?
- Full
I keep picking some towns like Strasbourg and other places in Germany and get the same answer on everything. So I try Vienna. It turns out I can get a bed on a night train to Vienna for 40 euro. Which is not really what I wanted at all. So I say that I will have to think about it for a while and let those behind me get to do their things in between. So I settle for Vienna, and when it's my turn again they're about to close the desk and are really unpolite. Now Vienna is full too? And then they lose the connection with the international booking server?
-Sorry, I can't help you
WTF! Anyway, I'm going to the regular cashier queue, not the one for just interrailing bookings, and wait for another 15 minutes. Then I ask the cashier there the same question, just to see if she says the same thing. She searches for a long time, and says that the train between Paris and Frankfurt is full, which would be my route to Leipzig. I ask if I can't go over Italy instead, and she checks that for a while. And voila, there is a possibility to go over Milano to Leipzig. So I take it of course, and happily pays the extra 28 euros it costs. That's how well this whole train booking thing works.
So, on Friday I will hopefully be in Leipzig. Which probably will be my last stop. I'm getting tired of this.
Song: Home - Michael Buble
2 comments:
Haha.. ursäkta att jag skrattar men hela situationen med killen i kassan var ganska rolig.
Du tar dig ju till Leipzig iaf,
och får se lite mer på köpet.
Här hemma är iof inget att längta hem till. Det är bara kallt och dåligt väder. (och det säger jag inte bara för att jag inte vill ha hem dig...)
låt: Orup - regn hos mig
Håller med! Inte mycket att komma hem till... Dessutom måste du fixa ett nytt kamerabatteri till mig när du är hemma igen eftersom det råkade försvinna spårlöst på peace & love...
Men det är väl jättebra att du fick åka över Milano! Nu får du ju iallafall se lite av Italien också.
Hoppas de sista resorna går relativt smärtfritt och enkelt nu då.
Ses snart!
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