Anyways, my train from Berlin to Mannheim was late, so I missed my train to Freiburg (I was going to Freiburg to meet a family friend, Lucia), so I took a random train to Karlsruhe, which made sense at the time, I really don’t know if it helped or not. By that time, I was pretty late to meet Lucia, so I tried to use a payphone to call her – apparently German payphones prefer calling the US to calling Germany…basically, I ended up calling my father, who helped sort things out, I got on a train and arrived in Freiburg.
Of course, because nothing’s ever easy, I spent an hour wandering around the train station looking for Lucia, even attempting to call her over the loudspeaker (but they heard me wrong and called the wrong name…errrr). My savior was…Starbucks! Which has free wifi…I managed to use skype to call her and we found each other eventually…it was an adventure.
We then went off to my hostel in Rieselfeld, this suburb of Freiburg, the hostel was very annoyed that I was late, and made me pay for internet, which doesn’t work (kind of annoyed, did you notice?) but it’s a place to sleep. After dumping my stuff off, we wandered around Rieselfeld and stopped in a nice café for drinks – I had tea, yay!!!!! The waitress was really nice and told us she wanted to visit Boston to do swing dancing. So yeah, a nice relaxing end to a super-stressful day.
And, of course, here’s my one picture – a lovely view of the German countryside from the train.
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