{"id":5663,"date":"2022-08-09T21:48:11","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T03:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/?p=5663"},"modified":"2022-08-09T21:48:13","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T03:48:13","slug":"european-vacation-day-8-more-travel-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2022\/08\/european-vacation-day-8-more-travel-chaos.html","title":{"rendered":"European Vacation Day 8: More Travel Chaos!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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24 July 22: More chaos as we learned that the original train on the 2nd leg of our trip, from Karlsruhe to Berlin, was canceled and combined with another train.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We basically got ourselves on that other train and figured we’d just sit anywhere in First Class — we have First Class tickets — and be okay. We are at least heading in the right direction…towards Berlin…<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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Our ICE train….<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

24 July 22: More chaos as we learned that the original train on the 2nd leg of our trip, from Karlsruhe to Berlin, was canceled and combined with another train. 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