Prague – Dresden – Frankfurt – Brussels 2010-07-27
Lots of trains. The problem with these trains is that you can’t get there from here. It took me several attempts to figure out how to head towards London. That explains the stright-ish shot to Brussels. I could have stopped in Amsterdam instead, but thought that a bad idea… me in Amsterdam all by myself, unsupervised… even I know better than that!
I had several hours in Frankfurt so I figured that I would wander about and sit down and get some real food. So while in Germany I ate at an Australian restaurant. Why you ask… it was there and I wanted some meat! I have Australian beef and it was good! There were a bunch of business people from the financial district eating there, so I figured that it was a good choice and I was correct.
Oh yeah, very important… go the bathroom on the train if you can. It cost $ to go in the station. And there is a long line.
This was a tricky train. Fortunately I had read about them. The only way that you can determine what train that you want to be on is by the departure time. The train number is often unknown, the track does not show up on the board until 10 minutes or so. So I am to get on the train to Brussels and there are two trains leaving at the same time on the same track! What up with that… then I remembered. Some trains actually split at a station with the front going to one destination and the back going somewhere else. Make sure you are on the right half and don’t fall asleep… the couple next to me, actually the women was very concerned about the train splitting thing and asked every person that went by. We were in the correct car. They had been traveling for several weeks and he was tired of sleeping in strange beds. They were from the UK. They were off to some friends house to stay for a couple more weeks… they get lots of vacation time over there…