All Aboard for Serendipity

What a weird crazy wonderful day it was today.

I woke up this morning and wanted to go on a train adventure, so I was going to try Rothenburg ob der Tauber for the second time. But I arrived at the train station too close to departure to buy the tickets. So I decided to go to Strasbourg France instead. (No reason behind it)

Well, I was waiting for my connecting train in Karlsruhe, I realized it probably wasn't coming or I was at the wrong gate. I met a young woman named Prasanthi, who was also waiting for the train. She also was going to Strasbourg France and spoke English. Double bonus. We decided to go to information to find out what was going on.

We found out that the train had been canceled and that we were put on another train with no notification. After finding our new train, we quickly became friends and decided to hang out for the afternoon in France.

What a delightful time we had. Even though it was freezing cold, we walked to a beautiful cathedral, toured a museum of the palace of King Louie XIV, and was caught in a protest. Then we topped the afternoon with Starbucks.

We had to run back to the train station to catch our returning trains before we were caught in the protest again. We decided to keep in touch. That is the grand bonus of all travel is New Friends. Thank you, Serendipity.

The train trip back was full of delays and stops for right away, so I was 12 minutes late for my last train. It only sent me back 35 minutes. I am now back at the Airbnb ready for a good night's sleep.

PS. The only cool thing I ate today was a real German pretzel. 😆Read more