How bizarr to ride the night train. You walk into a room on wheels, for instance in your home town, sleep one night and then wake up and walk out into another country.
At least that's how it should be.
Our sleeper from Copenhagen was delayed one hour because of two incidents. An accident on the tracks, supposedly involving a person, first stops it outside Odense. Then at 2.30 am everybody on the train is woken up by the conductor announcing in the loudspeakers, with the voice of an official who doesn't know what to do, that there is a passenger with an epileptic seizure on board and could somebody, preferably a physician please help?
As we won't make it in time to catch our connecting train from Munich we are woken up again, kindly this time, a few hours later and asked to get off the train in Nürnberg and catch a fast regional train from there.
Do you know the feeling of severe panic that strikes when you travel with too many pieces of luggage and you need to count them continously? I know that feeling, it often returns right when I have stepped off a train and the train sets off again.
Four bags is not to be recommended. If one is on your back, where are the other three? And is the one on your back really on your back?
3 comments:
Absolut! Jeg og manden tog fra København til Essaouira i Marokko, med toget hele vejen, med to børn. Tak for kaffe, der var meget at holde styr på, og vi havde endda kun én kuffert!
Hvorfor er det lige du kører med tog? Vi gør det på grund af klima. Aldrig mere kan jeg flyve.
Hej där.
That must have been some trip. I would like to go all the way to Tunis one day, but right now I am happy here on Capri (where there is a pleasant storm tonight).
I will probably fly again but flying is not by far as enjoyable as going by train, the most civilised of means of transport. The sustainability of it all doesn't make it worse but I prefered the train 15 years ago too, when the climate discussion had a different focus.
Ciao,
Lars
Tunis! Sounds excellent. By way of Marseilles, or Sicily? We almost took the boat from Marseilles once, but our youngest was only 6 mos. and we didn't want to risk it without the necessary vaccines. Another time, most definitely. Though we're planning train trip in Damascus in a couple of years. Godt at følge med på din rejse. Hav det vidunderligt!
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