Train Delays, and a Soft Landing

“I’m nervous,” D texts me just after 6 a.m. Same here. Today, I work half a day, then take the train to D. The actual tour starts tomorrow.

In the afternoon, I finally get going – and immediately things get complicated. I consider taking an earlier train to have more buffer time for changing, completely forgetting about the contruction. The earlier train doesn’t exist. Twenty minutes waiting on the platform on the train I wanted to take anyway.

Then the ICE from Stuttgart is so delayed, I’d miss my connection anyway. Plan change: I switch in Cannstatt and take the regional train. According to the app, it’s still faster that way.

Everything works out. Luckily, I had the ICE ticket – in Bavaria, bikes apparently do need a ticket after all.

D picks me up at the station and we ride to their place together.