Tuesday, 20 January 2015

Getting old and blind...

I planned the longer weekend of 11th November long time ago. I thought it would be a nice idea to go home for longer than just two days, especially that it's not so cheap (I live in Cottbus in Germany). My sister wanted to go with me because she studies German philology and she was interested in the film festival that was taking place there.

Two days before we went, we got to know about strikes in Germany from Wednesday to Monaday. So, of course, there were no direct trains between Frankfurt (Oder) and Cottbus and we had to go through Berlin. The trains were going only once an hour. So when the train was approaching Frankfurt, I was standing by the door to be ready to run and buy the tickets that we didn't have. The next train was leaving in 7 minutes. I bought the tickets without any problems and all happy run to my sister who was going to the platform with our luggage. We met there a girl and she didn't have the ticket so I proposed her to go with us (we had a group one – for max. 5 persons). We started talking and were waiting for the train. Then we heard a noise behind our backs. We turned around and we saw our train leaving... Could you ever believe that!? The train was so short, was standing on the other sector of the platform and we didn't notice it. We all coded that the train should be annouced first and arrive.

So we waited for one hour.


And we spent some more hours in the train talking like best friends so it was a very positive experience. Every cloud has a silver lining.

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