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This one started with 16 minutes of delay right in the first train, before the journey even started. But I still had 13 minutes for my only switchover. So I will be cautiously optimistic. 😅 I ended up arriving only a few minutes late at my switchover station, and after that everything went perfectly fine. Nicely done, thanks Deutsche Bahn! Tally So let’s add this journey to our tally. Date Inconvenience Dest Lateness Overall Lateness Duration 2026-02-12 6 0m 5m 6h13m 2026-02-15 0 58m 58m 7h9m 2026-04-23 2 43m 43m 7h00m 2026-04-27 0 0m 8m 6h13m Totals 2 25m/101m 28m/114m 6h38m/26h35m No inconvenience on this journey at all. ...

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. ...

As promised, I will write a report on every train journey I take. This one is about the return journey for my family visit from last time. It started pretty uneventful. No last-minute changes, no cancellations or shortened trains. The first leg, to Dortmund main station, went very well. As usual on that route, it was an older ICE 2. I definitely prefer the seats on the newer ICE trains. The problems started with my train from Dortmund to my final destination. It started out with 20 minutes of delay, and finally left Dortmund with 35 minutes. The only explanation was “Governmental Measure”, which could mean anything. I was a bit sad when I boarded this train and saw that it didn’t have the ultra-modern interior I got to experience during my last train journey: ...

I’m traveling with Deutsche Bahn again, and it’s frustrating again. I decided: Enough is enough. Yesterday’s journey went off the rails before it even began. Instead of just quietly fuming, I decided to write about it. And not just this one. Instead, I decided to write one post about every train trip I take. And not just the bad ones! The good ones as well. It’s just that the bad ones generally motivate me to write more readily. ...

There are a lot of things we need to fix before we can get everyone on more climate friendly modes of travel, like trains. This was proven yet again by Deutsche Bahn. I like train journeys. They’re times where there is literally nothing to do but enjoy myself. There are no chores I can do, no work I have to do, nothing. Just free time. And in contrast to a couple of years ago, there is even decent Internet connectivity. So I get to do what I enjoy. Sometimes just leaning back and reading a good book or listening to a couple of episodes of my favorite podcast, sometimes writing blog post or researching the next steps for my Homelab. ...