A Long Day's Journey-Vienna to Paris 10-26-15

Our trip back to Paris started early with my finding an email from Deutsche Bahn telling us that the second leg of our trip back to Paris had been cancelled.  They sent it at 3:00am of the day we're supposed to be travelling.  

Lunch Outside

Great Beer

Now, we got up early to make sure that we wouldn't be rushed to get to the train station but that went right out the door with us.  We hustled down to the train station and over to the ticket counter where the Austria train system agent politely informed us that this was a German train issue and she wasn't able to help.   I got our hotel person to call the local German train number, but because this was a "holiday" in Austria they were not available.  So we did the only thing available to us and boarded our train over to Salzburg where there was a DB agent since it's right on the border.  So we got to Salzburg and I found the DB agent who told us to take the next train which was due to leave 5 minutes later than the original, it turns out that they informed me that the original train was cancelled but weren't real clear that it was replaced with a new train leaving 5 minutes later. So we got to Munchen (Munich) about 5 minutes later than originally planned where because we had a 4 hour layover was no big deal.

Pretty Cold Outsice

Pretty Warm Inside

So we spent the next 3.5 hours in Munich (our only pics) and had a little walk, ate some lunch, and visited the Frauenkirch before boarding the train for Stuttgart where we would meet the train headed for Paris. We left on time and with an 11 minutes connection time to walk between platforms we were in great shape.

Ludwig of Bavaria Tomb

But of course the train from Munich to Stuttgart somehow lost about 14 minutes on the journey over and we pulled into the station around 5 minutes after the other train was scheduled to depart.  We jumped off the train and headed to the platform where the Paris train was supposed to be leaving fromonly to find that it had been changed to another platform.  

Devil's Footprint

A quick U-turn and we hustled over to the new platform with about 100 other people from other trains that were still trying to board late. So we made it, whew, and it pulled out about 3 minutes later.  So we started out about 10 minutes late and even though it was a TGV and we got up to 315 kilometers/hour (195 mph) and kept it above 300kph for a good long while we still arrived 25 minutes late in Paris.  That's of course because the trains that were on time had priority and we had to get out of their way.  So we left at 6:30am and got to the apartment around midnight, a long day's journey.