Last weekend we travelled to Pforzheim to visit L's mother. It was a whirlwind trip and all together we spent about 13 hours on the Deutsche Bahn (train.) We had heard many rumors that the DB is no longer what it used to be and is now plagued by delays leading to missed connections and generally unpleasant experiences. Our trip down seemed to confirm this point of view. Before we even left Berlin we were notified that our train -an ICE (the fastest, fanciest train) was cancelled- the powerful train was apparently no match for a few snow flakes but a replacement train - albeit a slightly less fast and fancy train would be waiting for us at the Berlin Hauptbahnhof. And it was, but while it didn't appear that much less fancy it was much less fast and we were 20 minutes late. So we missed our connecting train (we only had an 8 minute window) and arrived in Pforzheim a full hour later than expected. However, we all enjoyed the trip. The way back was a picture of German efficiency- our ICE was on time and carried us all the way back to Berlin arriving exactly on time. F and B love riding on the train so the weekend was as much about the train ride as it was visiting Omi. B made this stop motion video which kept him occupied and is an honest depiction of the ride- we did a lot of staring out the window and snacking.
We also played games. listened to music, read, drew and did more staring out of the window and snacking.
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