Day 16 Sunday 16 April 2017 (Easter Sunday)

This is a bit of an experiment as I am using the WiFi on the train to post the blog, it is very slow (the WiFi, not the train) so we will see if it works or not.

I left Lille at about 9.00 this morning and had to go back to Paris, the train came in to Gare du Nord and then I had to walk from Gare Du Nord to Gare Du Est to catch my next train in the general direction of Germany.  This was done successfully if not slightly panicky, as I didnt have a lot of time.  This train went to Karlsruhe which is just inside Germany, after a short stop in Strasbourg. I thought to myself I wouldn't have minded getting off in Strasbourg for a couple of days.  But not to be.

Changed trains in Karlsruhe and this time caiught a train to Berlin via Frankfurt.  This journey is a little over 5 hours so I dont get into Berlin until close to 7.30 this evening.  I've already had a beer and a toasted ham & cheese sandwich but I reckon I will be looking for the buffet car before this journey is over.  Dayumn, I forgot to take a photo of my beer and ham and cheese sandwich.  Maybe next time, I am not even going to try and upload any photos on the train WiFi.

I like Germany and I always get a bit of a thrill when I cross the border a bit of a return to ancestral homelands maybe, or the thought of roasted ham hocks and pitchers of beer, one or the other or both.

Not much to write about so far, sitting on a train going backwards through pleasant German countryside.

I will be back if anything interesting happens or I think of any pearls of wisdom to cast before you.  I've got another 3-4 hours to think of something.  As they say here Auf Wiedersehn (or something like that).  I studied German at high school for 4 years and still learnt more from watching re runs of Hogans Heroes.  (Maybe study was to strong a word).