We’re playing Bahn Bingo here today
- carriage 8 missing
- train running in reverse order
- pretty much every device in the BordBistro broken

Plus there must be a defective toilet somewhere 🙂

BUT despite a police intervention on board we’re on time so far 🎉

I’m on a packed TGV in 1 of four seats around a table. The other three are speaking about boring work stuff in that way that only Germans can - a sort of “Gelaber” to fill time

They’re from somewhere in Brandenburg I think, but are asking each other if the forest out of the window is the Black Forest. We’re approaching Kaiserslautern 🤦‍♂️

I’m feeling well integrated (I know where the Black Forest is) but not - as I find the Gelaber annoying

So the flood that delayed my father earlier meant he missed his Eurostar. Meaning he’ll likely miss the last TER at 1927 Bercy to Nuits-sous-Ravières

“But can’t I just take a later one?” he said to me naively. In France? A TER? Dream on

So I probably have to drive 55km to Auxerre to collect him. But a friend is lending me a car…

So the answer to “can you explain to your father how to go from Nord to Bercy by metro, and get him tickets, in 37 minutes?” is YES, thank goodness

So I only need to drive 2km in a borrowed car tonight, not 55km. Handy 🙂