1 Sunrise, once again extremely beautiful. The weather is holding for the next few days.
2 Meanwhile I was packing
3 A last view from my window
4 Stuttgart's station hall. It was cold and we had half an hour to spare so we took a cup of coffee.
5 The train awaiting, Dieter freezing ;-)
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7 Well, one last shot of me in Allemagna
8 Bye Dieter, Mach's gut
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10 Stuttgart's workshop's. Only now I realized I could have arranged a visit to it..... Stupid!
11 The vineyards we passed everyday on the way home to Kornwestheim
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13 Passing Kornwestheim Central
14 Not much of a pace though
15 The landscape was still great to watch and flow by
16 Approaching Mannheim
17 Between Mannheim and Frankfurt the fog had frozen to the trees with this fairytale result
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19 In Frankfurt I had to change trains
20 My train from Stuttgart had some delay but I had about half an hour to spare so no harm done
21 My train to Köln (Cologne). This train should have consisted of two railcar sets, one for Amsterdam and one for Brussels. But had only one so I was told to take a seat in this one sets and to make an unschduled change to a train to Amsterdam in Köln. Later in the train I was told that this train was going for Amsterdam (and consequently all the passengers for Brussels had to leave the train in Köln). All due to the rolling stock shortages as a result of the axle brake down of one of the IC-E's earlier this year and the following tighter maintenance schedules.
22 Nearing Köln the weather deteriorated.
23 Passing Köln's famous bridge
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26 Underway to Amsterdam my car became the leading car, resulting in this nice view on the tracks.
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28 In the meantime I was having a good time with the DVD's Dieter gave me
