Thursday, September 18, 2014

Trains and stations

The vast concourse of the train stations in Koeln and Hamburg are dynamic examples of the pulse of Germany. They are performance platforms for coming and going, arriving and departing, saying "hello" and "goodbye" in a multitude of languages.




These are fast paced platforms...tracks for arriving and departing trains are posted as little as 10 minutes prior to arrival...meaning a rush for escaltors, stairways and, for folks like us, elevators. Charlotte is particularly good at spotting elevators.



We are learning to give ourselves plenty of time, of popping in long lines for "information" to find out, for example, that the train to Hamburg is listed as going to Kiel.

And, then, the train slows down to board the ferry...providing a chance to do some shopping in its stores (love the licorice)...and watch the German coastline receding in the dusk as we approach the flat landscape of Falster, the most southern of the Danish islands where our cousin has his farm. And where the pace slows way down.




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Location:On the way from Falster to Hamburg