Trains...the good, the bad and the ugly!

The trip to Copenhagen began at Banbury with a train to St Pancras Kings Cross Station. That went smoothly as did our Eurostar trip to Brussels through the tunnel. From Brussels we caught an ICE train to Cologne, which is where we were to pick up a first class sleeper for the overnight trip to Copenhagen.

It was whilst we were waiting for the sleeper, supposedly arriving at 1028pm that I found I was missing my camera. Panic set in as I tipped the contents of my backpack out three times, I just could not believe it wasn't there. Horror of horrors!! I'd been taking photos of the beautiful French countryside and that was the last I'd seen it. My original thought was that I'd left it on the Brussels to Cologne journey, however later that night I worked out it was on the London to Brussels leg, so I've sent an email to Eurostar in the hope it has been handed in to their lost and found department...the first three weeks of holiday photos are on the Sd card, about 2gb worth. Luckily Dan has been taking some photos on his camera too. Fingers crossed that one of the staff or an honest person has picked it up.

Back to the trains now...as I said the sleeper was to arrive at 10.28pm, but we were advised it would be 90 minutes late. By midnight we were freezing and weary. Finally we were in our little, and I mean LITTLE bedroom after a mad scramble to alight the train. Sleep was broken with us being shunted and air brakes letting off air regularly. We had ordered breakfast for 8am as the new scheduled time of arrival in Copenhagen was 10am. At 5.30am an alarm went off in the cabin, followed by a knock on the door by the conductor telling us the train was going no further and we had to get off and take another train to Hamburg. We were hurriedly given little boxes of breakfast (that's another story) and told to sit and wait for another train. Can you imagine many travelers with much luggage trying to get onto a normal commuter train? It was not good...with a language problem to exacerbate it! At Hamburg there was more confusion. Anyway we arrived at Copenhagen at 3.30pm yesterday. More than 24 hours of train travel has cured us of that form of travel for a while.