I love games! Boardgames, card games, parlor games, etc. And today we played the train game. The rules are as follows:
1. Go to the train station
2. Buy a ticket, best is a flexible ticket like the Bavaria Ticket (that can be used by up to 5 people for one day all over Bavaria)
3. Choose a platform and…
4. … take the next train leaving from that platform!
It is fun and adventurous! And we ended up in Ulm, a 2-hour train ride from Ingolstadt. It was especially fun because we drove with a Bavaria ticket and Ulm is “a divided city”; one half is in Bavaria (=Neu-Ulm) and the other half is in Baden-Würtenberg (=Ulm). And that’s where the train-station and the oldtown are. So technically we stretched out our Bavaria ticket slightly to the west. The train tracks follow the Danube river upstream in western direction, the views are soaked with stunning fall colors, cranes, pheasants, deer and many other animals near the tracks. The train crosses the river several times, and – since it is a regional train – it stops at almost every train station along the way. One of which is Leibheim, a german army base where my older brother Anton had to serve his draft time many years ago.
Ulm was a big surprise for both of us, with its small streets, lined with beautiful timber-framed houses, some of which from the 14th century!
And we saw birds, big birds and I mean BIG BIRDS!
And we saw Pretzels, tons of them! I guess in Ulm, “it’s raining pretzels, hallelujah, it’s raining pretzels”
What a fun adventure!