Transit woes

“Aaaaaah, do you know the situation??? There is construction near the border, so your train can’t run”.

“Hmmm. So what do we do?”

“Well it’s now a twelve-and-a-half hour journey… you take a train to Munich Airport, from there you take the train to Regensburg, and then change onto another train to Schwandorf. After that, a bus to Cham, then a train to Furth im Wald, where a bus will take you across the border to Plzen, and then train to Beroun and then another train to Praha…”.

We did that, kind of, with interminable waits at the ghost town of Cham and then Furth im Wald, the latter compounded by the bus driver’s election to depart ten minutes earlier than scheduled much to the fury of some of our fellow travellers, resulting in an unscheduled bus-trip to Domazlice and a train to Plzen…

But we did meet some interesting and generous folks along the way. And spent some unexpected time in quirky destinations, where - if we were Michael Portillo - we might have thrown a pot or fashioned an instrument from some material we had excavated by hand from a mine deep below the town.