Sunday March 21 - major hiccup

Last night before settling down I thought I'd do a check on my rail tickets for the Munich to London trip on Monday morning (tomorrow now) and discovered I only had a ticket from Munich to Frankfurt and from Brussels to London - no Frankfurt to Brussels leg.

Now it's Sunday here and I didn't get my act together early enough to ring the travel agent in Aus till after they'd closed up for the night. After hours number tried to help, but there doesn't appear to be much they can do until the office I booked with opens. Eurail number in Germany hung up on me when I told them I didn't speak German, and there's only a 1800 number for Europe Rail (the wholesaler) in the US so can't ring that. I catch the train at 9am tomorrow morning so not much time to fix this.

Girl downstairs in reception was extremely helpful and navigated the German speaking only line for Eurail but the upshot is nothing can be done from Germany. Need to ring travel people, so back on the phone to them (thank the deities whoever they may be, for Skype). They checked as much as they could, but have to get the booking agent involved. I know I've paid for it, so it's booked - but ticket not supplied. grrr.

One lucky thing is the agent opens at 7:30am so it's not like it's the absolute middle of the night that I have to ring them. Have set iCal to alert me at 8:30 tonight so I can start the process of making sure I have a ticket all the way. Damn and more damn on this. Was looking forward to some sightseeing today, but now it's mid-day and all I've done is try to get this sorted out. Don't really feel like going out now. No biggie, day of rest isn't going to do me any harm - and I have decided I'm going to come back to Munich to finish this trip anyway and fly home from here.

So I might just catch up on reading and resting up today - go out and find some lunch and then maybe later a snack, but generally have a quiet one. Reading right now feels like a good plan.

Will update once I know what's happening.