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As everyone was up the hill Frank had left car at the stn and PhilS was going to deliver keys by bike
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First Calais train set off 20 mins late, setting the tone for the day. I had left plenty of time for connections, knowing that DB are useless, so caught Paris to Stuttgart easily, but that one ended up 40 @@ -1486,7 +1486,7 @@ mins late. 54 mins for connection meant it should still have been OK, but the Stuttgart to Muenchen train was cancelled completely, (and clearly other trains had gone wrong) so the station was total chaos with hundreds of stranded and confused passengers milling about.
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Next train to Munich now had two trains-worth of people on it, but I managed to get on. Spent the whole time online recalculating possibilities. As well as starting 30 mins later than original plan, @@ -1495,7 +1495,7 @@ by 4 minutes (grr!). Got next one, however that was Austrian (not DB) so didn't honour DB tickets, leaving me paying another 35 euro (the kind conductor let me pretend I started at a later station than Muenchen so at least it wasn't 50 euro!
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All this meant I actually got to Salzburg back on schedule, arriving at 150 bus stop with 10 mins to spare. Result! But then the 150 bus just drove past without stopping (so annoying!), so I had to @@ -1506,10 +1506,14 @@ there _are_ later trains to BA these days. Eventually made it to BA about 1.5 hours late at 23:06. By this time Frank & James had come down after derigging gruffalo, so the complicated bike-assissted recovery was not needed, and Frank kindly came to pick me up.
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All a bit of a faff really. Even leaving sensible 40-min+ connection gaps is not enough to save one from DB's cockups if trains just disappear, and buses ignore you.
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Lots of people up the hill leaving wet washing strewn about the site. Sunshine meant that this could be dried and folded.
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