We drop by the local grocery store to pick up a few things to tide us over on the trip. A couple Rittersport bars, some pastries and milk for breakfast, and a carton of iced tea for lunch, which would be consumed with some leftovers for lunch. We walk to the S-bahn stop, and ride it to Berlin Hauptbahnhof. When we get to the station, it is about 11:10, and there is a train waiting for us at the specified platform. We get on.
As you've probably guessed, this was the wrong train. We got on, looking for our seat numbers. Seat 82 is missing for whatever reason (thank God, or we might not have made it to Copenhagen today), and a couple locals ask us where we're headed. We tell them Hamburg.
Cinematic moment:
Them:"This train is headed for Frankfurt!"
Me: "So this is the wrong train then?"
Them: "Yes."
*Lurch*
Us: "Crap."
Fortunately, the train wasn't a high speed direct one to Frankfurt. We hopped off at the next stop, and there is another train to Hamburg from the station (the name escapes me) leaving at 12:25. At this point, Radey discovers that she left the rose we'd bought in Prague at the hostel. :(
Needless to say, we missed our reserved connection to Kobenhavn (8 euros wasted!), and have to catch the 3:25 one, without seat reservations. It wasn't crowded, and no one evicted us from our seats, which was good...
...Except when we had to all get off the train due to "technical difficulties," ride a bus to the next nearest station (20 minutes of driving through the Danish countryside), which has the train to take us the last 40 minutes to Kobenhavn Hbf.
Danish Countryside:
We arrive at 8:40. The "hostel" we are in is pretty nice. It's a Danish woman's home converted to allow large numbers of guests.
Oh, did I mention they loaded the train onto a ferry?
Train on a ferry? o_O Crazy. By the way, maybe you mentioned it to me, but you only gave me 30 out of the 40-some episodes of GTO! I watched the 30th episode, thinking it was the last one, but the story arc didn't resolve.
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