It is March 4th and apparently it is Carnival week as well as half term. What does it mean? It means that every family with children are on my train from Frankfurt. I knew it was Shrove Tuesday as I was hoping my day would be filled with pancakes and goodness. Instead I have a family with 11 children sitting in the three rows in front of me. The youngest is the only girl and she is about 2. She knows she is the boss and now everyone on this train knows it too. Heaven forbid one of the boys wants to sit in any seat because at that exact moment, Little Madame decides that is her seat, her book, her airspace.
The other thing I was not expecting was for the trains to run late. My train was delayed by 30 minutes by the time it arrived. We pulled out of the station and 3 metres later we stopped for 20 minutes. Finally got going and 5 minutes later we stopped again. I asked the young lady next to me why we kept stopping because the announcements were in German only, she said “because it is Deutsche Bahn. Don’t worry we will get there eventually.” I have travelled to and through Germany many times but never by train. We are almost at my stop so I will keep you posted on any thrilling updates from this trip.
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