Thursday June 16, 2011 Day
351
We took the 10:25 train out of Montpellier heading for
Paris, and ultimately for Munich.
In Paris, we changed train stations via the metro – an
experience made a little difficult by the fact that the line we needed to
transfer to was closed at the transfer point, so we had to do a little “musical
metro stations” to get to Gare Est. We arrived, however, with plenty of time to
spare, so we bought some dinner and boarded the train. Our seats were located
in the bar car – something I have never seen before. Our seatmates were two
young men who had just graduated from the U.S. Air Force Academy and had two
months off before reporting to their first assignments.
I made a mistake and did not pull up the hotel
information on my computer before we left the house this morning, so when we
got to Munich, we had to scramble to find an internet connection. Thank you,
Starbucks! We had sent a text message to Ronnie while on the train, asking them
to meet us at the terminal, but they were not there when we detrained. We
located the Starbucks, bought some tea and logged into our gmail account using
their free wifi connection. I made a note of the name and address of the hotel,
and we made our way to a local map. We were just beginning to locate the
surrounding streets when Ronnie and Shelli showed up – not having gotten our
text message until they arrived at the hotel themselves a short while earlier.
They took us to the hotel where we enjoyed Brennan for a short while before
heading for bed.
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