complete disasters are wonderful times.
Nothing has worked out, it's been absolutely brilliant!
Thursday Jeff, Brittany and I went to Heidelberg to see... something. The castle I guess. Of course none of us knew where we were going so after a couple hours of graceful plundering around in some wonderfully old apartment blocks we see, ahead in the hill, the castle.
It was a good experience, a lot of walking... anyway, when we go to head back we realize the Brittany checked the wrong train schedules and the train we were going to take back to Friedrichshafen for the night wasn't actually accessible with our ticket.
We decide to get as far as we can for the night...
end up looking around in Stuttgart for a hostel for a couple hours...
decide to get to Ulm and tough it out in the trainstation. Arrive a half hour past midnight, next train to Friedrichshafen leaves at 5:02am. Not heated. Nothing opened. Ended up walking to Münster which Jeff hadn't seen yet (the church) around 2am to stare frozenly 165m up along it's spire. The night was very, very clear and very, very cold.
We got back to the school around 6:40am Friday morning. I slept till 3pm. Filled Friday with useless recuperation and movie watching.
Today, woke up and Ryan, Jeff and I decide to go back to Ulm so we can check out the Münster in the daylight.
The bus was late so we went to the Fischbach trainstation to find the train completely packed with witches, turkeys, barmaids and randomly dressed people (they're in the middle of a week-long festival here) so to the next bus station we go! Bus is 15 minutes late (which is very VERY odd for Germany) and the streets to town are closed, so we have no idea what the busdriver is doing as he rides aimlessly down suburban streets before pulling into a stop that is close enough to the trainstation for us (atleast we knew where we were)!
At this point we have no idea where we'll end up- it's been over an hour since we left (a 7 minute journey otherwise) and there is a train leaving for Ulm in 10 minutes! A-freaking-mazing!
So we get to Münster and it ends up being open so we get to walk around in this outrageously materialistic gothic architecture. It was closing in 30 minutes (not enough time to walk up the spire). Amazing though, completely unheated.
Besides I'm too sore from shivering on Friday morning to tackle a spiral staircase.
And that has been travel weekend.
I have a few pictures from Heidelberg that I'll post when I get around to uploading them.
To get an idea of how long I've been on a train this weekend just consider that Friedrichshafen to Ulm is 1 hour, Ulm to Stuttgart is 1.5 hours... Stuttgart to Heidelberg is around... 2 hours? I suppose.
Thursday Jeff, Brittany and I went to Heidelberg to see... something. The castle I guess. Of course none of us knew where we were going so after a couple hours of graceful plundering around in some wonderfully old apartment blocks we see, ahead in the hill, the castle.
It was a good experience, a lot of walking... anyway, when we go to head back we realize the Brittany checked the wrong train schedules and the train we were going to take back to Friedrichshafen for the night wasn't actually accessible with our ticket.
We decide to get as far as we can for the night...
end up looking around in Stuttgart for a hostel for a couple hours...
decide to get to Ulm and tough it out in the trainstation. Arrive a half hour past midnight, next train to Friedrichshafen leaves at 5:02am. Not heated. Nothing opened. Ended up walking to Münster which Jeff hadn't seen yet (the church) around 2am to stare frozenly 165m up along it's spire. The night was very, very clear and very, very cold.
We got back to the school around 6:40am Friday morning. I slept till 3pm. Filled Friday with useless recuperation and movie watching.
Today, woke up and Ryan, Jeff and I decide to go back to Ulm so we can check out the Münster in the daylight.
The bus was late so we went to the Fischbach trainstation to find the train completely packed with witches, turkeys, barmaids and randomly dressed people (they're in the middle of a week-long festival here) so to the next bus station we go! Bus is 15 minutes late (which is very VERY odd for Germany) and the streets to town are closed, so we have no idea what the busdriver is doing as he rides aimlessly down suburban streets before pulling into a stop that is close enough to the trainstation for us (atleast we knew where we were)!
At this point we have no idea where we'll end up- it's been over an hour since we left (a 7 minute journey otherwise) and there is a train leaving for Ulm in 10 minutes! A-freaking-mazing!
So we get to Münster and it ends up being open so we get to walk around in this outrageously materialistic gothic architecture. It was closing in 30 minutes (not enough time to walk up the spire). Amazing though, completely unheated.
Besides I'm too sore from shivering on Friday morning to tackle a spiral staircase.
And that has been travel weekend.
I have a few pictures from Heidelberg that I'll post when I get around to uploading them.
To get an idea of how long I've been on a train this weekend just consider that Friedrichshafen to Ulm is 1 hour, Ulm to Stuttgart is 1.5 hours... Stuttgart to Heidelberg is around... 2 hours? I suppose.