Travelling again
Jul. 3rd, 2015 07:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dormouse1953I travelled down from Hamburg to Cologne today.
When I checked into my hotel in Hamburg on Tuesday night, I was told breakfast was an extra 11 euros on top of what I'd paid when I made my booking. But when I checked out this morning, they said, "You had one breakfast this morning." I replied that I'd had one breakfast every morning, but I was told the total due was 11 euros. Well, on Wednesday they'd asked for my room number at breakfast. There was no-one on the entrance to the restaurant yesterday, and this morning not only did they ask for my room number, they asked me to sign. I wasn't going to press them on the other two breakfasts I didn't get charged for.
For some reason my train booking today was not a direct trip; I had to change at Hannover. According to the timetable, I had ten minutes to change trains at Hannover, but my train from Hamburg got in ten minutes late. Fortunately, my connection was running 20 minutes late.
Near where I was waiting on the platform in Hannover, there was a young lad, looked about 14, who was annoyed about something. I couldn't work out what, not because I don't understand German but because his entire vocabulary consisted of the words "Verdamnt" and "Scheisse". Maybe it was to do with the train being 20 minutes late. At first he was shouting at a woman I assume was his mother. Then he started on the platform staff. Finally the pair of them started down the platform, he still shouting at the top of his voice, the platform staff responding with the German equivalent of "The same to you."
After two hot days in Hamburg, it was cool and raining this morning, but Cologne is even hotter than Hamburg. And my hotel room has no air conditioning.
When I checked into my hotel in Hamburg on Tuesday night, I was told breakfast was an extra 11 euros on top of what I'd paid when I made my booking. But when I checked out this morning, they said, "You had one breakfast this morning." I replied that I'd had one breakfast every morning, but I was told the total due was 11 euros. Well, on Wednesday they'd asked for my room number at breakfast. There was no-one on the entrance to the restaurant yesterday, and this morning not only did they ask for my room number, they asked me to sign. I wasn't going to press them on the other two breakfasts I didn't get charged for.
For some reason my train booking today was not a direct trip; I had to change at Hannover. According to the timetable, I had ten minutes to change trains at Hannover, but my train from Hamburg got in ten minutes late. Fortunately, my connection was running 20 minutes late.
Near where I was waiting on the platform in Hannover, there was a young lad, looked about 14, who was annoyed about something. I couldn't work out what, not because I don't understand German but because his entire vocabulary consisted of the words "Verdamnt" and "Scheisse". Maybe it was to do with the train being 20 minutes late. At first he was shouting at a woman I assume was his mother. Then he started on the platform staff. Finally the pair of them started down the platform, he still shouting at the top of his voice, the platform staff responding with the German equivalent of "The same to you."
After two hot days in Hamburg, it was cool and raining this morning, but Cologne is even hotter than Hamburg. And my hotel room has no air conditioning.
