i'd like to chime in just to attest that germany has the worst train system of the entire continent, yes, even worse than romania. > try to take train a mere 200km > delays mean missing connections at every step > there's already two connections which in a civilized country like france or italy wouldn't be necessary anyway > final connection is to a bus replacement for some unexplained reason > two buses never show up despite not being cancelled > station is closed (wtf) so me and fifty other travelers are stranded in some buttfuck small town > get lucky and snag a cab and have to pay 100 euros cash for the last 37km to my reserved hotel (and there were no hotel vacancies in the small town either) i have never taken a train originating in germany that didn't have something go catastrophically wrong, and i've taken over ten trains in germany now. every. single. time. god i can't wait to get back to america and my car.
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