Bahn Journey Nr 3: Almost!

It is Deutsche Bahn time again! 🎉 And yet again, I’m traveling from the south of Germany to Ostwestfalen, its most exciting part. And incidentally, also the part of the country where the most competent and ravishly good looking people are born. 😇

At the time of writing, the train is perfectly on time. So I’ve got that going for me. But not all is well in the land of white and red trains. Namely, when I went to ordering myself a nice lunch, the menu only showed drinks. Nothing to eat. The nice waiter assured me that food will be available again starting from Cologne. Which is 1) where I’m going to be switching trains today. And 2), that’s two hours from now. 😭 May the gods have mercy on my undying soul. And my grumbling stomach.

Also, would it have hurt you to note the fact that there’s not going to be any food from the bistro in the DB Navigator app? Dang it.

Alright, starvation avoided. The second ICE of the day did have a working restaurant. After inhaling a Sandwich Chicken Caesar Style, my mood decidedly improved.

And it looks like this journey is going to go well. Switchover was easy, without any stress at all, and as we’re slowly trundling through the Ruhrgebiet, I think I might be perfectly on time.

I should not have written that. One stop before my destination, the train broke down. As per the announcement, the engineer’s panel showed a safety warning. After a manual check, it looked like everything was alright. But the warning was still there. They had to contact technical support. When I saw the engineer walking around in a high-vis vest, I decided that that train would likely not get going again anytime soon. So I switched to a regional train to get home.

But that’s not where it ended. That train also got delayed. Why? Well, about 20 minutes into that leg of the journey, it had to stop on a siding, because it needed to let another train pass. Namely the same train I had just left to get home “faster”. 🤦

Tally

So let’s add this journey to our tally.

I’m giving this one an inconvenience of 2, due to the lack of food in the first train of the journey.