It was a pretty great trip :
I ended up going to a lot more places than I thought I would initially, because it turns out that unlike Britain, there aren't ticket barriers at most train stations in Europe, so I could get out and explore rather than having to wait X hours stuck inside a train station. It meant I got to see a bit of Swizerland (Basel), which I really didn't plan for- I had no Swiss Francs, only Euros that the rest of western Europe uses, so could only look as I wandered round the city for a couple of hours. Apparently it's very expensive there though as I heard some Americans mentioning on the next train along to... I think I was going to Italy at that point?
Anyway I managed to make pretty much all my train connections and only cried once (in front of a very non-plussed Danish guy, because I did actually make the train I was supposed to catch to Salzburg). He had been trekking on his own and had to catch the train, because he had been caught speeding in the Netherlands and they'd taken his license away. He also had enormous blisters.
I ended up going to a lot more places than I thought I would initially, because it turns out that unlike Britain, there aren't ticket barriers at most train stations in Europe, so I could get out and explore rather than having to wait X hours stuck inside a train station. It meant I got to see a bit of Swizerland (Basel), which I really didn't plan for- I had no Swiss Francs, only Euros that the rest of western Europe uses, so could only look as I wandered round the city for a couple of hours. Apparently it's very expensive there though as I heard some Americans mentioning on the next train along to... I think I was going to Italy at that point? Anyway I managed to make pretty much all my train connections and only cried once (in front of a very non-plussed Danish guy, because I did actually make the train I was supposed to catch to Salzburg). He had been trekking on his own and had to catch the train, because he had been caught speeding in the Netherlands and they'd taken his license away. He also had enormous blisters.
