Making Our Way Home

 

Our last activity overseas

It was sadly time to go home. Fortunately, the train strike that was announced today wouldn't commence until Jan 10! Yay for us! This meant we didn't have to execute plan B, taking on the farmer and their tractors on the road. It also meant we had time for one last adventure, combat karts. We drove for about 45 minutes out of the city for this experience of real lie MarioKart. All three children were clearly more fearless than I was, or played more Mariokart. I was lapped several times...thank goodness there were no other drivers other than our family on the track. The rest of the family enjoyed it immensely. I walked out with sore shoulders and a tense neck!

The combat kart track

You pick up "power ups" on the track to use against your opponents. 

In case we forgot who we were

After returning our car back at the Hilton, we collected our luggage and commenced our very long and convoluted way back to Australia. We trained the short distance to Munich Hbf, and wolfed down some Asian. I promise it was because there were no seats at all the other cafes and restaurants! 

We bought our intercity train tickets as soon as they were released online. This is generally the cheapest if you're organised. We got first class tickets it was only marginally more expensive than second class tickets. There's free wifi onboard, as well as power points (no USB outlets). The seats are reasonably comfortable with footrests. The overhead luggage compartment is large enough to hold large suitcases.

As I sit here on the high speed train hurtling our way towards Frankfurt airport, I'm hoping that the rest of our travels will go smoothly. Our first flight will be to Singapore where we will have a very long layover unfortunately. Beggars couldn't be choosers as these were the only points flights that were available for all of us. We do get to experience the Aerotel, although Lara was disappointed that it was not truly a capsule hotel. From there, it will be another 8 hours before we land in Sydney. See you soon folks! Or maybe not so soon...

Asian that was actually ok

The place was "pan-Asian" but as soon as I heard the Vietnamese I chose the pho. It was a wise move!

The station was packed!

The train taking us to Frankfurt Airport

Displays with helpful information

For those interested in the speed

Next stop

Spacious

In case you were wondering what the vehicle of torture looked like