Friday, July 20: Sunny and warm throughout
Halle, Alexandra’s (€11.4, bedroom with shared facilities, via airbnb)
Early morning at the dentist’s to check whether yesterday’s extraction had gone to plan, then a haircut and a brief visit to the office to finalise next semester’s timetable. Then it was a slow process of packing and trying to check that I had everything with me this time. Decided I would go into town by tram, as I had already brought to light that one train on today’s schedule had been replaced by another, with no seat reservation possible. Managed, however, to get some random lights working in the flat, although I should really read up on the mega new device onto how to set it up correctly, forgot only to turn off the video recorder, won’t be many new episodes of CSI anyhow.
If there had been a loose spanner in the works, then DB would have come crumbling down today. A couple of minutes’ delay in leaving the main station were almost immediately raised to about 10 within 100 m of leaving the station; although it didn’t get any worse further along the line, and thus no connections were endangered, there were announcements on the train about advising people not to change for a faster train in Brunswick, as the faster train was delayed, and you’d be quicker staying on this one. Read more…
