Poznan; Wednesday, 30 July, 2008

After a less than satisfactory breakfast (it would appear that all the businessmen had cleared the entire place out of food before I arrived), I packed up my things and headed for the station.

I exchanged my remaining Zlotys for some Euros and went to wait for my train. It was apparently good timing. As I decended the steps into the underpass all the lights went out. There appeared to have been a total powercut to all the electrics of the station, with the exception of the clocks and the tannoy.

In semi-darkness I climbed up the steps onto the platform, only to discover that this was the same platform that was accessable from the forecourt of the station, I had just hauled my heavy bag up and down the steps for no reason!

The powercut appeared to last for some considerable time, it still hadn’t cleared by the time my train finally dparted nearly an hour later (officially on-time according to the indicator board, stuck on it’s setting for the 10:41 to Berlin, late according to my ticket which stated it was the 10:20!)

The train lost a bit of time on route, and at just before 12:45, 20 minutes behind schedule, we crossed the Oder River from Poland into Germany.