We woke to a beautiful day in Füssen… would have been nice if it was like that the day before when we were out looking at the castles. We had to get up early to prepare for our 6hr train ride and be at the station at 10am. We stopped at a grocery store to get some snacks and then went across the street to a bakery for breakfast. It was very good, Meghan got a Berliner (raspberry jelly filled donut), and I got a vanilla filled pastry thing. We then headed to the train station to wait. Luckily, there are only two platforms for passengers in Füssen, and only about 1 train comes by an hour, so we didn’t have to worry about figuring out where to be. Something also very nice about all (or at least all we’ve seen) of the trains in Germany, is that you can look online or at one of the sheets posted at the train station, and it tells you everything you need to know: arrival/departure time, track, all stops, train type and number. It is very nice, especially on our way to Freiburg. We had to change trains twice, but I had looked at the trip ahead of time online, and got the information we needed to change trains. It may not seem like a big deal, but when the ICE (InterCityExpress) trains come by smaller stations, they may only sit there for a minute or less. If you don’t get on, you get left.
We grabbed some lunch on the train, I told Meghan to surprise me when she went to buy food, and I sat with our bags. She came back with full grain sandwiches… literally, full pieces of grain held together with a little bit of bread. Each pack had 3 little sandwiches, one of each, salami, ham, and gouda cheese.
Finally, we arrived in Freiburg… our vacation from the vacation. We have 5 days in Freiburg, and only a few must see things. This will be the place for us to relax, take it easy, and recover. It has been a very long trip, lots of fun and we’ve seen some incredible things, but we are exhausted.
For dinner, we went to a Mexican restaurant that has happy hour 24/7! The food was good, and the World Cup game was too. We watched the last half of England beating Slovenia, 1-0. Afterwards, we walked around some. We went through a small park and around Altstadt (old, downtown part of Freiburg).
We headed to a park to watch the Germany-Ghana match, but because Germany was playing it was very crowded. We didn’t feel like standing the whole game, so came back to the hotel to watch the first half and planned to head out to the park for the second half. We never made it back out there… for the one, the game wasn’t very good, Germany was playing awful, and secondly, we were tired. Germany won, 1-0. Our hotel is located very centrally in the city, we were expecting a big crowd and lots of chaos like we experienced in Berlin, but there wasn’t any of that. A few car horns and some people yelling, but nothing crazy.
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