Trains

We missed a train today. Twice!

We got up esspecially early to to catch the international train from Utrecht to Köln at half past 8. We raced to the staion, well I did trying to keep up with Richard's super duper speed and a crazy heavy rucksack on. We struggled to find the right train so we ask the information man to looked crazily scared that we had to run to catch the train. Racing round the station to find the stairs, which I swear were completely hidden from view, up down the stairs to stand right next to the train and watch it slowly pull off on it's way to Germany.

We went back up to the station as I was determind there was another way into Köln. After half an hour we found one that took us half an hour on the way, so to waste time we took the train to Arnhem. When arriving we found we still had 2 hours to wait til the international train we needed to catch. We wondered round the most emptiest city in Europe and decided to sit on platform 6B and wait. When eventually 11:37 appeared still with no train I stood up to see where it was to find it the other end of the platform in 6A hidden behind building works! We grabbed our rucksacks and ran like fools to catch the train we would NOT miss a second time only to yet again stand and watch it very slowly pull out and head off without us.

After sticking around in the freezing cold (yes it is freezing cold over here! I came here to enjoy the sun, not to sit around in boring England weather) we went for a hot chocolate and a coffee. Eventually at 13:37, 5 hours after originally planning, we were on our way to Köln! Yay!
We found our hostel, made our beds and went straight out again to catch a train on a scenic route to watch Germany's mountains fly by (Rich: makes a nice change, Netherlands are so flat and boring!).

I'm now sat in the Hostel completly exhausted, I have no idea why because we have sat on platforms and trains all day. After plans to see the city tonight which were very quickly destroyed by the rain, I found another free computer to use. But the 'Z' key and the 'Y' key the wrong way round which has confused the hell out of me these last two posts!

I'm all up to date with my posts now so we're off adventuring to Frankfürt tomorrow and we'll post at our next free computer!