Here, there are Christmas Markets all over the place, starting from the last weekend of November and lasting until either the day before Christmas eve or Christmas eve itself. The biggest one is in Nuremberg, and I wanted to see it before it shut down. So a few friends and I decided to hit it up on Christmas Eve morning. It's only open until two in the afternoon Christmas Eve, so we decided to take the early train and get there when it opened. We woke up to meet at 6:10 and caught the 7:04 train from the Munich Main Station.
The ticket we used was a Bavaria Ticket. On weekdays it's good from 9 in the morning until 3 the next morning, but on weekends and holidays it's good from when the day begins at midnight the night before. Now, where I am in Germany, Christmas Eve is celebrated as the biggest Holiday of the year-- more important than Christmas. So we were a little surprised when we got our ticket checked halfway there and were told that it wasn't valid. I asked what we should do, and she said we had to pay 31.50 each for the fare from Munich to Nuremburg. Since the ticket was going to be valid in less than an hour and it was obviously a misunderstanding, I asked if we could just de-board and get back on when it was valid. She said we could, if we pay the partial fare from Munich to where we were. Since it was a lose-lose situation, we paid the 31.50. Then the train changed route and arrived in Nuremburg late.
So when we finally got to the Christmas market I drank two glasses of Glühwein with shots in them. Didn't make me happy, but made me forget the pain. Well, sort of. . . until it started raining. . .
Worst Christmas Eve ever!!!
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