The following morning we left Paris to travel to Frankfurt for a 2 night stop.
We arrived at the train station, the Gare de l'est, early as we had to validate our Eurail Pass. There was a huge crowd of people in the SNCF office and we were told it could be an hour to wait and were given a numbered ticket.
A young man gave me a seat which was really nice of him. it was very hot in there. It turned out we only ended up waiting about 45 minutes. It only took a couple of minutes to have our pass validated and we were soon out of there.
We walked into the station which has a huge domed roof of clear perspex I think it is. It was extremely hot. Outside the temperature was above 40 degrees so inside the station where there is no air conditioning it must have been about 10 degrees hotter.
the train staff were handing out free bottled water.
Our train was delayed for 10 minutes, then the board said another 10 minutes and so on. A message came up on the board in French which translated into a bushfire on the train tracks. Then the train was delayed again.
In the end it was about an hour before we were able to board the train. Eventually we got moving and the screen in the train told us were were travelling at 219kms an hour. But, further along the line the train slowed and eventually we were travelling at about 150kms. Our journey was delayed by 90 minutes in the end. But at least we were able to get to our destination.
An announcement during the journey told us that there were people on the track at one stage that had to be removed from tracks before we could proceed.
By the time we got to the hotel we were pretty hot and exhausted so we just went for a stroll from the hotel down to the river we stopped at a nice outdoor cafe for a drink.
We arrived at the train station, the Gare de l'est, early as we had to validate our Eurail Pass. There was a huge crowd of people in the SNCF office and we were told it could be an hour to wait and were given a numbered ticket.
A young man gave me a seat which was really nice of him. it was very hot in there. It turned out we only ended up waiting about 45 minutes. It only took a couple of minutes to have our pass validated and we were soon out of there.
We walked into the station which has a huge domed roof of clear perspex I think it is. It was extremely hot. Outside the temperature was above 40 degrees so inside the station where there is no air conditioning it must have been about 10 degrees hotter.
the train staff were handing out free bottled water.
Our train was delayed for 10 minutes, then the board said another 10 minutes and so on. A message came up on the board in French which translated into a bushfire on the train tracks. Then the train was delayed again.
In the end it was about an hour before we were able to board the train. Eventually we got moving and the screen in the train told us were were travelling at 219kms an hour. But, further along the line the train slowed and eventually we were travelling at about 150kms. Our journey was delayed by 90 minutes in the end. But at least we were able to get to our destination.
An announcement during the journey told us that there were people on the track at one stage that had to be removed from tracks before we could proceed.
By the time we got to the hotel we were pretty hot and exhausted so we just went for a stroll from the hotel down to the river we stopped at a nice outdoor cafe for a drink.
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| The German ICE train in Frankfurt |
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| The Holbeinsteg footbridge |
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| The Holbeinsteg footbridge |
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| The Holbeinsteg footbridge |
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