What a frigging long day...It started off with Andy and I enjoying our cereal at the Hostel in Nice, France just about to leave to reach our next desination which is located in Bordeaux, France. Bordeaux is known for the famous French red and white wine serving millions around the world.
To get there we had to take a direct train which would only be 8 hours long. We planned our trip and to use our Euro-rail tickets which is cheap on the 10:00 am train and arriving in Bordeaux at 6:00 pm at night. Just the perfect schedule as we can arrive at our Hotel and then go out for some french food and some good Bordeaux wine.
Guess what?
We arrived at the Train station around 9:30 am and waiting in the line up until 9:50 am to pick up the tickets. The attendent at the station said that we could not use our Euro-rail tickets as the train was already full and we had to wait until the next train which was the 1:30 pm departure. I looked at Andy and decided this was our only option since the cost without the Euro-rail would be 170 Euro dollars (1.6 times as the Canada Dollar) which was waaaaay too expensive for our Worldly tour.
After using our Euro-rail ticket for the 1:30 pm departure, we went and found a grocery store and brought some snacks and waited in a nice Park called Mozart de park (something like that). This is where I had the chance to take some photos of soem pidgeons up close and see how humanly tame there were.
Getting on the Train at 1:30 was no problem and we managed to find the first class seats that came with the Euro-rail tickets. Everything was going well and with full expectations that we will arrive on time at 10:00 pm.
Guess What?
There was a unionized train station strike in the city of Marseilles which has delay trains arriving and departing up to 3-4 hours. So we had to stay in the train on the tracks just outside of the city waiting until the backlog was cleared.
As a result of this unexpected and un-publicized strike, we waited for an additional 2 hours before we could pass through. This delay ended up causing us to miss out on the local Bordeaux tram / buses so we had to rent a taxi to the hotel and then straight into the bed we go.
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