In Front of the Berlin Haupbahnhof, the starting point of the trip to Strasbourg A very early start and three changes later I was in Stasbourg. It is interesting that in one day I traveled almost as far as I had in five weeks by bike. Why had I not thought of this before!
The train took me west through the old East Germany to Kassel in Central Germany and then south through Frankfurt to Karlsruhe on the Rhine and still further south to the change point for SNCF and the very short crossing of the Rhine to Strasbourg.
The train was late on the last but one leg, which meant a wait of an hour for the next train. Experiencing a late German train dispelled an image long held! However this was not late enough to prevent me getting to Strasbourg that night and more importantly finding a hotel bed.
The only real difficulty in all of this was getting the fully loaded bike off a very crowded Friday afternoon train. Never travel in Europe on Friday afternoon was what I learnt from this.
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