2 posts at the same time again... sorry.
Yes, we went to all of those places today.
You know, it was all going very smoothly, and we thought we couldn't be touched. Every train we wanted had open seats, and they all were running on time. I guess all it takes is one Italian rail strike to make us feel like a couple of amateur travelers. So I will take it from the top and give you the quick rundown of why we went to 6 cities in 3 different countries today.
It started off pretty nicely actually. We got to the train station in time to board the train for Bern. Once in route, we confirmed with the train attendant that we could, in fact, take a night train from Bern to Barcelona. So, we thought we would spend a day in Bern and see an extra city that wasn't on our original itinerary.
Once we got to Bern, though, it was a much different story. The ticket guy told us that the night trains only run on Mon, Wed, Fri (it's Tuesday) and that even if we wanted to take a night train it was going to be $150 USD even with our eurail passes. So, we decided to take option 2 - free trains with tons of stops. Basically we would have to make a bunch of stops and switch trains 3 times. This would only get us as far as Montpellier for the day, though. We would need to grab the 7:20am train from Montpellier to Barcelona the next morning...
We decided this was our only option, so we got on the first train to Geneve around 2:00pm. After making stops in Geneve, Lyon, and Arles we ended up in Montpellier at 9:10pm. We found a quick, reasonably priced hotel (with free WIFI), headed out for a bite (which ended up being a nutella crepe for Josh and fries and a coke for me), and came back to the hotel. We watched CNN for a while and read some information on the internet about the running of the bulls and then crashed around 1:00am after a long day of traveling. Hopefully soon, we will actually be back on schedule.
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