I am revising my travel plans as I was supposed to take the train to Salzburg for a 3 night stay, frolicking with Maria Von Trapp in the Austrian Alps.
I understand that all trains from Germany to Austria are cancelled today due to flooding in Vienna and Salsburg.
Hmm.
Tomorrow I may just ditch Austria and head north, either to Leipzig or Dresden. I'll have to rearrange my hostel bookings. I guess I'll be seeing a lot more of the former East Germany than planned. That's OK. I really would like to ride my bike a bit more on this "bike trip" I'm on. The weather really has thrown the proverbial wrench in the works.
It's a pity about the Austrian Alps, but all isn't lost. If the weather improves I can always use my 30 train pass to come back. I think Dresden is about 6 hours north of Munich, and Salzburg s further 2 hours. There's a lot of platform changing involved though, and it's not easy with my gear. Munich Hauptbahnhof is good. Good handicap accessibility. Nurnberg was a stinker: flights of stairs and no elevator that I could find.
The logistics of changing trains when you're traveling solo and hauling luggage is no joke. I have to be careful as I have a large piece of metal holding my left ankle in place, and I don't walk as easily as I did without my permanent souvenir of New Zealand.
At least I've got a single bed in a 3 bed dorm tonight and it's not an infernal top bunk bed. I have had to sleep in these beds several times on this trip, given the crapshoot that saying cost effectively in Germany can be. Dorm beds are first come first served, and you need to accept a level on inconvenience when traveling this way.
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