Rhein | Insight

Setting off early Sunday morning means the trains are a bit spass. No trains from Farnham early enough so I am dropped off to get the first train of the day from Woking.

Lots of runners get on the train on the way to a half marathon.

The Brompton is essential for me to make it to St Pancras on time. The Interrail App does not even provide a connecting route from Woking to the Eurostar train that I am catching. It turns out that this is due to a number of underground trains not running due to maintenance work.

A quiet cycle ride gets me to St Pancras well in time.

The Eurostar leaves 14 minutes late due to a technical issue with the train. We get underway.

We are still ten minutes behind schedule when we arrive in Brussels but somehow I make a very tight change on to the train to Frankfurt Am Main. I did not expect to make this connection so I am two hours ahead of schedule.

I conveniently have chosen a hotel 200m from the station.

There are plenty of pretty buildings in Fulda.

Sun catching the buildings early morning.

The train I was planning to catch already was delayed by 45 minutes, which was making the next connection tight. But I had arrived early at the station and so caught an earlier train, which way delayed by 7 minutes. It arrived on time to München.

There follows a rapid set of border crossings. Germany into Austria into Switzerland. This happens skirting the edge of the Bodensee or Lake Constance.