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The European adventure planning still keeps on giving plenty
of gifts and learning experiences as I go along with sorting out my travel
plans. These travel plans are down to the part of planning where you purchase
tickets for transportation. I am using public transport throughout my journey
through Germany and England. I am tweaking some of my trip to see what happens.
I plan early with the theory that I can be provided with
cheaper tickets to the locations I am visiting. So far I have found this to be
true. I compared the ticket prices between Copenhagen and Stockholm, that
recently came online. The beginning of June the first class tickets are around
$50 Australian Dollars with the second class being cheaper. Fast forward or rewind
to two days from now and they were around $180 AUD or more. I never did check
the second class tickets closer to the time, but I would assume they were
expensive too. I did the same with the tickets from Hamburg to Copenhagen, but
I never checked the price closer to the date.
I know my entire itinerary as I have it printed off and in
paper form within a folder with an email address that I have my entire
itinerary located within a folder corresponding to that particular period of
travel as a backup. I was caught out twice with not having the correct
information. Once was several nights away last trip in the UK as I was staying
with a friend. I never printed the booking or recorded the date. The email had
been sent to my regular email and the person back home in Australia had
retrieved all emails onto the physical computer. So, I had ‘lost’ my booking as
it was physically on my computer back home in Australia. Apparently, I had made
a mistake with the date anyway, which I had wanted to find out. Mobile internet
wasn’t really a thing around 9 years ago. Another was actually in Huntly, New
Zealand where I had made a booking, but printed the reply off. Turned out it
was a reply, but the person doing the booking did not actually make one.
Luckily it worked in my favour and I ended up in a 7 bed room.
I did sign up for an app with the German railway line known
as the DB Navigator app. The interesting thing is the online ticket is mostly
English telling you where you are sitting and the carriage with seat number. I
booked a seat for the 5 hour journey between Frankfurt and Berlin. The trip to
Copenhagen from Hamburg had a mandatory reservation. I think that is for the ferry.
The App seems easier to understand than the paper print off, I made. The self-check
in part is also interesting and I have no idea how useful this actually is and
where I would have to check in if there are no gates. Something to find when I
am over there. I have to remember that Europe does things differently from
Australia. I might need to observe the trains to understand what happens.
There will be other things that I might experience along the
way including some keys that are accessed through an app. That will be
something to see and find out how it works. I have no idea who or what places
are the ones that require the keys though. Hopefully I get a physical key or
card and something like my phone doesn’t ‘wipe’ the data and the door opener.
Had that happen at one place constantly. As long as I have access to food on
the trains then I will be happy and have no problems. There could be an app for
that as well. The travel passes seem to have gone the same way like the Berlin
Pass and the other ones too. We shall see what happens at the time. Shall be
fun and the time is getting closer and closer.
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