Saturday, July 26, 2008

Transportation: MAINZ to MUNICH

Transportation in Germany is not only confusing but difficult to find and understand. Finally found a site but took soooooo much time to figure out. This RAIL site gives ALL transportation (except bus) to any destination you put in. Weird thing is is figuring out what info to put into the boxes. What I've figured out is you can use either the "ROUTE" or "CORE JOURNEY" sections. It doesn't tell you this but just know it. It will give you more stops based on the city you put in. If the stop you want is already selected and it still gives you the prompt "Your input is ambiguous. Please select from the selection list." just hit the "search connection" button again anyway. But before you do be sure you change your date and the time too. For the longest time I assumed there were no other trains for a choice I had entered when I finally discovered the time had chosen something of it own. So be sure to check this first.
A map of Munich is sometimes difficult to read and understand because of the language barrier.