beam me up, scotty

[zing_och]

I'm supposed to pick up a friend from the train station soonish - she arrived from Mumbai this morning and the wonder that is the German train system makes it easier and faster and cheaper for her to travel north to me and for us to drive (a bit) south again to my sister's.

It's funny: She's the most-traveled person I know (though I suspect this isn't a word), and she has the WORST luck I've ever seen when it comes to travel. Terrorist bombings, suspected terrorist attacks, technical difficulties - everything. She's never been in danger, as far as I know, just always inconvenienced by it.

Now I'm watching it in effect. It's awe-inspiring: In Frankfurt airport there's a strike on, her train was already late when it arrived there, apparently there was a fire alarm or something in the station, and now there's technical difficulties with the train. O_O

At least she's on the train and just has to wait until it all works out, and I can see on the internet when I actually have to be at the station.

I'm looking forward to seeing her so much - it's been some years. \o/

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[fyrdrakken]

Wow. I have travel-related paranoia (caused in part by a couple of incidents of having missed my flight or coach because of public-transport-caused delays getting across London to the departure station, and in both cases I was able to take the next one out), but usually manage to avoid the worst issues. (Case in point, having the airport in Dublin closed when I and two friends needed to fly out that afternoon. The one who had a connecting flight in London to get her back to the US had to spend the night at the airport until she finally managed to get put onto a flight out of there. I and the other friend were just planning to hang out in Wales and London for a few days, and managed to get a ferry to Wales the next morning and took the train to Cardiff and after a few days took a coach to London.)

I'm betting your friend packs a lot of books or similar forms of self-entertainment for these delays.