Some final whining remarks

So, gonna try and wrap it all up a bit, and I seriously suspect I’m not gonna have the energy to keep blogging for a while after this. I guess this blog is simply turning into a travel blog, and since I won’t be out travelling for a while, I guess it’ll be idle for some time again (hopefully not more than perhaps half a year though).  Anyhow, I can report that travelling by train in Poland and Germany is about as reliable as a drunk leprechaun waving a pot of gold in front of you, promising you’ll get it if you jump off a cliff. Out of 9 train rides during my entire trip, only 4 were on time, out of which the first and last one were between Malmö-Copenhagen and Ystad-Malmö, leaving a total of 2 out of 7 train rides on time not counting Sweden. In total, the time they were delayed accumulates to roughly 1,5 hours. And that’s not counting the 2,5 hours that I had to sit and wait at Szczecin Dabie as a result of the outwards train from Poznan being 30 minutes late and thus causing me to miss my connecting train to Swinoujscie.

For your information, if you happen to have 2,5 hours of your time over and don’t know what to do with it, for the love of whatever higher entity there may be, DO NOT spend it in Szczecin Dabie. It is, quite frankly, a cesspool of a hole in the middle of nowhere. Without any chairs to sit on. And crappy weather.

Also, I would just like to take the opportunity of making a slight remark of the fact that not a single train during the trip – in fact, not even the cabin on the ferry – had any electric outlets that could be used for e.g. charging a laptop battery. Nor any internet possibilities. Which sucks pretty friggin’ badly. ‘Cause there’s no way a laptop battery is gonna last for 5 hours (effective train riding time Poznan-Swinoujscie), not to mention 8 hours (actual time getting from Poznan to Swinoujscie). So there are two option here: 1) Decrease travelling time (by, among other things, increasing reliability), or 2) Get me some electric outlets! Or, of course, preferrably both. EU, you know what to do. Oh, and some actual information about the trains that are late would be very appreciated as well.

~ by koeus on October 27, 2009.