Buying rail tickets

Deutsche Bahn (DB Regio in Bavaria to be precise) has announced that they will stop selling tickets in the trains – you must buy your ticket before entering. This has already been the case when travelling within so-called “Verkehrsverbund” situations, but now this is being extended to long-distance trains as well. Here is the original press release.

There are two important exceptions given:

  1. If there is no machine at the station, you can still by a ticket on the train.
  2. If the machine isn’t working, then you can buy a ticket on the train without being fined. However, they will check your story to make sure the machine really isn’t working.

What’s important is that you go straight to the conductor when you get on the train – don’t wait for them to come through the carriages as this may not be before the next stop. Also, the machines here have serial numbers on them which you should take a note of to backup your story. I’ve even experienced a station with 3 machines where none were working – take down all the numbers in this case!

And if your train is late make sure you get the conductor to note this on your ticket (“CIV16”), otherwise if you miss a connection your ticket may not be valid for your onward journey if you have a saver ticket with “Zugbindung” (non-flexible).

Demolition Work

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Whilst I was out putting flyers into letter boxes today, I saw this house being demolished. Apparently, a whole row are being rebuilt. I found it fascination to see half the building still standing is at is, and couldn’t resist taking this picture for the blog.

Bolivian specialities

My favourite restaurant here is the Bolivian restaurant in Budenheim – which is about one hour away from Oberursel by car.

Specialities from Bolivia include Pique a lo macho and Aji de pollo. Pique can by mild or hot, but even then it is adjusted to the German taste buds – in reality it’s a lot hotter! The main spice is called locoto and us usually ground up to make a powder. Don’t even think of trying it in it’s original state!

The restaurant soon fills up at the weekend, so book to avoid disappointment!

Restaurant Latinoamérica
Mainzer Landstr. 140
55257 Budenheim

Tel.: 06139 960422

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