Lepod's Blog

The train to Brussels took a few hours, but it seemed longer because a lady across the aisle from us was talking loudly to all her friends on her cell phone until finally someone told her off. Noise canceling headphones to the rescue!

Thursday we had a nice day in Brussels, wandering about the Grand-Place and historic centre, dropped by the Tintin shop and took a train to Leuven as Pauline had a conference there one time and she really liked it, wanted to show me. Then we had moules et frites for dinner, or at least I did, the mrs is not so keen. Nice place, the mussels were excellent and they gave us both a free limoncello at the end. Today we are currently on the Eurostar to Cologne, on our way to Flensburg.

We have a long day ahead, it’s quite a distance to Flensburg and there’s a few train changes along the way. Should get there about 8pm if all goes well. Pauline takes the advantage of long train trips to do her work.

We took the Eurostar to Cologne as the Deutsche Bahn had emailed Pauline and told her our planned trip was impossible. We had to buy tickets on board but the train manager was kind and found us some very nice seats. The change over in Cologne went quite well but the train was late due to some inaudible reasons so we had about 8 minutes at Hamburg to find the right platform and cart our luggage up and down a large flight of stairs! Made it just in time. Train to Padborg in Denmark was pleasant but slow, then rather than wait an hour for the next one we grabbed a taxi to Flensburg. Quite a trip. The taxi driver was very nice and told us all about his Tesla.