By the way, I can honestly say I was not sorry to leave the hotel. It truly was another sleepless night and I was just exhausted. Another amazing thing as I was packing my bag to make my 7 o’clock train I found sitting on the top of my suitcase my other train pass which I thought was lost. Saint Anthony you’re fantastic but just $400 too late. I’ll see if I can straight the whole thing out when I get back to the states. But man he works doesn’t he.
I went over to the train station extra early just because I was afraid I would have all kinds problems. I had to print the tickets which is always been difficult. Not today went as smoothly as possible and I have an hour to wait for the train. I would be taking two trains today. One from Munich to Central Austria and then Central Austria to Zagreb. I would stay overnight in Zagreb and continue my train ride to Split.
The first day was going to be a very long one. Actually left Munich around 8 AM and got into Village in Austria at about 1: 43 and my next train left at 1:53. The scenery on this train was absolutely magnificent. It seems like the train was meandering but It was going over 100 miles an hour. The fields and farms lead into beautiful snowcapped mountains and lovely Alpine Villages. The windows are relatively clean and I was able to take a few shots of the window. It’s very difficult to take pictures at that speed. The people sitting around me on the train were all very nice and although not all spoke English we were able to communicate just fine.
The next train is the different story. First of all, it reminded me of a train from the 1940s. Each compartment had six seats three on each side. It had the door closed to give the compartment privacy. Suggesting that it came from the 1940s should tell you something ahead of time about the lack of air conditioning. I never want to ride on anything in the heat again that is Not air conditioned. However I was able to put the window almost all the way down inside the compartment and in the hallway and I got unobstructed views of the scenery. I have a compartment all to myself and a researcher from the University of Leyden in the Netherlands was in the compartment next to me. She was not going as far as me but we had some great conversation. Most of the compartments were occupied by only one person and people were not terribly friendly. That was fine I was very content just sitting in my little compartment sweating to death.
I was in Zagreb by around 530. The place where I was staying was a five minute walk from the train station. It was A large apartment with air-conditioning. It was really quite comfortable. I actually could’ve stayed there for a while however as I walked around a little bit in Zagreb I found there wasn’t much there for me to see. I grabbed a sandwich the local supermarket and broke back to my apartment and went to bed nice and early having not slept the last two nights. It was just so comfortable.
I went over to the train station extra early just because I was afraid I would have all kinds problems. I had to print the tickets which is always been difficult. Not today went as smoothly as possible and I have an hour to wait for the train. I would be taking two trains today. One from Munich to Central Austria and then Central Austria to Zagreb. I would stay overnight in Zagreb and continue my train ride to Split.
The first day was going to be a very long one. Actually left Munich around 8 AM and got into Village in Austria at about 1: 43 and my next train left at 1:53. The scenery on this train was absolutely magnificent. It seems like the train was meandering but It was going over 100 miles an hour. The fields and farms lead into beautiful snowcapped mountains and lovely Alpine Villages. The windows are relatively clean and I was able to take a few shots of the window. It’s very difficult to take pictures at that speed. The people sitting around me on the train were all very nice and although not all spoke English we were able to communicate just fine.
The next train is the different story. First of all, it reminded me of a train from the 1940s. Each compartment had six seats three on each side. It had the door closed to give the compartment privacy. Suggesting that it came from the 1940s should tell you something ahead of time about the lack of air conditioning. I never want to ride on anything in the heat again that is Not air conditioned. However I was able to put the window almost all the way down inside the compartment and in the hallway and I got unobstructed views of the scenery. I have a compartment all to myself and a researcher from the University of Leyden in the Netherlands was in the compartment next to me. She was not going as far as me but we had some great conversation. Most of the compartments were occupied by only one person and people were not terribly friendly. That was fine I was very content just sitting in my little compartment sweating to death.
I was in Zagreb by around 530. The place where I was staying was a five minute walk from the train station. It was A large apartment with air-conditioning. It was really quite comfortable. I actually could’ve stayed there for a while however as I walked around a little bit in Zagreb I found there wasn’t much there for me to see. I grabbed a sandwich the local supermarket and broke back to my apartment and went to bed nice and early having not slept the last two nights. It was just so comfortable.
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