The Worst Day Of My Trip

Alright ... so I have tried an uncountable number of times to write and let you all know what is going on in my life, however for varriousw reasons being for the most part different from situation to situation I am sitting here with one month left in my Eurail and aparently haven't written anything. Sorry about that lol But I'll hold on to what I said before... It gives me more to talk about when I get home. ( Man oh Man you all going to be so sick of me tellign stories : )

However a few days ago I had a day that was just woth writing about, if only for the reason that I needed to get it off my chest lol.
Here it goes...


Alright.... so it all started a long long time ago on a dark and stormy day. Alrigth well it was actualy not to bad a day, a little windy maybe and yes it did rain... but no thunder. And it was only what ... sunday, monday... doesnt matter.

So I got up from my hostel in Berlin only to see that it was raining but that the person who had been in my room the night before had stolden my unbrella. So off I went thru the rain and all to buy a new one even tho at that point there was no reason to ... I was soked. By the time I got to the station I had to wait over 2 hours for the next train to Rostock witch is where my eurail book says I must go to get a ferry to Finland.
The train from Berlin was rather uneventfull except for the loud happenings of a 6 year old boy and his mother the whole ride there. (The fact that they were yelling in German didn't help)
So I arrive in Rostock, least to say wet and with a headace, only to have it worsened by the customer service lady not being able to speak english. Lets just say in a matter of 5 minutes I had all my books out and spred amung 3 security gaurds , who also dont speak any english, my eurail map layed out on the counter and my bags on the floor my eurail pass in the hand of a very flustered old woman who thought she could speek english but had no idea what I wanted, and a line up of very angy travelers wanting and waiting to buy tickets.
Finally after much acting and dacing around on my part I got thru to them that I wished to know where I can catch a boat to Finland. Turns out that its not in Rostock... it's in a port village I'd have to get to by train, and guess what , I just missed the last derect train by something like 3 minutes. so I waited, traveled, transpherd, waited and traveled some more, and finally got there.
Its getting dark now.I had been counting on this ferry so I didnt have a place to stay and this ports side village didn't look like it would be to acomidable of my sleeping needs.
So I wanlked and found a ferry line. Another person who doesn't speak english (at this point im wondering how long it would take me to learn German) but I got to her allot faster and she told me she goes (well her company goes) to Sweden. I would have to go to the other line. when I asked for the line of Supperfast Ferries witch is the one that takes eurail travelers she said 'no, not name, but you find' and she pointed. I should have known right there... this wasnt going to be good.
When I entered the ship company that she spoke of, the woman spoke perfect english with a bit of a western european accent, how refreshing. I explained to her what I wanted and she was very nice in making up my ticket. Then she informed me of the cost. 135.00 euro.
I dont think so!
Again I brought out the map the books and the sceduale I carry around like a bible to tell her that was not right. she assured me it was and the reason being ... the company that gave the discout to people like me had been taken over... it didn't exist any more and therefore neither did my way to Finland. I dont think I need to say that I wasn't about to pay over 100 euro for any ride when I payed so much for my eurail in the first place.

So here I am.... its dark now... I have no where to go... I'm wet ... Im lonly... and now EVERY SINGLE plan I had made for the next 2 weeks has been blown to bits by this lady who is not impressed at the fact that I think crying will get me any where. Fact of the matter was I couldnt help myself. I broke down droped my bad and needed a tissue. (that only making me more upset)
I didnt know what I was going to do. After some alone time in the bathroom I came back to grab my bag only to find that when I had droped it I had sqashed and broken my water bottle and now I had to use my already wet sweater to mop up the water and that didnt put the lady in any better mood... not that I cared.
She told me I could leave my bag behinde the counter to go look in to other companies so that was what I did. After allot of walking, asking allot of questions and one more break down on the side of the road. I went back to the first ferry comapny, I asked how much to Sweden and they told me ... 15 euro (not as good as free... but it was a pålace to sleep for the night. I'd figure out what I wanted to do when I got there. Went back grabed my bag.
So thats what I did. At 11:00 pm I was on the 'Huckleberry Finn' to Sweden and met 4 Swiss guys who I sat with, they wernt speaking english so it still ment I didnt have any one to talk to but when they orderd drinks, 5 came for 4 guys and it turned out one was for me :) I had a bad sleep but at least I was warm. I woke up and I was in Sweden and that is my story. It might not sound that bad... but it was and you'r just going to have to belive me :P

I would like to add now tho that the day I got in I went to the info centre and met 3 people... all fluent in english. We just so happend to be derected to the same hostel and when we go there we were all in the same room. Stewart and I wanted to go to Finalnd and both just so happened to have eurail. We went to the same comapny that I should have gotten in Germany and that the lady told me didnt exsist any more either, but well... it was there. The 2 of us made a booking together and cost us 0.00 euro + booking fee witch came out to like 2.50 euro for a ship to and from Finland. (thats 1.25 euro per night accomedations right there) so thats what we did. and it was great! We had a great time on this massive ship, stayed 2 days 1 night in the capital of Finland and then came back on another fabulouse ship. Now Im back in Sweden talking a night train to Oslo Norway tomorrow. Everything worked out better that I would have guessed it would as I was walking in the dark in a little northern German village getting splashed by passing trucks.

Thank Goodness