Waking up early with surprisingly no hangover, we decided we would go ahead and continue on with our trip and get to Munich so that we could have some good rest before my birthday tomorrow. We got to the train station really early and hopped on a train. Although, we didnt really know where the train was going and hoped it was stopping in La Spezia, where we would then take a train to Milan. That train ended up working out for us and we got to La Spezia in perfect time.
Next, we took a train to Milan. The train to Milan took a bit longer than we expected. We also noticed it left a little bit late. Was it the wrong train? We think so but we don't really know.
Milan was horrible because we had to wait around to get a reservation for our train to Munich. Only, the reservation line was 1 hour long! Finally, we got our reservation and hopped on the train to Verona.
The train ride to Verona was an interesting one. In the 1st class seating area, we witnessed a pretty intense argument between an Italian businessman and the train conductor. The Italian businessman kept trying to swipe his train ticket away from the train conductor and almost got in a fist fight with him. It was pretty scary! The train conductor kicked him off the train at the next stop.
Unfortunately for us, we were also dumb enough to not check which train we were actually on. This train to Verona actually got there late. It took way much more stops than it should have. it turns out we were on the wrong train. Why doesn't Italy check your train tickets before you get on teh train? We dont know. Regardless, we missed the last train to Munich.
After we realized our mistake, we changed our reservations to get on the train that arrived at 1am. Therefore, we had to sit around the train station for 6 hours to wait for the next train. We tried to make the best of it and got to know that train station pretty well as we basically strolled up and down the corridors, ate, drank, watched commercials, read, walked, sat, etc. Finally! The train to Munich arrived and we made sure this was the right train this time.
The weird thing was that we werent the only people who made the mistake to get on the wrong train to Verona and therefore miss our train to Munich. Apparently about 3-4 other people did the same thing. We made acquaintenances with one of these people who was pretty nice and he was an older guy. Once we got on the train to Munich, we decided to share a compartment with the older guy since he seemed pretty cool and it was the only empty compartment left.
Bang bang bang, knock on the door, "Polizei! Gut morgen!". We were almost at Munich. The police were doing a routine check for passports for the train passengers. Only, our train buddy didnt have his. The police ended up arresting him! We felt so sorry for him because he not only missed his train but for some reason left his passport at home and was now being arrested at 5am in a town outside of Munich. This was just really bizarre to us. We were also confused because he told us he was from Croatia but when the police asked him where he was from he said France. Maybe there was something fishy with this old man after all. Who knows.
Anyway, after travelling through train stations for 23 hours, we got to Munich...finally! We arrived at our hotel. "We're sorry, we dont have a reservation for you!". What??
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