Friday, March 30: Sunny but very cold to begin with; becoming somewhat warmer during the day
Hiking: 24.6 km
Nico’s
As breakfast was not on the menu here I decided to be up just before 8:00 to see if I could make sense of the trams to get to the station, buy some breakfast and a ticket & leave on the 8:57 to Eisleben.
Almost immediately there was a tram waiting which I took. First stop on board was the ticket machine which coughed up a reasonably priced ticket. Then to make sense of the maze of lines and work out where to change for the station. There was a relatively good guiding system (complete map with diodes lit in various colors to highlight the route) and conclude I would have to change after two stops at Franckeplatz. There was a longer wait there (practically a Sunday) or the last three stops to the station. A tram to the station pulled up eventually and just before getting on I checked the ticket & realised it still had to be validated! Did do immediately but it might look strange to an inspector. Fortunately there were none. Read more…
