Erfurt; Thursday, 02 August, 2012

Following another spectacular breakfast I popped back to my room, packed the remainder of my stuff and then checked out of the hotel and headed to the station.

Whilst it was a long journey back to Berlin, it was at least on a single train that I could collapse into for nearly three hours. That was lucky as it was already 10 minutes late by the time it arrived at Erfurt and proceeded to lose a little more time before it reached its next major stop at Halle.

Up until that point I had had a compartment to myself, but, as this was the one train a day from these parts up to Ostseebad Binz in Rügen, it was always likely that it would fill up, and at Halle a family got in to full my compartment. If my journey was relatively long at 3 hours, their six hour trek up to the Baltic was something else, and long before Berlin their two children was starting to get bored.

It was at this point I was thankful for the headphones and the dark-glasses, though not so thankfull as the train arrived into the lower level of Berlin Hauptbahnof and I realised that the lights in the carriage weren’t actually working, which makes for finding your luggage a little more interesting.