The lounge bar is moving

We just arrived in Freiburg, but no-one was waiting at our platform. The other platform is overloaded with people, with the signs on that platform saying "bitte nicht einstigen, nächste Zug: ICE 279 nach Basel" So it seams our train was not announced well in Freiburg, or what were those people waiting for?

@ummels Stupid DB, we are now waiting in Emmendingen for 20 minutes because of the engineering works in Freiburg, so we need to wait before we can enter Freiburg.

It could have been so simple by just following the scheduled route...

@partim @ummels My plan is (and was already) going to Basel Bad Bf today 🥳

@ummels The screens in the train now indicate that we will make an additional stop in Freiburg. 😕

Traveling with 2 people whilst having 1 seat reservation in the ICE.

Delay and many passengers waiting on the platform

✅ Being lucky enough that the seat next to the reserved seat is still free.

@partim you win 😉

@partim It arrived with only 10 minutes delay in Frankfurt, but then:

12:18: Technische Störung am Zug

Fellow passenger trying to work on a laptop while the ICE runs with 275km/h on the KRM line: "I feel a bit dizzy".

Clearly not a rollercoaster person.

Busses in Altium always look like train lines, or, well, like a bus map..

Arrived 4 minutes early in Köln Hbf.

10 Minutes early in Köln? If there is an empty track in the station it might be

@ummels In the current plan I will be on ICE 73, which has no scheduled stop in Freiburg today. I will see.

@ummels Thanks for the heads-up, I guess my ICE to Basel will make me collecting this line today :-)

@partim let's place a bet, I would say 20 minutes.

ICE 8029 Europa, a good start of an interrail weekend trip!

I honestly have doubts on the delay predictions from DB. "it will be delayed with 5 minutes" in Mannheim and "you will have 12 minutwa for your transfer" while the train should depart from Kiel in one hour or so (ICE 73). A notification like this 6 hours in advance is probably incorrect

I am still getting breakfast at home and DB is already notifying me that I don't need to have concerns about my transfer later today at lunch time: the connecting ICE will be delayed.

Time to activate my interrail ticket.

@smveerman sprinter = express, similar to the ICE sprinter

Koele lucht en wind (en onweer)! 😄