Thursday, August 28, 2008

Holy Exhaustion Batman!

I spent more time on trains today ... as I tried to pick up students at the Flughafen (airport).  Their flights were 3 hours apart, plenty of time to get there, back, there, and back again!

Yea right. An accident on S-bahn 1 created a ripple of timing problems theat got me highly screwed up. The first student's flight was late from Frankfurt ... waiting in airport. Finally got him back to Hauptbahnhof, then I raced to the other platform to go back to the airport where the second student's flight was, you guessed it, early. What's worse, his arrival was in Terminal 1, Gate B - as FAR as possible from the trains.
:)

All worked out getting him back to Hauptbahnhof, except he didn't have the address of the hostel in which he was staying.  After a walk with luggage through the red-light district of Muenchen, we finally found it.  Turns out he didn't have a reservation.  Happily, there was a bed and 6.5 hours later I am back in my flat.

Sorry, no pictures, but tomorrow we take the train to Nuernburg for the day.  Hopefully some nice pix to come.

Oh, the upside is now I can get to the Flughaven to pick up the Walls and the Walters with litle or no difficulty!  Brian/Kim & Dave/Christine, make sure you have at least E18 (18 Euros) on hand for the train back into the city. 


1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Chris lived in Furth while he was there, but was born in Nuerenberg! He recommends visiting Solider field. He played on a soccer team there as a kid!