Today was the third meeting of my four meeting trip - this was Monday, my last one is on Thursday. I had a couple of days between meetings and thought I would try to go to another city for 48 hours and be back in LUX for the meetings on Thursday morning but I would figure that out after the meeting.
The meetings went well and we were done around 1:30. My plan was to do some more work, figure out where I was going, book my hotel room and head to the train station. I finished my work in the meeting room then headed out to the bar to grab a bite to eat and figure out where I was going. The plan was to go to Munich via train, all that was left was figure out where I was staying. I ordered my standby meal at the Novotel, Spaghetti Bolognese, and got down to business of finding my hotel. I found the perfect hotel - right by the train station, it was a Hilton so I would get points for the two night stay. After I booked it through Hotels.com on a restricted fair -- it was non-refundable -- I hopped on the train's website to see when I could catch a train.
Ummm, problem. The trains I saw ranged from 9-12 hours. No way! So I went on my google maps to see the distance - over 500km. D'oh! Long story short, I didn't book a train to Munich, I'm staying in Luxembourg for my mid-week weekend! I hope the Munich Hilton uses my dead money wisely.
After sitting there calling myself stupid for not checking the train FIRST, I perused my Luxembourg Lonely Planet book on my iPad to get ready for tomorrow and called it a night.
Fudge, I am stupid. Absent Minded Traveler indeed.
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