Sunday 17 July: After an overnight journey, we disembarked back in in Passau this morning after completing the 15 day cruise.We had a breakfast in the railway Turkish Cafe and made our leisurely way to the Flix bust stop to catch a bus to Frankfurt. I never arrived, even though we had booked online.
Fortunately the next bus, an hour and a half later did arrive, late, which also caused some concern.This was one of those testing occasions when travelling that despite having planned everything, it still goes wrong because of something out of your control.
This meant that instead of arriving at 7:30 pm, we would now arrive at almost 9pm in Frankfurt - and then have to find the accommodation in the dark.Fortunately the WiFi on the bus was working, so I could catch up with some posts.
We finally arrived in Frankfurt around 9pm, after 7 hours on the bus. We were exhausted from doing nothing and I was a bit queasy from trying to update these pages on the bus as we travelled.
The Air BnB room we'd booked was about a 20 minute walk from the bus station, but we were actually glad for a chance to stretch our legs.We dumped our suitcases and set out almost immediately to look for somewhere to eat, and decided on a Turkish restaurant in a district nearby. We just shared a lamb kebab with salad and a lentil soup - first time we've seen red cabbage with Turkish food.
Tomorrow we'll have a little time to have a look around Frankfurt before we catch another bus around midday for a 6 hour ride (only we hope) to get to Utrecht, Holland, and then catch a couple of trains to Etten-Leur to see Frances' cousins, Ineke and Ed.