Pictures from Edinburgh

Spring Break Update

Well, everything was going great until I missed my stop in Carcassonne (Sunday morning) and ended up in Narbonne (about 30-45 minutes east of Carcassonne). I made it back to Carcassonne and reserved train tickets from Carcassonne to Pisa, but platform 1 and 2 were right next to each other and I took the train from platform 2, not 1. Instead of going east toward Pisa, I went west to Toulouse and there was no way to get to Pisa that night or anywhere else for that matter, except Paris. However I wasn't able to get a connection to Munich (where I already had my hostel booked) until Tuesday morning. So, I waited for 10 hours in the Toulouse train station, took the night train back to Paris, paid $135 for a hotel (because all the hostels were booked) and took a train to Munich this morning. Now all is good and I can take the regional trains without making reservations (or worrying about them being all booked up). The only other change to the plan so far is I'm going to Dachau Concentration Camp in the morning so I could have more time there. I attempted to go to the Neuschanstein Castle tonight, but I was given the wrong info from one of the train attendants. He told me to take the train at 4:51pm and it was direct to Füssen (city where the castle is), but I ended up in Kempten (1.5 hrs by train from Füssen). Apparently "direct" actually meant change to a different train in Kaufbeuren. Oh well, I got a nice ride anyway. With all the train confusion I guess I forgot to mention something about the weather. Well, since I’m a lot further south than Norway I thought it was going to warm...at least 60 degrees…because the weather forecasts looked promising before I left. However, it’s been snowing, just a little though, not enough to anything major, but enough to make me wear 4 sweatshirts earlier today. Everything should go as planned from here on out (provided I take the right trains).

Carcassonne, a fortified midieval city

The Eiffel Tower

Eiffel Tower at Night

Euro Disney

Hello from Paris

Pictures from Copenhagen

Updated Spring Break Plans

Finalized Spring Break plans, assuming the train schedules work out the way I would like them to: (traveling will be in red and sightseeing will be in blue)

Sun. March 16:

Fly Oslo(12:25pm)-Edinbourgh(1:20pm)

afternoon/night in Edinbourgh

Mon. March 17:

Edinbourgh

Tue. March 18:

Edinbourgh

Edinbourgh(10:30pm)-London(March 19 7:43am)

Wed. March 19:

~2.5 hours in London

London(10:28am)-Paris(1:23pm)

afternoon/night in Paris

Thu. March 20:

Paris (Euro Disney)

Fri. March21:

Paris

Sat. March 22:

Paris

Paris(10:56pm)-Carcassonne(March 23 7:39am) (near the Spanish border)

Sun. March 23:

~5 hours in Carcassonne

Carcassonne(12:52pm)-Marseille(4:39pm) (coast of France)

~1 hour in Marseille

Marseille(5:34pm)-Pisa, Italy(March 24 5:25am)

Mon. March 24:

~6 hours in Pisa

Pisa(11:44am)-Milan(3:50pm)

~1/2 hour in Milan

Milan(4:25pm)-Bern, Switzerland(7:54)

~2 hours in Bern

Bern(10:04pm)-Frankfurt, Germany(March 25 3:08am)

Tue. March 25:

~3.5 hours in Frankfurt

Frankfurt(6:35am)-Koblenz(8:10am) (train ride along the Rhine River)

~1.5 hours in Koblenz

Koblenz(9:48am)-Munich(2:31pm)

Munich(2:39pm)-Dachau(3:10pm)

~2 hours in Concentration camp(plus however long I want to tour the city)

night in Munich

Wed. March 26:

Munich(6:51am)-Füssen(7:52am) right on the Austrian border
~5 hours at Neuschanstein Castle and surrounding area

Füssen(1:06pm)-Munich(3:07pm)

Munich(3:16pm)-Nuremberg(4:23pm)

night in Nuremberg

Thu. March 27:

Nuremberg

Fri. March 28:

Nuremberg(5:21am)-Wittenberg(9:20am)

day/night in Wittenberg (most likely stay night in Berlin)

Sat. March 29:

Wittenberg(7:36am)-Eisenach(9:51am)

day in Eisenach and Wartberg Castle

Eisenach(2:06pm)-Berlin(5:00pm)

~6 hours in Berlin

Berlin(11:15pm)-Malmö, Sweden(March 30 8:00am)

Sun. March 30:

Malmö-Gothenborg(12:20pm)

~5 hours in Gothenborg

Gothenborg(5:45pm)-Oslo(9:45pm)

Then I'll be back home, have a day to rest and start with classes again on Tuesday!

Fun fact of the day

I haven't had much time to sit down and post about Copenhagen because I've been finalizing spring break plans and working on a mandatory assignment for my math class. Anyway, I was talking to my dad today and he reminded me to set my clock forward tonight, BUT European countries don't start Day Light Savings until March 30th. So until the 30th I'll be only 8 hrs ahead of all you in CA, 7 hrs ahead of those in the Mountain time zone, 6 hrs for those in Central time zone and 5 hrs for those on the East coast. Basically I'll be one hour closer to you for the next 3 weeks.