Tuesday, 21 July 2015

TUESDAY MOSS TO OSBY

 This required three trains. The first one I parked my suitcase close to the door then went to find a vacant seat. This was a 3 hour trip to Goteborg. I prayed my suitcase would still be there when I got off. It was!

Leaving Moss for Goteborg


At Goteborg I had about ¾ hour wait until my next train. This is quite a large station with lots of places to eat. Choices! I could have Subway or Burger King. Decided I would try something a little more authentic so I got a sandwich from a cafe. Before then I had to go bathroom. They charged! That cost me 10kr. About $2. And there was a man in there doing the cleaning!

The second train was a high speed one – 200km per hour. I had a reserved seat. Apparently it was first class as they had complimentary tea and coffee, fruit and chocolate brownies. Also nice magazines, which I could not read but enjoyed the pictures. That trip was about 2 hours.
My magazine and sandwich on the train


At Lund I only had about 15 minutes to cross to the other tracks for the last leg. I had a reserved seat for this one too. However I couldn't see where the carriage numbers were so I got on and realised I was at carriage 25 when I should be in 11. No way was I going to risk getting off the train and walking along the platform so I started moving through the carriages. When I got to 22 I gave up. There were 3 steps to get up or down between carriages and that just became a bit too much. I had previously been warned that there had been thieves on this sector so I needed to keep an eye on my suitcase. I ended up standing with my bags beside me. Lucky it was only about 50 minutes.


Finally I arrived at Osby and my lovely second cousin once removed – Gunnel Andersson and her sweet husband Sten were there to meet me. All I could say was hej! Smiles work though. They took me to my lodgings and left me there until dinner time.

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