Yesterday we journeyed out of Italy and into Germany however the trip there took way longer than expected. The bus we ordered to take us there only had 49 seats which wouldn't work because we are a group of 51. Our director Spiros tried to get another bus that night but considering it was Sunday night around 9 o'clock nothing was open. So their solution was to have the bus take us an hour back into town near Venice and send two people (Danielle and myself) via train. So on the bus ride to the train station two people had to lay on the floor of the tiny bus.
We get to the train station finally around 9am and ask for a train to Munich but the next train didn't leave until 11pm which would have left us waiting in the station for 14 hours and stuck on an over night train. So we got back on the bus where I sat in the very front corridor area.
Driving through the alps it started to rain which I loved since we have been stuck in high heat and humidity cities the past two weeks. And the hills were nothing but green with the brightest blue water running through them, I even saw a few water falls.
Well after we passed through the hills and finally made it into Austria our bus began to smoke so we had to pull off to the side of the road. It was a little scary and a little cold but it made for a great photo op! The bus went into a shop where they told us three hours, but while at the shop Spiros called the company again to complain and they said absolutely no more than 49 people allowed on the bus! So a man in a lexus picked up Danielle and I and took us to the train station. There we had to make three transfers, all very easy and in about three hours we finally made it to our hotels.
The train was really nice actually they had six seat cabins with glass doors to keep the cabin quiet, a/c, little reading lights, tables and a trash can. The train ride to Munich was actually nicer than the bus ride, and I made it through half my book!
The best part is once we got to the hotel we realized how nice it was. Granted it is only a three star hotel, its a huge step up from the "two star" hotels we have staying at where the toilet is literally in the shower. The pillow and blanket were like butter on my face and I almost couldn't get out of bed this morning.
Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
No comments:
Post a Comment