Day 25 – 21st August 2014 – Chemnitz to Cologne

We spent most of today on trains, travelling across Germany to our next destination of Cologne. Caught our first train at 8.33 and off the final one at 16.05. From Chemnitz we went to Leipzig and had been going to wait an hour for the next train, however we discovered another train leaving in the right direction and dashed up one platform, across the station, down another platform, along the train looking for the 1st class carriage, but hopped on at a 2nd class one to have the whistle blown just as my behind got through the door, lol. We did find our carriage though and then changed at Frankfurt Airport to the Cologne train. This one wasn’t quite the one we were going to catch, as it took longer to get there, but it turned out to be a fortunate choice as it followed the Rhein River all the way, so we had lovely views, of jigsaw perfect pictures for most of the way. Once in Cologne we found our hotel and have a room on the 7th floor, the top floor. The next chore was laundry, so we found a laundromat and had a quick bite whilst waiting for it to finish. Back to the hotel and now it’s started raining, so hoping it will be fine tomorrow.

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